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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in India was 67.27 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 67.27 in 2020, while its lowest value was 55.09 in 1966.

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 56.50
1961 56.18
1962 55.81
1963 55.46
1964 55.25
1965 55.21
1966 55.09
1967 55.16
1968 55.35
1969 55.57
1970 55.78
1971 55.86
1972 55.95
1973 56.07
1974 56.23
1975 56.44
1976 56.50
1977 56.62
1978 56.79
1979 56.97
1980 57.14
1981 57.18
1982 57.23
1983 57.29
1984 57.39
1985 57.54
1986 57.55
1987 57.65
1988 57.82
1989 58.02
1990 58.23
1991 58.37
1992 58.55
1993 58.76
1994 59.01
1995 59.32
1996 59.57
1997 59.86
1998 60.19
1999 60.54
2000 60.91
2001 61.19
2002 61.50
2003 61.83
2004 62.17
2005 62.52
2006 62.81
2007 63.10
2008 63.41
2009 63.74
2010 64.11
2011 64.43
2012 64.81
2013 65.21
2014 65.60
2015 65.94
2016 66.27
2017 66.54
2018 66.77
2019 67.00
2020 67.27

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