Chile - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Chile was 19.24 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 39.70 in 1963, while its lowest value was 19.24 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 39.45
1961 39.52
1962 39.62
1963 39.70
1964 39.69
1965 39.57
1966 39.47
1967 39.26
1968 38.94
1969 38.59
1970 38.24
1971 37.82
1972 37.40
1973 36.98
1974 36.52
1975 36.04
1976 35.53
1977 35.01
1978 34.50
1979 33.99
1980 33.49
1981 33.03
1982 32.57
1983 32.12
1984 31.72
1985 31.38
1986 31.03
1987 30.76
1988 30.54
1989 30.33
1990 30.12
1991 29.96
1992 29.76
1993 29.54
1994 29.30
1995 29.05
1996 28.79
1997 28.48
1998 28.14
1999 27.75
2000 27.33
2001 26.81
2002 26.30
2003 25.78
2004 25.23
2005 24.66
2006 24.12
2007 23.57
2008 23.04
2009 22.54
2010 22.08
2011 21.73
2012 21.40
2013 21.09
2014 20.82
2015 20.57
2016 20.30
2017 20.02
2018 19.75
2019 19.49
2020 19.24

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