Low income - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Low income was 55.01 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 55.01 in 2020, while its lowest value was 51.68 in 1987.

Definition: Total population between the ages 15 to 64 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

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 54.31
1961 54.03
1962 53.91
1963 53.90
1964 53.88
1965 53.83
1966 53.59
1967 53.32
1968 53.07
1969 52.90
1970 52.84
1971 52.54
1972 52.39
1973 52.33
1974 52.32
1975 52.31
1976 52.18
1977 52.09
1978 52.03
1979 52.00
1980 52.02
1981 51.88
1982 51.80
1983 51.77
1984 51.79
1985 51.85
1986 51.72
1987 51.68
1988 51.69
1989 51.72
1990 51.76
1991 51.73
1992 51.72
1993 51.74
1994 51.79
1995 51.88
1996 51.79
1997 51.76
1998 51.77
1999 51.81
2000 51.88
2001 51.86
2002 51.89
2003 51.95
2004 52.04
2005 52.15
2006 52.18
2007 52.24
2008 52.34
2009 52.47
2010 52.64
2011 52.78
2012 52.97
2013 53.19
2014 53.43
2015 53.70
2016 53.92
2017 54.17
2018 54.43
2019 54.72
2020 55.01

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