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👵 Highest Old-Age Dependency

People aged 65 and over per 100 people aged 15 to 64.

📅 2025📏 older people per 100 working-age people215 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (older people per 100 working-age people); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇲🇨Monaco
71.7
2
🇯🇵Japan
51.0
3
🇵🇹Portugal
40.0
4
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
39.8
5
🇮🇹Italy
39.7
6
🇫🇮Finland
39.4
7
🇬🇷Greece
38.9
8
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
38.3
9
🇩🇪Germany
38.0
10
🇮🇲Isle of Man
37.8
11
🇭🇷Croatia
37.7
12
🇫🇷France
36.8
13
🇷🇸Serbia
36.8
14
🇭🇰Hong Kong
35.8
15
🇸🇲San Marino
35.6
16
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
35.6
17
🇱🇻Latvia
35.4
18
🇧🇲Bermuda
35.3
19
🇧🇬Bulgaria
35.1
20
🇸🇮Slovenia
35.1
21
🇪🇪Estonia
34.6
22
🇸🇪Sweden
33.5
23
🇩🇰Denmark
33.4
24
🇨🇿Czechia
33.2
25
🇱🇮Liechtenstein
33.2
26
🇲🇫Saint Martin
33.2
27
🇧🇪Belgium
33.1
28
🇪🇸Spain
32.9
29
🇭🇺Hungary
32.8
30
🇦🇹Austria
32.6
31
🇳🇱Netherlands
32.5
32
🇵🇱Poland
32.0
33
🇱🇹Lithuania
32.0
34
🇨🇭Switzerland
31.6
35
🇷🇴Romania
31.3
36
🇨🇦Canada
31.3
37
🇬🇧United Kingdom
31.1
38
🇲🇹Malta
30.9
39
🇳🇴Norway
29.4
40
🇰🇷South Korea
29.3
41
🇸🇰Slovakia
29.1
42
🇲🇪Montenegro
28.7
43
🇲🇰North Macedonia
28.5
44
🇫🇴Faroe Islands
28.5
45
🇺🇸United States
28.5
46
🇺🇦Ukraine
28.2
47
🇦🇺Australia
28.2
48
🇧🇾Belarus
27.8
49
🇬🇮Gibraltar
27.6
50
🇳🇿New Zealand
27.3

Highlights

As of 2025, Monaco ranks first with 71.7, followed by Japan (51.0) and Portugal (40.0).

Across 215 countries and territories, values run from 71.7 (Monaco) to 2.0 (Qatar), with a median of 12.7.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Europe, 2 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population), 2025. Unit: older people per 100 working-age people.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026