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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Gabon was 37.26 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 42.04 in 1993, while its lowest value was 31.00 in 1960.

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 31.00
1961 31.31
1962 31.59
1963 31.84
1964 32.09
1965 32.37
1966 32.78
1967 33.17
1968 33.53
1969 33.89
1970 34.25
1971 34.91
1972 35.51
1973 36.05
1974 36.57
1975 37.08
1976 37.61
1977 38.11
1978 38.57
1979 38.98
1980 39.34
1981 39.73
1982 40.06
1983 40.34
1984 40.59
1985 40.81
1986 41.08
1987 41.31
1988 41.49
1989 41.64
1990 41.75
1991 41.89
1992 41.99
1993 42.04
1994 42.03
1995 41.96
1996 41.88
1997 41.73
1998 41.53
1999 41.29
2000 41.02
2001 40.70
2002 40.36
2003 40.01
2004 39.67
2005 39.35
2006 38.86
2007 38.41
2008 38.03
2009 37.70
2010 37.43
2011 37.11
2012 36.83
2013 36.61
2014 36.45
2015 36.33
2016 36.59
2017 36.82
2018 37.03
2019 37.18
2020 37.26

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