India vs Samoa: Old-age dependency ratio

India

10.2%

in 2023

Samoa

10.3%

in 2023

India rank

141st

Samoa rank

140th

Old-age dependency ratio over time

Samoa currently reports 10.3% against 10.2% in India, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was India ahead.

India ranks 141st and Samoa ranks 140th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Old-age dependency ratio
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).