Qatar - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Qatar was 84.67 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 86.40 in 2010, while its lowest value was 55.70 in 1960.

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 55.70
1961 56.20
1962 56.76
1963 57.36
1964 58.00
1965 58.65
1966 59.38
1967 60.14
1968 60.83
1969 61.43
1970 61.92
1971 62.27
1972 62.84
1973 63.52
1974 64.20
1975 64.77
1976 64.84
1977 64.92
1978 64.95
1979 64.91
1980 64.78
1981 66.35
1982 67.52
1983 68.39
1984 69.12
1985 69.83
1986 69.56
1987 69.62
1988 69.86
1989 70.13
1990 70.41
1991 70.73
1992 70.91
1993 71.00
1994 71.10
1995 71.28
1996 71.49
1997 71.80
1998 72.13
1999 72.39
2000 72.53
2001 73.84
2002 74.93
2003 75.78
2004 76.46
2005 77.00
2006 80.53
2007 83.04
2008 84.68
2009 85.71
2010 86.40
2011 86.17
2012 86.10
2013 85.98
2014 85.77
2015 85.57
2016 85.39
2017 85.26
2018 85.09
2019 84.88
2020 84.67

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