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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Lebanon was 67.38 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 67.83 in 2010, while its lowest value was 51.01 in 1964.

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 52.44
1961 52.07
1962 51.62
1963 51.21
1964 51.01
1965 51.09
1966 51.20
1967 51.53
1968 52.04
1969 52.57
1970 53.05
1971 53.51
1972 53.94
1973 54.35
1974 54.78
1975 55.27
1976 55.32
1977 55.34
1978 55.36
1979 55.39
1980 55.45
1981 55.44
1982 55.53
1983 55.67
1984 55.82
1985 55.96
1986 56.33
1987 56.67
1988 56.98
1989 57.27
1990 57.48
1991 58.65
1992 59.69
1993 60.60
1994 61.42
1995 62.21
1996 62.30
1997 62.47
1998 62.72
1999 62.99
2000 63.21
2001 63.05
2002 62.99
2003 63.02
2004 63.24
2005 63.71
2006 64.45
2007 65.35
2008 66.35
2009 67.25
2010 67.83
2011 67.80
2012 67.56
2013 67.12
2014 66.65
2015 66.33
2016 66.49
2017 66.67
2018 66.90
2019 67.15
2020 67.38

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