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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Vanuatu was 57.98 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 57.98 in 2020, while its lowest value was 51.22 in 1962.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 51.33
1961 51.24
1962 51.22
1963 51.23
1964 51.29
1965 51.42
1966 51.41
1967 51.45
1968 51.52
1969 51.62
1970 51.73
1971 51.77
1972 51.84
1973 51.91
1974 51.98
1975 52.09
1976 52.14
1977 52.24
1978 52.34
1979 52.43
1980 52.50
1981 52.60
1982 52.63
1983 52.59
1984 52.50
1985 52.39
1986 52.54
1987 52.64
1988 52.67
1989 52.65
1990 52.59
1991 52.87
1992 53.11
1993 53.32
1994 53.55
1995 53.81
1996 54.04
1997 54.33
1998 54.64
1999 54.94
2000 55.21
2001 55.58
2002 55.99
2003 56.39
2004 56.75
2005 57.06
2006 57.58
2007 57.84
2008 57.88
2009 57.87
2010 57.88
2011 57.71
2012 57.75
2013 57.75
2014 57.55
2015 57.20
2016 57.40
2017 57.46
2018 57.51
2019 57.67
2020 57.98

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