Czech Republic - Population ages 65 and above (% of total population)

Population ages 65 and above (% of total population) in Czech Republic was 20.14 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 20.14 in 2020, while its lowest value was 9.36 in 1960.

Definition: Population ages 65 and above 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 9.36
1961 9.60
1962 9.84
1963 10.08
1964 10.33
1965 10.60
1966 10.92
1967 11.24
1968 11.56
1969 11.85
1970 12.11
1971 12.39
1972 12.61
1973 12.78
1974 12.94
1975 13.10
1976 13.31
1977 13.54
1978 13.71
1979 13.73
1980 13.56
1981 13.30
1982 12.86
1983 12.35
1984 11.94
1985 11.71
1986 11.81
1987 12.02
1988 12.29
1989 12.52
1990 12.68
1991 12.87
1992 13.01
1993 13.11
1994 13.17
1995 13.22
1996 13.39
1997 13.55
1998 13.69
1999 13.78
2000 13.80
2001 13.90
2002 13.93
2003 13.92
2004 13.95
2005 14.04
2006 14.23
2007 14.46
2008 14.74
2009 15.07
2010 15.44
2011 15.91
2012 16.42
2013 16.96
2014 17.49
2015 17.99
2016 18.52
2017 19.00
2018 19.42
2019 19.80
2020 20.14

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