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United Kingdom - Dependency Ratio 2021

Name: United Kingdom Dependency Ratio 2021
Creator: World Bank
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

57.61 −0.05 from 2020 Global rank: 133rd

United Kingdom's dependency ratio was 57.61 in 2021, decreased +0.05 from 57.66 in 2020. This was the 133rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2021▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2021
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	20.26	1.5%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.14	-0.1%
3rd	Bahrain	29.46	-2.3%
4th	Kuwait	30.74	-5.9%
5th	Cayman Islands	31.77	1.1%
6th	Singapore	32.32	3.7%
7th	Maldives	32.79	-2.2%
8th	British Virgin Islands	33.44	-1.4%
9th	Macao SAR, China	35.95	4.0%
10th	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.71	0.5%
11th	Brunei Darussalam	37.48	0.2%
12th	St. Lucia	37.53	-0.8%
13th	Jamaica	37.67	-1.7%
14th	Andorra	38.20	0.1%
15th	Mauritius	38.47	0.1%
16th	Saudi Arabia	38.55	-0.9%
17th	Seychelles	39.55	0.9%
18th	Korea	39.78	2.6%
19th	St. Kitts and Nevis	40.22	0.9%
20th	Bhutan	40.44	-2.8%
21st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.73	0.9%
22nd	Palau	40.83	1.1%
23rd	Antigua and Barbuda	41.09	0.7%
24th	Thailand	41.41	1.1%
25th	Oman	41.50	5.8%
26th	Trinidad and Tobago	41.77	1.3%
27th	Cyprus	42.53	1.4%
28th	Colombia	42.88	-0.6%
29th	Greenland	42.92	1.5%
30th	Northern Mariana Islands	43.17	2.3%
31st	Bahamas, The	43.33	-1.1%
32nd	Azerbaijan	43.46	0.1%
33rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	43.55	0.8%
34th	Malaysia	43.58	-1.6%
35th	Brazil	43.64	0.1%
36th	French Polynesia	43.91	0.0%
37th	Luxembourg	44.20	0.4%
38th	China	44.48	0.9%
39th	Hong Kong SAR, China	44.59	3.5%
40th	Dominica	44.79	-0.4%
41st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.83	-0.2%
42nd	Kosovo	44.98	-1.4%
43rd	Chile	45.04	0.1%
44th	Costa Rica	45.27	-0.3%
45th	Curaçao	45.52	0.2%
46th	Cuba	46.01	0.2%
47th	Myanmar	46.25	-0.1%
48th	Grenada	46.62	-0.4%
49th	Türkiye	46.82	0.7%
50th	Malta	47.06	0.8%
51st	Viet Nam	47.24	0.6%
52nd	Indonesia	47.63	-0.8%
53rd	India	48.04	-1.4%
54th	Ukraine	48.22	0.7%
55th	New Caledonia	48.23	-0.1%
56th	Albania	48.44	1.6%
57th	Armenia	48.48	0.6%
58th	South Africa	48.92	-1.2%
59th	Belize	49.06	-2.1%
60th	Aruba	49.32	0.9%
61st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.35	0.1%
62nd	Slovak Republic	49.46	2.2%
63rd	Belarus	49.57	1.7%
64th	Barbados	49.62	1.5%
65th	Mexico	49.81	-1.0%
66th	Russian Federation	50.27	1.4%
67th	Iceland	50.36	0.9%
68th	Tunisia	50.42	0.7%
69th	Liechtenstein	50.54	1.6%
70th	San Marino	50.62	1.2%
71st	Ecuador	50.71	-1.4%
72nd	Libya	50.79	-1.9%
73rd	Suriname	50.85	-0.5%
74th	Spain	50.88	-0.2%
75th	El Salvador	50.96	-1.3%
76th	Bermuda	51.01	2.1%
77th	Austria	51.11	1.2%
78th	Peru	51.27	-1.4%
79th	Channel Islands	51.28	0.4%
80th	Morocco	51.39	-0.1%
81st	North Macedonia	51.39	1.8%
82nd	Poland	51.51	2.0%
83rd	Switzerland	51.53	0.9%
84th	Sri Lanka	51.66	0.0%
85th	Fiji	51.77	-0.8%
86th	Cabo Verde	51.81	-1.1%
87th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.88	1.6%
88th	Canada	52.03	1.6%
89th	Dominican Republic	52.59	-0.1%
90th	Panama	52.79	-0.6%
91st	United States	52.95	0.7%
92nd	Ireland	53.04	0.0%
93rd	Moldova	53.48	2.5%
94th	Philippines	53.60	-2.2%
95th	New Zealand	53.63	1.2%
96th	Uruguay	53.65	-1.0%
97th	Hungary	53.78	1.4%
98th	Djibouti	53.94	-1.9%
99th	Bangladesh	53.96	-0.2%
100th	Lithuania	53.98	0.0%
101st	Norway	53.99	0.5%
102nd	Netherlands	54.20	0.7%
103rd	Argentina	54.22	-1.5%
104th	Australia	54.26	1.2%
105th	Paraguay	54.34	-0.3%
106th	Nicaragua	54.36	-1.6%
107th	Gibraltar	54.79	-0.4%
108th	Montenegro	54.80	1.4%
109th	Turkmenistan	54.83	1.7%
110th	Romania	54.86	1.4%
111th	Nepal	54.97	-3.0%
112th	Guyana	55.09	0.2%
113th	American Samoa	55.18	-2.1%
114th	Uzbekistan	55.25	2.4%
115th	Lao PDR	55.25	-1.1%
116th	Slovenia	55.26	1.5%
117th	Honduras	55.87	-1.4%
118th	European Union	56.10	0.9%
119th	Germany	56.23	1.7%
120th	Puerto Rico (US)	56.33	0.9%
121st	Belgium	56.58	0.5%
122nd	Georgia	56.65	1.2%
123rd	Bulgaria	56.71	0.3%
124th	Serbia	56.73	1.6%
125th	Italy	56.93	0.3%
126th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	57.01	-1.6%
127th	Cambodia	57.17	-0.6%
128th	Jordan	57.23	-1.5%
129th	Denmark	57.29	0.5%
130th	Portugal	57.32	1.0%
131st	Botswana	57.37	-1.3%
132nd	Croatia	57.43	1.6%
133rd	United Kingdom	57.61	-0.1%
134th	Czechia	57.74	1.3%
135th	Haiti	58.12	-1.2%
136th	Estonia	58.27	0.8%
137th	Latvia	58.35	0.8%
138th	Greece	58.38	1.3%
139th	Lebanon	58.49	-0.7%
140th	Algeria	58.56	0.8%
141st	St. Martin (French part)	58.61	-2.4%
142nd	Isle of Man	58.73	0.0%
143rd	Guam	59.01	2.2%
144th	Kazakhstan	59.38	1.7%
145th	Mongolia	59.63	1.2%
146th	Tuvalu	59.76	0.1%
147th	Papua New Guinea	60.20	-1.0%
148th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.71	-0.1%
149th	Guatemala	60.88	-2.1%
150th	Sweden	60.89	0.2%
151st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	61.12	-1.0%
152nd	Virgin Islands (US)	61.15	1.2%
153rd	Syrian Arab Republic	61.23	-4.8%
154th	Kyrgyz Republic	61.60	0.4%
155th	Eswatini	61.83	-1.5%
156th	Marshall Islands	62.06	0.2%
157th	France	62.06	0.5%
158th	Finland	62.15	0.8%
159th	Faroe Islands	62.50	0.1%
160th	Kiribati	64.27	0.1%
161st	Lesotho	64.97	-1.0%
162nd	Tajikistan	66.38	0.8%
163rd	Israel	67.06	0.2%
164th	Ghana	67.74	-1.3%
165th	Nauru	68.06	1.7%
166th	Gabon	68.97	0.0%
167th	Namibia	69.20	0.8%
168th	Timor-Leste	69.26	-2.5%
169th	Japan	70.26	0.5%
170th	Equatorial Guinea	70.52	-0.1%
171st	Iraq	70.77	-1.7%
172nd	Kenya	70.96	-2.3%
173rd	Pakistan	71.34	-1.0%
174th	Solomon Islands	71.66	-1.6%
175th	Tonga	72.63	-0.1%
176th	Rwanda	73.15	-1.6%
177th	Comoros	73.79	-1.1%
178th	Sierra Leone	74.09	-1.6%
179th	West Bank and Gaza	74.39	-0.9%
180th	Vanuatu	75.61	0.0%
181st	São Tomé and Principe	76.01	-2.4%
182nd	Guinea-Bissau	76.02	-1.5%
183rd	Senegal	76.38	-2.2%
184th	Madagascar	76.50	-0.8%
185th	Togo	77.24	-0.8%
186th	Yemen, Republic of	78.17	-0.1%
187th	Eritrea	78.17	-2.5%
188th	Samoa	78.99	1.0%
189th	Liberia	79.18	-1.6%
190th	Sudan	79.32	-0.8%
191st	Congo, Republic of	79.67	-0.7%
192nd	South Sudan	79.84	-2.9%
193rd	Gambia, The	80.00	-1.5%
194th	Côte d'Ivoire	80.14	-0.8%
195th	Zambia	80.90	-1.7%
196th	Cameroon	82.09	-1.0%
197th	Malawi	82.45	-2.5%
198th	Guinea	82.82	-1.2%
199th	Nigeria	83.10	-1.7%
200th	Benin	83.30	-1.0%
201st	Zimbabwe	83.38	-1.2%
202nd	Burkina Faso	85.51	-2.1%
203rd	Tanzania	85.74	-0.9%
204th	Afghanistan	86.08	-1.3%
205th	Uganda	88.03	-1.9%
206th	Mauritania	88.10	-1.0%
207th	Angola	91.04	-0.4%
208th	Mozambique	91.83	-0.5%
209th	Burundi	96.01	-1.6%
210th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.73	0.1%
211th	Mali	97.97	-1.3%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	97.97	-0.3%
213th	Chad	98.92	-1.1%
214th	Monaco	100.42	3.4%
215th	Niger	100.88	-1.3%
216th	Central African Republic	105.02	0.5%

FAQ

What was United Kingdom's dependency ratio in 2021?▾

United Kingdom's dependency ratio in 2021 was 57.61. This ranked 133rd globally.

How did United Kingdom's dependency ratio change in 2021?▾

United Kingdom's dependency ratio decreased by 0.1% in 2021 compared to 2020.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2021?▾

Central African Republic had the highest dependency ratio in 2021 at 105.02.

What is the dependency ratio of United Kingdom in 2021?▾

The dependency ratio of United Kingdom in 2021 was 57.61. This ranked 133rd globally.

How does 2021 compare to 2020 for United Kingdom's dependency ratio?▾

United Kingdom's dependency ratio went from 57.66 in 2020 to 57.61 in 2021, a 0.1% decrease.

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