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Total Dependency Ratio, 2019

2019, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Dependency Ratio, 2019 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Vatican City is highest, at 107.558; Qatar is lowest, at 18.663. The middle country reads 54.617. Against 2018, 222 values changed (109 up, 113 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Dependency Ratio · Data for 2019

HighestVatican City

107.558

LowestQatar

18.663

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe107.55812.20995.349
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa104.954100.4694.486
NigerNERWestern Africa103.38998.2825.107
ChadTCDMiddle Africa100.68596.5744.111
MaliMLIWestern Africa100.41795.3605.057
BurundiBDIEastern Africa99.00094.2214.779
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa98.63393.6325.001
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa96.35290.2786.074
MonacoMCOWestern Europe95.43624.52170.915
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa92.66287.2505.412
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa91.64786.4575.190
UgandaUGAEastern Africa91.57087.6693.901
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa89.69283.4336.258
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa88.90084.0664.834
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia88.51284.0334.479
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa87.24381.6225.622
MalawiMWIEastern Africa86.68581.5235.162
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa85.87980.3505.530
South SudanSSDEastern Africa85.83080.9494.881
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa85.44878.8946.554
BeninBENWestern Africa84.87879.2705.608
GuineaGINWestern Africa84.71678.3316.386
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa83.63480.3523.282
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa83.58178.4695.111
GambiaGMBWestern Africa82.28177.3324.949

02In 2019

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Vatican City107.558
  2. Central African Republic104.954
  3. Niger103.389
  4. Chad100.685
  5. Mali100.417

Lowest

  1. Qatar18.663
  2. United Arab Emirates22.216
  3. Bahrain30.047
  4. Singapore30.188
  5. Cayman Islands31.461

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 54.617. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 109 · 113rose · 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 2019.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 57.103. 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 (2019). Total Dependency Ratio, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/dependency-ratio/2019

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07Questions

Total Dependency Ratio, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest dependency ratio in Total Dependency Ratio, 2019?

Vatican City, at 107.558, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Total Dependency Ratio, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Total Dependency Ratio, 2019 cover?

222.

Where can I download Total Dependency Ratio, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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