Equatorial Guinea - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Equatorial Guinea was 36.78 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.06 in 1993, while its lowest value was 36.78 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 37.55
1961 37.85
1962 38.20
1963 38.54
1964 38.77
1965 38.87
1966 39.10
1967 39.22
1968 39.23
1969 39.10
1970 38.74
1971 38.91
1972 38.86
1973 38.64
1974 38.43
1975 38.37
1976 38.18
1977 38.15
1978 38.27
1979 38.52
1980 38.99
1981 39.45
1982 39.83
1983 40.19
1984 40.54
1985 40.78
1986 41.49
1987 42.00
1988 42.36
1989 42.67
1990 42.95
1991 42.95
1992 43.01
1993 43.06
1994 42.98
1995 42.76
1996 42.40
1997 41.92
1998 41.42
1999 40.99
2000 40.65
2001 40.37
2002 40.08
2003 39.85
2004 39.69
2005 39.58
2006 39.33
2007 39.07
2008 38.86
2009 38.68
2010 38.50
2011 38.36
2012 38.14
2013 37.92
2014 37.73
2015 37.53
2016 37.45
2017 37.29
2018 37.12
2019 36.96
2020 36.78

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