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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Austria was 14.41 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 24.58 in 1970, while its lowest value was 14.12 in 2015.

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 22.23
1961 22.46
1962 22.66
1963 22.87
1964 23.12
1965 23.41
1966 23.69
1967 24.00
1968 24.29
1969 24.50
1970 24.58
1971 24.53
1972 24.36
1973 24.08
1974 23.72
1975 23.30
1976 22.78
1977 22.24
1978 21.69
1979 21.11
1980 20.52
1981 19.98
1982 19.46
1983 18.97
1984 18.53
1985 18.12
1986 17.84
1987 17.52
1988 17.22
1989 17.01
1990 16.93
1991 16.95
1992 17.13
1993 17.38
1994 17.61
1995 17.72
1996 17.69
1997 17.53
1998 17.28
1999 17.02
2000 16.83
2001 16.60
2002 16.45
2003 16.33
2004 16.18
2005 15.97
2006 15.76
2007 15.50
2008 15.20
2009 14.93
2010 14.72
2011 14.52
2012 14.37
2013 14.25
2014 14.17
2015 14.12
2016 14.17
2017 14.23
2018 14.30
2019 14.36
2020 14.41

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