Costa Rica - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Costa Rica was 68.92 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.18 in 2016, while its lowest value was 51.26 in 1962.

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 51.68
1961 51.36
1962 51.26
1963 51.29
1964 51.37
1965 51.45
1966 51.47
1967 51.58
1968 51.77
1969 52.07
1970 52.50
1971 53.09
1972 53.74
1973 54.47
1974 55.24
1975 56.01
1976 56.77
1977 57.46
1978 58.09
1979 58.68
1980 59.22
1981 59.50
1982 59.82
1983 60.10
1984 60.28
1985 60.33
1986 60.30
1987 60.17
1988 59.99
1989 59.85
1990 59.80
1991 59.83
1992 59.97
1993 60.21
1994 60.51
1995 60.84
1996 61.24
1997 61.66
1998 62.13
1999 62.66
2000 63.26
2001 63.79
2002 64.38
2003 65.01
2004 65.63
2005 66.21
2006 66.75
2007 67.24
2008 67.66
2009 68.05
2010 68.39
2011 68.62
2012 68.82
2013 68.98
2014 69.10
2015 69.17
2016 69.18
2017 69.17
2018 69.13
2019 69.04
2020 68.92

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