Saudi Arabia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Saudi Arabia was 24.70 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.27 in 1973, while its lowest value was 24.70 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 43.14
1961 43.32
1962 43.43
1963 43.50
1964 43.56
1965 43.64
1966 43.80
1967 43.91
1968 44.01
1969 44.11
1970 44.23
1971 44.25
1972 44.27
1973 44.27
1974 44.26
1975 44.22
1976 44.11
1977 43.95
1978 43.79
1979 43.67
1980 43.63
1981 43.29
1982 43.01
1983 42.77
1984 42.50
1985 42.19
1986 42.27
1987 42.21
1988 42.14
1989 42.08
1990 42.00
1991 42.16
1992 42.28
1993 42.30
1994 42.13
1995 41.77
1996 40.90
1997 40.04
1998 39.29
1999 38.72
2000 38.27
2001 37.31
2002 36.40
2003 35.54
2004 34.70
2005 33.87
2006 32.99
2007 32.08
2008 31.20
2009 30.41
2010 29.70
2011 28.71
2012 27.84
2013 27.08
2014 26.41
2015 25.82
2016 25.52
2017 25.26
2018 25.04
2019 24.87
2020 24.70

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