The Bahamas - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in The Bahamas was 21.60 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.28 in 1965, while its lowest value was 21.60 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 42.39
1961 42.43
1962 42.57
1963 42.80
1964 43.06
1965 43.28
1966 43.06
1967 42.76
1968 42.46
1969 42.26
1970 42.17
1971 41.44
1972 41.09
1973 40.95
1974 40.75
1975 40.38
1976 39.96
1977 39.21
1978 38.30
1979 37.51
1980 36.97
1981 36.18
1982 35.81
1983 35.66
1984 35.43
1985 34.99
1986 34.74
1987 34.16
1988 33.43
1989 32.81
1990 32.44
1991 31.96
1992 31.82
1993 31.83
1994 31.73
1995 31.38
1996 31.22
1997 30.79
1998 30.20
1999 29.67
2000 29.31
2001 28.91
2002 28.64
2003 28.45
2004 28.28
2005 28.11
2006 27.84
2007 27.66
2008 27.48
2009 27.23
2010 26.88
2011 26.42
2012 25.84
2013 25.19
2014 24.56
2015 23.99
2016 23.35
2017 22.87
2018 22.48
2019 22.08
2020 21.60

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