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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Venezuela was 64.76 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 65.25 in 2015, while its lowest value was 51.33 in 1963.

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 51.66
1961 51.45
1962 51.35
1963 51.33
1964 51.33
1965 51.36
1966 51.37
1967 51.40
1968 51.48
1969 51.63
1970 51.88
1971 52.13
1972 52.48
1973 52.90
1974 53.33
1975 53.74
1976 54.15
1977 54.51
1978 54.84
1979 55.20
1980 55.59
1981 55.88
1982 56.25
1983 56.64
1984 57.00
1985 57.29
1986 57.55
1987 57.73
1988 57.89
1989 58.07
1990 58.33
1991 58.53
1992 58.83
1993 59.18
1994 59.53
1995 59.86
1996 60.21
1997 60.53
1998 60.84
1999 61.17
2000 61.54
2001 61.88
2002 62.25
2003 62.63
2004 63.00
2005 63.35
2006 63.62
2007 63.88
2008 64.12
2009 64.34
2010 64.52
2011 64.69
2012 64.81
2013 64.92
2014 65.05
2015 65.25
2016 65.14
2017 65.09
2018 65.07
2019 64.98
2020 64.76

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