Costa Rica - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Costa Rica was 20.83 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 45.74 in 1962, while its lowest value was 20.83 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 45.32
1961 45.64
1962 45.74
1963 45.69
1964 45.60
1965 45.51
1966 45.44
1967 45.30
1968 45.07
1969 44.72
1970 44.24
1971 43.59
1972 42.86
1973 42.07
1974 41.23
1975 40.39
1976 39.55
1977 38.79
1978 38.09
1979 37.44
1980 36.84
1981 36.50
1982 36.13
1983 35.79
1984 35.56
1985 35.45
1986 35.41
1987 35.48
1988 35.59
1989 35.65
1990 35.62
1991 35.51
1992 35.28
1993 34.95
1994 34.55
1995 34.12
1996 33.62
1997 33.10
1998 32.53
1999 31.89
2000 31.16
2001 30.49
2002 29.75
2003 28.97
2004 28.18
2005 27.44
2006 26.72
2007 26.07
2008 25.47
2009 24.88
2010 24.31
2011 23.84
2012 23.37
2013 22.92
2014 22.51
2015 22.15
2016 21.85
2017 21.58
2018 21.32
2019 21.08
2020 20.83

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