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Population Under Age 15, 1968

1968, 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, 1968 covers 222 countries. Cook Islands is highest, at 51.671; Vatican City is lowest, at 12.939. The middle country reads 42.681. Against 1967, 222 values changed (103 up, 119 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Under Age 15 · Data for 1968

HighestCook Islands

51.671

LowestVatican City

12.939

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, 1968, 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, 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia51.671
SamoaWSMPolynesia51.388
KenyaKENEastern Africa51.198
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa50.281
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean49.844
Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia49.809
JordanJORWestern Asia49.768
RwandaRWAEastern Africa49.202
BelizeBLZCentral America49.186
PalestinePSEWestern Asia49.034
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean48.918
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia48.832
NiueNIUPolynesia48.801
SurinameSURSouth America48.777
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa48.574
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa48.477
PalauPLWMicronesia48.421
NigerNERWestern Africa48.407
DominicaDMACaribbean48.086
HondurasHNDCentral America47.980
GhanaGHAWestern Africa47.940
SyriaSYRWestern Asia47.771
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia47.766
NicaraguaNICCentral America47.707
American SamoaASMPolynesia47.648

02In 1968

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Cook Islands51.671
  2. Samoa51.388
  3. Kenya51.198
  4. Libya50.281
  5. Saint Lucia49.844

Lowest

  1. Vatican City12.939
  2. Monaco13.843
  3. Isle of Man19.333
  4. Sweden20.938
  5. Latvia21.718

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 42.681. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 103 · 119rose · 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 1968.

  • 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 (1968). Population Under Age 15, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-under-15/1968

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