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Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Population ages 75-79, male (% of male population)

Male population between the ages 75 to 79 as a percentage of the total male population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Population ages 70-74, female (% of female population)

Female population between the ages 70 to 74 as a percentage of the total female population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Population ages 65 and above, total

Total population 65 years of age or older. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Population ages 65 and above, male (% of male population)

Male population 65 years of age or older as a percentage of the total male population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Population ages 65-69, female (% of female population)

Female population between the ages 65 to 69 as a percentage of the total female population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Population ages 60-64, male (% of male population)

Male population between the ages 60 to 64 as a percentage of the total male population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Population ages 55-59, male (% of male population)

Male population between the ages 55 to 59 as a percentage of the total male population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Taiwan (Province of China): WOF Administrative Subdivisions and Human Settlements

This dataset contains administrative polygons grouped by country (admin-0) with the following subdivisions according to Who's On First placetypes: - macroregion (admin-1 including region) - region (admin-2 including state, province, department, governorate) - macrocounty (admin-3 including arrondissement) - county (admin-4 including prefecture, sub-prefecture, regency, canton, commune) - localadmin (admin-5 including municipality, local government area, unitary authority, commune, suburb) The dataset also contains human settlement points and polygons for: - localities (city, town, and village) - neighbourhoods (borough, macrohood, neighbourhood, microhood) The dataset covers activities carried out by Who's On First (WOF) since 2015. Global administrative boundaries and human settlements are aggregated and standardized from hundreds of sources and available with an open CC-BY license. Who's On First data is updated on an as-need basis for individual places with annual sprints focused on improving specific countries or placetypes. Please refer to the README.md file for complete data source metadata. Refer to our blog post for explanation of field names. Data corrections can be proposed using Write Field, an web app for making quick data edits. You’ll need a Github.com account to login and propose edits, which are then reviewed by the Who's On First community using the Github pull request process. Approved changes are available for download within 24-hours. Please contact WOF admin about bulk edits.

Population · Who's On First
Risk of catastrophic expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk)

The proportion of population at risk of catastrophic expenditure when surgical care is required. Catastrophic expenditure is defined as direct out of pocket payments for surgical and anaesthesia care exceeding 10% of total income.

Population · Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School, uri: https://www.pgssc.org/
Final consumption expenditure (annual % growth)

Final consumption expenditure is expenditure on goods and services by resident institutional units for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. Final consumption expenditure can be measured for households, general government, the central bank and non-profit institutions serving households. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.

Population · Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, female (% of 24 hour day)

The average time women spend on household provision of services for own consumption. Data are expressed as a proportion of time in a day. Domestic and care work includes food preparation, dishwashing, cleaning and upkeep of a dwelling, laundry, ironing, gardening, caring for pets, shopping, installation, servicing and repair of personal and household goods, childcare, and care of the sick, elderly or disabled household members, among others.

Population · National statistical offices or national database and publications, United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database, note: Indicator code from the original source: SH_FPL_INFM; Indicator name from the original source: Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic chores and care work, by sex, age and location (%), publisher: UN Statistics Division, type: Excel, date accessed: 46190, date published: 2026-03-27
Population ages 40-44, male (% of male population)

Male population between the ages 40 to 44 as a percentage of the total male population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Population ages 40-44, female (% of female population)

Female population between the ages 40 to 44 as a percentage of the total female population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
People using at least basic drinking water services (% of population)

The percentage of people using at least basic water services. This indicator encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services. Basic drinking water services is defined as drinking water from an improved source, provided collection time is not more than 30 minutes for a round trip. Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.

Population · WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: washdata.org, publisher: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (washdata.org), date accessed: 2025-09-30, date published: 2025-08-25; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: washdata.org, note: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene
Urban population (% of total population)

Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.

Population · World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division
UNHCR Population Reference Areas

Polygon layer that represent the areas of Population Reference Points. Available only for the main People of Concern locations.

Population · UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Population in largest city

Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.

Population · World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018
Urban population

Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.

Population · World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB), note: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions
Population, female

Female population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all female residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Population · World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

An intentional homicide is defined as an unlawful death inflicted upon a person with the intent to cause death or serious injury.

Population · UNODC Research - Data Portal – Intentional Homicide, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Population ages 65-69, male (% of male population)

Male population between the ages 65 to 69 as a percentage of the total male population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Rural population growth (annual %)

Annual rural population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear rural population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population.

Population · World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB), note: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions
Use of insecticide-treated bed nets (% of under-5 population)

Use of insecticide-treated bed nets refers to the percentage of children under age five who slept under an insecticide-treated bednet to prevent malaria.

Population · State of the World's Children, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF); Childinfo, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF); Demographic and Health Surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program
Population ages 05-09, male (% of male population)

Male population between the ages 5 to 9 as a percentage of the total male population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Prevalence of current tobacco use, females (% of female adults)

The percentage of the female population ages 15 years and over who currently use any tobacco product (smoked and/or smokeless tobacco) on a daily or non-daily basis. Tobacco products include cigarettes, pipes, cigars, cigarillos, waterpipes (hookah, shisha), bidis, kretek, heated tobacco products, and all forms of smokeless (oral and nasal) tobacco. Tobacco products exclude e-cigarettes (which do not contain tobacco), “e-cigars”, “e-hookahs”, JUUL and “e-pipes”. The rates are age-standardized to the WHO Standard Population.

Population · Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho
Account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider, young adults (% of population ages 15-24)

Account denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution or report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months (young adults, % of population ages 15-24).

Population · Global Findex Database, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/globalfindex
Female headed households (% of households with a female head)

Female headed households refers to the percentage of households that are headed by females.

Population · DHS API, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, uri: https://api.dhsprogram.com/#/index.html, note: Indicator code from the original source: HC_HHHD_H_FEM; Indicator name from the original source: Female-headed households, publisher: DHS Program (ICF), type: API, date accessed: 2024-06-14
Diabetes prevalence (% of population ages 20 to 79)

Diabetes prevalence refers to the percentage of people ages 20-79 who have type 1 or type 2 diabetes. It is calculated by adjusting to a standard population age-structure.

Population · Diabetes Atlas, International Diabetes Federation
UNICEF: Projection Demography data mirrored from UNPD

UNICEF Data Warehouse dataflow UNPD_DM_PROJECTIONS: Projection Demography data mirrored from UNPD, by country and year.

Population · UNICEF
UNICEF: Demography

UNICEF Data Warehouse dataflow DM: Demography, by country and year.

Population · UNICEF
Other people in need of international protection by country or territory of origin

Other people in need of international protection refer to people who are outside their country or territory of origin, typically because they have been forcibly displaced across international borders, who have not been reported under other categories (including asylum-seekers and refugees) but who likely need international protection, including protection against forced return, as well as access to basic services on a temporary or longer-term basis.

Population · Refugee Population Statistics Database, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), uri: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download
Sint Maarten (Dutch part): WOF Administrative Subdivisions and Human Settlements

This dataset contains administrative polygons grouped by country (admin-0) with the following subdivisions according to Who's On First placetypes: - macroregion (admin-1 including region) - region (admin-2 including state, province, department, governorate) - macrocounty (admin-3 including arrondissement) - county (admin-4 including prefecture, sub-prefecture, regency, canton, commune) - localadmin (admin-5 including municipality, local government area, unitary authority, commune, suburb) The dataset also contains human settlement points and polygons for: - localities (city, town, and village) - neighbourhoods (borough, macrohood, neighbourhood, microhood) The dataset covers activities carried out by Who's On First (WOF) since 2015. Global administrative boundaries and human settlements are aggregated and standardized from hundreds of sources and available with an open CC-BY license. Who's On First data is updated on an as-need basis for individual places with annual sprints focused on improving specific countries or placetypes. Please refer to the README.md file for complete data source metadata. Refer to our blog post for explanation of field names. Data corrections can be proposed using Write Field, an web app for making quick data edits. You’ll need a Github.com account to login and propose edits, which are then reviewed by the Who's On First community using the Github pull request process. Approved changes are available for download within 24-hours. Please contact WOF admin about bulk edits.

Population · Who's On First
Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Population · World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
People using at least basic sanitation services, rural (% of rural population)

The percentage of people using at least basic sanitation services, that is, improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households. This indicator encompasses both people using basic sanitation services as well as those using safely managed sanitation services. Improved sanitation facilities include flush/pour flush to piped sewer systems, septic tanks or pit latrines; ventilated improved pit latrines, composting toilets or pit latrines with slabs.

Population · WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: washdata.org, publisher: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (washdata.org), date accessed: 2025-09-30, date published: 2025-08-25; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: washdata.org, note: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene