St. Lucia - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in St. Lucia was 71.75 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 71.75 in 2019, while its lowest value was 45.35 in 1970.

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 51.18
1961 50.52
1962 49.93
1963 49.43
1964 48.93
1965 48.38
1966 47.98
1967 47.46
1968 46.81
1969 46.07
1970 45.35
1971 45.95
1972 46.55
1973 47.18
1974 47.84
1975 48.49
1976 49.01
1977 49.52
1978 50.04
1979 50.59
1980 51.13
1981 51.94
1982 52.64
1983 53.22
1984 53.64
1985 53.90
1986 54.75
1987 55.34
1988 55.72
1989 55.95
1990 56.04
1991 56.45
1992 56.74
1993 56.97
1994 57.18
1995 57.39
1996 57.78
1997 58.26
1998 58.84
1999 59.50
2000 60.25
2001 61.07
2002 62.00
2003 63.00
2004 64.04
2005 65.06
2006 65.89
2007 66.60
2008 67.24
2009 67.80
2010 68.27
2011 68.95
2012 69.55
2013 70.08
2014 70.57
2015 71.00
2016 71.26
2017 71.49
2018 71.66
2019 71.75
2020 71.75

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