United Arab Emirates - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in United Arab Emirates was 83.92 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 86.16 in 2010, while its lowest value was 52.00 in 1960.

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 52.00
1961 53.42
1962 54.97
1963 56.51
1964 57.99
1965 59.38
1966 60.71
1967 61.84
1968 62.73
1969 63.38
1970 63.76
1971 66.35
1972 68.34
1973 69.64
1974 70.28
1975 70.36
1976 71.10
1977 71.45
1978 71.33
1979 70.92
1980 70.44
1981 69.75
1982 69.05
1983 68.29
1984 67.51
1985 66.77
1986 66.64
1987 66.71
1988 66.93
1989 67.27
1990 67.74
1991 68.52
1992 69.30
1993 70.09
1994 70.87
1995 71.61
1996 71.99
1997 72.38
1998 72.63
1999 72.74
2000 72.86
2001 75.06
2002 77.00
2003 78.60
2004 79.84
2005 80.77
2006 82.66
2007 84.06
2008 85.01
2009 85.65
2010 86.16
2011 85.83
2012 85.62
2013 85.41
2014 85.17
2015 84.90
2016 84.63
2017 84.46
2018 84.31
2019 84.13
2020 83.92

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