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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Poland was 15.22 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 33.57 in 1961, while its lowest value was 14.79 in 2016.

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 33.56
1961 33.57
1962 33.26
1963 32.70
1964 32.04
1965 31.37
1966 30.48
1967 29.69
1968 28.93
1969 28.12
1970 27.23
1971 26.52
1972 25.75
1973 24.99
1974 24.35
1975 23.90
1976 23.70
1977 23.63
1978 23.69
1979 23.83
1980 24.03
1981 24.32
1982 24.67
1983 25.03
1984 25.35
1985 25.57
1986 25.68
1987 25.67
1988 25.53
1989 25.34
1990 25.12
1991 24.75
1992 24.41
1993 24.05
1994 23.61
1995 23.05
1996 22.49
1997 21.79
1998 21.02
1999 20.26
2000 19.56
2001 18.83
2002 18.20
2003 17.63
2004 17.10
2005 16.61
2006 16.19
2007 15.86
2008 15.61
2009 15.41
2010 15.22
2011 15.16
2012 15.03
2013 14.89
2014 14.82
2015 14.84
2016 14.79
2017 14.88
2018 15.05
2019 15.19
2020 15.22

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