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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Guyana was 27.73 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 47.73 in 1964, while its lowest value was 27.73 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 46.55
1961 47.01
1962 47.36
1963 47.61
1964 47.73
1965 47.73
1966 47.67
1967 47.58
1968 47.45
1969 47.27
1970 47.08
1971 46.43
1972 45.82
1973 45.27
1974 44.82
1975 44.46
1976 44.05
1977 43.72
1978 43.36
1979 42.92
1980 42.39
1981 41.71
1982 41.09
1983 40.53
1984 39.97
1985 39.35
1986 38.72
1987 37.98
1988 37.21
1989 36.57
1990 36.15
1991 35.90
1992 35.84
1993 35.94
1994 36.05
1995 36.08
1996 35.85
1997 35.58
1998 35.40
1999 35.42
2000 35.66
2001 35.76
2002 35.99
2003 36.24
2004 36.37
2005 36.29
2006 35.57
2007 34.75
2008 33.86
2009 32.99
2010 32.22
2011 31.53
2012 30.90
2013 30.33
2014 29.81
2015 29.33
2016 28.96
2017 28.58
2018 28.21
2019 27.93
2020 27.73

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