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Sri Lanka - Dependency Ratio 2005

Name: Sri Lanka Dependency Ratio 2005
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

48.06 −0.05 from 2004 Global rank: 58th

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio was 48.06 in 2005, decreased +0.05 from 48.11 in 2004. This was the 58th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2005▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2005
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	23.85	-1.5%
2nd	Qatar	31.03	1.8%
3rd	Macao SAR, China	31.46	-6.5%
4th	Singapore	32.07	-1.8%
5th	Cayman Islands	32.49	-1.3%
6th	Bahrain	34.93	-5.6%
7th	Kuwait	36.24	-3.3%
8th	Hong Kong SAR, China	36.71	-2.1%
9th	Andorra	36.73	-1.6%
10th	Trinidad and Tobago	37.74	-2.4%
11th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	38.23	-1.3%
12th	British Virgin Islands	38.56	-1.9%
13th	Northern Mariana Islands	38.77	2.7%
14th	China	39.24	-3.6%
15th	Korea	39.36	-0.4%
16th	Slovak Republic	40.06	-1.7%
17th	Czechia	40.38	-0.8%
18th	Russian Federation	40.76	-0.4%
19th	Liechtenstein	40.79	0.2%
20th	Palau	41.83	-1.1%
21st	Slovenia	42.05	0.3%
22nd	Thailand	42.10	-0.6%
23rd	Poland	42.28	-1.5%
24th	Brunei Darussalam	42.35	-3.0%
25th	Aruba	42.64	-0.1%
26th	Turks and Caicos Islands	42.65	-1.6%
27th	Moldova	42.66	-2.4%
28th	Ukraine	42.93	-0.8%
29th	Belarus	43.34	-1.6%
30th	Cyprus	43.39	-2.1%
31st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43.57	0.4%
32nd	Mauritius	43.71	-1.6%
33rd	Greenland	43.83	-1.4%
34th	Cuba	43.90	-0.8%
35th	Canada	44.41	-0.9%
36th	Malta	44.61	-1.4%
37th	Romania	44.72	-0.8%
38th	Bermuda	44.75	0.5%
39th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.79	-4.9%
40th	Bulgaria	44.94	-0.9%
41st	Spain	45.04	-0.4%
42nd	Hungary	45.11	-0.4%
43rd	San Marino	45.98	0.8%
44th	Latvia	46.19	-0.5%
45th	Ireland	46.24	-1.2%
46th	Channel Islands	46.26	-0.3%
47th	Azerbaijan	46.42	-3.4%
48th	North Macedonia	46.82	-1.4%
49th	Estonia	46.91	-0.3%
50th	Switzerland	47.04	-0.5%
51st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	47.33	-0.1%
52nd	Tunisia	47.44	-2.7%
53rd	Austria	47.55	1.2%
54th	Kazakhstan	47.69	-0.9%
55th	Seychelles	47.79	-2.4%
56th	Armenia	47.82	-2.4%
57th	Barbados	47.82	-1.1%
58th	Sri Lanka	48.06	-0.1%
59th	United States	48.10	-0.8%
60th	Netherlands	48.17	0.2%
61st	Serbia	48.20	-0.2%
62nd	Luxembourg	48.43	-0.4%
63rd	Australia	48.48	-0.4%
64th	European Union	48.57	0.2%
65th	Lithuania	49.00	-0.4%
66th	Brazil	49.01	-1.6%
67th	Antigua and Barbuda	49.24	-2.4%
68th	Chile	49.66	-1.9%
69th	Portugal	49.68	0.6%
70th	Montenegro	49.79	0.4%
71st	St. Kitts and Nevis	49.84	-3.3%
72nd	Finland	49.92	0.1%
73rd	Croatia	49.96	0.2%
74th	Greece	49.98	0.1%
75th	Germany	50.04	1.5%
76th	St. Martin (French part)	50.07	0.5%
77th	Mongolia	50.30	-3.8%
78th	New Zealand	50.50	-0.7%
79th	French Polynesia	50.84	-1.8%
80th	Algeria	50.94	-2.9%
81st	Italy	50.95	1.2%
82nd	Bahamas, The	51.00	-0.8%
83rd	Iceland	51.02	-2.0%
84th	Georgia	51.13	-1.0%
85th	Virgin Islands (US)	51.15	-0.4%
86th	Curaçao	51.19	-2.1%
87th	Denmark	51.19	0.3%
88th	Viet Nam	51.34	-3.2%
89th	Japan	51.59	2.6%
90th	Costa Rica	51.68	-2.1%
91st	United Kingdom	51.83	-0.7%
92nd	Isle of Man	51.93	-0.8%
93rd	Norway	52.32	-0.8%
94th	Belgium	52.33	-0.3%
95th	New Caledonia	52.53	-1.1%
96th	Lebanon	52.61	-2.5%
97th	Türkiye	52.72	-1.1%
98th	Gibraltar	52.72	0.6%
99th	Indonesia	52.88	-0.9%
100th	Oman	52.93	-4.8%
101st	Sweden	53.11	-1.0%
102nd	Albania	53.44	-2.0%
103rd	France	53.71	0.0%
104th	St. Lucia	53.95	-3.4%
105th	Libya	54.02	-0.1%
106th	Myanmar	54.33	-1.4%
107th	Colombia	54.73	-1.6%
108th	Guam	54.84	-0.8%
109th	Puerto Rico (US)	54.93	0.2%
110th	Saudi Arabia	54.95	-5.4%
111th	Malaysia	55.49	-2.3%
112th	Morocco	56.19	-2.2%
113th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	56.33	-2.0%
114th	Fiji	56.64	-1.1%
115th	South Africa	56.65	-2.1%
116th	Panama	56.67	-0.8%
117th	Faroe Islands	56.78	-1.3%
118th	Kosovo	56.85	-3.2%
119th	Jamaica	56.99	-2.5%
120th	Suriname	57.55	-0.3%
121st	Grenada	58.34	-3.9%
122nd	Argentina	58.49	-0.9%
123rd	Monaco	58.67	0.8%
124th	Dominica	59.09	-2.3%
125th	Uruguay	59.21	-0.4%
126th	Uzbekistan	59.38	-3.5%
127th	Maldives	59.57	-5.3%
128th	Peru	59.92	-1.0%
129th	Turkmenistan	59.93	-3.1%
130th	Kyrgyz Republic	60.10	-2.3%
131st	Mexico	60.63	-1.5%
132nd	Israel	60.80	-0.1%
133rd	Bhutan	61.07	-3.9%
134th	Dominican Republic	61.13	-1.8%
135th	Nauru	61.41	-2.3%
136th	India	61.91	-1.5%
137th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	62.78	-1.8%
138th	Ecuador	63.11	-1.3%
139th	Botswana	63.65	-1.9%
140th	Guyana	65.01	-1.6%
141st	Bangladesh	65.19	-1.0%
142nd	Paraguay	67.27	-2.5%
143rd	Philippines	67.86	-1.5%
144th	Tuvalu	68.70	-1.9%
145th	American Samoa	68.91	-1.3%
146th	Cambodia	69.29	-3.4%
147th	Nicaragua	69.47	-2.3%
148th	El Salvador	69.67	-0.6%
149th	Marshall Islands	70.18	-1.6%
150th	Papua New Guinea	70.59	-1.0%
151st	Micronesia, Federated States of	70.79	-1.8%
152nd	Kiribati	70.89	-1.6%
153rd	Jordan	71.11	-1.3%
154th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	71.58	-1.6%
155th	Djibouti	71.80	-0.2%
156th	Belize	72.11	-1.6%
157th	Cabo Verde	72.47	-3.9%
158th	Lesotho	72.66	-1.3%
159th	Haiti	72.84	-1.8%
160th	Tajikistan	73.10	-2.6%
161st	Syrian Arab Republic	73.87	-2.3%
162nd	Namibia	74.16	-2.5%
163rd	Vanuatu	75.55	-2.1%
164th	Equatorial Guinea	75.79	-2.0%
165th	Nepal	76.36	-1.5%
166th	Gabon	77.13	-1.8%
167th	Eswatini	77.55	-1.1%
168th	Ghana	77.72	-1.2%
169th	Honduras	78.34	-1.9%
170th	Tonga	78.38	0.5%
171st	Congo, Republic of	78.99	-1.3%
172nd	Lao PDR	79.60	-2.4%
173rd	Samoa	79.83	-0.8%
174th	Togo	80.70	-0.5%
175th	Timor-Leste	81.18	0.6%
176th	Pakistan	81.50	-1.8%
177th	Solomon Islands	81.54	-0.8%
178th	Zimbabwe	82.20	0.7%
179th	Iraq	83.89	-1.1%
180th	Rwanda	84.07	-0.9%
181st	Guatemala	84.66	-1.8%
182nd	São Tomé and Principe	85.36	-0.5%
183rd	Liberia	85.85	0.3%
184th	Eritrea	86.28	-0.1%
185th	Senegal	86.45	-0.4%
186th	Kenya	87.05	-1.1%
187th	Guinea-Bissau	88.62	-0.9%
188th	Nigeria	88.70	0.3%
189th	Sierra Leone	89.37	-0.4%
190th	Central African Republic	89.48	-0.3%
191st	Cameroon	89.57	-0.6%
192nd	Mauritania	89.91	0.1%
193rd	Tanzania	90.68	0.4%
194th	West Bank and Gaza	90.81	-2.1%
195th	Benin	90.97	-0.8%
196th	South Sudan	91.68	-1.7%
197th	Madagascar	92.03	-0.6%
198th	Angola	92.07	-0.3%
199th	Mozambique	92.35	0.1%
200th	Burundi	92.71	-1.6%
201st	Sudan	92.74	-0.6%
202nd	Burkina Faso	93.17	-0.7%
203rd	Côte d'Ivoire	94.60	0.0%
204th	Gambia, The	94.65	-1.2%
205th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	95.75	0.1%
206th	Comoros	96.46	-2.6%
207th	Guinea	96.61	-0.2%
208th	Zambia	96.77	-0.9%
209th	Yemen, Republic of	97.18	-2.3%
210th	Mali	97.54	0.1%
211th	Malawi	99.90	0.4%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	102.89	1.1%
213th	Niger	103.16	1.0%
214th	Chad	104.39	-0.7%
215th	Afghanistan	109.73	-0.5%
216th	Uganda	109.76	-0.3%

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 2005?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 2005 was 48.06. This ranked 58th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's dependency ratio change in 2005?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio decreased by 0.1% in 2005 compared to 2004.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2005?▾

Uganda had the highest dependency ratio in 2005 at 109.76.

What is the dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 2005?▾

The dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 2005 was 48.06. This ranked 58th globally.

How does 2005 compare to 2004 for Sri Lanka's dependency ratio?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio went from 48.11 in 2004 to 48.06 in 2005, a 0.1% decrease.

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