[OC] US-Bevölkerungspyramide Dezember 2023

Why the dip in 50-year-olds?

Surplus is a grim word to use

Good news is the size of the surplus is about the same as the prison population, so it all balances out.

What’s with the male surplus in younger people?

US has by far and away the healthiest population pyramid in the developed world with the only exception of Israel.

Country|0-14 year old (% of population)|50-64 year olds
:–|:–:|–:
Italy|12.2%|23.5%
Germany|14%|22.5%
France|17%|19.4%
USA|17.6%|18.5%

I would like to point out that this age distribution contributes significantly to the problem of growing loneliness (i.e. being without a romantic or sexual partner) among young men.

A surplus of, let’s say 3%, doesn’t seem to amount to much. You have 103 males for 100 females. Seems negligible.

But now consider that, at a certain age, the majority of people have partnered up or have left the ‚dating pool‘ for other reasons – health etc. If 80% of people by the age of 25 have left the dating pool, there is a remaining 23 men competing for 20 women. If the number is 90% partnered up, you have 13 men for 10 women. This 30% surplus soon becomes a very noticeable pressure for the remaining single men with inevitable losers who are simply outnumbered by their competitors. People change their behavior in the face of these odds.

(Edit: Yes, this is simplified. Numbers become more complicated when you include homosexuals (there are more gays then lesbians), aromantics or asexuals (mostly women), or people who leave the dating pool for other reasons (military, jail, health problems etc.). But still, the quantitative (hetero) gender bias is immediately noticeable at all places where single people like to hang out.)

Now consider that young women also have a different age range for dating. A 20-year-old man can usually date someone between 17 and 22, while a 20-year-old woman can choose between men aged 18-30. Again, this does increase pressure considerably.

Since people often tend to read these posts as personal complaints, let me be clear that this is not *my* problem and not about *me* at all. I am way out of this age group and have also been happily married for over a decade now. But given the fact that people do find it more acceptable to talk about loneliness these days, and given the societal implications male loneliness brings with it, I find that these two merely quantitative factors are often left out of debate and would merit more consideration. We need to show more compassion and understanding to the people who lose out on the partner market.

Spike of 23s, Y2K fallout.

It’s so funny that redditors see the surplus female bars at the older ages and go „that’s because of the FALLEN in BATTLE and WAR“ and forget about heart disease.

An ageing population is the inevitable unpleasant aftereffect of a population boom. There’s no way around it. But the problem in East Asia is worse than it should be due to the fertility rate decreasing so much. Africa is going to experience population ageing badly in coming decades. Although it might be mitigated by many people dying before they reach an advanced old age.

Good Times for Gilf hunters

Even our population pyramid has gotten fat!

Fun fact, more males are born but higher rate of accidents and diseases

This population pyramid is a sausage fest.

Men in under 30, you gotta slam some GILFAs or youre gonna be alone forever

What stage of the Demographic Transition Model would this categorize as? Stage 4? What happens when we reach stage 5?