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United States – Dependency Ratio 1970

Name: United States Dependency Ratio 1970
Creator: World Bank
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Ratio of dependents (people younger than 15 or older than 64) to the working-age population (15-64). Higher ratios imply greater economic burden on workers. · World Bank

61.99 −1.00 from 1969 Global rank: 49th

United States's dependency ratio was 61.99 in 1970, decreased +1.00 from 63.00 in 1969. This was the 49th highest globally.

Global Ranking – 1970▾

Dependency Ratio by Country – 1970
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Japan	43.51	0.0%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	45.51	-3.7%
3rd	Serbia	46.36	-1.4%
4th	Hungary	47.88	-1.9%
5th	Bulgaria	47.99	0.4%
6th	Croatia	48.42	-1.3%
7th	Czechia	50.21	-0.2%
8th	Latvia	50.63	0.5%
9th	Romania	50.96	0.4%
10th	Finland	50.99	-1.1%
11th	Russian Federation	51.10	-2.4%
12th	Estonia	51.12	0.1%
13th	Slovenia	51.26	-0.8%
14th	Ukraine	51.41	-0.8%
15th	Gibraltar	52.64	0.5%
16th	Sweden	52.70	0.6%
17th	Luxembourg	53.13	0.2%
18th	San Marino	53.94	1.1%
19th	Poland	54.12	-2.7%
20th	Switzerland	54.13	0.7%
21st	Andorra	54.27	-0.6%
22nd	Greece	54.73	2.1%
23rd	Channel Islands	54.83	1.1%
24th	Denmark	55.20	-0.2%
25th	Bermuda	55.40	-1.3%
26th	Italy	55.62	1.0%
27th	Liechtenstein	55.91	0.1%
28th	European Union	56.72	0.1%
29th	Argentina	56.84	0.1%
30th	Monaco	57.27	1.2%
31st	Malta	57.27	-2.7%
32nd	Slovak Republic	57.91	-1.4%
33rd	Uruguay	58.09	0.2%
34th	Germany	58.28	0.5%
35th	Belgium	58.72	-0.1%
36th	Moldova	58.81	-2.4%
37th	United Kingdom	59.13	1.1%
38th	Australia	59.14	-0.6%
39th	Lithuania	59.16	0.3%
40th	Norway	59.61	0.3%
41st	Qatar	59.81	4.8%
42nd	Netherlands	59.89	-0.3%
43rd	Spain	59.92	0.9%
44th	Belarus	60.05	-1.6%
45th	France	60.49	-0.2%
46th	Canada	61.55	-3.0%
47th	Georgia	61.95	-0.4%
48th	Portugal	61.96	-0.4%
49th	United States	61.99	-1.6%
50th	Austria	62.43	1.0%
51st	North Macedonia	63.26	-2.1%
52nd	Isle of Man	65.45	1.9%
53rd	Montenegro	65.54	-2.3%
54th	Israel	65.99	-0.5%
55th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	66.20	-2.5%
56th	Cyprus	66.32	-0.6%
57th	Virgin Islands (US)	66.87	-0.8%
58th	Faroe Islands	67.54	0.0%
59th	New Zealand	67.84	-0.8%
60th	Kazakhstan	69.05	-1.7%
61st	Guam	69.59	-0.2%
62nd	Iceland	70.74	-1.6%
63rd	Barbados	71.08	-1.0%
64th	British Virgin Islands	71.41	-2.9%
65th	Chile	72.08	-1.1%
66th	Aruba	72.19	-0.6%
67th	Singapore	72.43	-4.0%
68th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.63	-0.9%
69th	Ireland	73.21	0.2%
70th	Timor-Leste	73.28	0.6%
71st	Hong Kong SAR, China	74.25	-14.2%
72nd	New Caledonia	75.26	0.6%
73rd	Gabon	75.52	1.2%
74th	Cuba	75.65	0.7%
75th	Armenia	76.52	-2.2%
76th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	77.11	1.2%
77th	Sri Lanka	77.12	-0.8%
78th	Bahamas, The	77.27	-0.6%
79th	Nepal	77.31	0.2%
80th	Nauru	77.98	-2.3%
81st	Puerto Rico (US)	78.60	-1.7%
82nd	Macao SAR, China	78.97	-8.4%
83rd	Bhutan	79.29	0.2%
84th	Guinea	79.82	0.3%
85th	Mali	79.83	0.9%
86th	Sierra Leone	80.10	1.0%
87th	China	80.18	-0.6%
88th	Myanmar	80.38	-0.3%
89th	Equatorial Guinea	80.42	0.7%
90th	Gambia, The	80.99	0.4%
91st	Curaçao	81.01	-1.2%
92nd	Haiti	81.08	0.2%
93rd	India	81.88	-0.4%
94th	Mauritius	82.55	-2.5%
95th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.98	-0.5%
96th	Lao PDR	83.06	0.3%
97th	Kyrgyz Republic	83.28	-0.7%
98th	Trinidad and Tobago	83.28	-2.5%
99th	Kuwait	83.33	2.4%
100th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	83.33	0.1%
101st	Korea	83.50	-2.1%
102nd	Burkina Faso	83.57	1.3%
103rd	Cayman Islands	83.61	-2.2%
104th	Brazil	83.85	-1.4%
105th	Nigeria	83.96	0.6%
106th	Indonesia	84.25	0.5%
107th	Liberia	84.49	0.6%
108th	South Africa	84.61	0.2%
109th	Eritrea	84.74	1.1%
110th	Greenland	85.23	-2.0%
111th	Cameroon	85.48	1.0%
112th	Guinea-Bissau	85.65	0.2%
113th	Central African Republic	85.70	0.4%
114th	Mozambique	86.03	0.7%
115th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	86.22	0.6%
116th	Kosovo	86.50	4.3%
117th	Brunei Darussalam	86.85	-2.8%
118th	Afghanistan	87.26	0.9%
119th	Chad	87.56	0.7%
120th	Albania	87.72	-1.1%
121st	Pakistan	87.76	0.8%
122nd	South Sudan	87.95	0.6%
123rd	Papua New Guinea	88.09	0.9%
124th	Senegal	88.24	-0.1%
125th	Yemen, Republic of	88.98	1.9%
126th	Mauritania	89.26	1.6%
127th	Djibouti	89.56	0.9%
128th	Malaysia	89.69	-1.8%
129th	Malawi	89.76	0.8%
130th	Türkiye	89.88	-0.4%
131st	Cambodia	89.90	2.1%
132nd	Bangladesh	90.34	0.6%
133rd	Tuvalu	90.55	-2.9%
134th	Côte d'Ivoire	90.68	0.5%
135th	Lesotho	90.79	-2.0%
136th	Thailand	91.00	-1.0%
137th	Costa Rica	91.12	-2.1%
138th	Fiji	91.40	-1.6%
139th	Lebanon	91.55	-1.6%
140th	Maldives	91.76	1.0%
141st	Panama	91.82	-0.4%
142nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	92.00	-0.3%
143rd	Iraq	92.13	1.7%
144th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	92.52	-0.6%
145th	Namibia	92.54	0.5%
146th	Bahrain	92.56	-2.1%
147th	Togo	92.73	0.4%
148th	Burundi	93.00	0.2%
149th	Ecuador	93.03	-0.4%
150th	Congo, Republic of	93.23	0.6%
151st	Benin	93.28	1.1%
152nd	Viet Nam	93.29	-0.9%
153rd	Peru	93.34	-0.2%
154th	Tunisia	93.40	-0.5%
155th	St. Martin (French part)	93.41	0.3%
156th	Guatemala	93.60	-0.3%
157th	French Polynesia	93.67	-0.1%
158th	Saudi Arabia	93.69	-0.1%
159th	Marshall Islands	94.11	-3.4%
160th	Tanzania	94.22	0.5%
161st	Antigua and Barbuda	94.47	-0.7%
162nd	Angola	95.40	1.5%
163rd	Tajikistan	95.55	-0.3%
164th	Colombia	95.63	-1.4%
165th	Vanuatu	95.73	0.1%
166th	Azerbaijan	95.90	-1.8%
167th	Uganda	96.38	0.4%
168th	Oman	96.80	2.0%
169th	Kiribati	96.94	-0.7%
170th	Paraguay	98.02	-0.8%
171st	Seychelles	98.16	0.8%
172nd	American Samoa	98.20	-1.6%
173rd	Tonga	98.20	0.3%
174th	Niger	98.88	-0.4%
175th	Comoros	98.92	1.0%
176th	Turkmenistan	99.06	-0.6%
177th	Madagascar	99.47	0.0%
178th	Morocco	99.47	-0.3%
179th	El Salvador	100.22	-0.1%
180th	Nicaragua	100.25	-0.3%
181st	Sudan	100.48	0.3%
182nd	Eswatini	100.49	-0.1%
183rd	Solomon Islands	100.56	0.6%
184th	Micronesia, Federated States of	100.71	0.3%
185th	Uzbekistan	100.86	-0.8%
186th	Guyana	100.91	-1.2%
187th	Grenada	101.49	-1.8%
188th	Zambia	101.68	1.0%
189th	Mexico	101.72	0.2%
190th	Philippines	102.45	-0.7%
191st	Algeria	102.52	-0.6%
192nd	Cabo Verde	102.73	-0.8%
193rd	Palau	102.86	-3.2%
194th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	102.94	-0.4%
195th	São Tomé and Principe	103.07	1.6%
196th	Dominican Republic	103.78	-1.5%
197th	Honduras	104.00	-0.2%
198th	Jamaica	104.04	0.6%
199th	Rwanda	104.59	-2.0%
200th	Mongolia	105.71	0.7%
201st	Zimbabwe	106.33	-0.4%
202nd	Ghana	106.58	0.2%
203rd	Syrian Arab Republic	106.98	0.2%
204th	Northern Mariana Islands	107.57	-2.1%
205th	Turks and Caicos Islands	110.20	1.9%
206th	Suriname	112.55	-0.9%
207th	Botswana	114.12	1.3%
208th	Jordan	114.51	0.5%
209th	Belize	114.64	-0.8%
210th	Kenya	116.46	0.4%
211th	Samoa	117.94	-0.4%
212th	Libya	118.32	0.1%
213th	St. Kitts and Nevis	118.55	-0.9%
214th	Dominica	120.08	0.5%
215th	St. Lucia	120.10	1.2%

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