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ShelfordPrefect t1_iqmgs9w wrote

Just thinking about demographics, is the average age dip in the late 60s the baby boomers reaching adulthood and having children, skewing the population young?

Likewise the dip in average senator age around 1980 would be baby boomers reaching their 30s and being eligible for the senate?

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TaliesinMerlin t1_iqml5t8 wrote

It could be a factor. The birth rate was continuously dropping in the late 1960s though, and the death rate was at a high in 1968, which may have also cut into the median. Reductions in death rate in the 1970s, along with reductions in birth rate, may have meant an older median.

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Bluefoxcrush t1_iqpnnjm wrote

It certainly looks like once the Boomers took office, they never left.

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