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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Kiribati was 35.92 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.22 in 1964, while its lowest value was 34.91 in 2016.

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 45.20
1961 45.70
1962 46.02
1963 46.18
1964 46.22
1965 46.18
1966 46.16
1967 46.01
1968 45.73
1969 45.34
1970 44.81
1971 44.19
1972 43.51
1973 42.78
1974 42.05
1975 41.35
1976 40.75
1977 40.31
1978 40.00
1979 39.73
1980 39.45
1981 39.60
1982 39.52
1983 39.31
1984 39.16
1985 39.23
1986 39.13
1987 39.34
1988 39.74
1989 40.10
1990 40.30
1991 40.70
1992 40.94
1993 41.04
1994 41.09
1995 41.13
1996 41.02
1997 40.92
1998 40.75
1999 40.44
2000 39.98
2001 39.60
2002 38.89
2003 38.02
2004 37.31
2005 36.92
2006 36.20
2007 36.11
2008 36.31
2009 36.36
2010 36.10
2011 36.20
2012 35.89
2013 35.40
2014 35.05
2015 35.01
2016 34.91
2017 35.15
2018 35.54
2019 35.84
2020 35.92

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