Papua New Guinea - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Papua New Guinea was 35.15 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.73 in 1967, while its lowest value was 35.15 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 42.44
1961 42.71
1962 42.99
1963 43.26
1964 43.46
1965 43.57
1966 43.70
1967 43.73
1968 43.69
1969 43.64
1970 43.60
1971 43.63
1972 43.66
1973 43.67
1974 43.67
1975 43.66
1976 43.70
1977 43.71
1978 43.70
1979 43.68
1980 43.64
1981 43.63
1982 43.59
1983 43.51
1984 43.39
1985 43.22
1986 43.08
1987 42.88
1988 42.63
1989 42.35
1990 42.06
1991 41.78
1992 41.50
1993 41.23
1994 40.95
1995 40.68
1996 40.48
1997 40.29
1998 40.11
1999 39.94
2000 39.76
2001 39.68
2002 39.57
2003 39.43
2004 39.30
2005 39.18
2006 39.03
2007 38.89
2008 38.74
2009 38.55
2010 38.30
2011 38.08
2012 37.80
2013 37.48
2014 37.14
2015 36.80
2016 36.46
2017 36.14
2018 35.82
2019 35.49
2020 35.15

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