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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Rwanda was 57.41 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 57.41 in 2020, while its lowest value was 47.65 in 1965.

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 49.08
1961 48.46
1962 48.07
1963 47.86
1964 47.74
1965 47.65
1966 47.91
1967 48.21
1968 48.55
1969 48.94
1970 49.37
1971 49.51
1972 49.70
1973 49.91
1974 50.09
1975 50.22
1976 50.10
1977 49.99
1978 49.87
1979 49.75
1980 49.62
1981 49.26
1982 48.96
1983 48.70
1984 48.46
1985 48.23
1986 48.01
1987 47.82
1988 47.71
1989 47.83
1990 48.41
1991 49.03
1992 50.08
1993 51.64
1994 53.46
1995 55.01
1996 54.74
1997 54.22
1998 53.39
1999 52.53
2000 51.99
2001 52.39
2002 52.94
2003 53.62
2004 54.31
2005 54.87
2006 55.19
2007 55.41
2008 55.56
2009 55.70
2010 55.89
2011 56.00
2012 56.17
2013 56.39
2014 56.58
2015 56.72
2016 56.91
2017 57.01
2018 57.09
2019 57.21
2020 57.41

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