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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Bulgaria was 14.68 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 26.09 in 1960, while its lowest value was 13.41 in 2008.

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 26.09
1961 25.84
1962 25.48
1963 25.05
1964 24.63
1965 24.24
1966 23.92
1967 23.62
1968 23.35
1969 23.10
1970 22.86
1971 22.70
1972 22.55
1973 22.43
1974 22.34
1975 22.27
1976 22.26
1977 22.26
1978 22.25
1979 22.21
1980 22.15
1981 22.12
1982 22.04
1983 21.92
1984 21.79
1985 21.65
1986 21.39
1987 21.19
1988 21.00
1989 20.73
1990 20.35
1991 20.02
1992 19.56
1993 19.00
1994 18.43
1995 17.91
1996 17.38
1997 16.92
1998 16.50
1999 16.09
2000 15.66
2001 15.17
2002 14.72
2003 14.30
2004 13.93
2005 13.62
2006 13.51
2007 13.44
2008 13.41
2009 13.43
2010 13.50
2011 13.66
2012 13.80
2013 13.94
2014 14.09
2015 14.27
2016 14.32
2017 14.44
2018 14.60
2019 14.69
2020 14.68

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