Upper middle income - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Upper middle income was 68.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 70.63 in 2011, while its lowest value was 55.86 in 1966.

Definition: Total population between the ages 15 to 64 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

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 56.95
1961 56.78
1962 56.47
1963 56.14
1964 55.98
1965 56.01
1966 55.86
1967 55.94
1968 56.16
1969 56.37
1970 56.52
1971 56.54
1972 56.58
1973 56.65
1974 56.79
1975 57.03
1976 57.34
1977 57.73
1978 58.20
1979 58.74
1980 59.33
1981 60.00
1982 60.65
1983 61.28
1984 61.89
1985 62.44
1986 62.80
1987 63.11
1988 63.37
1989 63.61
1990 63.86
1991 63.91
1992 64.13
1993 64.44
1994 64.72
1995 64.93
1996 65.40
1997 65.66
1998 65.84
1999 66.14
2000 66.62
2001 67.01
2002 67.59
2003 68.29
2004 68.94
2005 69.46
2006 69.86
2007 70.16
2008 70.35
2009 70.49
2010 70.60
2011 70.63
2012 70.62
2013 70.58
2014 70.47
2015 70.29
2016 70.03
2017 69.72
2018 69.40
2019 69.09
2020 68.82

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