Hong Kong SAR, China - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 12.67 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 40.92 in 1961, while its lowest value was 11.05 in 2014.

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 40.63
1961 40.92
1962 40.86
1963 40.57
1964 40.19
1965 39.75
1966 39.56
1967 39.07
1968 38.35
1969 37.51
1970 36.60
1971 35.51
1972 34.54
1973 33.58
1974 32.51
1975 31.27
1976 30.18
1977 28.86
1978 27.46
1979 26.22
1980 25.22
1981 24.59
1982 24.16
1983 23.90
1984 23.67
1985 23.41
1986 22.86
1987 22.29
1988 21.74
1989 21.21
1990 20.72
1991 20.25
1992 19.85
1993 19.47
1994 19.06
1995 18.61
1996 18.34
1997 17.95
1998 17.54
1999 17.18
2000 16.86
2001 16.29
2002 15.77
2003 15.29
2004 14.82
2005 14.35
2006 13.74
2007 13.21
2008 12.74
2009 12.31
2010 11.93
2011 11.65
2012 11.35
2013 11.12
2014 11.05
2015 11.17
2016 11.20
2017 11.48
2018 11.90
2019 12.33
2020 12.67

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