Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) - Country Ranking - Africa

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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Rank Country Value Year
1 Niger 49.67 2020
2 Mali 47.01 2020
3 Chad 46.49 2020
4 Angola 46.40 2020
5 Somalia 46.15 2020
6 Uganda 46.02 2020
7 Dem. Rep. Congo 45.80 2020
8 Burundi 45.25 2020
9 Burkina Faso 44.37 2020
10 Mozambique 44.06 2020
11 Zambia 44.02 2020
12 The Gambia 43.95 2020
13 Tanzania 43.55 2020
14 Central African Republic 43.54 2020
15 Nigeria 43.49 2020
16 Guinea 43.05 2020
17 Malawi 42.99 2020
18 Senegal 42.59 2020
19 Cameroon 42.06 2020
20 Benin 41.94 2020
21 Guinea-Bissau 41.93 2020
22 Zimbabwe 41.91 2020
23 São Tomé and Principe 41.76 2020
24 Côte d'Ivoire 41.51 2020
25 Congo 41.27 2020
26 Togo 40.64 2020
27 Liberia 40.37 2020
28 Sierra Leone 40.34 2020
29 Eritrea 40.18 2011
30 Madagascar 40.06 2020
31 Ethiopia 39.92 2020
32 Sudan 39.80 2020
33 Mauritania 39.69 2020
34 Rwanda 39.47 2020
35 Comoros 39.02 2020
36 Kenya 38.59 2020
37 Eswatini 37.44 2020
38 Gabon 37.26 2020
39 Ghana 37.13 2020
40 Namibia 36.84 2020
41 Equatorial Guinea 36.78 2020
42 Egypt 33.92 2020
43 Botswana 33.40 2020
44 Lesotho 32.24 2020
45 Algeria 30.78 2020
46 Djibouti 28.91 2020
47 South Africa 28.80 2020
48 Cabo Verde 28.08 2020
49 Libya 27.78 2020
50 Morocco 26.77 2020
51 Tunisia 24.29 2020
52 Seychelles 23.77 2020
53 Mauritius 16.78 2020

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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