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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Iceland was 64.95 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 67.20 in 2010, while its lowest value was 56.74 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 57.06
1961 56.82
1962 56.74
1963 56.78
1964 56.90
1965 57.06
1966 57.25
1967 57.51
1968 57.82
1969 58.19
1970 58.59
1971 59.04
1972 59.46
1973 59.87
1974 60.30
1975 60.79
1976 61.11
1977 61.51
1978 61.93
1979 62.32
1980 62.63
1981 62.92
1982 63.15
1983 63.31
1984 63.47
1985 63.64
1986 63.78
1987 63.95
1988 64.13
1989 64.28
1990 64.39
1991 64.41
1992 64.38
1993 64.32
1994 64.30
1995 64.34
1996 64.38
1997 64.54
1998 64.78
1999 65.00
2000 65.19
2001 65.45
2002 65.60
2003 65.71
2004 65.84
2005 66.01
2006 66.29
2007 66.58
2008 66.86
2009 67.07
2010 67.20
2011 66.99
2012 66.77
2013 66.53
2014 66.26
2015 65.97
2016 65.79
2017 65.58
2018 65.37
2019 65.16
2020 64.95

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