Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2013

Total Dependency Ratio, 2013

2013, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Dependency Ratio, 2013 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Vatican City is highest, at 116.330; Qatar is lowest, at 18.670. The middle country reads 53.165. Against 2012, 222 values changed (99 up, 123 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Total Dependency Ratio · Data for 2013

HighestVatican City

116.330

LowestQatar

18.670

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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe116.33013.945102.385
NigerNERWestern Africa107.587102.5495.039
UgandaUGAEastern Africa102.96199.1013.860
ChadTCDMiddle Africa102.90098.6374.263
MaliMLIWestern Africa102.37296.8865.486
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa100.55095.8374.714
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia98.06493.4104.654
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa97.96094.2073.752
MalawiMWIEastern Africa96.91490.4856.429
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa96.45590.2836.172
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa94.38889.1095.279
BurundiBDIEastern Africa93.38489.0744.310
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa93.38188.2175.163
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa92.03184.8297.202
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa91.95086.7315.219
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa91.75486.1675.587
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa90.41587.0613.354
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa90.29784.5935.705
GuineaGINWestern Africa89.84283.0906.752
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa88.63882.8005.838
SudanSDNNorthern Africa88.62183.6874.934
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa88.27682.8735.403
BeninBENWestern Africa87.33581.6165.719
GambiaGMBWestern Africa87.17282.2074.965
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa86.74081.2975.443

02In 2013

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Vatican City116.330
  2. Niger107.587
  3. Uganda102.961
  4. Chad102.900
  5. Mali102.372

Lowest

  1. Qatar18.670
  2. United Arab Emirates22.416
  3. Macau25.510
  4. Singapore27.019
  5. Bahrain28.560

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 53.165. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestNiger102.549

    LowestVatican City13.945

    Middle country: 37.846

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

    HighestVatican City102.385

    LowestQatar1.287

    Middle country: 9.257

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 99 · 123rose · 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 2013.

  • 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 (2013). Total Dependency Ratio, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/dependency-ratio/2013

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Total Dependency Ratio, 2013: questions and answers

Which country has the highest dependency ratio in Total Dependency Ratio, 2013?

Vatican City, at 116.330, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Dependency Ratio, 2013 describe?

2013.

How many countries does Total Dependency Ratio, 2013 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Dependency Ratio, 2013?

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, 2013 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.