French Polynesia - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in French Polynesia was 68.71 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.32 in 2016, while its lowest value was 51.28 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 54.04
1961 53.88
1962 53.25
1963 52.40
1964 51.68
1965 51.29
1966 51.28
1967 51.38
1968 51.49
1969 51.53
1970 51.57
1971 51.94
1972 52.57
1973 53.31
1974 54.01
1975 54.63
1976 55.13
1977 55.52
1978 55.88
1979 56.33
1980 56.93
1981 57.46
1982 58.17
1983 59.02
1984 59.88
1985 60.63
1986 60.96
1987 61.14
1988 61.19
1989 61.22
1990 61.30
1991 61.31
1992 61.47
1993 61.72
1994 61.98
1995 62.22
1996 62.55
1997 62.80
1998 63.04
1999 63.40
2000 63.89
2001 64.42
2002 65.07
2003 65.75
2004 66.35
2005 66.84
2006 67.27
2007 67.56
2008 67.76
2009 67.95
2010 68.17
2011 68.38
2012 68.68
2013 68.99
2014 69.16
2015 69.13
2016 69.32
2017 69.20
2018 68.95
2019 68.76
2020 68.71

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