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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Guam was 23.86 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 40.03 in 1960, while its lowest value was 23.86 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 40.03
1961 39.99
1962 39.73
1963 39.51
1964 39.39
1965 39.32
1966 39.21
1967 39.00
1968 38.91
1969 38.95
1970 38.99
1971 38.35
1972 37.71
1973 37.23
1974 36.91
1975 36.68
1976 36.19
1977 35.67
1978 35.17
1979 34.74
1980 34.38
1981 33.79
1982 33.29
1983 32.86
1984 32.47
1985 32.12
1986 31.63
1987 31.15
1988 30.68
1989 30.24
1990 29.87
1991 30.04
1992 30.27
1993 30.53
1994 30.77
1995 30.92
1996 31.04
1997 31.05
1998 30.93
1999 30.73
2000 30.49
2001 30.36
2002 30.20
2003 30.02
2004 29.79
2005 29.51
2006 29.18
2007 28.79
2008 28.36
2009 27.92
2010 27.50
2011 27.05
2012 26.65
2013 26.27
2014 25.90
2015 25.53
2016 25.20
2017 24.83
2018 24.46
2019 24.13
2020 23.86

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