Table 40: Ongoing employees: age group by gender, 31 December 2002 to 31 December 2021

Men

December
Age group (years) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Under 20 67 73 48 52 98 105 73 43 28 48 58 51 29 37 39 52 34 29 29 55
20-24 1755 1890 1644 1808 2107 2416 2235 2009 1887 1867 1697 1365 1001 897 1124 1255 1223 1057 1182 1403
25-29 4844 4897 4651 4840 5384 5851 5886 6151 6269 6362 6191 5702 4861 4346 4349 4293 4017 3971 4133 4458
30-34 6676 6960 6641 6809 7014 7133 6935 6969 7135 7506 7638 7756 7229 6969 6876 6667 6177 5841 5806 5981
35-39 7546 7483 7292 7569 8012 8381 8431 8453 8355 8278 8058 7889 7425 7363 7600 7608 7338 7241 7251 7338
40-44 9695 9794 9263 9122 9129 8995 8742 8724 8794 9003 9048 8881 8473 8196 8029 7804 7493 7376 7464 7673
45-49 10088 10284 10228 10424 10628 10788 10553 10326 10030 9809 9349 9044 8574 8309 8480 8543 8274 8093 8055 7980
50-54 9185 9610 9595 9838 10245 10517 10526 10598 10667 10793 10613 10407 9647 9186 8839 8413 7997 7816 7858 8113
55-59 3882 4336 4707 5138 5522 5867 6042 6368 6681 6918 7014 7201 6667 6752 6743 6835 6670 6490 6429 6419
60 & over 1403 1662 1835 2087 2503 3000 3398 3841 4156 4548 4620 4891 4491 4647 4651 4810 4714 4714 4966 5131
Total men 55141 56989 55904 57687 60642 63053 62821 63482 64002 65132 64286 63187 58397 56702 56730 56280 53937 52628 53173 54551

Women

December
Age group (years) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Under 20 94 88 70 103 185 238 184 131 118 119 97 65 44 62 80 75 82 59 69 98
20-24 3310 3416 2882 3064 3759 4376 4183 3887 3492 3401 2915 2346 1603 1427 1752 1820 1723 1584 1720 2242
25-29 8502 8828 8668 9173 10266 11134 10884 10848 10843 10668 10136 9334 7804 6946 7002 6801 6420 6054 6160 6747
30-34 9794 10562 10721 11333 11886 12423 12333 12424 12596 12904 12833 12530 11639 11302 11027 10617 9948 9263 9020 9276
35-39 9815 10060 10017 10879 11843 12715 12915 13194 13053 12896 12676 12578 12000 11890 12166 12326 12053 11896 11934 11991
40-44 9975 10485 10834 11684 12131 12422 12304 12183 12259 12607 12774 12867 12429 12155 12073 11974 11884 11834 12064 12602
45-49 8367 9076 9421 10710 11614 12519 12819 13176 12979 12894 12515 12248 11494 11357 11765 11975 12009 12075 12103 12270
50-54 6659 7218 7569 8562 9271 9894 10398 10860 11365 11851 12067 12222 11852 11700 11628 11357 10893 10736 10896 11571
55-59 2999 3480 3922 4710 5124 5648 5964 6375 6673 6978 7117 7573 7274 7748 8092 8410 8411 8538 8777 8981
60 & over 906 1116 1318 1624 1955 2378 2653 3082 3426 3733 3905 4253 4025 4297 4556 4732 4891 5006 5455 5821
Total women 60421 64329 65422 71842 78034 83747 84637 86160 86804 88051 87035 86016 80164 78884 80141 80087 78314 77045 78198 81599

Total

December
Age group (years) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Under 20 161 161 118 155 283 343 257 174 146 167 155 116 73 99 119 127 117 88 99 155
20-24 5065 5306 4527 4873 5867 6792 6418 5896 5380 5269 4612 3713 2606 2327 2879 3077 2949 2645 2911 3667
25-29 13347 13726 13319 14013 15650 16986 16772 17001 17114 17034 16334 15044 12672 11298 11360 11099 10444 10034 10307 11227
30-34 16471 17523 17364 18144 18902 19559 19272 19395 19732 20412 20474 20289 18873 18277 17911 17297 16140 15122 14842 15282
35-39 17364 17545 17311 18450 19855 21097 21347 21651 21414 21179 20738 20471 19427 19254 19769 19938 19394 19144 19196 19347
40-44 19671 20281 20100 20809 21264 21422 21050 20911 21057 21612 21826 21752 20909 20358 20108 19783 19382 19214 19531 20285
45-49 18457 19362 19652 21137 22246 23310 23376 23506 23014 22709 21870 21297 20072 19670 20248 20523 20289 20178 20170 20268
50-54 15844 16828 17164 18401 19518 20415 20927 21462 22035 22648 22683 22633 21503 20891 20473 19776 18894 18556 18758 19691
55-59 6881 7816 8629 9848 10646 11515 12007 12744 13356 13899 14135 14777 13945 14503 14839 15248 15084 15030 15209 15406
60 & over 2309 2778 3153 3711 4458 5378 6051 6923 7582 8281 8525 9145 8517 8946 9210 9545 9608 9720 10421 10956
Total 115570 121326 121337 129541 138689 146817 147477 149663 150830 153210 151352 149237 138597 135623 136916 136413 132301 129731 131444 136284

Source: APSED

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