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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Belarus was 17.24 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 30.42 in 1965, while its lowest value was 14.87 in 2009.

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 28.90
1961 29.54
1962 29.96
1963 30.21
1964 30.35
1965 30.42
1966 30.20
1967 29.93
1968 29.56
1969 29.09
1970 28.54
1971 27.77
1972 27.08
1973 26.44
1974 25.83
1975 25.22
1976 24.75
1977 24.18
1978 23.59
1979 23.10
1980 22.79
1981 22.60
1982 22.59
1983 22.68
1984 22.79
1985 22.84
1986 22.98
1987 23.05
1988 23.06
1989 23.02
1990 22.93
1991 22.83
1992 22.65
1993 22.38
1994 22.05
1995 21.67
1996 21.04
1997 20.46
1998 19.87
1999 19.23
2000 18.53
2001 17.90
2002 17.25
2003 16.61
2004 16.04
2005 15.60
2006 15.29
2007 15.06
2008 14.92
2009 14.87
2010 14.90
2011 15.07
2012 15.31
2013 15.61
2014 15.94
2015 16.26
2016 16.51
2017 16.71
2018 16.87
2019 17.04
2020 17.24

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