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Population Under Age 15, 1976

1976, 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, 1976 covers 222 countries. Kenya is highest, at 52.0635; Vatican City is lowest, at 12.7978. The middle country reads 41.2215. Against 1975, 222 values changed (59 up, 163 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Under Age 15 · Data for 1976

HighestKenya

52.0635

LowestVatican City

12.7978

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, 1976, 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, 1976: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
KenyaKENEastern Africa52.0635
JordanJORWestern Asia50.5299
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia49.7260
PalestinePSEWestern Asia49.6936
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa49.0643
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean48.9500
SyriaSYRWestern Asia48.6371
SamoaWSMPolynesia48.6320
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa48.5536
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia48.5474
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia48.1859
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa48.1857
GhanaGHAWestern Africa47.9199
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa47.8651
SudanSDNNorthern Africa47.8318
MicronesiaFSMMicronesia47.7874
OmanOMNWestern Asia47.5090
HondurasHNDCentral America47.5077
UgandaUGAEastern Africa47.4699
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa47.3450
NigerNERWestern Africa47.2732
NicaraguaNICCentral America47.2532
MexicoMEXCentral America47.2470
IraqIRQWestern Asia47.1707
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa47.1608

02In 1976

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Kenya52.0635
  2. Jordan50.5299
  3. Cook Islands49.7260
  4. Palestine49.6936
  5. Zambia49.0643

Lowest

  1. Vatican City12.7978
  2. Monaco13.9740
  3. Luxembourg20.1984
  4. Isle of Man20.4576
  5. Sweden20.6293

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 41.2215. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031975 → 1976

Since 1975

What changed between 1975 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 59 · 163rose · 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 1976.

  • 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 (1976). Population Under Age 15, 1976 [data set], describing 1976. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-under-15/1976

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