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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Ecuador was 65.02 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 65.02 in 2020, while its lowest value was 50.75 in 1966.

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 51.90
1961 51.67
1962 51.36
1963 51.05
1964 50.86
1965 50.83
1966 50.75
1967 50.82
1968 51.00
1969 51.22
1970 51.44
1971 51.56
1972 51.72
1973 51.92
1974 52.16
1975 52.43
1976 52.64
1977 52.89
1978 53.18
1979 53.52
1980 53.88
1981 54.21
1982 54.57
1983 54.94
1984 55.34
1985 55.75
1986 56.08
1987 56.43
1988 56.80
1989 57.16
1990 57.51
1991 57.80
1992 58.09
1993 58.39
1994 58.68
1995 58.97
1996 59.20
1997 59.41
1998 59.63
1999 59.87
2000 60.14
2001 60.35
2002 60.61
2003 60.91
2004 61.20
2005 61.47
2006 61.80
2007 62.09
2008 62.37
2009 62.66
2010 62.97
2011 63.27
2012 63.58
2013 63.88
2014 64.14
2015 64.34
2016 64.53
2017 64.69
2018 64.81
2019 64.92
2020 65.02

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