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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Guatemala was 33.34 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.64 in 1964, while its lowest value was 33.34 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 45.93
1961 46.15
1962 46.38
1963 46.57
1964 46.64
1965 46.55
1966 46.57
1967 46.45
1968 46.23
1969 45.99
1970 45.76
1971 45.76
1972 45.74
1973 45.70
1974 45.66
1975 45.62
1976 45.78
1977 45.92
1978 46.05
1979 46.15
1980 46.22
1981 46.37
1982 46.48
1983 46.54
1984 46.55
1985 46.50
1986 46.47
1987 46.37
1988 46.21
1989 46.03
1990 45.85
1991 45.66
1992 45.51
1993 45.38
1994 45.21
1995 44.98
1996 44.81
1997 44.55
1998 44.25
1999 43.96
2000 43.73
2001 43.42
2002 43.18
2003 42.94
2004 42.64
2005 42.26
2006 41.80
2007 41.24
2008 40.61
2009 39.98
2010 39.37
2011 38.68
2012 38.06
2013 37.47
2014 36.87
2015 36.23
2016 35.66
2017 35.05
2018 34.44
2019 33.86
2020 33.34

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