Samoa vs Tuvalu: Old-age dependency ratio

Samoa

10.3%

in 2023

Tuvalu

10.4%

in 2023

Samoa rank

140th

Tuvalu rank

137th

Old-age dependency ratio over time

Tuvalu currently reports 10.4% against 10.3% in Samoa, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Tuvalu ahead.

Samoa ranks 140th and Tuvalu ranks 137th 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).