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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in South Sudan was 41.33 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.88 in 2001, while its lowest value was 41.33 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 41.52
1961 41.76
1962 41.81
1963 41.76
1964 41.74
1965 41.81
1966 42.16
1967 42.52
1968 42.87
1969 43.15
1970 43.33
1971 43.69
1972 43.91
1973 44.02
1974 44.06
1975 44.07
1976 44.27
1977 44.38
1978 44.42
1979 44.40
1980 44.34
1981 44.46
1982 44.47
1983 44.40
1984 44.29
1985 44.13
1986 44.21
1987 44.32
1988 44.41
1989 44.41
1990 44.26
1991 44.42
1992 44.43
1993 44.35
1994 44.31
1995 44.48
1996 44.59
1997 44.68
1998 44.78
1999 44.84
2000 44.82
2001 44.88
2002 44.80
2003 44.63
2004 44.43
2005 44.27
2006 44.18
2007 44.08
2008 43.97
2009 43.80
2010 43.52
2011 43.41
2012 43.25
2013 43.04
2014 42.78
2015 42.49
2016 42.27
2017 42.06
2018 41.82
2019 41.57
2020 41.33

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