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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Brazil was 20.71 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.52 in 1963, while its lowest value was 20.71 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 43.17
1961 43.33
1962 43.45
1963 43.52
1964 43.50
1965 43.38
1966 43.35
1967 43.16
1968 42.88
1969 42.56
1970 42.21
1971 41.86
1972 41.50
1973 41.12
1974 40.70
1975 40.25
1976 39.83
1977 39.41
1978 39.00
1979 38.59
1980 38.19
1981 37.93
1982 37.65
1983 37.36
1984 37.07
1985 36.77
1986 36.53
1987 36.23
1988 35.90
1989 35.54
1990 35.16
1991 34.69
1992 34.25
1993 33.79
1994 33.30
1995 32.75
1996 32.23
1997 31.67
1998 31.09
1999 30.51
2000 29.94
2001 29.44
2002 28.92
2003 28.39
2004 27.87
2005 27.36
2006 26.83
2007 26.32
2008 25.83
2009 25.33
2010 24.82
2011 24.31
2012 23.82
2013 23.34
2014 22.87
2015 22.42
2016 22.05
2017 21.68
2018 21.33
2019 21.01
2020 20.71

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