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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Malta was 64.30 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.57 in 2008, while its lowest value was 53.62 in 1960.

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 53.62
1961 54.28
1962 55.29
1963 56.56
1964 57.88
1965 59.09
1966 59.89
1967 60.71
1968 61.48
1969 62.16
1970 62.69
1971 63.40
1972 63.80
1973 64.03
1974 64.28
1975 64.64
1976 64.88
1977 65.31
1978 65.82
1979 66.20
1980 66.37
1981 66.37
1982 66.28
1983 66.17
1984 66.11
1985 66.13
1986 66.05
1987 65.99
1988 65.97
1989 66.00
1990 66.09
1991 66.12
1992 66.20
1993 66.32
1994 66.44
1995 66.54
1996 66.80
1997 67.02
1998 67.24
1999 67.47
2000 67.74
2001 67.94
2002 68.16
2003 68.41
2004 68.65
2005 68.87
2006 69.18
2007 69.44
2008 69.57
2009 69.53
2010 69.32
2011 68.99
2012 68.57
2013 68.07
2014 67.52
2015 66.98
2016 66.41
2017 65.88
2018 65.37
2019 64.85
2020 64.30

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