Children under 15 by country
Share of people aged under 15. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 57 countries.
Highest in 2019
- Chad 53.6%
- Angola 51.5%
- Central African Rep. 51.2%
- Mali 51.2%
- Dem. Rep. Congo 48.6%
Lowest in 2019
- Serbia 13.9%
- Albania 15.7%
- Cuba 16.4%
- Belarus 17.1%
- North Macedonia 17.4%
About the data
- Unit
- % of population
- Years
- 1992–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Demographics database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/demographics/
All countries
- Afghanistan 46.6% (2018)
- Albania 15.7% (2019)
- Algeria 28.6% (2019)
- Angola 51.5% (2019)
- Armenia 19.4% (2019)
- Azerbaijan 25.4% (2006)
- Bangladesh 29.7% (2019)
- Barbados 19.3% (2016)
- Belarus 17.1% (2019)
- Belize 33.1% (2014)
- Benin 48.0% (2018)
- Bhutan 32.4% (2014)
- Bolivia 37.3% (2011)
- Bosnia and Herz. 19.3% (2014)
- Botswana 32.3% (2014)
- Brazil 22.5% (2013)
- Burkina Faso 48.8% (2010)
- Burundi 48.5% (2019)
- Cabo Verde 30.0% (2017)
- Cambodia 33.3% (2014)
- Cameroon 45.0% (2019)
- Central African Rep. 51.2% (2019)
- Chad 53.6% (2019)
- Chile 25.8% (2006)
- China 13.1% (2018)
- Colombia 22.5% (2018)
- Comoros 40.6% (2012)
- Congo 40.5% (2018)
- Costa Rica 21.1% (2019)
- Côte d'Ivoire 43.8% (1999)
- Cuba 16.4% (2019)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 48.6% (2019)
- Djibouti 32.9% (2010)
- Dominican Rep. 26.6% (2019)
- Ecuador 29.0% (2015)
- Egypt 35.0% (2017)
- El Salvador 29.2% (2017)
- Eq. Guinea 42.3% (2004)
- Eritrea 48.7% (2005)
- eSwatini 39.7% (2014)
- Ethiopia 43.1% (2019)
- Fiji 29.1% (2007)
- Gabon 39.4% (2012)
- Gambia 45.0% (2018)
- Georgia 20.0% (2019)
- Ghana 44.8% (2018)
- Guatemala 36.2% (2018)
- Guinea 47.2% (2019)
- Guinea-Bissau 43.2% (2019)
- Guyana 26.9% (2019)
- Haiti 34.9% (2019)
- Honduras 32.3% (2019)
- India 26.5% (2019)
- Indonesia 26.7% (2019)
- Iran 22.3% (2014)
- Iraq 40.3% (2019)
- Jamaica 27.8% (2011)
- Jordan 32.8% (2017)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 39.3% (2014)
- Kazakhstan 28.7% (2018)
- Kenya 42.7% (2014)
- Kiribati 36.2% (2019)
- Kuwait 22.0% (2018)
- Kyrgyzstan 34.8% (2019)
- Laos 32.2% (2019)
- Lebanon 24.0% (2017)
- Lesotho 32.7% (2018)
- Liberia 45.1% (2013)
- Libya 30.0% (2018)
- Madagascar 43.2% (2018)
- Malawi 47.4% (2016)
- Malaysia 34.0% (2004)
- Maldives 29.3% (2019)
- Mali 51.2% (2019)
- Mauritania 47.7% (2015)
- Mauritius 19.0% (2017)
- Mexico 35.9% (2019)
- Moldova 17.8% (2015)
- Mongolia 34.0% (2019)
- Montenegro 17.9% (2019)
- Morocco 29.6% (2006)
- Mozambique 48.4% (2011)
- Myanmar 28.4% (2019)
- Namibia 37.5% (2016)
- Nepal 29.6% (2019)
- Nicaragua 37.1% (2004)
- Niger 57.6% (2015)
- Nigeria 45.8% (2018)
- North Macedonia 17.4% (2019)
- Pakistan 38.1% (2019)
- Panama 28.6% (2017)
- Papua New Guinea 41.4% (2019)
- Paraguay 36.9% (2006)
- Peru 28.4% (2015)
- Philippines 31.5% (2017)
- Qatar 31.6% (2016)
- Rwanda 43.1% (2015)
- S. Sudan 61.0% (2013)
- Saint Lucia 21.1% (2016)
- Samoa 38.8% (2019)
- São Tomé and Principe 42.6% (2019)
- Senegal 44.1% (2019)
- Serbia 13.9% (2019)
- Sierra Leone 43.8% (2019)
- Somalia 51.7% (2014)
- South Africa 31.5% (2019)
- Sudan 44.7% (2017)
- Suriname 27.6% (2019)
- Syria 37.6% (2010)
- Tajikistan 35.8% (2019)
- Tanzania 45.3% (2015)
- Thailand 17.5% (2019)
- Timor-Leste 38.8% (2019)
- Togo 42.0% (2019)
- Tonga 34.6% (2019)
- Trinidad and Tobago 20.3% (2011)
- Tunisia 24.8% (2019)
- Turkey 23.5% (2019)
- Turkmenistan 33.3% (2019)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 21.6% (2019)
- Tuvalu 32.2% (2019)
- Uganda 47.9% (2019)
- Ukraine 15.1% (2015)
- Uruguay 24.1% (2017)
- Uzbekistan 29.7% (2009)
- Vanuatu 42.7% (2007)
- Venezuela 33.1% (2005)
- Vietnam 24.6% (2014)
- Yemen 42.2% (2013)
- Zambia 47.0% (2019)
- Zimbabwe 42.4% (2019)