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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Lebanon was 25.07 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.63 in 1965, while its lowest value was 25.07 in 2020.

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 41.61
1961 42.09
1962 42.68
1963 43.25
1964 43.59
1965 43.63
1966 43.59
1967 43.29
1968 42.83
1969 42.33
1970 41.90
1971 41.46
1972 41.06
1973 40.68
1974 40.27
1975 39.80
1976 39.63
1977 39.47
1978 39.33
1979 39.21
1980 39.11
1981 39.14
1982 39.13
1983 39.08
1984 39.01
1985 38.92
1986 38.55
1987 38.20
1988 37.85
1989 37.52
1990 37.26
1991 36.13
1992 35.12
1993 34.23
1994 33.42
1995 32.62
1996 32.43
1997 32.16
1998 31.80
1999 31.42
2000 31.09
2001 31.24
2002 31.26
2003 31.18
2004 30.90
2005 30.35
2006 29.51
2007 28.54
2008 27.46
2009 26.48
2010 25.82
2011 25.90
2012 26.19
2013 26.64
2014 27.09
2015 27.34
2016 26.99
2017 26.59
2018 26.10
2019 25.57
2020 25.07

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