Japan vs Vatican: Age dependency breakdown

Japan

50.1%

in 2023

Vatican

91.5%

in 2023

Japan rank

3rd

Vatican rank

1st

Age dependency breakdown over time

Vatican currently reports 91.5% against 50.1% in Japan, a difference of 41.3%.

That makes Vatican's figure about 1.8 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 3rd and Vatican ranks 1st of 236 countries.

Indicator: Age dependency breakdown
Unit: %
Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The number of people aged 65 and over per 100 working-age people (aged 15 to 64).