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Kuwait vs Qatar: Age dependency ratio

Kuwait
26.8%
in 2025
Qatar
20.0%
in 2025
Kuwait rank
213th
Qatar rank
215th

Age dependency ratio over time

  • Kuwait
  • Qatar
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How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 26.8% against 20.0% in Qatar, a difference of 6.8%.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.3 times Qatar's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 66 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Qatar ahead.

Globally, Kuwait ranks 213th and Qatar ranks 215th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
Unit
% of working-age population
Source
World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
264 places, 17,394 data points, 1960–2025
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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.