St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was 21.90 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 50.49 in 1965, while its lowest value was 21.90 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 49.61
1961 49.84
1962 50.06
1963 50.24
1964 50.39
1965 50.49
1966 50.39
1967 50.24
1968 50.06
1969 49.87
1970 49.69
1971 49.29
1972 48.91
1973 48.48
1974 47.99
1975 47.42
1976 46.76
1977 46.02
1978 45.22
1979 44.43
1980 43.69
1981 42.83
1982 42.06
1983 41.33
1984 40.61
1985 39.88
1986 39.33
1987 38.86
1988 38.48
1989 38.19
1990 37.96
1991 37.18
1992 36.47
1993 35.79
1994 35.12
1995 34.45
1996 33.82
1997 33.20
1998 32.58
1999 32.01
2000 31.48
2001 30.84
2002 30.22
2003 29.63
2004 29.08
2005 28.55
2006 27.99
2007 27.51
2008 27.03
2009 26.48
2010 25.83
2011 25.52
2012 25.10
2013 24.62
2014 24.14
2015 23.72
2016 23.36
2017 22.94
2018 22.54
2019 22.19
2020 21.90

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