Japan - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Japan was 59.15 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 69.78 in 1992, while its lowest value was 59.15 in 2020.

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 64.12
1961 64.86
1962 65.68
1963 66.53
1964 67.31
1965 67.97
1966 68.36
1967 68.69
1968 68.93
1969 69.03
1970 69.01
1971 68.92
1972 68.69
1973 68.37
1974 68.09
1975 67.89
1976 67.59
1977 67.47
1978 67.48
1979 67.50
1980 67.50
1981 67.69
1982 67.78
1983 67.84
1984 67.98
1985 68.25
1986 68.44
1987 68.76
1988 69.15
1989 69.47
1990 69.66
1991 69.77
1992 69.78
1993 69.71
1994 69.59
1995 69.46
1996 69.27
1997 69.04
1998 68.79
1999 68.52
2000 68.23
2001 67.91
2002 67.60
2003 67.28
2004 66.92
2005 66.52
2006 66.14
2007 65.72
2008 65.25
2009 64.73
2010 64.15
2011 63.54
2012 62.88
2013 62.21
2014 61.57
2015 60.99
2016 60.49
2017 60.08
2018 59.73
2019 59.42
2020 59.15

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