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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Curaçao was 18.18 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 41.37 in 1961, while its lowest value was 18.18 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 41.22
1961 41.37
1962 41.33
1963 41.21
1964 41.13
1965 41.11
1966 40.78
1967 40.63
1968 40.53
1969 40.29
1970 39.81
1971 39.42
1972 38.75
1973 37.91
1974 37.10
1975 36.39
1976 35.16
1977 34.02
1978 32.95
1979 31.94
1980 31.01
1981 30.12
1982 29.43
1983 28.82
1984 28.26
1985 27.74
1986 27.44
1987 27.28
1988 27.21
1989 27.20
1990 27.24
1991 27.16
1992 27.10
1993 27.01
1994 26.90
1995 26.76
1996 26.41
1997 26.07
1998 25.68
1999 25.28
2000 24.92
2001 23.99
2002 23.30
2003 22.72
2004 22.13
2005 21.55
2006 21.47
2007 21.25
2008 20.98
2009 20.78
2010 20.71
2011 20.37
2012 20.23
2013 20.15
2014 20.01
2015 19.77
2016 19.59
2017 19.28
2018 18.88
2019 18.49
2020 18.18

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