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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Kuwait was 75.50 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 76.68 in 2015, while its lowest value was 53.07 in 1974.

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 63.59
1961 62.79
1962 62.00
1963 61.16
1964 60.37
1965 59.66
1966 58.26
1967 57.15
1968 56.13
1969 55.14
1970 54.25
1971 53.90
1972 53.54
1973 53.22
1974 53.07
1975 53.13
1976 53.93
1977 54.95
1978 56.08
1979 57.16
1980 58.08
1981 58.97
1982 59.60
1983 60.04
1984 60.48
1985 61.03
1986 61.16
1987 61.60
1988 62.23
1989 62.94
1990 63.77
1991 64.90
1992 65.91
1993 66.80
1994 67.52
1995 67.91
1996 68.51
1997 69.04
1998 69.41
1999 69.70
2000 70.04
2001 70.36
2002 70.80
2003 71.28
2004 71.67
2005 71.86
2006 72.69
2007 73.34
2008 73.83
2009 74.29
2010 74.79
2011 75.06
2012 75.46
2013 75.92
2014 76.34
2015 76.68
2016 76.46
2017 76.20
2018 75.91
2019 75.67
2020 75.50

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