Kuwait vs Maldives: Total dependency ratio

Kuwait

27.5%

in 2023

Maldives

32.3%

in 2023

Kuwait rank

234th

Maldives rank

231st

Total dependency ratio over time

Maldives currently reports 32.3% against 27.5% in Kuwait, a difference of 4.8%.

That makes Maldives's figure about 1.2 times Kuwait's.

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

Kuwait ranks 234th and Maldives ranks 231st 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).