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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Egypt was 60.75 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 62.65 in 2010, while its lowest value was 53.67 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 54.09
1961 53.70
1962 53.67
1963 53.87
1964 54.08
1965 54.21
1966 54.14
1967 54.03
1968 53.93
1969 53.91
1970 54.02
1971 53.95
1972 54.01
1973 54.17
1974 54.35
1975 54.52
1976 54.58
1977 54.61
1978 54.63
1979 54.67
1980 54.73
1981 54.71
1982 54.72
1983 54.75
1984 54.77
1985 54.76
1986 54.69
1987 54.62
1988 54.56
1989 54.56
1990 54.64
1991 54.66
1992 54.83
1993 55.11
1994 55.44
1995 55.79
1996 56.26
1997 56.69
1998 57.12
1999 57.63
2000 58.23
2001 58.76
2002 59.39
2003 60.07
2004 60.71
2005 61.26
2006 61.72
2007 62.10
2008 62.39
2009 62.58
2010 62.65
2011 62.59
2012 62.37
2013 62.07
2014 61.79
2015 61.58
2016 61.21
2017 61.04
2018 60.97
2019 60.89
2020 60.75

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