Massimo2002
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This question came to me today so before I'm going to get any good answers I'm just going to guess and say babies are the largest age group but I could be wrong let me know.
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What's the largest age group of people ?
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Heyo
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Good answer, and also a good example of lying with statistics.
Notice that the brackets are not equal. The youth bracket is only 14 years, while the adult bracket is 40 years.
Massimo2002
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So what ages would you put in the brackets ?
In the US, The Millennial Generation is the largest. In the world, Gen Z is the largest.
Heyo
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That's pretty arbitrary, just make them equal.
Decades would be a possible partition, but if you want to have only three brackets, 0-40, 41-80, 81-120+ would be reasonable. Very few people get older than 120, so it doesn't invalidate that that bracket is open to one end. 0-30, 31-60, 61-90+ could also be argued for.
When your bracketing has a special purpose, it is also OK to have unequal brackets, if you are open about the inequality.
E.g.: you want to know the bracket of people who support the unproductive. 0-22, 23-66, 67-99+ would then be OK (for Germany).
I found this in 20 year steps
Visualizing the World’s Population by Age Group
Age Group | Number of People (2020) | % of Global Population |
|---|---|---|
| <20 years | 2.6 billion | 33.2% |
| 20-39 years | 2.3 billion | 29.9% |
| 40-59 years | 1.8 billion | 23.1% |
| 60-79 years | 918 million | 11.8% |
| 80-99 years | 147 million | 1.9% |
| 100+ years | 0.6 million | 0.01% |
Visualizing the World’s Population by Age Group
I think it's done that way to illustrate the size of a country's workforce.
Heyo
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Do 15-year-olds enter the work force?
Maybe in developing nations, but surely not here. And, as I said, if that was the case, the author of the graphic should have shared that purpose.
I think 16 is the age in the US as being considered part of the workforce, although I think labor laws allow for 14 and 15 year olds to do part time farm labor (with some restrictions).
Heyo
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As I said, developing nations. /s