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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Papua New Guinea was 61.28 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 61.28 in 2020, while its lowest value was 53.66 in 1978.

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 54.89
1961 54.63
1962 54.36
1963 54.10
1964 53.94
1965 53.87
1966 53.73
1967 53.69
1968 53.72
1969 53.79
1970 53.85
1971 53.80
1972 53.76
1973 53.74
1974 53.75
1975 53.77
1976 53.70
1977 53.67
1978 53.66
1979 53.68
1980 53.72
1981 53.70
1982 53.72
1983 53.78
1984 53.88
1985 54.04
1986 54.15
1987 54.32
1988 54.55
1989 54.81
1990 55.08
1991 55.33
1992 55.57
1993 55.82
1994 56.08
1995 56.34
1996 56.50
1997 56.67
1998 56.83
1999 56.99
2000 57.16
2001 57.20
2002 57.29
2003 57.41
2004 57.53
2005 57.64
2006 57.75
2007 57.86
2008 57.98
2009 58.15
2010 58.38
2011 58.61
2012 58.91
2013 59.26
2014 59.61
2015 59.95
2016 60.22
2017 60.48
2018 60.74
2019 61.00
2020 61.28

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