New Caledonia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in New Caledonia was 22.11 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 38.40 in 1973, while its lowest value was 22.11 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 37.36
1961 37.43
1962 37.56
1963 37.71
1964 37.83
1965 37.90
1966 37.95
1967 37.93
1968 37.85
1969 37.80
1970 37.82
1971 38.03
1972 38.25
1973 38.40
1974 38.37
1975 38.11
1976 38.39
1977 38.31
1978 38.02
1979 37.72
1980 37.48
1981 37.07
1982 36.85
1983 36.65
1984 36.29
1985 35.70
1986 35.14
1987 34.40
1988 33.55
1989 32.75
1990 32.10
1991 31.60
1992 31.21
1993 30.93
1994 30.76
1995 30.66
1996 30.40
1997 30.30
1998 30.31
1999 30.33
2000 30.26
2001 29.98
2002 29.54
2003 29.01
2004 28.45
2005 27.93
2006 27.19
2007 26.69
2008 26.37
2009 26.12
2010 25.83
2011 25.64
2012 25.22
2013 24.70
2014 24.19
2015 23.76
2016 23.38
2017 23.05
2018 22.74
2019 22.43
2020 22.11

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