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Sri Lanka

Dependent People

53.65
percent of the working age population
Source: IMF
103
Iceland53.96
104
Panama53.93
106
Ecuador53.81
108
Sri Lanka53.65
109
Fiji53.44
110
Norway53.34
111
Romania53.26
112
Guyana53.21
113
Nepal52.99
6
Laos56.76
7
Cambodia55.71
10
Mongolia54.81
11
Sri Lanka53.65
12
Nepal52.99
13
Russia51.22
14
Uzbekistan50.58
15
India48.66
16
Indonesia47.49

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.

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