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Working Age Population

PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL POPULATION

The "Working-age population as a percentage of the total population" is a demographic indicator used to assess a nation's economic capacity. This metric represents the proportion of individuals within a defined age range of 15 to 64 years, considered economically active and available to work.

Data source: World Bank, Washington D.C. and World Economics Research, London


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    Working Age Population (% of Total Population)
Country Projected Change
(2025-2050)		 1960
(%)		 1970
(%)		 2000
(%)		 2020
(%)		 2025
(%)		 2030
(%)		 2050
(%)
Hong Kong 		-18.0% 56.7 68.2 71.9 69.9 66.2 63.0 48.2
Korea, Rep. 		-16.2% 55.6 62.1 71.9 72.1 69.6 67.3 53.4
Taiwan 		-14.6% 52.7 63.6 70.8 71.5 68.6 66.5 54.0
Spain 		-12.2% 64.4 62.9 68.6 66.2 65.9 64.7 53.7
Italy 		-10.0% 65.5 64.5 67.5 63.8 63.4 61.9 53.4
Thailand 		-9.1% 52.9 58.0 69.5 70.9 69.7 68.5 60.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina 		-9.1% 58.4 65.8 69.2 66.2 64.4 62.5 55.4
China 		-9.0% 55.7 59.5 68.4 69.4 69.8 70.3 60.8
Singapore 		-8.6% 52.9 68.9 75.0 76.2 74.3 72.3 65.7
Greece 		-8.3% 66.1 63.8 67.2 63.4 62.9 62.8 54.6
Portugal 		-7.7% 62.8 62.9 67.5 63.8 62.5 60.9 54.8
Slovenia 		-7.3% 65.2 65.8 70.1 64.7 63.4 62.7 56.1
Slovak Republic 		-7.2% 61.7 63.4 69.0 67.4 65.5 65.0 58.3
Mauritius 		-7.2% 52.0 62.1 68.3 72.2 71.5 70.1 64.3
Poland 		-6.8% 60.8 65.6 68.3 66.4 64.9 65.2 58.1
Switzerland 		-6.7% 65.7 66.4 67.3 66.2 64.8 63.3 58.2
Austria 		-6.5% 65.7 64.2 67.5 66.4 64.9 63.1 58.4
Japan 		-6.5% 64.4 67.5 68.2 58.9 58.9 59.0 52.4
Cyprus 		-6.3% 57.7 64.9 67.8 70.4 69.2 68.7 62.9
Luxembourg 		-6.2% 68.2 67.7 67.0 69.4 68.6 67.4 62.4
Czechia 		-5.8% 65.0 63.1 69.8 63.7 63.9 64.1 58.1
Ireland 		-5.6% 57.9 58.9 67.0 65.3 65.8 66.5 60.2
Malta 		-5.5% 57.0 66.8 68.0 68.2 66.7 66.5 61.2
Bulgaria 		-5.3% 66.5 66.0 67.7 63.9 63.5 63.3 58.2
Chile 		-5.2% 57.0 61.9 65.0 69.0 69.1 69.5 63.8
Trinidad and Tobago 		-5.1% 53.9 61.2 69.1 70.8 69.8 69.1 64.7
Romania 		-5.0% 65.0 62.6 67.9 64.9 64.4 65.3 59.4
Costa Rica 		-5.0% 50.5 58.6 63.3 68.8 69.1 69.5 64.1
Brunei 		-4.9% 52.2 58.8 66.9 72.8 72.3 72.7 67.5
Ukraine 		-4.8% 66.0 66.7 68.7 67.6 67.5 68.1 62.6
Croatia 		-4.8% 65.7 67.4 67.2 63.9 62.8 62.2 58.0
Germany 		-4.5% 67.2 65.9 67.9 64.4 62.5 60.5 58.1
Estonia 		-4.4% 66.2 65.9 67.4 63.4 63.1 63.4 58.7
Brazil 		-4.3% 53.3 58.1 65.0 69.6 69.3 69.3 65.0
Belarus 		-4.2% 61.9 66.5 67.9 67.2 66.0 66.7 61.8
Hungary 		-4.1% 65.6 64.7 68.3 65.4 64.6 65.0 60.5
North Macedonia 		-4.0% 57.3 64.3 66.8 66.4 65.1 65.0 61.1
Norway 		-4.0% 63.0 63.1 64.8 65.1 65.2 65.0 61.2
Bahamas, The 		-3.7% 55.2 60.5 65.5 69.5 70.6 70.7 66.9
Türkiye 		-3.5% 53.8 55.5 64.0 68.3 68.6 69.6 65.1
Serbia 		-3.5% 66.2 68.9 67.5 64.2 62.8 62.4 59.3
Armenia 		-3.5% 56.8 64.2 64.6 67.5 66.7 65.9 63.3
Belgium 		-3.4% 64.3 65.3 65.6 64.0 63.5 63.2 60.1
Lithuania 		-3.3% 65.0 65.4 66.2 65.0 64.9 64.3 61.7
Albania 		-3.1% 53.3 58.6 63.1 67.7 66.0 65.2 62.9
Colombia 		-2.8% 50.4 56.3 63.0 69.9 70.0 69.7 67.2
Latvia 		-2.8% 67.2 66.6 67.3 63.3 62.7 63.0 60.0
France 		-2.7% 62.0 63.7 65.1 61.8 61.4 61.1 58.7
Netherlands 		-2.6% 61.0 66.2 67.8 65.0 64.4 63.0 61.7
Jamaica 		-2.6% 54.6 52.8 60.7 72.3 73.4 73.9 70.7
Russia 		-2.5% 63.5 68.1 69.7 66.9 65.3 65.9 62.8
Vietnam 		-2.4% 54.1 54.4 62.5 68.0 67.8 69.1 65.5
Iceland 		-2.3% 57.1 62.6 65.1 66.7 66.7 66.5 64.4
Canada 		-2.1% 58.6 67.8 68.3 66.1 64.9 63.9 62.8
Australia 		-2.0% 61.3 65.1 66.9 65.1 64.4 64.1 62.4
New Zealand 		-1.9% 58.5 63.1 65.5 65.4 64.7 64.3 62.8
Azerbaijan 		-1.8% 55.0 61.2 64.1 69.7 69.8 70.6 68.0
Denmark 		-1.7% 64.2 64.7 66.7 63.7 63.5 62.6 61.7
United States 		-1.6% 59.9 66.5 66.7 65.5 64.7 64.1 63.1
Tunisia 		-1.6% 52.9 54.4 64.3 66.6 66.7 68.2 65.1
Sri Lanka 		-1.3% 54.8 59.1 66.8 65.9 66.0 66.5 64.7
Finland 		-1.2% 62.3 67.7 66.9 61.8 61.6 61.9 60.4
United Kingdom 		-1.2% 65.0 64.0 65.2 63.4 63.5 64.0 62.3
Malaysia 		-1.0% 51.7 57.4 62.0 69.3 70.9 72.5 69.8
Bhutan 		-1.0% 55.3 54.7 57.6 70.6 73.2 75.7 72.3
Uruguay 		-0.9% 64.2 62.4 62.6 64.9 66.0 67.4 65.1
Libya 		-0.9% 52.1 49.9 64.4 65.9 68.1 70.4 67.2
Sweden 		-0.6% 65.8 64.1 64.3 62.2 62.5 63.2 61.9
Panama 		-0.5% 52.5 55.4 62.7 65.3 66.0 66.9 65.5
Qatar 		-0.5% 52.4 68.7 75.3 83.4 83.5 83.8 83.0
Bahrain 		0.0% 54.6 62.5 68.0 76.8 77.8 78.5 77.7
Indonesia 		0.0% 57.8 55.8 64.2 67.6 68.4 69.5 68.4
Kuwait 		0.0% 60.3 59.3 69.1 75.4 79.0 80.0 79.1
Peru 		0.2% 52.3 53.3 61.0 65.8 67.1 68.2 67.3
Moldova 		0.2% 60.5 65.8 66.4 65.7 63.8 64.7 64.0
Argentina 		0.6% 63.5 61.8 62.2 64.5 66.5 69.1 67.1
Ecuador 		0.7% 51.5 53.9 59.9 66.0 67.7 69.5 68.4
Mexico 		0.7% 50.4 51.2 60.7 66.5 67.6 68.9 68.3
Morocco 		0.8% 52.3 53.0 61.6 66.0 66.5 67.7 67.4
Georgia 		1.1% 63.8 65.6 65.2 64.1 63.7 64.6 64.7
Suriname 		1.2% 50.5 54.7 62.6 66.2 66.7 67.1 67.9
Saudi Arabia 		1.3% 53.4 53.7 59.5 72.0 73.5 74.5 74.8
India 		1.6% 56.1 56.3 60.0 67.2 68.6 70.0 70.3
Myanmar 		1.7% 56.6 56.7 63.2 68.3 68.6 69.3 70.3
Kazakhstan 		2.0% 57.5 59.8 65.7 63.1 62.0 62.7 64.0
Algeria 		2.0% 51.3 50.3 61.9 63.3 63.4 65.8 65.4
Lebanon 		2.1% 51.8 56.5 63.0 62.9 64.1 66.2 66.2
United Arab Emirates 		2.2% 59.9 71.4 77.9 81.9 82.5 83.0 84.7
Dominican Republic 		2.5% 48.8 53.8 60.4 65.5 65.8 66.9 68.3
Cabo Verde 		2.6% 52.2 47.2 53.4 65.6 68.4 71.6 70.9
Israel 		2.8% 59.7 58.3 62.0 59.9 60.3 61.7 63.1
Uzbekistan 		2.8% 54.5 55.0 58.6 65.0 62.8 62.1 65.6
South Africa 		2.8% 54.5 55.3 60.3 66.9 67.6 68.1 70.4
Jordan 		2.8% 49.8 47.8 57.3 63.3 65.2 67.5 68.1
Oman 		3.4% 55.1 49.9 60.9 71.8 73.2 74.8 76.6
El Salvador 		3.7% 51.2 53.1 58.2 66.0 67.5 69.5 71.2
Nicaragua 		3.9% 49.8 50.1 56.2 64.4 66.2 68.2 70.1
Paraguay 		4.0% 49.8 54.1 57.0 64.7 65.1 66.2 69.1
Mongolia 		4.1% 56.3 51.5 61.4 62.9 63.2 66.5 67.2
Bangladesh 		4.1% 55.0 51.8 59.2 64.9 65.9 67.2 70.0
Cambodia 		4.4% 53.6 54.3 54.6 63.5 64.3 65.5 68.7
Turkmenistan 		5.1% 54.7 54.5 58.7 65.0 64.2 66.2 69.3
Egypt 		5.2% 54.0 54.8 59.0 61.8 63.4 66.0 68.6
Philippines 		5.3% 49.4 53.1 57.8 64.6 67.3 70.4 72.6
Honduras 		5.4% 49.8 49.5 54.0 63.8 65.4 67.2 70.8
Bolivia 		5.5% 54.3 54.8 56.7 63.3 65.0 66.8 70.5
Guyana 		5.5% 49.8 53.7 59.6 64.5 64.3 65.4 69.8
Kyrgyzstan 		5.7% 55.1 57.1 59.5 62.0 62.3 64.1 68.0
Papua New Guinea 		6.2% 55.5 55.1 57.5 62.2 63.4 65.2 69.7
Gabon 		6.3% 60.8 53.7 54.3 59.2 59.8 61.8 66.1
Ghana 		6.3% 51.7 51.2 54.6 59.3 61.0 63.1 67.3
Laos 		6.6% 55.5 52.7 53.4 64.2 65.6 67.5 72.1
Haiti 		6.9% 56.1 54.7 56.0 63.0 64.6 66.8 71.5
Togo 		7.0% 52.4 50.9 54.6 56.2 57.7 59.7 64.8
Congo, Rep. 		7.1% 53.7 50.9 54.4 55.5 57.1 59.6 64.3
Cote d'Ivoire 		7.3% 54.4 50.4 51.5 55.3 57.0 59.6 64.3
Nepal 		7.4% 56.3 55.6 55.2 63.8 65.6 68.0 72.9
Comoros 		7.5% 54.8 48.7 48.8 57.3 58.8 60.9 66.4
Tajikistan 		7.6% 55.5 53.1 54.1 60.3 60.2 62.6 67.8
Botswana 		7.9% 50.6 50.9 58.3 63.2 64.2 65.6 72.1
Guatemala 		8.0% 51.1 51.8 52.4 61.7 64.2 67.2 72.2
Pakistan 		8.1% 56.3 53.4 53.2 58.1 59.6 61.9 67.7
Senegal 		8.2% 53.0 50.9 52.8 56.1 58.8 61.0 67.0
Rwanda 		8.2% 47.7 50.7 51.4 57.4 59.1 61.2 67.4
Kenya 		8.5% 48.1 46.4 51.7 57.9 60.9 63.3 69.4
Madagascar 		8.6% 51.4 49.6 51.8 56.5 57.8 59.5 66.4
Eswatini 		8.6% 50.2 48.3 54.0 61.4 62.9 65.3 71.5
Tanzania 		8.7% 52.7 49.9 52.7 53.6 54.8 56.5 63.5
Namibia 		8.9% 53.4 49.3 55.3 59.3 59.7 61.9 68.6
Cameroon 		9.0% 56.5 51.6 51.8 54.7 56.2 58.3 65.3
Zambia 		9.1% 51.1 47.4 49.6 54.9 57.2 59.6 66.3
Benin 		9.1% 54.9 50.5 51.4 54.3 55.7 57.9 64.8
Sudan 		9.2% 50.6 50.7 51.2 55.6 56.6 58.1 65.8
Chad 		9.3% 55.0 49.6 48.4 50.0 52.0 53.0 61.3
Zimbabwe 		9.6% 49.3 47.9 54.7 54.2 56.3 60.2 65.9
Ethiopia 		9.6% 54.9 50.9 49.6 56.5 58.1 59.6 67.7
Angola 		9.7% 55.6 53.0 51.7 52.3 53.1 55.0 62.8
Guinea-Bissau 		9.7% 59.1 50.2 51.8 56.4 58.6 61.4 68.3
Mauritania 		9.7% 55.9 51.1 52.7 52.9 54.5 56.6 64.2
Lesotho 		9.8% 50.4 54.1 55.9 60.4 62.2 65.5 72.0
Yemen, Rep. 		10.0% 56.0 48.6 48.2 56.1 56.6 58.0 66.6
Liberia 		10.1% 56.1 53.1 53.8 55.4 57.7 60.4 67.9
Sierra Leone 		10.3% 58.0 53.9 52.6 57.0 59.2 61.7 69.5
Congo, Dem. Rep 		10.4% 54.1 52.9 51.4 50.9 51.1 52.4 61.5
Mali 		10.4% 57.0 52.5 50.2 50.2 52.0 54.3 62.4
Malawi 		10.5% 53.9 51.5 50.5 54.2 57.5 60.5 68.0
Afghanistan 		10.9% 55.2 51.4 47.7 53.4 55.2 57.4 66.1
Burundi 		10.9% 51.7 51.4 49.3 50.6 53.6 57.8 64.5
Nigeria 		11.0% 55.5 52.2 53.2 54.2 56.6 59.5 67.6
Guinea 		11.5% 56.0 53.5 51.2 54.4 56.1 58.5 67.7
Burkina Faso 		11.9% 57.5 51.8 50.5 53.4 56.3 60.0 68.2
Mozambique 		11.9% 55.9 51.7 52.2 52.0 53.2 55.6 65.1
Gambia 		12.1% 56.3 52.2 50.1 55.2 57.2 60.3 69.4
Niger 		12.8% 49.9 51.1 50.4 49.5 51.3 53.6 64.1
Uganda 		13.1% 51.6 49.1 47.3 52.7 54.8 57.4 67.9
Central African Republic 		13.5% 55.2 53.3 52.2 48.9 49.3 51.3 62.8





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