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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Canada was 66.12 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.48 in 2008, while its lowest value was 58.43 in 1962.

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 58.45
1962 58.43
1963 58.52
1964 58.70
1965 58.96
1966 59.37
1967 59.91
1968 60.54
1969 61.19
1970 61.85
1971 62.61
1972 63.30
1973 63.95
1974 64.62
1975 65.32
1976 65.81
1977 66.37
1978 66.94
1979 67.43
1980 67.82
1981 68.10
1982 68.29
1983 68.41
1984 68.46
1985 68.46
1986 68.42
1987 68.35
1988 68.27
1989 68.16
1990 68.06
1991 67.93
1992 67.81
1993 67.71
1994 67.66
1995 67.67
1996 67.67
1997 67.76
1998 67.91
1999 68.09
2000 68.27
2001 68.49
2002 68.69
2003 68.87
2004 69.04
2005 69.21
2006 69.33
2007 69.43
2008 69.48
2009 69.46
2010 69.36
2011 69.13
2012 68.90
2013 68.63
2014 68.32
2015 67.95
2016 67.65
2017 67.29
2018 66.90
2019 66.51
2020 66.12

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