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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Rwanda was 39.47 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 50.18 in 1988, while its lowest value was 39.47 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 47.79
1961 48.40
1962 48.78
1963 48.98
1964 49.11
1965 49.22
1966 49.00
1967 48.75
1968 48.46
1969 48.13
1970 47.75
1971 47.64
1972 47.49
1973 47.32
1974 47.19
1975 47.12
1976 47.28
1977 47.44
1978 47.61
1979 47.80
1980 48.00
1981 48.41
1982 48.77
1983 49.09
1984 49.38
1985 49.64
1986 49.87
1987 50.07
1988 50.18
1989 50.04
1990 49.42
1991 48.67
1992 47.46
1993 45.73
1994 43.75
1995 42.06
1996 42.18
1997 42.54
1998 43.21
1999 43.93
2000 44.37
2001 44.11
2002 43.75
2003 43.26
2004 42.76
2005 42.36
2006 42.09
2007 41.91
2008 41.81
2009 41.70
2010 41.54
2011 41.42
2012 41.23
2013 40.99
2014 40.77
2015 40.59
2016 40.32
2017 40.14
2018 39.98
2019 39.77
2020 39.47

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