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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Guinea was 54.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 56.15 in 1960, while its lowest value was 49.84 in 2003.

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 56.15
1961 55.88
1962 55.58
1963 55.32
1964 55.20
1965 55.26
1966 55.08
1967 55.10
1968 55.26
1969 55.47
1970 55.70
1971 55.49
1972 55.34
1973 55.23
1974 55.16
1975 55.12
1976 54.70
1977 54.33
1978 54.00
1979 53.71
1980 53.44
1981 53.08
1982 52.79
1983 52.55
1984 52.34
1985 52.16
1986 51.91
1987 51.73
1988 51.61
1989 51.53
1990 51.51
1991 51.16
1992 50.90
1993 50.72
1994 50.59
1995 50.53
1996 50.30
1997 50.16
1998 50.08
1999 50.07
2000 50.14
2001 49.95
2002 49.86
2003 49.84
2004 49.89
2005 50.00
2006 50.07
2007 50.19
2008 50.35
2009 50.55
2010 50.78
2011 50.99
2012 51.24
2013 51.52
2014 51.81
2015 52.09
2016 52.47
2017 52.84
2018 53.22
2019 53.61
2020 54.00

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