Afghanistan - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Afghanistan was 41.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 48.89 in 2000, while its lowest value was 41.82 in 2020.

Definition: Population between the ages 0 to 14 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 42.14
1961 42.45
1962 42.64
1963 42.75
1964 42.85
1965 42.98
1966 43.33
1967 43.63
1968 43.91
1969 44.14
1970 44.33
1971 44.67
1972 44.94
1973 45.14
1974 45.28
1975 45.35
1976 45.63
1977 45.87
1978 46.06
1979 46.18
1980 46.18
1981 46.46
1982 46.72
1983 46.96
1984 47.22
1985 47.58
1986 47.74
1987 47.78
1988 47.80
1989 47.93
1990 48.31
1991 48.22
1992 48.13
1993 48.09
1994 48.02
1995 47.82
1996 48.07
1997 48.34
1998 48.55
1999 48.73
2000 48.89
2001 48.82
2002 48.65
2003 48.41
2004 48.15
2005 47.86
2006 47.99
2007 48.13
2008 48.23
2009 48.25
2010 48.18
2011 47.70
2012 47.09
2013 46.39
2014 45.64
2015 44.88
2016 44.27
2017 43.68
2018 43.09
2019 42.47
2020 41.82

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development. This indicator is used for calculating age dependency ratio (percent of working-age population). The age dependency ratio is the ratio of the sum of the population aged 0-14 and the population aged 65 and above to the population aged 15-64. In many developing countries, the once rapidly growing population group of the under-15 population is shrinking. As a result, high fertility rates, together with declining mortality rates, are now reflected in the larger share of the 65 and older population.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source. Total population is based on the de facto population including all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates. For more information see metadata for total population (SP.POP.TOTL).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population