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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Kuwait was 21.46 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 45.19 in 1974, while its lowest value was 21.20 in 2015.

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 34.42
1961 35.32
1962 36.20
1963 37.09
1964 37.93
1965 38.67
1966 40.00
1967 41.08
1968 42.07
1969 43.03
1970 43.89
1971 44.24
1972 44.63
1973 44.99
1974 45.19
1975 45.14
1976 44.34
1977 43.31
1978 42.19
1979 41.14
1980 40.29
1981 39.43
1982 38.85
1983 38.48
1984 38.11
1985 37.61
1986 37.50
1987 37.06
1988 36.42
1989 35.71
1990 34.90
1991 33.69
1992 32.63
1993 31.74
1994 31.05
1995 30.72
1996 30.12
1997 29.57
1998 29.15
1999 28.80
2000 28.38
2001 27.97
2002 27.41
2003 26.80
2004 26.28
2005 25.97
2006 25.15
2007 24.54
2008 24.09
2009 23.68
2010 23.22
2011 22.95
2012 22.54
2013 22.06
2014 21.60
2015 21.20
2016 21.30
2017 21.42
2018 21.54
2019 21.57
2020 21.46

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