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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Korea was 71.67 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 73.41 in 2014, while its lowest value was 52.79 in 1962.

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 53.39
1961 52.94
1962 52.79
1963 52.86
1964 53.00
1965 53.13
1966 53.40
1967 53.61
1968 53.83
1969 54.18
1970 54.69
1971 55.22
1972 55.85
1973 56.56
1974 57.31
1975 58.09
1976 58.80
1977 59.63
1978 60.49
1979 61.30
1980 62.02
1981 62.82
1982 63.48
1983 64.06
1984 64.70
1985 65.47
1986 66.09
1987 66.92
1988 67.86
1989 68.70
1990 69.33
1991 70.02
1992 70.36
1993 70.51
1994 70.69
1995 70.99
1996 71.04
1997 71.34
1998 71.75
1999 72.06
2000 72.20
2001 72.38
2002 72.37
2003 72.28
2004 72.23
2005 72.31
2006 72.45
2007 72.63
2008 72.84
2009 73.05
2010 73.21
2011 73.28
2012 73.35
2013 73.40
2014 73.41
2015 73.36
2016 73.16
2017 72.92
2018 72.61
2019 72.19
2020 71.67

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