Macao SAR, China - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Macao SAR, China was 73.67 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 80.23 in 2010, while its lowest value was 50.45 in 1965.

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 53.22
1961 52.59
1962 51.83
1963 51.01
1964 50.46
1965 50.45
1966 50.82
1967 51.91
1968 53.53
1969 55.31
1970 57.09
1971 59.44
1972 61.49
1973 63.29
1974 64.98
1975 66.58
1976 67.52
1977 68.43
1978 69.11
1979 69.24
1980 68.76
1981 69.39
1982 69.39
1983 69.10
1984 68.94
1985 69.06
1986 68.40
1987 68.25
1988 68.29
1989 68.22
1990 67.96
1991 67.76
1992 67.49
1993 67.25
1994 67.19
1995 67.37
1996 67.65
1997 68.02
1998 68.49
1999 69.06
2000 69.77
2001 70.80
2002 72.03
2003 73.37
2004 74.68
2005 75.89
2006 77.10
2007 78.16
2008 79.04
2009 79.74
2010 80.23
2011 80.23
2012 80.11
2013 79.84
2014 79.40
2015 78.79
2016 77.91
2017 76.92
2018 75.86
2019 74.77
2020 73.67

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