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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Singapore was 12.30 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.31 in 1963, while its lowest value was 12.21 in 2017.

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 43.23
1961 43.94
1962 44.30
1963 44.31
1964 44.06
1965 43.63
1966 42.81
1967 41.94
1968 41.00
1969 39.94
1970 38.78
1971 37.59
1972 36.45
1973 35.29
1974 34.08
1975 32.78
1976 31.72
1977 30.46
1978 29.14
1979 27.97
1980 27.04
1981 26.12
1982 25.52
1983 25.13
1984 24.75
1985 24.28
1986 23.78
1987 23.14
1988 22.46
1989 21.88
1990 21.46
1991 21.22
1992 21.04
1993 20.88
1994 20.70
1995 20.46
1996 20.36
1997 20.11
1998 19.70
1999 19.21
2000 18.71
2001 18.50
2002 18.31
2003 18.04
2004 17.67
2005 17.23
2006 16.74
2007 16.17
2008 15.48
2009 14.72
2010 13.99
2011 13.75
2012 13.51
2013 13.23
2014 12.91
2015 12.63
2016 12.29
2017 12.21
2018 12.28
2019 12.33
2020 12.30

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