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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in China was 17.71 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 41.37 in 1966, while its lowest value was 17.71 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 39.82
1961 39.87
1962 40.28
1963 40.81
1964 41.14
1965 41.18
1966 41.37
1967 41.21
1968 40.88
1969 40.58
1970 40.41
1971 40.42
1972 40.40
1973 40.34
1974 40.17
1975 39.84
1976 39.28
1977 38.61
1978 37.82
1979 36.92
1980 35.94
1981 34.79
1982 33.69
1983 32.63
1984 31.63
1985 30.74
1986 30.14
1987 29.66
1988 29.29
1989 28.96
1990 28.59
1991 28.55
1992 28.21
1993 27.71
1994 27.29
1995 27.03
1996 26.32
1997 26.00
1998 25.84
1999 25.48
2000 24.79
2001 24.21
2002 23.28
2003 22.15
2004 21.12
2005 20.35
2006 19.72
2007 19.30
2008 19.05
2009 18.86
2010 18.66
2011 18.51
2012 18.37
2013 18.24
2014 18.13
2015 18.05
2016 17.99
2017 17.94
2018 17.88
2019 17.80
2020 17.71

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