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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Thailand was 70.49 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 71.92 in 2010, while its lowest value was 52.43 in 1969.

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 53.95
1961 53.64
1962 53.39
1963 53.20
1964 53.04
1965 52.90
1966 52.71
1967 52.55
1968 52.45
1969 52.43
1970 52.51
1971 52.57
1972 52.79
1973 53.13
1974 53.53
1975 53.98
1976 54.46
1977 54.95
1978 55.49
1979 56.11
1980 56.82
1981 57.62
1982 58.48
1983 59.39
1984 60.30
1985 61.20
1986 62.09
1987 62.96
1988 63.79
1989 64.56
1990 65.27
1991 65.78
1992 66.24
1993 66.66
1994 67.06
1995 67.44
1996 67.90
1997 68.34
1998 68.76
1999 69.15
2000 69.49
2001 69.85
2002 70.16
2003 70.43
2004 70.69
2005 70.96
2006 71.20
2007 71.42
2008 71.62
2009 71.79
2010 71.92
2011 71.82
2012 71.75
2013 71.67
2014 71.57
2015 71.42
2016 71.35
2017 71.21
2018 71.01
2019 70.77
2020 70.49

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