Saudi Arabia - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Saudi Arabia was 71.81 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 71.81 in 2020, while its lowest value was 52.33 in 1970.

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 53.23
1961 53.06
1962 52.96
1963 52.90
1964 52.85
1965 52.80
1966 52.65
1967 52.56
1968 52.49
1969 52.42
1970 52.33
1971 52.34
1972 52.37
1973 52.41
1974 52.46
1975 52.52
1976 52.68
1977 52.89
1978 53.10
1979 53.26
1980 53.35
1981 53.77
1982 54.14
1983 54.46
1984 54.80
1985 55.18
1986 55.11
1987 55.14
1988 55.17
1989 55.17
1990 55.18
1991 55.00
1992 54.85
1993 54.82
1994 54.98
1995 55.32
1996 56.17
1997 57.02
1998 57.75
1999 58.30
2000 58.73
2001 59.70
2002 60.62
2003 61.49
2004 62.34
2005 63.16
2006 64.05
2007 64.96
2008 65.83
2009 66.62
2010 67.33
2011 68.33
2012 69.22
2013 69.98
2014 70.63
2015 71.16
2016 71.37
2017 71.53
2018 71.64
2019 71.72
2020 71.81

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