High income - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in High income was 16.33 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 28.97 in 1960, while its lowest value was 16.33 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 28.97
1961 28.97
1962 28.85
1963 28.66
1964 28.45
1965 28.24
1966 28.07
1967 27.87
1968 27.65
1969 27.42
1970 27.19
1971 26.88
1972 26.58
1973 26.28
1974 25.95
1975 25.58
1976 25.26
1977 24.88
1978 24.47
1979 24.06
1980 23.68
1981 23.32
1982 23.01
1983 22.74
1984 22.47
1985 22.18
1986 21.96
1987 21.71
1988 21.46
1989 21.21
1990 21.00
1991 20.83
1992 20.66
1993 20.54
1994 20.39
1995 20.23
1996 20.07
1997 19.88
1998 19.65
1999 19.44
2000 19.24
2001 19.00
2002 18.79
2003 18.59
2004 18.38
2005 18.17
2006 18.00
2007 17.83
2008 17.66
2009 17.49
2010 17.34
2011 17.23
2012 17.10
2013 16.96
2014 16.83
2015 16.72
2016 16.62
2017 16.55
2018 16.49
2019 16.41
2020 16.33

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