Malawi vs Samoa: Total dependency ratio

Malawi

78.3%

in 2023

Samoa

80.0%

in 2023

Malawi rank

25th

Samoa rank

24th

Total dependency ratio over time

Samoa currently reports 80.0% against 78.3% in Malawi, a difference of 1.7%.

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

Malawi ranks 25th and Samoa ranks 24th 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).