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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Ecuador was 27.39 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.84 in 1966, while its lowest value was 27.39 in 2020.

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 43.40
1961 43.66
1962 44.02
1963 44.38
1964 44.63
1965 44.72
1966 44.84
1967 44.81
1968 44.68
1969 44.50
1970 44.32
1971 44.24
1972 44.11
1973 43.94
1974 43.73
1975 43.48
1976 43.27
1977 43.01
1978 42.71
1979 42.37
1980 42.01
1981 41.67
1982 41.31
1983 40.94
1984 40.54
1985 40.14
1986 39.79
1987 39.41
1988 39.03
1989 38.64
1990 38.26
1991 37.93
1992 37.58
1993 37.23
1994 36.89
1995 36.54
1996 36.23
1997 35.94
1998 35.64
1999 35.32
2000 34.97
2001 34.67
2002 34.31
2003 33.92
2004 33.52
2005 33.13
2006 32.69
2007 32.28
2008 31.88
2009 31.47
2010 31.04
2011 30.63
2012 30.22
2013 29.81
2014 29.42
2015 29.06
2016 28.71
2017 28.36
2018 28.03
2019 27.71
2020 27.39

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