Dependent People

Africa Ranking

percent of the working age populationSource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	Niger	109.5	2020	1	110.26
2	Mali	97.96	2020	2	99.2
3 ↑	Somalia	96.28	2020	4	97.12
4 ↓	Chad	96.04	2020	3	97.29
5	Democratic Republic of the Congo	95.37	2020	5	96.15
6	Uganda	92.31	2020	6	94.03
7	Burundi	90.96	2020	7	91.25
8	Mozambique	88.41	2020	8	89.56
9	Burkina Faso	87.9	2020	9	88.98
10 ↑	Gambia	86.85	2020	11	87.58
11 ↓	Central African Republic	86.36	2020	10	87.74
12 ↑	Nigeria	85.96	2020	14	86.67
13	Tanzania	85.87	2020	13	86.79
14 ↓	Zambia	85.7	2020	12	87.19
15	Guinea	85.19	2020	15	86.54
16 ↑	Senegal	84.16	2020	17	84.97
17 ↓	Malawi	83.94	2020	16	85.57
18	Benin	82.56	2020	18	83.39
19	Zimbabwe	81.57	2020	19	82.28
20 ↑	Guinea-Bissau	81.2	2020	22	81.87
21	Cameroon	81.09	2020	21	82.1
22 ↓	Sao Tome and Principe	81.05	2020	20	82.17
23	Ivory Coast	79.83	2020	23	80.47
24 ↑	Eritrea	79.42	2011	30	76.94
25 ↓	Republic of the Congo	78.68	2020	24	79.4
26 ↓	Liberia	77.59	2020	25	78.69
27 ↓	Togo	77.12	2020	26	78.21
28	Sudan	76.91	2020	28	77.88
29 ↓	Ethiopia	76.85	2020	27	78.1
30 ↓	Sierra Leone	76.28	2020	29	77.53
31	Madagascar	75.94	2020	31	76.71
32	Mauritania	75.02	2020	32	75.58
33	Rwanda	74.2	2020	33	74.81
34	Comoros	72.79	2020	34	73.43
35	Swaziland	70.81	2020	35	71.96
36	Kenya	69.78	2020	36	71.28
37	Gabon	68.9	2020	37	68.7
38	Namibia	67.86	2020	38	68.11
39	Ghana	67.42	2020	39	67.96
40 ↑	Egypt	64.62	2020	41	64.23
41 ↓	Equatorial Guinea	64.37	2020	40	64.97
42	Botswana	61.07	2020	42	61.63
43 ↑	Algeria	60.07	2020	44	58.99
44 ↓	Lesotho	59.2	2020	43	59.73
45 ↑	Morocco	52.38	2020	46	52.14
46 ↓	South Africa	52.23	2020	45	52.4
47	Djibouti	50.64	2020	47	51.09
48 ↑	Tunisia	49.62	2020	49	48.85
49 ↓	Cape Verde	48.96	2020	48	49.49
50	Libya	47.73	2020	50	48.21
51	Seychelles	46.7	2020	51	46.08
52	Mauritius	41.45	2020	52	41.36

Definition of Dependent People

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. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.