St. Lucia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in St. Lucia was 17.95 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 50.14 in 1970, while its lowest value was 17.95 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 44.75
1961 45.32
1962 45.83
1963 46.28
1964 46.76
1965 47.31
1966 47.63
1967 48.07
1968 48.69
1969 49.42
1970 50.14
1971 49.47
1972 48.81
1973 48.13
1974 47.43
1975 46.72
1976 46.15
1977 45.59
1978 45.04
1979 44.47
1980 43.89
1981 42.98
1982 42.19
1983 41.54
1984 41.05
1985 40.73
1986 39.48
1987 38.48
1988 37.70
1989 37.08
1990 36.58
1991 36.11
1992 35.78
1993 35.52
1994 35.28
1995 35.02
1996 34.66
1997 34.21
1998 33.65
1999 33.01
2000 32.29
2001 31.52
2002 30.64
2003 29.70
2004 28.72
2005 27.76
2006 26.73
2007 25.80
2008 24.92
2009 24.05
2010 23.22
2011 22.42
2012 21.68
2013 20.99
2014 20.35
2015 19.76
2016 19.33
2017 18.91
2018 18.53
2019 18.21
2020 17.95

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