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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Guyana was 65.27 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 65.36 in 2019, while its lowest value was 48.81 in 1965.

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 50.04
1961 49.58
1962 49.22
1963 48.96
1964 48.81
1965 48.81
1966 48.87
1967 48.97
1968 49.09
1969 49.24
1970 49.42
1971 50.05
1972 50.65
1973 51.17
1974 51.58
1975 51.91
1976 52.31
1977 52.64
1978 52.97
1979 53.36
1980 53.86
1981 54.53
1982 55.11
1983 55.58
1984 56.02
1985 56.56
1986 57.29
1987 58.14
1988 58.97
1989 59.58
1990 59.91
1991 60.13
1992 60.18
1993 60.11
1994 60.04
1995 60.04
1996 60.22
1997 60.44
1998 60.59
1999 60.53
2000 60.27
2001 60.04
2002 59.67
2003 59.29
2004 59.06
2005 59.09
2006 59.80
2007 60.65
2008 61.57
2009 62.43
2010 63.17
2011 63.67
2012 64.09
2013 64.41
2014 64.69
2015 64.92
2016 65.07
2017 65.22
2018 65.34
2019 65.36
2020 65.27

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