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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Vanuatu was 38.41 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.34 in 1962, while its lowest value was 38.22 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 46.22
1961 46.31
1962 46.34
1963 46.33
1964 46.28
1965 46.17
1966 46.07
1967 45.92
1968 45.73
1969 45.51
1970 45.29
1971 45.25
1972 45.19
1973 45.14
1974 45.07
1975 44.97
1976 44.90
1977 44.79
1978 44.68
1979 44.59
1980 44.51
1981 44.34
1982 44.25
1983 44.22
1984 44.25
1985 44.30
1986 44.10
1987 43.95
1988 43.87
1989 43.85
1990 43.86
1991 43.60
1992 43.38
1993 43.19
1994 42.99
1995 42.74
1996 42.52
1997 42.26
1998 41.98
1999 41.73
2000 41.50
2001 41.14
2002 40.74
2003 40.35
2004 39.99
2005 39.68
2006 39.06
2007 38.69
2008 38.50
2009 38.37
2010 38.22
2011 38.43
2012 38.45
2013 38.49
2014 38.71
2015 39.07
2016 38.90
2017 38.86
2018 38.85
2019 38.71
2020 38.41

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