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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Samoa was 37.20 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 51.64 in 1966, while its lowest value was 37.20 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 49.59
1961 49.72
1962 50.13
1963 50.67
1964 51.15
1965 51.45
1966 51.64
1967 51.64
1968 51.46
1969 51.20
1970 50.94
1971 50.75
1972 50.65
1973 50.54
1974 50.31
1975 49.94
1976 49.28
1977 48.55
1978 47.77
1979 46.98
1980 46.23
1981 45.52
1982 44.85
1983 44.17
1984 43.50
1985 42.85
1986 42.30
1987 41.80
1988 41.30
1989 40.80
1990 40.37
1991 40.23
1992 40.26
1993 40.39
1994 40.55
1995 40.71
1996 40.56
1997 40.46
1998 40.46
1999 40.56
2000 40.76
2001 40.38
2002 40.15
2003 39.98
2004 39.82
2005 39.61
2006 39.31
2007 39.00
2008 38.69
2009 38.44
2010 38.31
2011 38.15
2012 38.10
2013 38.20
2014 38.47
2015 38.82
2016 38.65
2017 38.54
2018 38.32
2019 37.86
2020 37.20

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