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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Bhutan was 68.90 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 68.90 in 2020, while its lowest value was 53.35 in 1987.

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 55.54
1961 55.39
1962 55.46
1963 55.65
1964 55.78
1965 55.79
1966 55.62
1967 55.40
1968 55.15
1969 54.95
1970 54.85
1971 54.54
1972 54.36
1973 54.27
1974 54.22
1975 54.20
1976 54.00
1977 53.87
1978 53.80
1979 53.80
1980 53.86
1981 53.62
1982 53.48
1983 53.43
1984 53.42
1985 53.44
1986 53.37
1987 53.35
1988 53.38
1989 53.49
1990 53.73
1991 53.65
1992 53.63
1993 53.65
1994 53.69
1995 53.71
1996 54.06
1997 54.50
1998 55.02
1999 55.60
2000 56.27
2001 57.02
2002 57.84
2003 58.71
2004 59.61
2005 60.51
2006 61.15
2007 61.78
2008 62.42
2009 63.05
2010 63.69
2011 64.37
2012 65.06
2013 65.72
2014 66.33
2015 66.88
2016 67.41
2017 67.86
2018 68.23
2019 68.57
2020 68.90

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