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Sri Lanka - Dependency Ratio 1999

Name: Sri Lanka Dependency Ratio 1999
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

50.52 −0.80 from 1998 Global rank: 66th

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio was 50.52 in 1999, decreased +0.80 from 51.32 in 1998. This was the 66th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1999▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1999
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	30.15	-5.9%
2nd	Singapore	33.54	-0.2%
3rd	Northern Mariana Islands	33.67	-8.0%
4th	Cayman Islands	33.69	-0.9%
5th	Qatar	33.98	-3.7%
6th	Andorra	37.40	1.7%
7th	Korea	38.84	-0.3%
8th	Hong Kong SAR, China	39.58	-0.9%
9th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.77	-0.1%
10th	Liechtenstein	40.80	0.1%
11th	Bermuda	42.78	-0.8%
12th	Slovenia	42.89	-0.7%
13th	Palau	42.91	-4.8%
14th	San Marino	43.49	0.5%
15th	Aruba	43.67	-1.6%
16th	Czechia	44.03	-1.5%
17th	Thailand	44.37	-1.0%
18th	Macao SAR, China	44.38	-2.8%
19th	British Virgin Islands	44.52	-0.3%
20th	Russian Federation	45.07	-3.7%
21st	Cuba	45.24	-0.2%
22nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.37	-1.8%
23rd	Spain	45.64	-0.1%
24th	Japan	45.88	1.5%
25th	Slovak Republic	46.17	-2.5%
26th	Channel Islands	46.18	0.1%
27th	Trinidad and Tobago	46.64	-4.2%
28th	Turks and Caicos Islands	46.66	-0.7%
29th	Mauritius	46.79	-1.2%
30th	Germany	46.81	0.6%
31st	Kuwait	46.84	-4.2%
32nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	46.85	0.3%
33rd	Hungary	46.86	-0.5%
34th	Ukraine	46.91	-3.6%
35th	Canada	46.94	-0.8%
36th	China	47.03	-1.6%
37th	Netherlands	47.40	0.5%
38th	Greenland	47.45	-0.4%
39th	Poland	47.46	-2.3%
40th	Malta	47.48	-1.2%
41st	Italy	47.54	1.1%
42nd	Romania	47.65	-0.1%
43rd	Bulgaria	47.88	-0.5%
44th	Serbia	47.93	0.5%
45th	Bahrain	48.08	-2.2%
46th	Portugal	48.16	0.0%
47th	Croatia	48.31	1.1%
48th	European Union	48.40	0.0%
49th	Belarus	48.49	-2.9%
50th	Austria	48.50	-0.7%
51st	Switzerland	48.57	0.2%
52nd	Cyprus	48.63	-2.2%
53rd	Greece	48.67	0.2%
54th	St. Martin (French part)	49.15	-1.3%
55th	Luxembourg	49.39	0.5%
56th	Latvia	49.43	-2.3%
57th	Finland	49.49	-0.5%
58th	Montenegro	49.50	-0.5%
59th	Denmark	49.62	0.7%
60th	Estonia	49.63	-2.9%
61st	Australia	49.64	-0.3%
62nd	Barbados	50.03	-0.8%
63rd	Ireland	50.11	-2.0%
64th	North Macedonia	50.30	-0.9%
65th	United States	50.45	-0.8%
66th	Sri Lanka	50.52	-1.6%
67th	Brunei Darussalam	50.93	-2.5%
68th	Lithuania	51.57	-0.6%
69th	Gibraltar	52.27	0.3%
70th	Belgium	52.29	0.4%
71st	Moldova	52.29	-3.0%
72nd	New Zealand	52.78	0.0%
73rd	Bahamas, The	52.81	0.0%
74th	Virgin Islands (US)	53.15	-0.5%
75th	France	53.46	0.5%
76th	Iceland	53.77	-0.8%
77th	Kazakhstan	53.88	-3.0%
78th	United Kingdom	53.98	-0.7%
79th	New Caledonia	54.05	0.0%
80th	Georgia	54.20	-1.2%
81st	Isle of Man	54.25	-1.1%
82nd	Chile	54.42	-1.0%
83rd	Norway	54.50	-0.4%
84th	Puerto Rico (US)	54.53	-0.3%
85th	Guam	54.79	0.2%
86th	Antigua and Barbuda	54.84	-1.7%
87th	Brazil	55.08	-2.1%
88th	Seychelles	55.32	-2.4%
89th	Curaçao	55.48	0.1%
90th	Monaco	55.56	-0.2%
91st	Sweden	55.98	-0.7%
92nd	Libya	56.52	-2.9%
93rd	Indonesia	56.64	-1.6%
94th	Tunisia	57.24	-2.9%
95th	Türkiye	57.31	-1.9%
96th	Azerbaijan	57.93	-3.1%
97th	Armenia	58.10	-6.0%
98th	French Polynesia	58.39	-2.2%
99th	Albania	59.06	-0.7%
100th	Costa Rica	59.27	-2.2%
101st	Myanmar	59.38	-2.0%
102nd	Colombia	59.58	-1.3%
103rd	Uruguay	59.75	0.2%
104th	Faroe Islands	59.75	-0.1%
105th	Lebanon	59.98	-2.0%
106th	St. Kitts and Nevis	60.23	-2.5%
107th	Panama	60.29	-1.3%
108th	Suriname	61.03	-2.2%
109th	Argentina	61.22	-0.7%
110th	Fiji	61.85	-2.1%
111th	Israel	62.02	-1.2%
112th	Viet Nam	62.26	-3.9%
113th	Malaysia	62.47	-1.3%
114th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	62.80	-1.0%
115th	Morocco	63.45	-2.0%
116th	Algeria	64.40	-4.6%
117th	St. Lucia	65.05	-3.5%
118th	Peru	65.12	-1.8%
119th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	65.32	-7.1%
120th	Mongolia	65.60	-3.5%
121st	Mexico	65.70	-1.3%
122nd	Oman	66.24	-2.8%
123rd	Dominican Republic	66.42	-1.4%
124th	Jamaica	66.43	-2.3%
125th	Dominica	67.09	-1.2%
126th	India	67.50	-1.4%
127th	Ecuador	67.68	-1.1%
128th	South Africa	67.82	-2.9%
129th	Guyana	67.82	0.2%
130th	Kosovo	69.54	10.3%
131st	Nauru	69.64	-2.6%
132nd	Saudi Arabia	69.65	-2.5%
133rd	Kyrgyz Republic	69.99	-2.9%
134th	Bangladesh	70.31	-2.2%
135th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	70.87	-2.0%
136th	Grenada	71.07	-0.2%
137th	El Salvador	72.16	-0.9%
138th	Uzbekistan	72.63	-2.4%
139th	American Samoa	72.75	-0.6%
140th	Turkmenistan	72.82	-3.2%
141st	Tuvalu	73.38	-0.5%
142nd	Botswana	73.66	-2.9%
143rd	Philippines	74.18	-1.8%
144th	Papua New Guinea	74.42	-0.7%
145th	Jordan	74.96	-0.1%
146th	Bhutan	75.43	-2.3%
147th	Djibouti	76.00	-2.5%
148th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	76.86	-0.6%
149th	Paraguay	76.92	-1.9%
150th	Tonga	78.38	-1.2%
151st	Kiribati	78.40	-1.3%
152nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	78.78	-2.4%
153rd	Belize	79.54	-1.9%
154th	Haiti	79.54	-1.0%
155th	Nicaragua	79.87	-2.3%
156th	Lesotho	80.60	-2.0%
157th	Samoa	81.02	0.8%
158th	Namibia	81.28	-0.5%
159th	Nepal	81.55	-0.5%
160th	Marshall Islands	82.00	-3.8%
161st	Timor-Leste	82.00	-0.4%
162nd	Maldives	82.59	-4.4%
163rd	Syrian Arab Republic	84.04	-1.9%
164th	Togo	84.07	-1.2%
165th	Ghana	84.27	-1.5%
166th	Zimbabwe	84.56	-3.1%
167th	Gabon	85.70	-1.6%
168th	Liberia	85.94	-0.3%
169th	Congo, Republic of	86.03	-1.0%
170th	Cambodia	86.20	-3.3%
171st	Vanuatu	86.22	-2.2%
172nd	Honduras	86.54	-1.5%
173rd	Equatorial Guinea	86.56	-0.6%
174th	Solomon Islands	87.25	-1.1%
175th	Tajikistan	87.52	-2.9%
176th	Eswatini	87.95	-3.5%
177th	Nigeria	88.11	-0.6%
178th	Lao PDR	88.17	-0.7%
179th	Iraq	88.49	-0.7%
180th	Pakistan	88.95	-1.0%
181st	Sierra Leone	89.85	0.3%
182nd	Cabo Verde	89.94	-2.4%
183rd	Senegal	90.02	-0.8%
184th	Tanzania	90.38	-0.4%
185th	Mauritania	90.51	-0.7%
186th	São Tomé and Principe	90.84	-2.1%
187th	Mozambique	91.14	0.2%
188th	Guatemala	91.48	-0.9%
189th	Central African Republic	92.08	-0.5%
190th	South Sudan	92.25	-1.1%
191st	Eritrea	92.50	2.2%
192nd	Madagascar	93.19	0.1%
193rd	Angola	93.59	-0.1%
194th	Cameroon	93.93	-0.8%
195th	Côte d'Ivoire	93.99	-0.3%
196th	Guinea-Bissau	94.25	-1.1%
197th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	94.44	0.0%
198th	Guinea	94.81	0.5%
199th	Kenya	94.88	-1.3%
200th	Benin	95.30	-0.7%
201st	Sudan	95.68	-0.5%
202nd	Malawi	97.39	0.3%
203rd	Niger	97.50	0.7%
204th	Burkina Faso	99.14	-1.1%
205th	Rwanda	99.22	-5.2%
206th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	99.48	0.4%
207th	Mali	99.99	-0.8%
208th	Gambia, The	100.02	-0.4%
209th	West Bank and Gaza	100.08	-1.1%
210th	Zambia	102.25	-0.5%
211th	Burundi	104.68	-2.8%
212th	Chad	106.12	0.2%
213th	Comoros	106.65	-1.4%
214th	Afghanistan	108.69	1.0%
215th	Yemen, Republic of	109.38	-1.7%
216th	Uganda	111.13	0.0%

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 1999?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 1999 was 50.52. This ranked 66th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's dependency ratio change in 1999?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio decreased by 1.6% in 1999 compared to 1998.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1999?▾

Uganda had the highest dependency ratio in 1999 at 111.13.

What is the dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 1999?▾

The dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 1999 was 50.52. This ranked 66th globally.

How does 1999 compare to 1998 for Sri Lanka's dependency ratio?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio went from 51.32 in 1998 to 50.52 in 1999, a 1.6% decrease.

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