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Population Under Age 15, 1951

1951, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The share of a country's population aged under 15 is the plainest measure of how young a population is. It tells a government how many school places, vaccinations and, a few years later, jobs it must plan for.

Population Under Age 15, 1951 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 49.9142; Monaco is lowest, at 14.4121. The middle country reads 40.2504. Against 1950, 222 values changed (144 up, 78 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Under Age 15 · Data for 1951

HighestNiger

49.9142

LowestMonaco

14.4121

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Population Under Age 15, 1951, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Population Under Age 15, 1951: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
NigerNERWestern Africa49.9142
SamoaWSMPolynesia48.7261
GrenadaGRDCaribbean47.7118
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia46.7269
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean46.5890
American SamoaASMPolynesia46.4904
ParaguayPRYSouth America46.4368
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa46.1922
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia46.1472
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean45.7930
PalestinePSEWestern Asia45.7147
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa45.4544
KenyaKENEastern Africa45.4509
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia45.4220
VenezuelaVENSouth America45.3709
SudanSDNNorthern Africa45.3620
MalawiMWIEastern Africa45.0636
NicaraguaNICCentral America44.9912
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa44.8714
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia44.6261
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia44.5446
FijiFJIMelanesia44.5321
MexicoMEXCentral America44.4781
TongaTONPolynesia44.4555
Costa RicaCRICentral America44.3192

02In 1951

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger49.9142
  2. Samoa48.7261
  3. Grenada47.7118
  4. Philippines46.7269
  5. Saint Lucia46.5890

Lowest

  1. Monaco14.4121
  2. Isle of Man19.9143
  3. Luxembourg20.0267
  4. Belgium21.1474
  5. United Kingdom22.5669

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 40.2504. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031950 → 1951

Since 1950

What changed between 1950 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 144 · 78rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1951.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1951). Population Under Age 15, 1951 [data set], describing 1951. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-under-15/1951

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