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Population Under Age 15, 1991

1991, 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, 1991 covers 222 countries. Yemen is highest, at 51.1556; Vatican City is lowest, at 11.3103. The middle country reads 35.7088. Against 1990, 222 values changed (63 up, 159 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Under Age 15 · Data for 1991

HighestYemen

51.1556

LowestVatican City

11.3103

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, 1991, 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, 1991: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
YemenYEMWestern Asia51.1556
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia49.6790
PalestinePSEWestern Asia49.0880
BurundiBDIEastern Africa48.9452
RwandaRWAEastern Africa48.9432
KenyaKENEastern Africa48.9371
UgandaUGAEastern Africa48.3201
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa48.3085
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia47.8413
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa47.5796
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa47.1255
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa47.1111
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia47.0756
ChadTCDMiddle Africa47.0684
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa46.9598
MaliMLIWestern Africa46.9572
ComorosCOMEastern Africa46.9309
NigerNERWestern Africa46.7737
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa46.5928
SenegalSENWestern Africa46.3649
SudanSDNNorthern Africa46.2131
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa46.1870
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa46.1824
BeninBENWestern Africa46.1629
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa46.1578

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Yemen51.1556
  2. Marshall Islands49.6790
  3. Palestine49.0880
  4. Burundi48.9452
  5. Rwanda48.9432

Lowest

  1. Vatican City11.3103
  2. Monaco12.8867
  3. Italy15.7631
  4. San Marino15.7748
  5. Germany16.2581

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 35.7088. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 63 · 159rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Jordan44.9703 → 43.0684−1.9019
  • Libya41.6855 → 40.7218−0.9637
  • Oman43.4085 → 42.4769−0.9316
  • Kuwait36.0417 → 35.1224−0.9193
  • Saint Lucia38.8988 → 38.0795−0.8193

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 1991.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (1991). Population Under Age 15, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-under-15/1991

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