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United States - Dependency Ratio 1973

Name: United States Dependency Ratio 1973
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

57.83 −1.57 from 1972 Global rank: 35th

United States's dependency ratio was 57.83 in 1973, decreased +1.57 from 59.41 in 1972. This was the 35th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1973▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1973
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	41.49	-2.2%
2nd	Japan	45.28	1.8%
3rd	Serbia	45.72	-0.1%
4th	Hungary	47.53	0.7%
5th	Croatia	47.96	0.1%
6th	Russian Federation	48.35	-1.7%
7th	Bulgaria	48.54	0.5%
8th	Finland	48.94	-1.1%
9th	Ukraine	50.60	-0.6%
10th	Andorra	50.86	-2.6%
11th	Poland	51.09	-1.4%
12th	Latvia	51.26	0.0%
13th	Slovenia	51.50	0.5%
14th	Czechia	51.53	1.6%
15th	Estonia	51.64	0.1%
16th	Luxembourg	51.68	-1.0%
17th	Romania	51.79	1.0%
18th	Bermuda	53.28	-1.4%
19th	Malta	53.43	-2.1%
20th	San Marino	54.07	-0.4%
21st	Liechtenstein	54.11	-1.7%
22nd	Gibraltar	54.29	0.6%
23rd	Switzerland	54.32	-0.4%
24th	Sweden	54.49	1.2%
25th	Moldova	55.00	-2.1%
26th	Channel Islands	55.05	-0.8%
27th	Denmark	55.69	0.3%
28th	Greece	55.91	0.3%
29th	Belarus	56.02	-2.3%
30th	Slovak Republic	56.05	-0.5%
31st	Canada	56.15	-2.9%
32nd	European Union	56.64	-0.1%
33rd	Italy	56.93	0.7%
34th	Argentina	57.51	0.6%
35th	United States	57.83	-2.6%
36th	Australia	57.98	-0.8%
37th	Germany	58.02	-0.7%
38th	Belgium	58.09	-0.6%
39th	Uruguay	58.25	0.1%
40th	Monaco	58.27	0.0%
41st	Netherlands	58.42	-1.1%
42nd	Georgia	58.83	-1.8%
43rd	Lithuania	58.99	-0.5%
44th	Norway	59.89	0.1%
45th	United Kingdom	60.15	0.2%
46th	France	60.34	-0.2%
47th	North Macedonia	60.57	-1.3%
48th	Spain	60.59	0.2%
49th	Portugal	61.10	-0.5%
50th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	61.51	-2.4%
51st	Montenegro	61.66	-2.0%
52nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	61.83	-4.0%
53rd	Austria	62.24	-0.6%
54th	Singapore	63.21	-4.5%
55th	Nauru	64.55	-6.4%
56th	Qatar	64.65	-1.1%
57th	Cyprus	64.96	-1.2%
58th	Kazakhstan	65.30	-2.0%
59th	New Zealand	65.67	-1.4%
60th	Faroe Islands	65.92	-0.7%
61st	Israel	66.24	0.8%
62nd	Guam	67.03	-1.8%
63rd	Iceland	67.17	-1.6%
64th	Aruba	67.27	-3.6%
65th	Isle of Man	68.42	1.3%
66th	Barbados	68.97	-1.3%
67th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	69.02	-3.0%
68th	Chile	69.14	-1.5%
69th	Armenia	69.60	-3.5%
70th	British Virgin Islands	70.15	-0.9%
71st	Ireland	72.45	-0.6%
72nd	Virgin Islands (US)	72.62	1.9%
73rd	Puerto Rico (US)	73.19	-2.1%
74th	Timor-Leste	73.80	0.0%
75th	Cayman Islands	74.13	-4.1%
76th	Sri Lanka	74.75	-1.3%
77th	Mauritius	75.13	-3.5%
78th	Curaçao	75.59	-2.9%
79th	Greenland	75.95	-4.6%
80th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	76.14	-1.7%
81st	Bahamas, The	76.15	-0.5%
82nd	Cuba	76.27	0.0%
83rd	Trinidad and Tobago	76.54	-2.6%
84th	New Caledonia	77.96	0.8%
85th	Korea	78.02	-2.5%
86th	Nepal	78.02	0.3%
87th	China	78.47	-0.8%
88th	Gabon	78.88	1.5%
89th	Myanmar	79.44	-0.4%
90th	Bhutan	80.11	0.4%
91st	Brazil	80.15	-1.5%
92nd	Tuvalu	80.95	-4.4%
93rd	India	81.00	-0.4%
94th	Bahrain	81.20	-4.9%
95th	Guinea	81.32	0.7%
96th	Haiti	81.56	0.2%
97th	Kyrgyz Republic	81.76	-0.8%
98th	Equatorial Guinea	81.80	0.5%
99th	Gambia, The	82.07	0.4%
100th	Sierra Leone	82.10	0.8%
101st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.21	-0.3%
102nd	Mali	82.25	1.0%
103rd	Brunei Darussalam	82.62	-1.4%
104th	Kuwait	82.81	-0.9%
105th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	83.26	-0.1%
106th	Albania	83.46	-1.9%
107th	Lao PDR	83.97	0.4%
108th	Indonesia	84.22	-0.2%
109th	Costa Rica	84.34	-2.8%
110th	South Africa	84.46	-0.2%
111th	Malaysia	84.64	-1.9%
112th	Guinea-Bissau	85.31	-1.1%
113th	Lesotho	85.44	-1.9%
114th	Fiji	85.58	-2.5%
115th	Antigua and Barbuda	85.61	-3.5%
116th	Liberia	85.67	0.4%
117th	Nigeria	85.90	0.8%
118th	Kosovo	86.34	-0.8%
119th	Burkina Faso	86.67	1.2%
120th	Lebanon	86.87	-1.8%
121st	Thailand	87.05	-1.7%
122nd	Eritrea	87.07	0.7%
123rd	Central African Republic	87.35	0.7%
124th	Mozambique	87.72	0.6%
125th	Azerbaijan	87.79	-3.5%
126th	Cameroon	87.98	0.9%
127th	Türkiye	88.07	-0.8%
128th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	88.23	0.7%
129th	Senegal	88.49	0.2%
130th	French Polynesia	88.63	-2.2%
131st	Papua New Guinea	88.64	-0.4%
132nd	Pakistan	89.03	0.3%
133rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	89.45	-1.4%
134th	South Sudan	89.48	0.5%
135th	Afghanistan	89.51	0.8%
136th	Viet Nam	89.88	-1.5%
137th	Panama	89.95	-0.8%
138th	Chad	90.20	1.2%
139th	Colombia	90.63	-2.0%
140th	Côte d'Ivoire	91.21	0.2%
141st	Malawi	91.28	0.4%
142nd	Tunisia	91.44	-0.8%
143rd	Ecuador	91.45	-0.7%
144th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	91.57	-0.1%
145th	Saudi Arabia	91.61	-1.0%
146th	Djibouti	91.66	0.7%
147th	Bangladesh	91.71	0.7%
148th	Macao SAR, China	91.83	61.9%
149th	American Samoa	92.07	-2.0%
150th	Maldives	92.39	-0.2%
151st	Mauritania	92.60	1.1%
152nd	Peru	92.71	-0.3%
153rd	Cambodia	93.29	0.0%
154th	Guatemala	93.59	0.1%
155th	St. Martin (French part)	93.89	0.2%
156th	Togo	94.00	0.5%
157th	Tajikistan	94.04	-0.7%
158th	Yemen, Republic of	94.14	1.8%
159th	Seychelles	94.18	-2.2%
160th	Namibia	94.23	0.7%
161st	Paraguay	94.37	-1.5%
162nd	Kiribati	94.64	-1.1%
163rd	Vanuatu	94.65	-0.6%
164th	Northern Mariana Islands	94.86	-3.7%
165th	Turkmenistan	94.97	-1.8%
166th	Congo, Republic of	95.00	0.6%
167th	Angola	95.20	-1.0%
168th	Tanzania	95.38	0.4%
169th	Grenada	95.48	-2.2%
170th	Benin	95.90	0.8%
171st	Uzbekistan	97.16	-1.6%
172nd	Burundi	97.19	2.1%
173rd	Guyana	97.19	-1.3%
174th	Morocco	97.53	-0.7%
175th	El Salvador	97.55	-1.1%
176th	Niger	97.55	-0.5%
177th	Tonga	97.71	-0.4%
178th	Dominican Republic	98.41	-1.8%
179th	Uganda	99.20	1.2%
180th	Nicaragua	99.52	-0.2%
181st	Rwanda	99.74	-1.4%
182nd	Iraq	99.85	3.4%
183rd	Philippines	100.07	-1.0%
184th	Madagascar	100.20	0.3%
185th	Palau	100.32	-1.4%
186th	Algeria	100.76	-0.6%
187th	Eswatini	101.39	0.5%
188th	São Tomé and Principe	101.41	-0.5%
189th	Comoros	101.53	0.9%
190th	Mexico	101.79	-0.1%
191st	Jamaica	101.91	-1.2%
192nd	Sudan	101.93	0.8%
193rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	101.99	-2.6%
194th	Solomon Islands	102.08	0.9%
195th	Oman	102.20	1.7%
196th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	102.28	-0.2%
197th	St. Kitts and Nevis	102.56	-4.6%
198th	Cabo Verde	102.69	0.3%
199th	Micronesia, Federated States of	103.17	0.8%
200th	Honduras	103.38	-0.2%
201st	Suriname	103.83	-3.6%
202nd	Marshall Islands	104.94	3.9%
203rd	Ghana	105.13	-0.7%
204th	Mongolia	105.14	-0.6%
205th	Zimbabwe	105.47	-0.1%
206th	Zambia	105.78	1.3%
207th	Syrian Arab Republic	106.85	0.0%
208th	Belize	108.37	-1.8%
209th	Botswana	110.25	-2.5%
210th	Dominica	110.54	-2.9%
211th	Libya	113.92	-3.4%
212th	Samoa	114.14	-1.5%
213th	Jordan	115.15	0.0%
214th	Kenya	117.82	0.2%
215th	St. Lucia	120.83	-0.5%

FAQ

What was United States's dependency ratio in 1973?▾

United States's dependency ratio in 1973 was 57.83. This ranked 35th globally.

How did United States's dependency ratio change in 1973?▾

United States's dependency ratio decreased by 2.6% in 1973 compared to 1972.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1973?▾

St. Lucia had the highest dependency ratio in 1973 at 120.83.

What is the dependency ratio of United States in 1973?▾

The dependency ratio of United States in 1973 was 57.83. This ranked 35th globally.

How does 1973 compare to 1972 for United States's dependency ratio?▾

United States's dependency ratio went from 59.41 in 1972 to 57.83 in 1973, a 2.6% decrease.

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