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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Malaysia was 69.37 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.38 in 2019, while its lowest value was 50.44 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 51.09
1961 50.86
1962 50.63
1963 50.46
1964 50.44
1965 50.60
1966 50.73
1967 51.10
1968 51.60
1969 52.07
1970 52.44
1971 53.00
1972 53.38
1973 53.67
1974 54.02
1975 54.46
1976 54.88
1977 55.41
1978 55.98
1979 56.50
1980 56.92
1981 57.23
1982 57.47
1983 57.64
1984 57.81
1985 57.98
1986 58.16
1987 58.40
1988 58.68
1989 58.98
1990 59.27
1991 59.54
1992 59.79
1993 60.04
1994 60.31
1995 60.61
1996 60.98
1997 61.37
1998 61.79
1999 62.24
2000 62.73
2001 63.05
2002 63.49
2003 64.03
2004 64.60
2005 65.13
2006 65.44
2007 65.77
2008 66.15
2009 66.60
2010 67.10
2011 67.59
2012 67.99
2013 68.34
2014 68.65
2015 68.93
2016 69.08
2017 69.22
2018 69.33
2019 69.38
2020 69.37

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