Euro area - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Euro area was 14.96 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 25.27 in 1962, while its lowest value was 14.96 in 2020.

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 25.16
1961 25.24
1962 25.27
1963 25.25
1964 25.23
1965 25.21
1966 25.24
1967 25.25
1968 25.22
1969 25.17
1970 25.08
1971 24.94
1972 24.76
1973 24.55
1974 24.30
1975 24.00
1976 23.65
1977 23.26
1978 22.84
1979 22.38
1980 21.92
1981 21.48
1982 21.05
1983 20.62
1984 20.22
1985 19.83
1986 19.51
1987 19.19
1988 18.89
1989 18.61
1990 18.35
1991 18.13
1992 17.93
1993 17.74
1994 17.56
1995 17.37
1996 17.17
1997 16.98
1998 16.79
1999 16.60
2000 16.43
2001 16.26
2002 16.11
2003 15.96
2004 15.82
2005 15.71
2006 15.64
2007 15.59
2008 15.54
2009 15.48
2010 15.42
2011 15.42
2012 15.39
2013 15.33
2014 15.26
2015 15.20
2016 15.15
2017 15.11
2018 15.07
2019 15.03
2020 14.96

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