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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Venezuela was 27.26 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.29 in 1963, while its lowest value was 27.26 in 2020.

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 46.04
1961 46.22
1962 46.29
1963 46.29
1964 46.26
1965 46.20
1966 46.15
1967 46.08
1968 45.97
1969 45.77
1970 45.48
1971 45.18
1972 44.78
1973 44.30
1974 43.81
1975 43.35
1976 42.88
1977 42.46
1978 42.07
1979 41.66
1980 41.21
1981 40.86
1982 40.43
1983 39.97
1984 39.56
1985 39.22
1986 38.89
1987 38.65
1988 38.44
1989 38.20
1990 37.89
1991 37.62
1992 37.26
1993 36.85
1994 36.43
1995 36.03
1996 35.60
1997 35.21
1998 34.83
1999 34.42
2000 33.97
2001 33.54
2002 33.08
2003 32.60
2004 32.14
2005 31.69
2006 31.30
2007 30.93
2008 30.57
2009 30.23
2010 29.91
2011 29.60
2012 29.33
2013 29.07
2014 28.77
2015 28.38
2016 28.22
2017 27.97
2018 27.67
2019 27.40
2020 27.26

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