Mongolia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Mongolia was 31.09 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 45.40 in 1974, while its lowest value was 27.02 in 2010.

Definition: Population between the ages 0 to 14 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population.

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 37.00
1961 37.87
1962 38.96
1963 40.12
1964 41.12
1965 41.86
1966 42.80
1967 43.34
1968 43.65
1969 43.93
1970 44.26
1971 44.53
1972 44.89
1973 45.24
1974 45.40
1975 45.32
1976 45.31
1977 45.02
1978 44.57
1979 44.10
1980 43.69
1981 43.34
1982 43.05
1983 42.79
1984 42.49
1985 42.14
1986 41.92
1987 41.65
1988 41.34
1989 40.95
1990 40.47
1991 40.33
1992 39.99
1993 39.54
1994 39.07
1995 38.62
1996 37.80
1997 37.12
1998 36.48
1999 35.72
2000 34.77
2001 33.69
2002 32.44
2003 31.12
2004 29.91
2005 28.93
2006 28.13
2007 27.57
2008 27.23
2009 27.06
2010 27.02
2011 27.25
2012 27.55
2013 27.93
2014 28.37
2015 28.86
2016 29.43
2017 29.95
2018 30.41
2019 30.80
2020 31.09

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