European Union - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in European Union was 64.14 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 67.42 in 2001, while its lowest value was 63.67 in 1971.

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 64.41
1961 64.24
1962 64.15
1963 64.12
1964 64.10
1965 64.06
1966 63.97
1967 63.88
1968 63.80
1969 63.74
1970 63.71
1971 63.67
1972 63.68
1973 63.74
1974 63.81
1975 63.90
1976 63.95
1977 64.00
1978 64.08
1979 64.27
1980 64.59
1981 64.93
1982 65.40
1983 65.92
1984 66.38
1985 66.72
1986 66.90
1987 66.98
1988 67.00
1989 67.02
1990 67.07
1991 67.06
1992 67.08
1993 67.13
1994 67.19
1995 67.25
1996 67.28
1997 67.31
1998 67.35
1999 67.38
2000 67.41
2001 67.42
2002 67.42
2003 67.41
2004 67.41
2005 67.41
2006 67.33
2007 67.26
2008 67.19
2009 67.09
2010 66.94
2011 66.69
2012 66.43
2013 66.15
2014 65.85
2015 65.54
2016 65.28
2017 64.99
2018 64.69
2019 64.41
2020 64.14

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