Sri Lanka - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Sri Lanka was 23.68 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 42.18 in 1961, while its lowest value was 23.68 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 42.03
1961 42.18
1962 42.10
1963 41.87
1964 41.64
1965 41.47
1966 41.22
1967 41.06
1968 40.91
1969 40.67
1970 40.28
1971 39.93
1972 39.42
1973 38.81
1974 38.22
1975 37.72
1976 37.24
1977 36.88
1978 36.59
1979 36.27
1980 35.89
1981 35.65
1982 35.31
1983 34.93
1984 34.56
1985 34.21
1986 33.83
1987 33.43
1988 33.01
1989 32.57
1990 32.10
1991 31.57
1992 31.08
1993 30.60
1994 30.08
1995 29.50
1996 29.00
1997 28.42
1998 27.81
1999 27.23
2000 26.75
2001 26.36
2002 26.08
2003 25.89
2004 25.74
2005 25.58
2006 25.58
2007 25.54
2008 25.48
2009 25.42
2010 25.38
2011 25.25
2012 25.15
2013 25.05
2014 24.93
2015 24.77
2016 24.59
2017 24.41
2018 24.20
2019 23.96
2020 23.68

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