Population ages 65 and above (% of total population) - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean

Definition: Population ages 65 and above 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 Puerto Rico 20.83 2020
2 Barbados 16.70 2020
3 Cuba 15.89 2020
4 Trinidad and Tobago 11.51 2020
5 St. Lucia 10.30 2020
6 Costa Rica 10.25 2020
7 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 9.91 2020
8 Grenada 9.79 2020
9 Antigua and Barbuda 9.33 2020
10 Jamaica 9.08 2020
11 El Salvador 8.65 2020
12 Panama 8.54 2020
13 The Bahamas 7.75 2020
14 Dominican Republic 7.53 2020
15 Nicaragua 5.68 2020
16 Haiti 5.17 2020
17 Guatemala 5.04 2020
18 Belize 5.01 2020
19 Honduras 4.97 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