page_title: Demographics of Eswatini
section_title: Age structure
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Eswatini / Other demographic statistics / Age structure
caption_attribution_description: English: The population pyramid of Eswatini illustrates the age and sex structure of population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.
context_page_description: The majority of Eswatini's population is ethnic Swazi, mixed with a small number of Zulus and white Africans, predominantly of British and Afrikaner origin. This population also includes a small segment within it that is mixed with any number of these ancestries.
  Traditionally Swazis have been subsistence farmers and herders, but most now work in the growing urban formal economy and in government. Some Swazis work in the mines in South Africa. Eswatini also received Portuguese settlers and black refugees from Mozambique. Christianity in Eswatini is sometimes mixed with traditional beliefs and practices. Most Swazis ascribe a special spiritual role to the Swazi Royal Family.
  The country's official languages are Siswati and English. Government and commercial business is conducted mainly in English. Asians, Afrikaners, Portuguese, and black Mozambicans speak their own languages.
context_section_description: 0-14 years: 34.41% (male 186,747 /female 187,412)
  15-24 years: 19.31% (male 99,192 /female 110,770)
  25-54 years: 38.22% (male 193,145 /female 222,405)
  55-64 years: 4.28% (male 19,915 /female 26,663)
  65 years and over: 3.77% (male 15,470 /female 25,481) (2018 est.)
  0-14 years: 35.01% (male 259,646/female 253,976)
  15-24 years: 22.12% (male 164,117/female 160,478)
  25-54 years: 34.6% (male 264,262/female 243,362)
  55-64 years: 4.3% (male 25,319/female 37,763)
  65 years and over: 3.97% (male 22,113/female 36,116) (2017 est.)
caption: Population pyramid of Eswatini in 2020
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