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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Curaçao was 64.16 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 66.48 in 2008, while its lowest value was 53.82 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 53.91
1961 53.82
1962 53.93
1963 54.13
1964 54.31
1965 54.45
1966 54.67
1967 54.71
1968 54.68
1969 54.77
1970 55.07
1971 55.33
1972 55.86
1973 56.58
1974 57.31
1975 57.97
1976 59.11
1977 60.16
1978 61.15
1979 62.09
1980 62.94
1981 63.72
1982 64.32
1983 64.84
1984 65.32
1985 65.75
1986 65.85
1987 65.80
1988 65.67
1989 65.48
1990 65.24
1991 65.12
1992 64.97
1993 64.83
1994 64.71
1995 64.61
1996 64.64
1997 64.66
1998 64.73
1999 64.79
2000 64.81
2001 65.41
2002 65.78
2003 66.02
2004 66.23
2005 66.41
2006 66.37
2007 66.42
2008 66.48
2009 66.43
2010 66.25
2011 66.22
2012 65.97
2013 65.60
2014 65.23
2015 64.91
2016 64.65
2017 64.51
2018 64.43
2019 64.34
2020 64.16

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