Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) - Country Ranking - Africa

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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Rank Country Value Year
1 Mauritius 70.70 2020
2 Seychelles 68.17 2020
3 Libya 67.69 2020
4 Cabo Verde 67.13 2020
5 Tunisia 66.84 2020
6 Djibouti 66.38 2020
7 South Africa 65.69 2020
8 Morocco 65.63 2020
9 Lesotho 62.81 2020
10 Algeria 62.47 2020
11 Botswana 62.08 2020
12 Equatorial Guinea 60.84 2020
13 Egypt 60.75 2020
14 Ghana 59.73 2020
15 Namibia 59.57 2020
16 Gabon 59.21 2020
17 Kenya 58.90 2020
18 Eswatini 58.54 2020
19 Comoros 57.87 2020
20 Rwanda 57.41 2020
21 Mauritania 57.14 2020
22 Madagascar 56.84 2020
23 Sierra Leone 56.73 2020
24 Ethiopia 56.55 2020
25 Sudan 56.53 2020
26 Togo 56.46 2020
27 Liberia 56.31 2020
28 Congo 55.97 2020
29 Eritrea 55.74 2011
30 Côte d'Ivoire 55.61 2020
31 São Tomé and Principe 55.23 2020
32 Cameroon 55.22 2020
33 Guinea-Bissau 55.19 2020
34 Zimbabwe 55.07 2020
35 Benin 54.78 2020
36 Malawi 54.37 2020
37 Senegal 54.30 2020
38 Guinea 54.00 2020
39 Zambia 53.85 2020
40 Tanzania 53.80 2020
41 Nigeria 53.77 2020
42 Central African Republic 53.66 2020
43 The Gambia 53.52 2020
44 Burkina Faso 53.22 2020
45 Mozambique 53.08 2020
46 Burundi 52.37 2020
47 Uganda 52.00 2020
48 Angola 51.41 2020
49 Dem. Rep. Congo 51.19 2020
50 Chad 51.01 2020
51 Somalia 50.95 2020
52 Mali 50.52 2020
53 Niger 47.73 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