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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Sweden was 62.05 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 66.38 in 1965, while its lowest value was 62.05 in 2020.

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 65.81
1961 65.88
1962 66.04
1963 66.23
1964 66.35
1965 66.38
1966 66.28
1967 66.12
1968 65.91
1969 65.68
1970 65.46
1971 65.15
1972 64.85
1973 64.58
1974 64.35
1975 64.17
1976 64.05
1977 63.98
1978 63.98
1979 64.01
1980 64.09
1981 64.18
1982 64.29
1983 64.41
1984 64.51
1985 64.57
1986 64.56
1987 64.52
1988 64.44
1989 64.34
1990 64.25
1991 64.06
1992 63.90
1993 63.77
1994 63.68
1995 63.65
1996 63.63
1997 63.72
1998 63.89
1999 64.09
2000 64.27
2001 64.61
2002 64.83
2003 64.98
2004 65.13
2005 65.29
2006 65.26
2007 65.33
2008 65.43
2009 65.43
2010 65.27
2011 64.99
2012 64.56
2013 64.04
2014 63.52
2015 63.10
2016 62.77
2017 62.51
2018 62.32
2019 62.18
2020 62.05

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