Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1975

Total Dependency Ratio, 1975

1975, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Dependency Ratio, 1975 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Macau is highest, at 139.390; Vatican City is lowest, at 26.598. The middle country reads 83.452. Against 1974, 222 values changed (73 up, 149 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Total Dependency Ratio · Data for 1975

HighestMacau

139.390

LowestVatican City

26.598

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Total Dependency Ratio, 1975, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Dependency Ratio, 1975: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MacauMACEastern Asia139.390114.51324.877
KenyaKENEastern Africa117.954113.4284.526
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean117.564107.6869.879
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia115.198107.4147.784
JordanJORWestern Asia114.543108.6025.942
NiueNIUPolynesia110.42398.23412.189
SamoaWSMPolynesia109.366103.2336.133
PalestinePSEWestern Asia108.861103.7215.140
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa108.126101.6666.460
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia107.881100.1197.762
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa107.278101.3445.934
SyriaSYRWestern Asia106.997100.5876.410
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa105.49898.9416.557
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia105.19098.2816.909
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa105.12697.9357.191
IraqIRQWestern Asia105.05895.8469.212
AnguillaAIACaribbean104.62886.88617.742
BelizeBLZCentral America104.58295.5679.016
DominicaDMACaribbean104.44391.78212.662
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa104.23192.44511.786
MicronesiaFSMMicronesia103.73397.6766.057
GhanaGHAWestern Africa103.48398.0855.398
ComorosCOMEastern Africa103.38994.4748.915
OmanOMNWestern Asia102.91696.4826.434
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia102.81392.12610.687

02In 1975

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Macau139.390
  2. Kenya117.954
  3. Saint Lucia117.564
  4. Cook Islands115.198
  5. Jordan114.543

Lowest

  1. Vatican City26.598
  2. United Arab Emirates40.725
  3. Serbia45.774
  4. Japan46.556
  5. Russia46.978

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 83.452. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Child dependency ratio (aged 0–14 per 100 aged 15–64)

    HighestMacau114.513

    LowestVatican City16.321

    Middle country: 76.410

  • Old-age dependency ratio (aged 65+ per 100 aged 15–64)

    HighestMonaco36.733

    LowestNauru1.926

    Middle country: 7.523

031974 → 1975

Since 1974

What changed between 1974 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 73 · 149rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1975.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 59.749. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1975). Total Dependency Ratio, 1975 [data set], describing 1975. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/dependency-ratio/1975

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Dependency Ratio, 1975: questions and answers

Which country has the highest dependency ratio in Total Dependency Ratio, 1975?

Macau, at 139.390, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Dependency Ratio, 1975 describe?

1975.

How many countries does Total Dependency Ratio, 1975 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Dependency Ratio, 1975?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Total Dependency Ratio, 1975 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Total Dependency Ratio, 2023.

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.