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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Brunei was 72.11 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 72.17 in 2019, while its lowest value was 49.99 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 52.61
1961 52.04
1962 51.28
1963 50.54
1964 50.08
1965 49.99
1966 50.40
1967 51.12
1968 52.00
1969 52.83
1970 53.51
1971 54.17
1972 54.67
1973 55.08
1974 55.51
1975 56.01
1976 56.19
1977 56.63
1978 57.18
1979 57.73
1980 58.25
1981 58.45
1982 58.59
1983 58.70
1984 58.85
1985 59.06
1986 59.93
1987 60.79
1988 61.56
1989 62.21
1990 62.74
1991 62.98
1992 63.25
1993 63.52
1994 63.83
1995 64.21
1996 64.60
1997 65.10
1998 65.67
1999 66.30
2000 66.97
2001 67.39
2002 67.88
2003 68.35
2004 68.79
2005 69.22
2006 69.42
2007 69.72
2008 70.06
2009 70.37
2010 70.65
2011 71.05
2012 71.31
2013 71.48
2014 71.65
2015 71.84
2016 71.82
2017 71.94
2018 72.10
2019 72.17
2020 72.11

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