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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Singapore was 74.35 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 78.75 in 2010, while its lowest value was 53.31 in 1963.

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 54.73
1961 53.92
1962 53.45
1963 53.31
1964 53.43
1965 53.72
1966 54.42
1967 55.16
1968 55.97
1969 56.88
1970 57.90
1971 58.93
1972 59.93
1973 60.93
1974 61.99
1975 63.10
1976 64.03
1977 65.15
1978 66.33
1979 67.40
1980 68.23
1981 69.02
1982 69.51
1983 69.81
1984 70.09
1985 70.44
1986 70.88
1987 71.46
1988 72.08
1989 72.59
1990 72.94
1991 73.14
1992 73.28
1993 73.38
1994 73.49
1995 73.63
1996 73.62
1997 73.76
1998 74.08
1999 74.50
2000 74.91
2001 74.89
2002 74.87
2003 74.97
2004 75.23
2005 75.60
2006 76.05
2007 76.64
2008 77.37
2009 78.13
2010 78.75
2011 78.60
2012 78.44
2013 78.37
2014 78.37
2015 78.32
2016 77.94
2017 77.21
2018 76.26
2019 75.28
2020 74.35

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