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

Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) in Tunisia was 24.29 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 46.36 in 1966, while its lowest value was 23.27 in 2011.

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 43.46
1961 43.58
1962 43.93
1963 44.55
1964 45.31
1965 46.04
1966 46.36
1967 46.32
1968 46.06
1969 45.75
1970 45.50
1971 45.05
1972 44.69
1973 44.37
1974 44.04
1975 43.67
1976 43.29
1977 42.90
1978 42.51
1979 42.12
1980 41.74
1981 41.27
1982 40.76
1983 40.24
1984 39.73
1985 39.25
1986 38.86
1987 38.49
1988 38.13
1989 37.71
1990 37.21
1991 36.69
1992 36.07
1993 35.35
1994 34.59
1995 33.80
1996 32.97
1997 32.16
1998 31.33
1999 30.46
2000 29.55
2001 28.72
2002 27.86
2003 27.00
2004 26.20
2005 25.49
2006 24.88
2007 24.35
2008 23.91
2009 23.57
2010 23.33
2011 23.27
2012 23.33
2013 23.48
2014 23.64
2015 23.79
2016 24.00
2017 24.11
2018 24.17
2019 24.23
2020 24.29

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

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Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population