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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Korea was 12.54 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.78 in 1962, while its lowest value was 12.54 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 43.24
1961 43.67
1962 43.78
1963 43.68
1964 43.52
1965 43.40
1966 43.12
1967 42.92
1968 42.72
1969 42.39
1970 41.87
1971 41.28
1972 40.57
1973 39.80
1974 38.98
1975 38.14
1976 37.35
1977 36.45
1978 35.52
1979 34.64
1980 33.87
1981 32.98
1982 32.26
1983 31.62
1984 30.91
1985 30.05
1986 29.30
1987 28.31
1988 27.20
1989 26.20
1990 25.44
1991 24.58
1992 24.10
1993 23.83
1994 23.51
1995 23.03
1996 22.80
1997 22.28
1998 21.61
1999 21.03
2000 20.61
2001 20.11
2002 19.78
2003 19.53
2004 19.24
2005 18.83
2006 18.33
2007 17.80
2008 17.23
2009 16.66
2010 16.10
2011 15.62
2012 15.12
2013 14.63
2014 14.18
2015 13.78
2016 13.50
2017 13.23
2018 12.97
2019 12.75
2020 12.54

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