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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Thailand was 16.55 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.08 in 1969, while its lowest value was 16.55 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 42.73
1961 43.03
1962 43.25
1963 43.41
1964 43.54
1965 43.66
1966 43.84
1967 43.98
1968 44.07
1969 44.08
1970 43.99
1971 43.91
1972 43.67
1973 43.32
1974 42.90
1975 42.44
1976 41.92
1977 41.39
1978 40.82
1979 40.18
1980 39.43
1981 38.59
1982 37.68
1983 36.73
1984 35.77
1985 34.82
1986 33.84
1987 32.89
1988 31.96
1989 31.07
1990 30.21
1991 29.54
1992 28.90
1993 28.28
1994 27.68
1995 27.09
1996 26.43
1997 25.78
1998 25.16
1999 24.55
2000 23.98
2001 23.38
2002 22.82
2003 22.29
2004 21.78
2005 21.29
2006 20.82
2007 20.39
2008 19.97
2009 19.57
2010 19.18
2011 18.99
2012 18.75
2013 18.49
2014 18.23
2015 17.97
2016 17.65
2017 17.35
2018 17.09
2019 16.82
2020 16.55

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