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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Nicaragua was 29.50 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 49.32 in 1966, while its lowest value was 29.50 in 2020.

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 47.30
1961 47.73
1962 48.27
1963 48.81
1964 49.18
1965 49.30
1966 49.32
1967 49.16
1968 48.88
1969 48.54
1970 48.22
1971 48.01
1972 47.80
1973 47.60
1974 47.41
1975 47.24
1976 47.21
1977 47.16
1978 47.10
1979 47.06
1980 47.03
1981 47.07
1982 47.13
1983 47.18
1984 47.17
1985 47.08
1986 46.96
1987 46.75
1988 46.47
1989 46.16
1990 45.84
1991 45.36
1992 44.90
1993 44.43
1994 43.89
1995 43.28
1996 42.64
1997 41.91
1998 41.14
1999 40.38
2000 39.66
2001 38.87
2002 38.16
2003 37.50
2004 36.85
2005 36.22
2006 35.57
2007 34.95
2008 34.35
2009 33.81
2010 33.32
2011 32.84
2012 32.40
2013 32.00
2014 31.63
2015 31.28
2016 30.90
2017 30.55
2018 30.20
2019 29.85
2020 29.50

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