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
Middle income
Records
63
Source
Middle income | Population ages 65 and above (% of total population)
3.82233439 1960
3.81340553 1961
3.81757479 1962
3.82142845 1963
3.8281727 1964
3.84615139 1965
3.87072913 1966
3.8994661 1967
3.93246542 1968
3.96507792 1969
3.9957795 1970
4.0296697 1971
4.0699282 1972
4.1152355 1973
4.16910705 1974
4.22671815 1975
4.28364603 1976
4.34154528 1977
4.40141436 1978
4.45893632 1979
4.49963602 1980
4.51901493 1981
4.52750718 1982
4.53853799 1983
4.55592151 1984
4.5757863 1985
4.60025104 1986
4.62965399 1987
4.66852049 1988
4.72184532 1989
4.7794255 1990
4.84209994 1991
4.91621678 1992
5.00191348 1993
5.0874269 1994
5.17124919 1995
5.25389642 1996
5.33603025 1997
5.42247445 1998
5.50816501 1999
5.59465179 2000
5.68668064 2001
5.78581317 2002
5.88539093 2003
5.97544994 2004
6.05860106 2005
6.13900737 2006
6.20653801 2007
6.25749595 2008
6.30684366 2009
6.36572681 2010
6.4479481 2011
6.55529896 2012
6.68088191 2013
6.83498155 2014
7.02426199 2015
7.2316567 2016
7.46011658 2017
7.70677823 2018
7.96121015 2019
8.21091631 2020
8.42122937 2021
8.62765927 2022
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
Middle income
Records
63
Source