• jj4211@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Even at constant population or even mildly declining, you would expect the young to outnumber the old by a bit. Given people die on the way to getting old and die whole being old more than the young die.

      They may be even fewer than when the currently old folks when they were young but still be expected to outnumber the old

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        26 minutes ago

        you would expect the young to outnumber the old

        Kinda depends on how you define the two cohorts.

        We’re also overlooking a seminal moment in history where

        • Vaccinations
        • Nitrogen rich fertilizer
        • Fossil fuels
        • A sixty year long people of relative global peace

        All came online at about the same time, radically improving human life expectancy over two generations.

        As a point of comparison, the county of Tibet had an average life expectancy of 35 in the 1920s and 72 in the 2020s.

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        2 hours ago

        Why would anyone make a kid is beyond me. More meat for future wars, for warehouses and factories, forcing a life into being just for suffering and misery