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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Israel was 59.76 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 62.39 in 2008, while its lowest value was 58.27 in 1982.

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 58.87
1961 58.82
1962 58.75
1963 58.74
1964 58.87
1965 59.16
1966 59.43
1967 59.83
1968 60.28
1969 60.61
1970 60.75
1971 60.74
1972 60.57
1973 60.28
1974 59.98
1975 59.74
1976 59.32
1977 58.98
1978 58.72
1979 58.50
1980 58.31
1981 58.27
1982 58.27
1983 58.30
1984 58.39
1985 58.52
1986 58.74
1987 58.98
1988 59.23
1989 59.52
1990 59.82
1991 60.10
1992 60.42
1993 60.74
1994 61.02
1995 61.23
1996 61.45
1997 61.61
1998 61.71
1999 61.80
2000 61.89
2001 61.92
2002 61.99
2003 62.06
2004 62.11
2005 62.13
2006 62.27
2007 62.36
2008 62.39
2009 62.37
2010 62.29
2011 62.05
2012 61.78
2013 61.49
2014 61.20
2015 60.91
2016 60.60
2017 60.33
2018 60.10
2019 59.91
2020 59.76

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