Puerto Rico - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Puerto Rico was 15.75 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 42.50 in 1960, while its lowest value was 15.75 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 42.50
1961 41.44
1962 40.51
1963 39.75
1964 39.12
1965 38.51
1966 38.39
1967 38.02
1968 37.50
1969 36.96
1970 36.48
1971 35.80
1972 35.14
1973 34.56
1974 34.06
1975 33.61
1976 33.22
1977 32.89
1978 32.51
1979 32.07
1980 31.57
1981 31.27
1982 30.94
1983 30.55
1984 30.08
1985 29.55
1986 29.07
1987 28.58
1988 28.07
1989 27.57
1990 27.11
1991 26.69
1992 26.32
1993 25.97
1994 25.62
1995 25.24
1996 24.99
1997 24.68
1998 24.31
1999 23.92
2000 23.55
2001 23.28
2002 23.03
2003 22.80
2004 22.55
2005 22.27
2006 21.99
2007 21.71
2008 21.40
2009 21.04
2010 20.63
2011 20.27
2012 19.89
2013 19.49
2014 19.07
2015 18.59
2016 18.01
2017 17.43
2018 16.84
2019 16.26
2020 15.75

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