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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Chile was 68.52 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 68.89 in 2014, while its lowest value was 56.35 in 1964.

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 56.80
1961 56.66
1962 56.51
1963 56.38
1964 56.35
1965 56.44
1966 56.48
1967 56.66
1968 56.93
1969 57.24
1970 57.56
1971 57.91
1972 58.26
1973 58.63
1974 59.03
1975 59.46
1976 59.88
1977 60.31
1978 60.74
1979 61.18
1980 61.61
1981 61.98
1982 62.36
1983 62.72
1984 63.04
1985 63.29
1986 63.53
1987 63.70
1988 63.81
1989 63.89
1990 63.95
1991 63.95
1992 63.96
1993 63.98
1994 64.02
1995 64.10
1996 64.18
1997 64.33
1998 64.52
1999 64.75
2000 65.02
2001 65.38
2002 65.74
2003 66.11
2004 66.50
2005 66.90
2006 67.28
2007 67.65
2008 68.01
2009 68.31
2010 68.56
2011 68.70
2012 68.82
2013 68.88
2014 68.89
2015 68.84
2016 68.82
2017 68.78
2018 68.72
2019 68.62
2020 68.52

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