Central Europe and the Baltics - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Central Europe and the Baltics was 65.31 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.97 in 2008, while its lowest value was 63.57 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 63.60
1961 63.57
1962 63.66
1963 63.87
1964 64.12
1965 64.37
1966 64.69
1967 64.95
1968 65.16
1969 65.40
1970 65.66
1971 65.70
1972 65.84
1973 65.99
1974 66.05
1975 65.97
1976 65.77
1977 65.45
1978 65.08
1979 64.82
1980 64.76
1981 64.76
1982 64.96
1983 65.28
1984 65.55
1985 65.71
1986 65.79
1987 65.74
1988 65.65
1989 65.63
1990 65.75
1991 65.77
1992 65.94
1993 66.22
1994 66.53
1995 66.82
1996 67.10
1997 67.35
1998 67.60
1999 67.89
2000 68.23
2001 68.50
2002 68.80
2003 69.11
2004 69.41
2005 69.68
2006 69.82
2007 69.92
2008 69.97
2009 69.96
2010 69.86
2011 69.58
2012 69.29
2013 68.97
2014 68.57
2015 68.10
2016 67.63
2017 67.04
2018 66.40
2019 65.81
2020 65.31

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