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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Bahrain was 18.28 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.93 in 1965, while its lowest value was 18.28 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 41.29
1961 42.53
1962 43.60
1963 44.70
1964 45.86
1965 46.93
1966 46.41
1967 45.94
1968 45.55
1969 45.18
1970 44.80
1971 43.95
1972 42.78
1973 41.52
1974 40.39
1975 39.52
1976 38.19
1977 37.10
1978 36.20
1979 35.38
1980 34.57
1981 34.15
1982 33.87
1983 33.70
1984 33.61
1985 33.55
1986 33.56
1987 33.42
1988 33.24
1989 33.02
1990 32.69
1991 32.44
1992 31.98
1993 31.40
1994 30.79
1995 30.25
1996 30.10
1997 29.90
1998 29.84
1999 29.94
2000 30.14
2001 29.07
2002 28.05
2003 27.15
2004 26.38
2005 25.68
2006 24.19
2007 22.94
2008 21.91
2009 21.06
2010 20.31
2011 20.36
2012 20.41
2013 20.51
2014 20.67
2015 20.85
2016 20.39
2017 19.84
2018 19.25
2019 18.72
2020 18.28

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