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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Mexico was 25.84 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.59 in 1967, while its lowest value was 25.84 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 45.71
1961 45.90
1962 46.11
1963 46.31
1964 46.44
1965 46.50
1966 46.57
1967 46.59
1968 46.55
1969 46.49
1970 46.41
1971 46.40
1972 46.35
1973 46.26
1974 46.15
1975 46.00
1976 45.84
1977 45.64
1978 45.40
1979 45.11
1980 44.77
1981 44.26
1982 43.75
1983 43.21
1984 42.66
1985 42.09
1986 41.50
1987 40.92
1988 40.35
1989 39.78
1990 39.21
1991 38.68
1992 38.15
1993 37.64
1994 37.16
1995 36.71
1996 36.14
1997 35.62
1998 35.12
1999 34.65
2000 34.20
2001 33.66
2002 33.17
2003 32.72
2004 32.28
2005 31.84
2006 31.42
2007 30.95
2008 30.45
2009 29.96
2010 29.51
2011 29.08
2012 28.70
2013 28.35
2014 28.01
2015 27.64
2016 27.30
2017 26.94
2018 26.56
2019 26.19
2020 25.84

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