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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Mauritius was 70.70 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 70.77 in 2012, while its lowest value was 50.67 in 1963.

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 50.92
1961 50.85
1962 50.75
1963 50.67
1964 50.74
1965 51.01
1966 51.21
1967 51.69
1968 52.33
1969 53.00
1970 53.65
1971 54.59
1972 55.35
1973 56.01
1974 56.73
1975 57.57
1976 58.58
1977 59.51
1978 60.20
1979 60.58
1980 60.74
1981 61.32
1982 61.94
1983 62.58
1984 63.25
1985 63.90
1986 64.42
1987 64.97
1988 65.50
1989 65.95
1990 66.30
1991 66.69
1992 66.89
1993 66.98
1994 67.10
1995 67.31
1996 67.25
1997 67.42
1998 67.72
1999 67.97
2000 68.10
2001 68.36
2002 68.41
2003 68.37
2004 68.43
2005 68.68
2006 68.89
2007 69.28
2008 69.77
2009 70.18
2010 70.43
2011 70.68
2012 70.77
2013 70.75
2014 70.69
2015 70.65
2016 70.66
2017 70.69
2018 70.73
2019 70.74
2020 70.70

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