Guinea-Bissau - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Guinea-Bissau was 55.19 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 56.38 in 1960, while its lowest value was 50.10 in 1988.

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 56.38
1961 56.21
1962 55.97
1963 55.73
1964 55.63
1965 55.71
1966 55.60
1967 55.68
1968 55.88
1969 56.07
1970 56.20
1971 56.03
1972 55.85
1973 55.67
1974 55.50
1975 55.37
1976 54.76
1977 54.20
1978 53.67
1979 53.13
1980 52.58
1981 52.11
1982 51.64
1983 51.22
1984 50.89
1985 50.68
1986 50.31
1987 50.14
1988 50.10
1989 50.13
1990 50.20
1991 50.18
1992 50.21
1993 50.29
1994 50.47
1995 50.77
1996 50.78
1997 50.92
1998 51.14
1999 51.40
2000 51.66
2001 51.93
2002 52.21
2003 52.52
2004 52.85
2005 53.18
2006 53.36
2007 53.55
2008 53.75
2009 53.96
2010 54.15
2011 54.21
2012 54.31
2013 54.42
2014 54.54
2015 54.65
2016 54.68
2017 54.74
2018 54.84
2019 54.98
2020 55.19

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