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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Honduras was 30.59 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 47.77 in 1968, while its lowest value was 30.59 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 46.30
1961 46.66
1962 46.98
1963 47.24
1964 47.41
1965 47.49
1966 47.67
1967 47.76
1968 47.77
1969 47.75
1970 47.69
1971 47.76
1972 47.74
1973 47.68
1974 47.61
1975 47.56
1976 47.55
1977 47.56
1978 47.56
1979 47.52
1980 47.43
1981 47.41
1982 47.30
1983 47.15
1984 46.98
1985 46.81
1986 46.66
1987 46.49
1988 46.32
1989 46.11
1990 45.87
1991 45.61
1992 45.33
1993 45.03
1994 44.72
1995 44.42
1996 44.11
1997 43.81
1998 43.52
1999 43.19
2000 42.82
2001 42.49
2002 42.07
2003 41.59
2004 41.10
2005 40.60
2006 40.02
2007 39.47
2008 38.91
2009 38.28
2010 37.58
2011 36.87
2012 36.09
2013 35.28
2014 34.48
2015 33.72
2016 33.00
2017 32.35
2018 31.74
2019 31.16
2020 30.59

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