Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 19.84 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 42.27 in 1971, while its lowest value was 19.84 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 37.73
1961 38.39
1962 37.85
1963 36.79
1964 36.27
1965 36.74
1966 36.64
1967 37.91
1968 39.75
1969 41.11
1970 41.59
1971 42.27
1972 41.96
1973 41.10
1974 40.27
1975 39.73
1976 39.04
1977 38.49
1978 38.01
1979 37.41
1980 36.64
1981 35.45
1982 34.45
1983 33.51
1984 32.48
1985 31.32
1986 30.65
1987 29.62
1988 28.49
1989 27.60
1990 27.13
1991 26.66
1992 26.62
1993 26.84
1994 27.00
1995 26.95
1996 26.99
1997 26.82
1998 26.50
1999 26.19
2000 25.94
2001 25.67
2002 25.46
2003 25.28
2004 25.05
2005 24.72
2006 24.41
2007 24.00
2008 23.52
2009 23.05
2010 22.64
2011 22.19
2012 21.83
2013 21.53
2014 21.23
2015 20.92
2016 20.70
2017 20.45
2018 20.20
2019 19.99
2020 19.84

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