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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Pakistan was 34.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.26 in 1993, while its lowest value was 34.82 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 39.27
1961 39.57
1962 39.78
1963 39.96
1964 40.18
1965 40.48
1966 40.87
1967 41.30
1968 41.72
1969 42.08
1970 42.34
1971 42.62
1972 42.81
1973 42.91
1974 42.98
1975 43.02
1976 43.04
1977 43.03
1978 43.00
1979 42.94
1980 42.86
1981 42.85
1982 42.79
1983 42.71
1984 42.64
1985 42.58
1986 42.69
1987 42.81
1988 42.91
1989 42.98
1990 43.00
1991 43.16
1992 43.24
1993 43.26
1994 43.24
1995 43.17
1996 43.04
1997 42.86
1998 42.62
1999 42.32
2000 41.96
2001 41.65
2002 41.29
2003 40.88
2004 40.44
2005 39.97
2006 39.53
2007 39.08
2008 38.61
2009 38.15
2010 37.69
2011 37.32
2012 36.95
2013 36.59
2014 36.25
2015 35.94
2016 35.70
2017 35.48
2018 35.27
2019 35.05
2020 34.82

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