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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Sweden was 17.62 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 22.43 in 1960, while its lowest value was 16.51 in 2010.

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 22.43
1961 22.18
1962 21.84
1963 21.46
1964 21.15
1965 20.93
1966 20.83
1967 20.79
1968 20.80
1969 20.83
1970 20.84
1971 20.85
1972 20.86
1973 20.84
1974 20.79
1975 20.69
1976 20.54
1977 20.35
1978 20.11
1979 19.86
1980 19.59
1981 19.26
1982 18.95
1983 18.66
1984 18.39
1985 18.15
1986 18.01
1987 17.90
1988 17.86
1989 17.86
1990 17.92
1991 18.12
1992 18.32
1993 18.53
1994 18.72
1995 18.84
1996 18.91
1997 18.85
1998 18.71
1999 18.55
2000 18.42
2001 18.09
2002 17.91
2003 17.81
2004 17.65
2005 17.40
2006 17.34
2007 17.12
2008 16.82
2009 16.59
2010 16.51
2011 16.51
2012 16.63
2013 16.84
2014 17.08
2015 17.29
2016 17.39
2017 17.50
2018 17.58
2019 17.63
2020 17.62

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