Central African Republic - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Central African Republic was 53.66 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 56.98 in 1960, while its lowest value was 51.96 in 2015.

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 56.98
1961 56.58
1962 56.24
1963 55.95
1964 55.74
1965 55.62
1966 55.28
1967 55.05
1968 54.92
1969 54.87
1970 54.88
1971 54.45
1972 54.12
1973 53.87
1974 53.68
1975 53.53
1976 53.40
1977 53.34
1978 53.34
1979 53.36
1980 53.39
1981 53.40
1982 53.42
1983 53.45
1984 53.51
1985 53.61
1986 53.21
1987 52.89
1988 52.65
1989 52.44
1990 52.27
1991 52.26
1992 52.32
1993 52.43
1994 52.58
1995 52.78
1996 52.77
1997 52.80
1998 52.88
1999 53.01
2000 53.19
2001 53.08
2002 53.04
2003 53.07
2004 53.13
2005 53.21
2006 53.04
2007 52.91
2008 52.83
2009 52.82
2010 52.92
2011 52.57
2012 52.30
2013 52.12
2014 52.01
2015 51.96
2016 52.21
2017 52.52
2018 52.88
2019 53.27
2020 53.66

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