Antigua and Barbuda - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Antigua and Barbuda was 68.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.27 in 2015, while its lowest value was 51.41 in 1970.

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 52.78
1961 52.68
1962 52.55
1963 52.40
1964 52.23
1965 52.05
1966 52.00
1967 51.89
1968 51.72
1969 51.52
1970 51.41
1971 52.17
1972 52.83
1973 53.35
1974 53.73
1975 54.00
1976 54.73
1977 55.38
1978 55.90
1979 56.28
1980 56.55
1981 57.22
1982 57.83
1983 58.33
1984 58.71
1985 59.01
1986 59.62
1987 60.20
1988 60.67
1989 61.03
1990 61.25
1991 61.65
1992 62.04
1993 62.39
1994 62.65
1995 62.88
1996 63.33
1997 63.74
1998 64.10
1999 64.41
2000 64.73
2001 65.15
2002 65.52
2003 65.86
2004 66.18
2005 66.51
2006 66.83
2007 67.19
2008 67.56
2009 67.93
2010 68.30
2011 68.49
2012 68.72
2013 68.96
2014 69.15
2015 69.27
2016 69.23
2017 69.19
2018 69.12
2019 68.99
2020 68.82

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