Latvia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Latvia was 16.43 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 22.37 in 1964, while its lowest value was 14.02 in 2009.

Definition: Population between the ages 0 to 14 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population.

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 22.04
1961 22.12
1962 22.23
1963 22.32
1964 22.37
1965 22.33
1966 22.27
1967 22.13
1968 21.93
1969 21.74
1970 21.59
1971 21.42
1972 21.35
1973 21.30
1974 21.18
1975 20.96
1976 20.98
1977 20.82
1978 20.56
1979 20.37
1980 20.33
1981 20.28
1982 20.46
1983 20.77
1984 21.05
1985 21.22
1986 21.43
1987 21.51
1988 21.52
1989 21.51
1990 21.46
1991 21.48
1992 21.42
1993 21.26
1994 21.03
1995 20.74
1996 20.18
1997 19.63
1998 19.08
1999 18.49
2000 17.86
2001 17.15
2002 16.48
2003 15.84
2004 15.23
2005 14.68
2006 14.46
2007 14.24
2008 14.07
2009 14.02
2010 14.09
2011 14.19
2012 14.35
2013 14.56
2014 14.80
2015 15.09
2016 15.23
2017 15.58
2018 16.00
2019 16.31
2020 16.43

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