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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Cuba was 68.19 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 70.03 in 2006, while its lowest value was 55.77 in 1974.

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 60.29
1961 60.27
1962 59.77
1963 59.05
1964 58.45
1965 58.12
1966 57.49
1967 57.35
1968 57.45
1969 57.43
1970 57.14
1971 57.03
1972 56.58
1973 56.04
1974 55.77
1975 55.97
1976 56.31
1977 57.14
1978 58.30
1979 59.47
1980 60.48
1981 61.65
1982 62.52
1983 63.20
1984 63.89
1985 64.68
1986 65.29
1987 66.01
1988 66.74
1989 67.34
1990 67.75
1991 67.96
1992 68.12
1993 68.23
1994 68.27
1995 68.26
1996 68.44
1997 68.44
1998 68.38
1999 68.41
2000 68.57
2001 68.69
2002 69.00
2003 69.40
2004 69.73
2005 69.93
2006 70.03
2007 70.02
2008 69.92
2009 69.81
2010 69.72
2011 69.67
2012 69.60
2013 69.52
2014 69.42
2015 69.28
2016 69.04
2017 68.82
2018 68.60
2019 68.39
2020 68.19

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