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Ten Countries With Highest & Lowest Potential Support Ratio,

1999 & 2050

 

1999 Highest Potential Support Ratio 2050 Highest Potential Support Ratio

Country Or Area*

Potential
Support
Ratio **

Country Or Area*

Potential
Support
Ratio **

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10


Qatar

Kuwait

United Arab Emirates

East Timor

Bahrain

Zambia

Uganda

Botswana

Rwanda

Oman
35.9

32.6

29.6

23.5

23.0

22.8

22.7

22.5

21.7

21.4
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10


Mozambique

Uganda

Burkina Faso

Somalia

Ethiopia

Gaza Strip

Dem. Republic of the Congo

Namibia

Malawi

Niger
16.0

13.8

13.4

13.1

12.6

12.4

12.3

12.3

12.3

12.2
  WORLD 9.2   WORLD 3.9

 

1999 Lowest Potential Support Ratio

2050 Lowest Potential Support Ratio

Country Or Area*

Potential
Support
Ratio **

Country Or Area*

Potential
Support
Ratio **


1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10



Spain

Italy

Greece

Belgium

United Kingdom

Spain

Japan

France

Norway

Germany



3.8

3.8

3.8

4.0

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.1

4.2

4.2

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10



Spain

Italy

Greece

China, Hong Kong

Czech Republic

Japan

Slovenia

Portugal

Romania

Austria



1.4

1.5

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.8

1.9

1.9
  WORLD 9.2   WORLD 3.9

As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.

*Countries or areas with 150,000 persons or more in 1995.

**Average number of persons aged 15-64 for each person aged 65 or older.

 

Table 25: Published in: Population Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat,
The World at Six Billion. (ESA/P/WP.154), 12 October 1999.

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