Cook Islands vs Mongolia: Total dependency ratio

Cook Islands

60.6%

in 2023

Mongolia

60.0%

in 2023

Cook Islands rank

79th

Mongolia rank

80th

Total dependency ratio over time

Cook Islands currently reports 60.6% against 60.0% in Mongolia, a difference of 0.6%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Cook Islands ahead.

Cook Islands ranks 79th and Mongolia ranks 80th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Total 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 children (under 15) and people aged 65 and over per 100 working-age people (aged 15 to 64).