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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Yemen was 38.83 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 51.57 in 1990, while its lowest value was 38.83 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 42.01
1961 42.27
1962 42.34
1963 42.30
1964 42.28
1965 42.35
1966 42.82
1967 43.34
1968 43.90
1969 44.43
1970 44.92
1971 45.70
1972 46.39
1973 47.01
1974 47.61
1975 48.19
1976 48.59
1977 48.91
1978 49.17
1979 49.39
1980 49.58
1981 49.84
1982 50.07
1983 50.28
1984 50.47
1985 50.62
1986 50.90
1987 51.11
1988 51.27
1989 51.42
1990 51.57
1991 51.40
1992 51.24
1993 51.04
1994 50.74
1995 50.33
1996 50.32
1997 50.12
1998 49.78
1999 49.37
2000 48.93
2001 48.36
2002 47.84
2003 47.33
2004 46.74
2005 46.06
2006 45.43
2007 44.71
2008 43.96
2009 43.27
2010 42.67
2011 42.19
2012 41.78
2013 41.42
2014 41.07
2015 40.69
2016 40.36
2017 40.00
2018 39.61
2019 39.22
2020 38.83

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