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

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Philippines was 64.45 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 64.45 in 2020, while its lowest value was 49.37 in 1964.

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 49.88
1961 49.80
1962 49.61
1963 49.42
1964 49.37
1965 49.53
1966 49.62
1967 49.89
1968 50.27
1969 50.67
1970 51.02
1971 51.31
1972 51.58
1973 51.84
1974 52.11
1975 52.40
1976 52.64
1977 52.87
1978 53.12
1979 53.38
1980 53.66
1981 53.89
1982 54.16
1983 54.44
1984 54.71
1985 54.97
1986 55.16
1987 55.32
1988 55.49
1989 55.68
1990 55.92
1991 56.10
1992 56.34
1993 56.61
1994 56.89
1995 57.15
1996 57.38
1997 57.58
1998 57.79
1999 58.01
2000 58.26
2001 58.46
2002 58.68
2003 58.91
2004 59.16
2005 59.45
2006 59.83
2007 60.27
2008 60.78
2009 61.34
2010 61.87
2011 62.15
2012 62.40
2013 62.63
2014 62.86
2015 63.12
2016 63.32
2017 63.59
2018 63.91
2019 64.21
2020 64.45

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