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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Mauritius was 16.78 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.84 in 1963, while its lowest value was 16.78 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 46.61
1961 46.66
1962 46.76
1963 46.84
1964 46.78
1965 46.52
1966 46.29
1967 45.79
1968 45.13
1969 44.44
1970 43.77
1971 42.78
1972 41.98
1973 41.28
1974 40.53
1975 39.66
1976 38.50
1977 37.41
1978 36.55
1979 35.98
1980 35.62
1981 34.94
1982 34.24
1983 33.51
1984 32.75
1985 32.00
1986 31.35
1987 30.67
1988 30.01
1989 29.43
1990 28.99
1991 28.48
1992 28.18
1993 28.00
1994 27.80
1995 27.48
1996 27.36
1997 26.98
1998 26.49
1999 26.05
2000 25.76
2001 25.38
2002 25.24
2003 25.20
2004 25.06
2005 24.73
2006 24.37
2007 23.81
2008 23.13
2009 22.49
2010 21.94
2011 21.31
2012 20.78
2013 20.34
2014 19.89
2015 19.40
2016 18.90
2017 18.36
2018 17.79
2019 17.26
2020 16.78

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