New Caledonia - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in New Caledonia was 68.19 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 68.19 in 2020, while its lowest value was 57.47 in 1976.

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 58.99
1961 58.92
1962 58.82
1963 58.69
1964 58.59
1965 58.56
1966 58.51
1967 58.54
1968 58.62
1969 58.66
1970 58.61
1971 58.30
1972 57.97
1973 57.70
1974 57.63
1975 57.81
1976 57.47
1977 57.50
1978 57.75
1979 58.01
1980 58.23
1981 58.55
1982 58.71
1983 58.85
1984 59.16
1985 59.69
1986 60.19
1987 60.87
1988 61.65
1989 62.38
1990 62.97
1991 63.49
1992 63.90
1993 64.21
1994 64.41
1995 64.55
1996 64.64
1997 64.58
1998 64.43
1999 64.27
2000 64.19
2001 64.40
2002 64.74
2003 65.17
2004 65.59
2005 65.97
2006 66.53
2007 66.85
2008 66.97
2009 67.01
2010 67.06
2011 67.01
2012 67.16
2013 67.40
2014 67.63
2015 67.80
2016 67.93
2017 68.02
2018 68.08
2019 68.14
2020 68.19

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