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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in India was 26.16 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 41.65 in 1966, while its lowest value was 26.16 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 40.46
1961 40.72
1962 41.04
1963 41.35
1964 41.54
1965 41.57
1966 41.65
1967 41.57
1968 41.37
1969 41.13
1970 40.91
1971 40.79
1972 40.65
1973 40.49
1974 40.30
1975 40.08
1976 39.98
1977 39.83
1978 39.63
1979 39.43
1980 39.25
1981 39.17
1982 39.10
1983 39.02
1984 38.91
1985 38.75
1986 38.71
1987 38.58
1988 38.40
1989 38.19
1990 37.97
1991 37.77
1992 37.54
1993 37.29
1994 36.99
1995 36.65
1996 36.33
1997 35.97
1998 35.57
1999 35.16
2000 34.73
2001 34.36
2002 33.97
2003 33.56
2004 33.15
2005 32.74
2006 32.38
2007 32.01
2008 31.64
2009 31.24
2010 30.81
2011 30.40
2012 29.93
2013 29.43
2014 28.93
2015 28.44
2016 27.93
2017 27.48
2018 27.05
2019 26.62
2020 26.16

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