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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Denmark was 16.28 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 25.21 in 1960, while its lowest value was 16.28 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 25.21
1961 24.97
1962 24.65
1963 24.31
1964 24.01
1965 23.79
1966 23.66
1967 23.54
1968 23.45
1969 23.37
1970 23.29
1971 23.18
1972 23.08
1973 22.97
1974 22.81
1975 22.59
1976 22.35
1977 22.04
1978 21.67
1979 21.27
1980 20.84
1981 20.36
1982 19.87
1983 19.36
1984 18.86
1985 18.41
1986 17.98
1987 17.65
1988 17.39
1989 17.19
1990 17.03
1991 17.04
1992 17.05
1993 17.10
1994 17.21
1995 17.37
1996 17.59
1997 17.81
1998 18.04
1999 18.27
2000 18.47
2001 18.56
2002 18.65
2003 18.73
2004 18.75
2005 18.73
2006 18.63
2007 18.51
2008 18.35
2009 18.16
2010 17.95
2011 17.81
2012 17.57
2013 17.28
2014 17.03
2015 16.84
2016 16.60
2017 16.49
2018 16.46
2019 16.40
2020 16.28

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