Skip to content
Tech News

This Painful Chart Shows How Many People Are Younger Than You

By

Reading time 1 minute

Comments (0)

Feeling old? This simple chart will reveal the crushing truth of just how many people in the country are younger than you.

Put together by Nathan Yau of Flowing Data, the interactive chart is incredibly simple. Choose to look at men, women or both, move the slider to your age and—boom—a shot of stark reality will tell you the percentage of people around you that are younger. If you’re in your mid-thirties, you’ve hit that terrible tipping point where you’re outnumbered by youngsters.

The data comes from the 5-year American Community Survey from 2014, so if all else fails you could try and convince yourself that the numbers are out-of-date.

[Flowing Data]

Explore more on these topics

Share this story

Sign up for our newsletters

Subscribe and interact with our community, get up to date with our customised Newsletters and much more.