United Arab Emirates - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in United Arab Emirates was 14.81 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.56 in 1960, while its lowest value was 13.16 in 2010.

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 44.56
1961 43.40
1962 42.08
1963 40.76
1964 39.50
1965 38.33
1966 37.21
1967 36.27
1968 35.55
1969 35.06
1970 34.80
1971 32.44
1972 30.51
1973 29.15
1974 28.38
1975 28.15
1976 27.44
1977 27.10
1978 27.21
1979 27.62
1980 28.11
1981 28.84
1982 29.60
1983 30.42
1984 31.25
1985 32.01
1986 32.17
1987 32.11
1988 31.89
1989 31.53
1990 31.06
1991 30.31
1992 29.55
1993 28.80
1994 28.05
1995 27.33
1996 26.96
1997 26.55
1998 26.28
1999 26.16
2000 26.04
2001 23.89
2002 22.01
2003 20.46
2004 19.24
2005 18.34
2006 16.54
2007 15.19
2008 14.28
2009 13.66
2010 13.16
2011 13.42
2012 13.58
2013 13.73
2014 13.93
2015 14.16
2016 14.39
2017 14.50
2018 14.60
2019 14.71
2020 14.81

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