Turkmenistan - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Turkmenistan was 30.79 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 45.09 in 1967, while its lowest value was 29.31 in 2011.

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 39.85
1961 41.00
1962 42.11
1963 43.11
1964 43.90
1965 44.45
1966 44.91
1967 45.09
1968 45.06
1969 44.93
1970 44.76
1971 44.43
1972 44.13
1973 43.85
1974 43.55
1975 43.20
1976 42.86
1977 42.51
1978 42.18
1979 41.86
1980 41.56
1981 41.33
1982 41.08
1983 40.85
1984 40.68
1985 40.59
1986 40.51
1987 40.53
1988 40.59
1989 40.63
1990 40.59
1991 40.62
1992 40.48
1993 40.22
1994 39.89
1995 39.47
1996 39.02
1997 38.44
1998 37.77
1999 37.03
2000 36.27
2001 35.40
2002 34.70
2003 34.06
2004 33.38
2005 32.61
2006 32.01
2007 31.23
2008 30.41
2009 29.80
2010 29.52
2011 29.31
2012 29.49
2013 29.88
2014 30.25
2015 30.44
2016 30.83
2017 30.91
2018 30.82
2019 30.76
2020 30.79

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