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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Barbados was 66.54 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 67.16 in 2008, while its lowest value was 53.74 in 1965.

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 55.08
1961 54.64
1962 54.32
1963 54.10
1964 53.92
1965 53.74
1966 53.75
1967 53.86
1968 54.04
1969 54.29
1970 54.61
1971 55.60
1972 56.41
1973 57.09
1974 57.79
1975 58.54
1976 58.83
1977 59.28
1978 59.66
1979 59.77
1980 59.65
1981 60.43
1982 61.00
1983 61.49
1984 62.06
1985 62.76
1986 63.25
1987 63.91
1988 64.62
1989 65.24
1990 65.69
1991 66.00
1992 66.13
1993 66.15
1994 66.17
1995 66.22
1996 66.21
1997 66.24
1998 66.25
1999 66.22
2000 66.12
2001 66.39
2002 66.58
2003 66.72
2004 66.85
2005 66.99
2006 67.05
2007 67.13
2008 67.16
2009 67.12
2010 67.01
2011 67.07
2012 67.09
2013 67.08
2014 67.06
2015 67.03
2016 67.01
2017 66.95
2018 66.85
2019 66.72
2020 66.54

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