South and Central Asia Compared by People > Age dependency ratio > Dependents to working-age population
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DEFINITION:
Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. For example, 0.7 means there are 7 dependents for every 10 working-age people.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Afghanistan | 0.94 | 1989 | ||
2 | Maldives | 0.79 | 2005 | ||
=3 | Tajikistan | 0.75 | 2005 | ||
=3 | Bhutan | 0.75 | 2005 | ||
5 | Nepal | 0.74 | 2005 | ||
6 | Pakistan | 0.73 | 2005 | ||
7 | Bangladesh | 0.64 | 2005 | ||
8 | Uzbekistan | 0.61 | 2005 | ||
=9 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.6 | 2005 | ||
=9 | India | 0.6 | 2005 | ||
11 | Turkmenistan | 0.57 | 2005 | ||
=12 | Sri Lanka | 0.46 | 2005 | ||
=12 | Kazakhstan | 0.46 | 2005 |