Table 41: All employees: age group by employment category, 31 December 2001 to 31 December 2020

Table 41: All employees: age group by employment category, 31 December 2001 to 31 December 2020
Ongoing          
Age group (years) December
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Under 20 231 161 161 118 155 283 343 257 174 146 167 155 116 73 99 119 127 117 88 99
20-24 4821 5065 5306 4527 4873 5867 6792 6418 5897 5380 5269 4612 3713 2606 2325 2878 3076 2948 2646 2912
25-29 12820 13345 13725 13318 14012 15650 16986 16772 16999 17114 17034 16335 15044 12673 11298 11358 11097 10441 10030 10299
30-34 15359 16471 17522 17363 18143 18900 19557 19272 19395 19731 20411 20472 20288 18871 18277 17911 17297 16140 15122 14840
35-39 17073 17366 17547 17312 18451 19856 21097 21346 21651 21414 21178 20736 20470 19426 19252 19767 19936 19393 19140 19194
40-44 18807 19671 20282 20101 20810 21265 21424 21051 20911 21057 21612 21826 21751 20908 20357 20106 19780 19379 19212 19533
45-49 17612 18456 19360 19652 21137 22246 23310 23377 23507 23015 22710 21872 21299 20073 19670 20248 20523 20288 20177 20168
50-54 14927 15844 16828 17163 18400 19517 20414 20925 21462 22035 22648 22683 22634 21504 20893 20473 19777 18896 18557 18762
55-59 5850 6881 7816 8629 9848 10646 11515 12007 12743 13355 13898 14134 14775 13945 14503 14840 15250 15085 15031 15210
60 & over 1929 2309 2778 3153 3711 4458 5378 6051 6923 7582 8281 8525 9145 8516 8946 9210 9545 9607 9719 10426
Total ongoing 109429 115569 121325 121336 129540 138688 146816 147476 149662 150829 153208 151350 149235 138595 135620 136910 136408 132294 129722 131443
                                         
Non-ongoing          
Age group (years) December
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Under 20 336 341 211 234 268 351 537 495 491 421 473 356 400 300 360 348 193 285 294 273
20-24 1690 1919 1513 1367 1648 2007 2111 2102 2248 2438 2450 2126 2206 2223 2764 2588 2036 2101 2330 2874
25-29 1685 1617 1367 1333 1501 1712 1702 1634 1801 1990 1945 1836 1859 1969 2557 2495 1987 2027 2143 2611
30-34 1376 1431 1102 1023 1124 1288 1301 1100 1187 1301 1316 1321 1414 1442 1830 1816 1431 1469 1532 1883
35-39 1288 1269 958 880 988 1112 1160 1090 1100 1086 1149 1159 1136 1073 1496 1593 1258 1367 1289 1769
40-44 1231 1313 1027 898 930 1078 1142 987 1015 1017 1158 1148 1125 1147 1516 1531 1267 1320 1279 1495
45-49 1099 1158 835 814 896 1072 1116 922 996 988 1145 1130 1106 1066 1334 1452 1251 1387 1424 1566
50-54 873 911 693 691 708 917 947 821 831 893 1033 1114 1106 1007 1274 1307 1118 1240 1195 1409
55-59 625 694 631 624 784 1056 1150 982 936 952 1237 1169 1149 979 1222 1371 1266 1376 1406 1351
60 & over 352 344 332 363 487 662 820 766 821 913 1475 1751 1836 1530 1728 1827 1686 1890 1934 2062
Total non-ongoing 10555 10997 8669 8227 9334 11255 11986 10899 11426 11999 13381 13110 13337 12736 16081 16328 13493 14462 14826 17293
                                         
Total          
Age group (years) December
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Under 20 567 502 372 352 423 634 880 752 665 567 640 511 516 373 459 467 320 402 382 372
20-24 6511 6984 6819 5894 6521 7874 8903 8520 8145 7818 7719 6738 5919 4829 5089 5466 5112 5049 4976 5786
25-29 14505 14962 15092 14651 15513 17362 18688 18406 18800 19104 18979 18171 16903 14642 13855 13853 13084 12468 12173 12910
30-34 16735 17902 18624 18386 19267 20188 20858 20372 20582 21032 21727 21793 21702 20313 20107 19727 18728 17609 16654 16723
35-39 18361 18635 18505 18192 19439 20968 22257 22436 22751 22500 22327 21895 21606 20499 20748 21360 21194 20760 20429 20963
40-44 20038 20984 21309 20999 21740 22343 22566 22038 21926 22074 22770 22974 22876 22055 21873 21637 21047 20699 20491 21028
45-49 18711 19614 20195 20466 22033 23318 24426 24299 24503 24003 23855 23002 22405 21139 21004 21700 21774 21675 21601 21734
50-54 15800 16755 17521 17854 19108 20434 21361 21746 22293 22928 23681 23797 23740 22511 22167 21780 20895 20136 19752 20171
55-59 6475 7575 8447 9253 10632 11702 12665 12989 13679 14307 15135 15303 15924 14924 15725 16211 16516 16461 16437 16561
60 & over 2281 2653 3110 3516 4198 5120 6198 6817 7744 8495 9756 10276 10981 10046 10674 11037 11231 11497 11653 12488
Total 119984 126566 129994 129563 138874 149943 158802 158375 161088 162828 166589 164460 162572 151331 151701 153238 149901 146756 144548 148736

Source: APSED

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