Lower middle income | Population ages 65 and above (% of total population)
Population ages 65 and above 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. 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).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source
Lower middle income | Population ages 65 and above (% of total population)
3.58934663 1960
3.6095393 1961
3.63997058 1962
3.67456374 1963
3.70856138 1964
3.74096363 1965
3.76578597 1966
3.7814748 1967
3.79673585 1968
3.81224841 1969
3.82575064 1970
3.83780427 1971
3.85655012 1972
3.88239806 1973
3.91186354 1974
3.94385099 1975
3.97915595 1976
4.01404467 1977
4.04198569 1978
4.06191345 1979
4.06776909 1980
4.05844828 1981
4.04394187 1982
4.03277739 1983
4.02636985 1984
4.02159697 1985
4.02100288 1986
4.02693067 1987
4.03786667 1988
4.05277484 1989
4.06974639 1990
4.09139298 1991
4.11765698 1992
4.14755311 1993
4.17806191 1994
4.20910255 1995
4.24397949 1996
4.2812164 1997
4.31687327 1998
4.35204216 1999
4.38916496 2000
4.4286317 2001
4.47502425 2002
4.52286771 2003
4.56411346 2004
4.59924525 2005
4.63109211 2006
4.65952507 2007
4.68466038 2008
4.71181816 2009
4.74327108 2010
4.78398051 2011
4.83782024 2012
4.90196244 2013
4.99113395 2014
5.10773894 2015
5.234991 2016
5.37310363 2017
5.52078829 2018
5.67553584 2019
5.81886187 2020
5.92025507 2021
6.00365133 2022
Lower middle income | Population ages 65 and above (% of total population)
Population ages 65 and above 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. 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).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source