Trinidad and Tobago - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Trinidad and Tobago was 20.06 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.46 in 1964, while its lowest value was 20.06 in 2020.

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 42.84
1961 42.97
1962 43.15
1963 43.34
1964 43.46
1965 43.44
1966 43.31
1967 42.93
1968 42.40
1969 41.89
1970 41.47
1971 40.48
1972 39.77
1973 39.19
1974 38.51
1975 37.66
1976 36.99
1977 36.10
1978 35.15
1979 34.41
1980 33.98
1981 33.76
1982 33.83
1983 34.07
1984 34.27
1985 34.30
1986 34.49
1987 34.42
1988 34.17
1989 33.87
1990 33.60
1991 33.02
1992 32.56
1993 32.12
1994 31.55
1995 30.77
1996 29.87
1997 28.82
1998 27.69
1999 26.59
2000 25.59
2001 24.63
2002 23.78
2003 23.04
2004 22.40
2005 21.85
2006 21.47
2007 21.16
2008 20.94
2009 20.79
2010 20.72
2011 20.68
2012 20.67
2013 20.69
2014 20.70
2015 20.68
2016 20.62
2017 20.54
2018 20.42
2019 20.26
2020 20.06

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