Re:Americans no longer want to move for work
by foobarbecue on Monday May 22, 2023 @08:04AM
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Fascinating. I'd like to see a version of this with generations marked. It seems like there are more peaks than generations. For example, there's a peak at age 50 and another around age 60.
Re:Americans no longer want to move for work
by SECProto on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:32AM
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that peak (late 1960s) is where the youngest boomers started to have children while some of the silent generation still were. This [1] animated chart makes it even more clear. Just for comparison, Canada [2] is even more exaggerated
As to the generations - those are still just useful generalizations. As soon as you start digging into it, you start seeing all the edge cases.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_demographic_compositio...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canada_2023_Population_Py...
Here[1] is the US population pyramid. You can clearly see the small increases and decreases at various ages - a demographic pulse, as you said. There is a significant decline in the echo currently at ~14 in that image. I would note that early adulthood tends to bring in more immigration (people moving for university and staying), so I wouldn't read too much into it at this point.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Population_Pyramid.sv...