OECD members - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in OECD members was 17.77 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 30.16 in 1961, while its lowest value was 17.77 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 30.12
1961 30.16
1962 30.09
1963 29.96
1964 29.80
1965 29.64
1966 29.51
1967 29.36
1968 29.20
1969 29.02
1970 28.82
1971 28.57
1972 28.32
1973 28.07
1974 27.78
1975 27.46
1976 27.19
1977 26.86
1978 26.49
1979 26.13
1980 25.78
1981 25.44
1982 25.13
1983 24.85
1984 24.57
1985 24.28
1986 24.04
1987 23.78
1988 23.51
1989 23.25
1990 23.02
1991 22.82
1992 22.65
1993 22.50
1994 22.33
1995 22.14
1996 21.96
1997 21.75
1998 21.52
1999 21.30
2000 21.08
2001 20.84
2002 20.61
2003 20.40
2004 20.19
2005 19.97
2006 19.80
2007 19.62
2008 19.44
2009 19.26
2010 19.09
2011 18.97
2012 18.83
2013 18.68
2014 18.53
2015 18.40
2016 18.27
2017 18.15
2018 18.03
2019 17.91
2020 17.77

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