Burkina Faso - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Burkina Faso was 53.22 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 56.35 in 1960, while its lowest value was 49.40 in 1991.

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 56.35
1961 55.98
1962 55.72
1963 55.53
1964 55.38
1965 55.25
1966 54.87
1967 54.54
1968 54.27
1969 54.06
1970 53.93
1971 53.54
1972 53.26
1973 53.07
1974 52.92
1975 52.79
1976 52.39
1977 52.03
1978 51.70
1979 51.44
1980 51.24
1981 50.83
1982 50.53
1983 50.32
1984 50.15
1985 50.02
1986 49.76
1987 49.58
1988 49.48
1989 49.44
1990 49.46
1991 49.40
1992 49.42
1993 49.50
1994 49.64
1995 49.83
1996 49.86
1997 49.96
1998 50.10
1999 50.28
2000 50.47
2001 50.49
2002 50.56
2003 50.66
2004 50.79
2005 50.94
2006 50.94
2007 50.97
2008 51.05
2009 51.16
2010 51.31
2011 51.36
2012 51.47
2013 51.62
2014 51.81
2015 52.02
2016 52.20
2017 52.41
2018 52.64
2019 52.91
2020 53.22

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