Hong Kong SAR, China - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 69.13 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 75.12 in 2010, while its lowest value was 56.27 in 1962.

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 56.64
1961 56.28
1962 56.27
1963 56.48
1964 56.78
1965 57.13
1966 57.16
1967 57.48
1968 58.02
1969 58.66
1970 59.35
1971 60.17
1972 60.87
1973 61.54
1974 62.32
1975 63.25
1976 64.18
1977 65.34
1978 66.54
1979 67.57
1980 68.36
1981 68.77
1982 68.98
1983 69.06
1984 69.10
1985 69.17
1986 69.45
1987 69.74
1988 70.01
1989 70.24
1990 70.43
1991 70.68
1992 70.86
1993 71.01
1994 71.16
1995 71.34
1996 71.41
1997 71.60
1998 71.81
1999 71.98
2000 72.12
2001 72.41
2002 72.63
2003 72.85
2004 73.10
2005 73.41
2006 73.86
2007 74.31
2008 74.71
2009 75.00
2010 75.12
2011 75.11
2012 75.00
2013 74.73
2014 74.28
2015 73.65
2016 73.05
2017 72.22
2018 71.22
2019 70.18
2020 69.13

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