Bosnia and Herzegovina - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 67.56 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 70.42 in 2014, while its lowest value was 58.48 in 1961.

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 58.57
1961 58.48
1962 58.48
1963 58.59
1964 58.81
1965 59.11
1966 59.16
1967 59.41
1968 59.80
1969 60.20
1970 60.55
1971 60.95
1972 61.22
1973 61.46
1974 61.81
1975 62.30
1976 62.79
1977 63.42
1978 64.13
1979 64.83
1980 65.47
1981 66.16
1982 66.76
1983 67.30
1984 67.81
1985 68.30
1986 68.61
1987 68.87
1988 69.07
1989 69.19
1990 69.26
1991 69.29
1992 69.25
1993 69.16
1994 69.00
1995 68.77
1996 68.69
1997 68.59
1998 68.46
1999 68.36
2000 68.31
2001 68.22
2002 68.24
2003 68.36
2004 68.54
2005 68.78
2006 69.15
2007 69.47
2008 69.76
2009 70.04
2010 70.30
2011 70.25
2012 70.30
2013 70.40
2014 70.42
2015 70.28
2016 70.00
2017 69.45
2018 68.76
2019 68.11
2020 67.56

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