OECD members - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in OECD members was 64.84 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 66.62 in 2008, while its lowest value was 61.44 in 1962.

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 61.59
1961 61.47
1962 61.44
1963 61.49
1964 61.56
1965 61.63
1966 61.63
1967 61.65
1968 61.69
1969 61.75
1970 61.83
1971 61.94
1972 62.05
1973 62.19
1974 62.35
1975 62.55
1976 62.67
1977 62.84
1978 63.06
1979 63.32
1980 63.60
1981 63.90
1982 64.22
1983 64.53
1984 64.82
1985 65.08
1986 65.21
1987 65.33
1988 65.44
1989 65.53
1990 65.61
1991 65.65
1992 65.67
1993 65.69
1994 65.73
1995 65.79
1996 65.83
1997 65.91
1998 66.01
1999 66.11
2000 66.20
2001 66.30
2002 66.37
2003 66.43
2004 66.50
2005 66.57
2006 66.58
2007 66.60
2008 66.62
2009 66.61
2010 66.55
2011 66.42
2012 66.27
2013 66.10
2014 65.91
2015 65.72
2016 65.55
2017 65.37
2018 65.19
2019 65.02
2020 64.84

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