El Salvador - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in El Salvador was 26.59 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.03 in 1966, while its lowest value was 26.59 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 44.96
1961 45.22
1962 45.48
1963 45.72
1964 45.87
1965 45.89
1966 46.03
1967 46.02
1968 45.92
1969 45.77
1970 45.62
1971 45.46
1972 45.32
1973 45.17
1974 45.00
1975 44.79
1976 44.62
1977 44.44
1978 44.26
1979 44.07
1980 43.85
1981 43.61
1982 43.33
1983 43.05
1984 42.76
1985 42.46
1986 41.92
1987 41.42
1988 40.93
1989 40.45
1990 40.00
1991 39.46
1992 38.97
1993 38.54
1994 38.16
1995 37.83
1996 37.59
1997 37.34
1998 37.11
1999 36.88
2000 36.64
2001 36.33
2002 36.00
2003 35.62
2004 35.21
2005 34.77
2006 34.12
2007 33.51
2008 32.92
2009 32.30
2010 31.64
2011 30.98
2012 30.26
2013 29.54
2014 28.90
2015 28.37
2016 27.85
2017 27.45
2018 27.13
2019 26.86
2020 26.59

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