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United States - Dependency Ratio 1971

Name: United States Dependency Ratio 1971
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

60.85 −1.14 from 1970 Global rank: 46th

United States's dependency ratio was 60.85 in 1971, decreased +1.14 from 61.99 in 1970. This was the 46th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1971▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1971
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Japan	43.80	0.6%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	43.81	-3.7%
3rd	Serbia	45.93	-0.9%
4th	Hungary	47.27	-1.3%
5th	Croatia	48.02	-0.8%
6th	Bulgaria	48.14	0.3%
7th	Russian Federation	50.02	-2.1%
8th	Finland	50.22	-1.5%
9th	Czechia	50.30	0.2%
10th	Latvia	50.93	0.6%
11th	Romania	51.02	0.1%
12th	Ukraine	51.08	-0.6%
13th	Slovenia	51.10	-0.3%
14th	Estonia	51.33	0.4%
15th	Poland	52.78	-2.5%
16th	Luxembourg	52.87	-0.5%
17th	Sweden	53.18	0.9%
18th	Gibraltar	53.30	1.3%
19th	Andorra	53.42	-1.6%
20th	San Marino	54.22	0.5%
21st	Switzerland	54.59	0.9%
22nd	Bermuda	54.64	-1.4%
23rd	Denmark	55.25	0.1%
24th	Channel Islands	55.38	1.0%
25th	Greece	55.66	1.7%
26th	Liechtenstein	55.70	-0.4%
27th	Malta	55.87	-2.4%
28th	Italy	56.11	0.9%
29th	European Union	56.74	0.0%
30th	Argentina	56.97	0.2%
31st	Slovak Republic	57.05	-1.5%
32nd	Moldova	57.46	-2.3%
33rd	Monaco	57.72	0.8%
34th	Uruguay	58.16	0.1%
35th	Germany	58.52	0.4%
36th	Belgium	58.62	-0.2%
37th	Belarus	58.69	-2.3%
38th	Australia	58.79	-0.6%
39th	Lithuania	59.25	0.2%
40th	Netherlands	59.53	-0.6%
41st	Canada	59.56	-3.2%
42nd	United Kingdom	59.65	0.9%
43rd	Norway	59.72	0.2%
44th	Spain	60.31	0.7%
45th	France	60.46	0.0%
46th	United States	60.85	-1.8%
47th	Georgia	60.97	-1.6%
48th	Portugal	61.62	-0.5%
49th	North Macedonia	62.20	-1.7%
50th	Austria	62.67	0.4%
51st	Qatar	64.02	7.0%
52nd	Montenegro	64.19	-2.1%
53rd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.57	-2.5%
54th	Israel	65.72	-0.4%
55th	Cyprus	65.98	-0.5%
56th	Isle of Man	66.59	1.7%
57th	Faroe Islands	67.04	-0.7%
58th	New Zealand	67.25	-0.9%
59th	Hong Kong SAR, China	67.49	-9.1%
60th	Kazakhstan	67.86	-1.7%
61st	Virgin Islands (US)	69.01	3.2%
62nd	Guam	69.17	-0.6%
63rd	Singapore	69.31	-4.3%
64th	Iceland	69.49	-1.8%
65th	Macao SAR, China	70.25	-11.0%
66th	Barbados	70.47	-0.9%
67th	Chile	71.18	-1.2%
68th	British Virgin Islands	71.19	-0.3%
69th	Aruba	71.51	-0.9%
70th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	72.24	-0.5%
71st	Ireland	73.27	0.1%
72nd	Nauru	73.37	-5.9%
73rd	Timor-Leste	73.61	0.4%
74th	Armenia	74.48	-2.7%
75th	Cuba	76.06	0.5%
76th	New Caledonia	76.39	1.5%
77th	Sri Lanka	76.46	-0.8%
78th	Gabon	76.54	1.4%
79th	Puerto Rico (US)	76.59	-2.6%
80th	Bahamas, The	76.85	-0.5%
81st	Nepal	77.53	0.3%
82nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	77.67	0.7%
83rd	Bhutan	79.52	0.3%
84th	Curaçao	79.68	-1.6%
85th	China	79.84	-0.4%
86th	Myanmar	80.08	-0.4%
87th	Guinea	80.21	0.5%
88th	Mauritius	80.31	-2.7%
89th	Cayman Islands	80.50	-3.7%
90th	Mali	80.59	0.9%
91st	Trinidad and Tobago	80.75	-3.0%
92nd	Sierra Leone	80.81	0.9%
93rd	Equatorial Guinea	80.94	0.6%
94th	Haiti	81.22	0.2%
95th	Gambia, The	81.34	0.4%
96th	India	81.57	-0.4%
97th	Korea	81.72	-2.1%
98th	Brazil	82.64	-1.4%
99th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.67	-0.4%
100th	Kyrgyz Republic	82.83	-0.5%
101st	Greenland	82.83	-2.8%
102nd	Lao PDR	83.34	0.3%
103rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	83.35	0.0%
104th	Kuwait	84.04	0.9%
105th	Indonesia	84.42	0.2%
106th	Nigeria	84.54	0.7%
107th	Burkina Faso	84.61	1.3%
108th	South Africa	84.66	0.1%
109th	Liberia	84.91	0.5%
110th	Brunei Darussalam	84.94	-2.2%
111th	Eritrea	85.66	1.1%
112th	Guinea-Bissau	85.88	0.3%
113th	Central African Republic	86.18	0.6%
114th	Cameroon	86.32	1.0%
115th	Albania	86.48	-1.4%
116th	Mozambique	86.64	0.7%
117th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	86.88	0.8%
118th	Kosovo	87.84	1.5%
119th	Tuvalu	87.87	-3.0%
120th	Malaysia	87.98	-1.9%
121st	Afghanistan	88.03	0.9%
122nd	Senegal	88.22	0.0%
123rd	Chad	88.26	0.8%
124th	Pakistan	88.31	0.6%
125th	South Sudan	88.49	0.6%
126th	Papua New Guinea	88.76	0.8%
127th	Lesotho	88.93	-2.1%
128th	Costa Rica	89.00	-2.3%
129th	Türkiye	89.33	-0.6%
130th	Bahrain	89.40	-3.4%
131st	Fiji	89.69	-1.9%
132nd	Thailand	89.86	-1.3%
133rd	Lebanon	90.00	-1.7%
134th	Djibouti	90.32	0.8%
135th	Malawi	90.38	0.7%
136th	Mauritania	90.51	1.4%
137th	Bangladesh	90.57	0.3%
138th	Yemen, Republic of	90.75	2.0%
139th	Côte d'Ivoire	90.94	0.3%
140th	Panama	91.32	-0.5%
141st	Antigua and Barbuda	91.66	-3.0%
142nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	91.74	-0.9%
143rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	91.81	-0.2%
144th	Maldives	92.39	0.7%
145th	Viet Nam	92.44	-0.9%
146th	Cambodia	92.54	2.9%
147th	Ecuador	92.58	-0.5%
148th	French Polynesia	92.60	-1.1%
149th	Tunisia	92.81	-0.6%
150th	Burundi	92.89	-0.1%
151st	Namibia	93.05	0.6%
152nd	Togo	93.11	0.4%
153rd	Peru	93.11	-0.2%
154th	Saudi Arabia	93.28	-0.4%
155th	Guatemala	93.48	-0.1%
156th	Azerbaijan	93.66	-2.3%
157th	St. Martin (French part)	93.66	0.3%
158th	Congo, Republic of	93.81	0.6%
159th	Iraq	94.03	2.1%
160th	Colombia	94.13	-1.6%
161st	Benin	94.24	1.0%
162nd	Tanzania	94.69	0.5%
163rd	Tajikistan	95.20	-0.4%
164th	Vanuatu	95.57	-0.2%
165th	American Samoa	96.03	-2.2%
166th	Marshall Islands	96.27	2.3%
167th	Kiribati	96.37	-0.6%
168th	Angola	96.41	1.1%
169th	Uganda	97.00	0.6%
170th	Paraguay	97.04	-1.0%
171st	Seychelles	97.87	-0.3%
172nd	Turkmenistan	98.07	-1.0%
173rd	Tonga	98.28	0.1%
174th	Niger	98.45	-0.4%
175th	Oman	98.65	1.9%
176th	Morocco	98.92	-0.6%
177th	El Salvador	99.46	-0.8%
178th	Grenada	99.51	-1.9%
179th	Madagascar	99.64	0.2%
180th	Guyana	99.73	-1.2%
181st	Comoros	99.77	0.9%
182nd	Uzbekistan	99.93	-0.9%
183rd	Nicaragua	100.00	-0.2%
184th	Eswatini	100.61	0.1%
185th	Solomon Islands	100.74	0.2%
186th	Sudan	100.82	0.3%
187th	Micronesia, Federated States of	101.37	0.7%
188th	Philippines	101.85	-0.6%
189th	Mexico	101.87	0.2%
190th	Algeria	101.97	-0.5%
191st	Dominican Republic	102.06	-1.7%
192nd	Palau	102.17	-0.7%
193rd	Cabo Verde	102.25	-0.5%
194th	São Tomé and Principe	102.55	-0.5%
195th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	102.67	-0.3%
196th	Rwanda	102.78	-1.7%
197th	Northern Mariana Islands	102.79	-4.4%
198th	Zambia	103.09	1.4%
199th	Honduras	103.78	-0.2%
200th	Jamaica	103.95	-0.1%
201st	Zimbabwe	105.89	-0.4%
202nd	Mongolia	105.94	0.2%
203rd	Ghana	106.35	-0.2%
204th	Syrian Arab Republic	107.00	0.0%
205th	Turks and Caicos Islands	108.40	-1.6%
206th	Suriname	110.77	-1.6%
207th	Belize	112.46	-1.9%
208th	St. Kitts and Nevis	113.15	-4.6%
209th	Botswana	114.53	0.4%
210th	Jordan	114.92	0.4%
211th	Kenya	117.05	0.5%
212th	Samoa	117.10	-0.7%
213th	Dominica	117.39	-2.2%
214th	Libya	118.10	-0.2%
215th	St. Lucia	121.20	0.9%

FAQ

What was United States's dependency ratio in 1971?▾

United States's dependency ratio in 1971 was 60.85. This ranked 46th globally.

How did United States's dependency ratio change in 1971?▾

United States's dependency ratio decreased by 1.8% in 1971 compared to 1970.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1971?▾

St. Lucia had the highest dependency ratio in 1971 at 121.20.

What is the dependency ratio of United States in 1971?▾

The dependency ratio of United States in 1971 was 60.85. This ranked 46th globally.

How does 1971 compare to 1970 for United States's dependency ratio?▾

United States's dependency ratio went from 61.99 in 1970 to 60.85 in 1971, a 1.8% decrease.

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