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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Bhutan was 24.89 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.00 in 1983, while its lowest value was 24.89 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 42.10
1961 42.24
1962 42.16
1963 41.97
1964 41.85
1965 41.86
1966 42.01
1967 42.23
1968 42.48
1969 42.68
1970 42.80
1971 43.09
1972 43.26
1973 43.34
1974 43.38
1975 43.40
1976 43.59
1977 43.70
1978 43.75
1979 43.74
1980 43.67
1981 43.87
1982 43.97
1983 44.00
1984 43.98
1985 43.94
1986 43.96
1987 43.94
1988 43.87
1989 43.72
1990 43.44
1991 43.40
1992 43.30
1993 43.14
1994 42.96
1995 42.80
1996 42.36
1997 41.83
1998 41.24
1999 40.56
2000 39.81
2001 38.97
2002 38.05
2003 37.08
2004 36.08
2005 35.08
2006 34.30
2007 33.51
2008 32.73
2009 31.95
2010 31.17
2011 30.35
2012 29.54
2013 28.75
2014 28.03
2015 27.38
2016 26.74
2017 26.22
2018 25.77
2019 25.34
2020 24.89

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