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Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Rank	Country	Value
Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) - Dynamics - Population - Health - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Japan	32.85
2	Italy	30.57
3	Germany	30.10
4	Sweden	27.03
5	Euro area	27.02
6	Greece	26.91
7	Belgium	26.16
8	Portugal	26.07
9	France	25.56
10	Croatia	25.44
11	Austria	25.09
12	Bulgaria	25.03
13	Estonia	24.91
14	Latvia	24.89
15	Finland	24.80
16	Spain	24.79
17	United Kingdom	24.64
18	Switzerland	24.58
19	Denmark	24.27
20	High income: OECD	23.77
21	Hungary	23.28
22	Lithuania	23.23
23	Slovenia	22.86
24	High income	22.82
25	Ukraine	22.67
26	Norway	22.12
27	Netherlands	21.87
28	Uruguay	21.74
29	Channel Islands	21.69
30	Serbia	21.46
31	Romania	21.26
32	Georgia	21.12
33	Luxembourg	20.65
34	Czech Republic	20.60
35	Puerto Rico	20.22
36	Malta	20.03
37	Australia	19.90
38	Canada	19.56
39	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.54
40	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	19.41
41	Belarus	19.37
42	Montenegro	19.01
43	United States	18.88
44	New Zealand	18.78
45	Poland	18.65
46	Cyprus	18.48
47	Russia	18.47
48	Iceland	17.34
49	Armenia	17.03
50	Hong Kong	16.74
51	Macedonia	16.55
52	Slovakia	16.53
53	Cuba	16.43
54	Argentina	16.40
55	Ireland	16.26
56	Europe & Central Asia	16.19
57	Israel	16.16
58	Moldova	15.54
59	Netherlands Antilles	14.66
60	North Korea	14.32
61	South Korea	14.32
62	Barbados	14.09
63	Albania	14.04
64	Aruba	13
65	Chile	12.86
66	Singapore	12.80
67	Jamaica	12.37
68	Upper middle income	12.14
69	El Salvador	11.75
70	Grenada	11.10
71	China	11.10
72	Lebanon	10.86
73	New Caledonia	10.84
74	Kazakhstan	10.70
75	Sri Lanka	10.59
76	High income: nonOECD	10.56
77	Thailand	10.54
78	Guam	10.51
79	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	10.46
80	East Asia & Pacific	10.38
81	Tonga	10.28
82	St. Lucia	10.26
83	Ecuador	10.23
84	Latin America & Caribbean	10.16
85	Mauritius	10.09
86	Panama	9.96
87	Azerbaijan	9.86
88	Brazil	9.81
89	Bahamas	9.78
90	Suriname	9.77
91	Middle income	9.77
92	Tunisia	9.64
93	Mexico	9.62
94	Dominican Republic	9.47
95	Vietnam	9.38
96	Guyana	9.29
97	Low & middle income	9.25
98	Costa Rica	9.18
99	Lower middle income	9.15
100	Trinidad and Tobago	9.14
101	Peru	9.02
102	Macau	8.95
103	Indonesia	8.80
104	Samoa	8.71
105	Turkey	8.70
106	Lesotho	8.47
107	French Polynesia	8.40
108	Kyrgyzstan	8.28
109	Venezuela	8.26
110	Paraguay	8.25
111	Colombia	8.22
112	Guatemala	8.17
113	Morocco	8.09
114	Burma	8.08
115	Bolivia	7.96
116	India	7.53
117	Sao Tome and Principe	7.46
118	Nicaragua	7.41
119	Bhutan	7.40
120	Gabon	7.37
121	Cape Verde	7.35
122	Haiti	7.34
123	Honduras	7.34
124	South Asia	7.27
125	Fiji	7.27
126	Zimbabwe	7.24
127	Egypt	7.18
128	Malaysia	7.06
129	Central African Republic	7.03
130	Uzbekistan	6.99
131	Iran	6.94
132	Republic of the Congo	6.88
133	Middle East & North Africa	6.87
134	Ivory Coast	6.86
135	Algeria	6.82
136	Belize	6.78
137	Nepal	6.77
138	Pakistan	6.77
139	South Africa	6.74
140	Philippines	6.68
141	Turkmenistan	6.57
142	Maldives	6.46
143	Low income	6.44
144	Cameroon	6.42
145	Guinea-Bissau	6.39
146	Tajikistan	6.35
147	Micronesia	6.29
148	Libya	6.28
149	Sudan	6.27
150	Laos	6.27
151	Ghana	6.22
152	Togo	6.19
153	Mozambique	6.16
154	Malawi	6.10
155	Namibia	6.08
156	Benin	6.01
157	Iraq	5.98
158	Guinea	5.95
159	Bangladesh	5.95
160	Botswana	5.95
161	Zambia	5.94
162	Ethiopia	5.94
163	Jordan	5.89
164	Tanzania	5.89
165	Swaziland	5.83
166	Least developed countries: UN classification	5.80
167	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	5.74
168	Nigeria	5.73
169	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.73
170	Liberia	5.71
171	Madagascar	5.70
172	Vanuatu	5.68
173	Mongolia	5.67
174	West Bank and Gaza	5.66
175	Timor-Leste	5.65
176	Chad	5.58
177	Mayotte	5.48
178	Cambodia	5.43
179	Solomon Islands	5.33
180	Equatorial Guinea	5.33
181	Uganda	5.29
182	Djibouti	5.26
183	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.26
184	Comoros	5.25
185	Somalia	5.22
186	Syria	5.17
187	Gambia	5.15
188	Kenya	4.87
189	Burundi	4.81
190	Brunei Darussalam	4.76
191	Angola	4.72
192	Mauritania	4.60
193	Rwanda	4.57
194	Senegal	4.48
195	Saudi Arabia	4.47
196	Yemen	4.44
197	Oman	4.43
198	Mali	4.35
199	Eritrea	4.34
200	Afghanistan	4.33
201	Papua New Guinea	4.25
202	Niger	4.10
203	Burkina Faso	3.92
204	Sierra Leone	3.38
205	Bahrain	3.28
206	Kuwait	2.80
207	Qatar	1.30
208	United Arab Emirates	1.26

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