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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Qatar was 13.64 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 41.36 in 1960, while its lowest value was 12.89 in 2010.

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 41.36
1961 41.01
1962 40.57
1963 40.08
1964 39.52
1965 38.95
1966 38.32
1967 37.65
1968 37.04
1969 36.52
1970 36.07
1971 35.73
1972 35.16
1973 34.45
1974 33.72
1975 33.10
1976 33.12
1977 33.16
1978 33.24
1979 33.40
1980 33.64
1981 32.14
1982 31.04
1983 30.22
1984 29.54
1985 28.87
1986 29.16
1987 29.10
1988 28.86
1989 28.58
1990 28.29
1991 27.92
1992 27.70
1993 27.59
1994 27.46
1995 27.28
1996 27.02
1997 26.64
1998 26.25
1999 25.93
2000 25.72
2001 24.51
2002 23.51
2003 22.74
2004 22.16
2005 21.70
2006 18.34
2007 15.97
2008 14.44
2009 13.50
2010 12.89
2011 13.08
2012 13.10
2013 13.16
2014 13.31
2015 13.43
2016 13.50
2017 13.51
2018 13.54
2019 13.60
2020 13.64

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