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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Eritrea was 40.18 as of 2011. Its highest value over the past 51 years was 48.78 in 1995, while its lowest value was 38.62 in 2005.

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 43.44
1961 43.57
1962 43.50
1963 43.33
1964 43.19
1965 43.15
1966 43.36
1967 43.59
1968 43.82
1969 43.97
1970 44.02
1971 44.23
1972 44.31
1973 44.31
1974 44.27
1975 44.21
1976 44.29
1977 44.33
1978 44.34
1979 44.32
1980 44.28
1981 44.36
1982 44.41
1983 44.43
1984 44.43
1985 44.41
1986 44.68
1987 44.92
1988 45.10
1989 45.20
1990 45.16
1991 45.97
1992 46.74
1993 47.48
1994 48.18
1995 48.78
1996 48.34
1997 47.76
1998 47.07
1999 46.36
2000 45.71
2001 43.98
2002 42.42
2003 41.01
2004 39.74
2005 38.62
2006 38.67
2007 38.77
2008 38.94
2009 39.19
2010 39.48
2011 40.18

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