Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1984

Total Dependency Ratio, 1984

1984, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Dependency Ratio, 1984 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Marshall Islands is highest, at 115.261; Vatican City is lowest, at 31.513. The middle country reads 73.141. Against 1983, 222 values changed (51 up, 171 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Total Dependency Ratio · Data for 1984

HighestMarshall Islands

115.261

LowestVatican City

31.513

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, 1984, 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, 1984: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia115.261108.5926.669
YemenYEMWestern Asia111.487105.2046.284
KenyaKENEastern Africa111.307106.8654.441
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa109.537103.5605.977
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa108.775102.3596.416
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa106.50896.13110.377
PalestinePSEWestern Asia106.396102.0484.348
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa105.47898.9126.566
UgandaUGAEastern Africa104.57898.2266.351
ComorosCOMEastern Africa104.29195.7018.590
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia104.14697.4886.658
SyriaSYRWestern Asia104.02898.2905.737
JordanJORWestern Asia103.81798.9984.820
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa103.56293.33410.228
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa102.57694.3728.204
IraqIRQWestern Asia102.27893.7458.533
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa102.21696.1026.114
RwandaRWAEastern Africa101.44696.8074.639
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa101.08896.1824.905
MicronesiaFSMMicronesia100.82095.2585.562
ChadTCDMiddle Africa100.79093.4227.369
HondurasHNDCentral America100.65594.2156.440
SenegalSENWestern Africa100.24794.6065.641
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa100.21393.9996.214
OmanOMNWestern Asia99.74994.2985.451

02In 1984

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Marshall Islands115.261
  2. Yemen111.487
  3. Kenya111.307
  4. Eswatini109.537
  5. Zambia108.775

Lowest

  1. Vatican City31.513
  2. Singapore39.467
  3. Greenland40.034
  4. Andorra40.121
  5. Qatar40.157

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 73.141. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestMarshall Islands108.592

    LowestVatican City16.115

    Middle country: 65.734

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

    HighestMonaco33.289

    LowestQatar1.465

    Middle country: 7.384

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

What changed between 1983 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 51 · 171rose · 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 1984.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 48.649. 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 (1984). Total Dependency Ratio, 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/dependency-ratio/1984

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Dependency Ratio, 1984: questions and answers

Which country has the highest dependency ratio in Total Dependency Ratio, 1984?

Marshall Islands, at 115.261, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Dependency Ratio, 1984 describe?

1984.

How many countries does Total Dependency Ratio, 1984 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Dependency Ratio, 1984?

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, 1984 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.