Virgin Islands - Population ages 15-64 (% of total population)

Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in Virgin Islands was 60.25 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 67.04 in 2005, while its lowest value was 53.60 in 1960.

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 53.60
1961 54.16
1962 54.43
1963 54.42
1964 54.44
1965 54.78
1966 55.69
1967 56.85
1968 58.16
1969 59.35
1970 60.11
1971 59.23
1972 57.96
1973 56.47
1974 55.19
1975 54.53
1976 54.20
1977 54.71
1978 56.00
1979 57.69
1980 59.37
1981 60.30
1982 60.84
1983 60.94
1984 60.90
1985 61.08
1986 61.09
1987 61.69
1988 62.80
1989 64.03
1990 64.99
1991 65.62
1992 65.73
1993 65.42
1994 65.08
1995 65.02
1996 64.54
1997 64.55
1998 64.89
1999 65.25
2000 65.46
2001 66.17
2002 66.66
2003 66.90
2004 67.00
2005 67.04
2006 66.91
2007 66.73
2008 66.52
2009 66.20
2010 65.78
2011 65.10
2012 64.39
2013 63.65
2014 62.92
2015 62.22
2016 61.76
2017 61.36
2018 61.00
2019 60.63
2020 60.25

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