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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Bulgaria was 63.85 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.03 in 2005, while its lowest value was 63.85 in 2020.

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 66.33
1961 66.45
1962 66.66
1963 66.92
1964 67.16
1965 67.34
1966 67.44
1967 67.51
1968 67.54
1969 67.55
1970 67.52
1971 67.42
1972 67.31
1973 67.19
1974 67.04
1975 66.87
1976 66.60
1977 66.34
1978 66.11
1979 65.99
1980 66.00
1981 66.08
1982 66.33
1983 66.65
1984 66.90
1985 67.02
1986 67.02
1987 66.87
1988 66.65
1989 66.51
1990 66.51
1991 66.40
1992 66.46
1993 66.63
1994 66.83
1995 66.98
1996 67.13
1997 67.24
1998 67.35
1999 67.50
2000 67.75
2001 67.97
2002 68.23
2003 68.52
2004 68.80
2005 69.03
2006 69.01
2007 68.97
2008 68.89
2009 68.71
2010 68.43
2011 67.92
2012 67.38
2013 66.81
2014 66.24
2015 65.71
2016 65.25
2017 64.80
2018 64.38
2019 64.06
2020 63.85

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