Virgin Islands - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Virgin Islands was 19.26 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 41.76 in 1976, while its lowest value was 19.26 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 39.14
1961 39.13
1962 39.41
1963 39.93
1964 40.35
1965 40.36
1966 39.68
1967 38.69
1968 37.52
1969 36.45
1970 35.79
1971 36.72
1972 38.04
1973 39.58
1974 40.88
1975 41.49
1976 41.76
1977 41.11
1978 39.61
1979 37.68
1980 35.76
1981 34.71
1982 34.08
1983 33.91
1984 33.87
1985 33.59
1986 33.48
1987 32.73
1988 31.43
1989 29.98
1990 28.78
1991 27.91
1992 27.54
1993 27.62
1994 27.74
1995 27.58
1996 27.93
1997 27.75
1998 27.14
1999 26.45
2000 25.88
2001 24.83
2002 24.01
2003 23.41
2004 22.92
2005 22.41
2006 22.04
2007 21.66
2008 21.28
2009 20.97
2010 20.74
2011 20.65
2012 20.54
2013 20.45
2014 20.36
2015 20.29
2016 20.10
2017 19.92
2018 19.71
2019 19.49
2020 19.26

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