Afghanistan - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Afghanistan was 55.53 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 55.53 in 2020, while its lowest value was 48.81 in 2000.

Definition: Total population between the ages 15 to 64 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

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 55.06
1961 54.74
1962 54.56
1963 54.47
1964 54.39
1965 54.31
1966 53.96
1967 53.65
1968 53.39
1969 53.19
1970 53.04
1971 52.69
1972 52.44
1973 52.25
1974 52.14
1975 52.10
1976 51.82
1977 51.58
1978 51.41
1979 51.33
1980 51.39
1981 51.08
1982 50.83
1983 50.63
1984 50.43
1985 50.18
1986 49.99
1987 49.92
1988 49.90
1989 49.79
1990 49.46
1991 49.54
1992 49.61
1993 49.63
1994 49.66
1995 49.81
1996 49.56
1997 49.30
1998 49.10
1999 48.95
2000 48.81
2001 48.91
2002 49.10
2003 49.34
2004 49.61
2005 49.91
2006 49.76
2007 49.60
2008 49.49
2009 49.44
2010 49.49
2011 49.94
2012 50.52
2013 51.19
2014 51.91
2015 52.64
2016 53.21
2017 53.76
2018 54.32
2019 54.91
2020 55.53

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