United Kingdom - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in United Kingdom was 17.68 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 24.17 in 1970, while its lowest value was 17.50 in 2010.

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 23.16
1961 23.29
1962 23.30
1963 23.24
1964 23.23
1965 23.30
1966 23.52
1967 23.72
1968 23.91
1969 24.07
1970 24.17
1971 24.16
1972 24.12
1973 24.01
1974 23.81
1975 23.50
1976 23.10
1977 22.64
1978 22.11
1979 21.56
1980 21.02
1981 20.55
1982 20.12
1983 19.74
1984 19.42
1985 19.15
1986 19.05
1987 18.96
1988 18.90
1989 18.90
1990 18.97
1991 19.02
1992 19.13
1993 19.27
1994 19.39
1995 19.46
1996 19.45
1997 19.39
1998 19.30
1999 19.17
2000 19.03
2001 18.85
2002 18.63
2003 18.39
2004 18.17
2005 17.98
2006 17.83
2007 17.72
2008 17.64
2009 17.57
2010 17.50
2011 17.55
2012 17.55
2013 17.53
2014 17.53
2015 17.56
2016 17.59
2017 17.64
2018 17.68
2019 17.70
2020 17.68

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