South Asia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in South Asia was 27.58 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 41.80 in 1967, while its lowest value was 27.58 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 40.55
1961 40.83
1962 41.13
1963 41.40
1964 41.59
1965 41.66
1966 41.79
1967 41.80
1968 41.70
1969 41.57
1970 41.42
1971 41.36
1972 41.27
1973 41.15
1974 40.99
1975 40.81
1976 40.75
1977 40.63
1978 40.47
1979 40.30
1980 40.13
1981 40.07
1982 40.00
1983 39.90
1984 39.79
1985 39.63
1986 39.59
1987 39.48
1988 39.32
1989 39.13
1990 38.92
1991 38.75
1992 38.55
1993 38.31
1994 38.04
1995 37.72
1996 37.42
1997 37.08
1998 36.70
1999 36.30
2000 35.89
2001 35.53
2002 35.15
2003 34.75
2004 34.34
2005 33.93
2006 33.56
2007 33.19
2008 32.82
2009 32.42
2010 32.00
2011 31.59
2012 31.14
2013 30.66
2014 30.18
2015 29.72
2016 29.25
2017 28.82
2018 28.42
2019 28.01
2020 27.58

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