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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Vietnam was 68.94 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 70.46 in 2013, while its lowest value was 50.65 in 1968.

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 55.14
1961 54.20
1962 53.29
1963 52.47
1964 51.80
1965 51.32
1966 50.94
1967 50.72
1968 50.65
1969 50.69
1970 50.84
1971 51.03
1972 51.30
1973 51.65
1974 52.04
1975 52.47
1976 52.67
1977 52.93
1978 53.23
1979 53.53
1980 53.82
1981 54.19
1982 54.53
1983 54.84
1984 55.16
1985 55.49
1986 55.76
1987 56.06
1988 56.38
1989 56.70
1990 57.00
1991 57.26
1992 57.52
1993 57.80
1994 58.15
1995 58.60
1996 59.07
1997 59.70
1998 60.45
1999 61.23
2000 62.01
2001 62.99
2002 63.84
2003 64.62
2004 65.45
2005 66.35
2006 67.08
2007 67.88
2008 68.69
2009 69.37
2010 69.88
2011 70.20
2012 70.39
2013 70.46
2014 70.43
2015 70.31
2016 70.14
2017 69.87
2018 69.55
2019 69.23
2020 68.94

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