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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Tajikistan was 37.27 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.20 in 1968, while its lowest value was 35.53 in 2013.

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 39.89
1961 41.08
1962 42.36
1963 43.59
1964 44.59
1965 45.27
1966 45.87
1967 46.15
1968 46.20
1969 46.14
1970 46.03
1971 45.70
1972 45.40
1973 45.12
1974 44.81
1975 44.43
1976 44.19
1977 43.83
1978 43.43
1979 43.06
1980 42.78
1981 42.64
1982 42.62
1983 42.68
1984 42.78
1985 42.89
1986 43.13
1987 43.36
1988 43.56
1989 43.73
1990 43.82
1991 44.14
1992 44.31
1993 44.36
1994 44.35
1995 44.28
1996 44.01
1997 43.76
1998 43.48
1999 43.08
2000 42.53
2001 41.79
2002 40.90
2003 39.90
2004 38.92
2005 38.03
2006 37.35
2007 36.80
2008 36.36
2009 35.99
2010 35.68
2011 35.61
2012 35.54
2013 35.53
2014 35.63
2015 35.84
2016 36.13
2017 36.45
2018 36.78
2019 37.07
2020 37.27

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