Trinidad and Tobago - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Trinidad and Tobago was 68.42 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 71.23 in 2008, while its lowest value was 53.20 in 1964.

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 53.70
1961 53.59
1962 53.44
1963 53.28
1964 53.20
1965 53.25
1966 53.22
1967 53.44
1968 53.79
1969 54.13
1970 54.38
1971 55.22
1972 55.80
1973 56.27
1974 56.83
1975 57.55
1976 58.09
1977 58.83
1978 59.63
1979 60.26
1980 60.59
1981 60.76
1982 60.67
1983 60.42
1984 60.23
1985 60.19
1986 59.96
1987 59.99
1988 60.20
1989 60.45
1990 60.69
1991 61.19
1992 61.58
1993 61.96
1994 62.49
1995 63.21
1996 64.02
1997 64.97
1998 66.02
1999 67.03
2000 67.93
2001 68.76
2002 69.48
2003 70.08
2004 70.56
2005 70.94
2006 71.12
2007 71.22
2008 71.23
2009 71.15
2010 70.98
2011 70.77
2012 70.52
2013 70.23
2014 69.94
2015 69.65
2016 69.37
2017 69.10
2018 68.85
2019 68.62
2020 68.42

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