North Macedonia - Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in North Macedonia was 16.31 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 37.99 in 1960, while its lowest value was 16.31 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 37.99
1961 37.82
1962 37.73
1963 37.65
1964 37.43
1965 37.04
1966 36.59
1967 36.00
1968 35.33
1969 34.65
1970 33.99
1971 33.47
1972 32.91
1973 32.38
1974 31.94
1975 31.60
1976 31.12
1977 30.79
1978 30.52
1979 30.21
1980 29.82
1981 29.42
1982 28.96
1983 28.47
1984 28.00
1985 27.57
1986 27.28
1987 26.98
1988 26.70
1989 26.44
1990 26.19
1991 25.98
1992 25.80
1993 25.62
1994 25.40
1995 25.11
1996 24.73
1997 24.25
1998 23.72
1999 23.19
2000 22.68
2001 22.13
2002 21.64
2003 21.19
2004 20.72
2005 20.21
2006 19.77
2007 19.27
2008 18.75
2009 18.28
2010 17.91
2011 17.52
2012 17.27
2013 17.11
2014 16.98
2015 16.84
2016 16.78
2017 16.66
2018 16.52
2019 16.39
2020 16.31

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