Estonia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Estonia was 16.50 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 23.16 in 1961, while its lowest value was 14.92 in 2007.

Definition: Population between the ages 0 to 14 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population.

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 23.10
1961 23.16
1962 23.15
1963 23.04
1964 22.89
1965 22.71
1966 22.58
1967 22.43
1968 22.27
1969 22.12
1970 22.02
1971 21.90
1972 21.84
1973 21.80
1974 21.73
1975 21.62
1976 21.67
1977 21.63
1978 21.58
1979 21.57
1980 21.62
1981 21.62
1982 21.71
1983 21.86
1984 21.98
1985 22.06
1986 22.16
1987 22.24
1988 22.29
1989 22.29
1990 22.18
1991 22.07
1992 21.80
1993 21.42
1994 21.01
1995 20.62
1996 19.90
1997 19.28
1998 18.73
1999 18.18
2000 17.58
2001 17.04
2002 16.49
2003 15.96
2004 15.50
2005 15.16
2006 15.01
2007 14.92
2008 14.93
2009 15.01
2010 15.13
2011 15.34
2012 15.53
2013 15.71
2014 15.91
2015 16.13
2016 16.13
2017 16.22
2018 16.36
2019 16.46
2020 16.50

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