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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Tunisia was 66.84 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.23 in 2011, while its lowest value was 50.11 in 1966.

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 52.81
1961 52.71
1962 52.38
1963 51.80
1964 51.09
1965 50.43
1966 50.11
1967 50.16
1968 50.44
1969 50.76
1970 51.02
1971 51.41
1972 51.74
1973 52.02
1974 52.32
1975 52.67
1976 52.99
1977 53.32
1978 53.66
1979 54.01
1980 54.35
1981 54.73
1982 55.14
1983 55.56
1984 55.95
1985 56.30
1986 56.64
1987 56.94
1988 57.22
1989 57.53
1990 57.92
1991 58.32
1992 58.84
1993 59.43
1994 60.04
1995 60.64
1996 61.25
1997 61.83
1998 62.40
1999 63.03
2000 63.72
2001 64.38
2002 65.10
2003 65.82
2004 66.50
2005 67.12
2006 67.69
2007 68.19
2008 68.62
2009 68.95
2010 69.18
2011 69.23
2012 69.17
2013 69.02
2014 68.80
2015 68.54
2016 68.17
2017 67.84
2018 67.51
2019 67.18
2020 66.84

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