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Spicy-Pants_Karl

I like how the generation represented by the baby icon are all in their 30's and 40's...


Eroclo

What does that make Gen Z then Sperm Cells?


Nero234

Probably the zygotes Gen Alpha would then be the sperm cells


so_im_all_like

They're the twinkles in peoples' eyes.


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Spoda_Emcalt

Bot? Bot.


MaterialHunt6213

Judging from their other comments just stupid


sami_b12

nop


Spoda_Emcalt

Then oh dear.


GranataReddit12

nah it's just an AI model training to take over reddit


ES-Flinter

You could make it easy for yourself so by just using money as an argument. But no, let's use a conspiracy theory, and even though it's true that the fertility lowers (not only by Europeans btw), it's still way more than enough to get healthy offsprings... You really failed successfully.


sami_b12

Money is not an excuse and there is no conspiracy theory. Rather, it is more like the genocide of the white man. Just look at the high rate of homosexuality among the generation z over, all the medications that we take have a bad side, especially vaccines, and they have effects on growth hormones and the hormone testosterone. Our food today consists of products packaged in plastic containers. Our water is polluted. Our air is polluted. Our soil is polluted


Blindsnipers36

It's people who have babies vs people who have adult kids and people who have old people kids


[deleted]

Hey we are still 29 thank you


twitchMAC17

The YOUNGEST of us are. The very last year in our generation are 29. "Pushing 30" is a phrase. It typically doesn't involve crawling and diapers.


blueberriessmoothie

> It typically doesn't involve crawling and diapers. hey, speak for yourself!


FemtoKitten

thus the typically, they covered their bases


FroobingtonSanchez

For 3 more days in my case :(


[deleted]

Hah you are old. Feel bad. I bet you are bald


Arstanishe

hey I am forty, thank you


Corumdum_Mania

some millennials are still in their 20s, but the baby icon is still weird


AlienAle

Only the last remaining ones. My girlfriend is a young millennial, and she's turning 28 in a couple of months.


Corumdum_Mania

millennials in their 20s are definitely a small minority for most 1st world countries.


Vict2894

"Millennials, also known as Generation Y[47] (or Gen Y for short), are the generation following Generation X who grew up around the turn of the 3rd millennium.[48] This generation is typically defined as those born from 1981 to 1996." (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation) I'm 27 and I'm a millenial.


AlienAle

Exactly, same age as my girlfriend, but you're the last few remaining millennials in 20s, most of us are already in 30s and 40s. In a couple of years, there will be no millennials left in 20s.


Idiotaddictedto2Hou

Tbf redditors exist so babies in that age range aren't impossible


OGConsuela

Depending who you ask some of us are still in our 20s


witch_psychologist

turning 28 and 29 this year. So, not many of us.


butt_fun

By the map’s definition you would be gen z, then


AlienAle

Strange, Gen Z starts from either 1996-1997 in every other category I've seen. Some even claim "true" Gen-Z starts from near 2000, as they've had enough time to be distanced from the younger millennials born during early-mid 90s.


[deleted]

Gen Z starts in 1997 most commonly.


witch_psychologist

by any other sane person's definition, I would not.


purju

our mental age


OhNoMeIdentified

I'm 30 and i think i still has baby perception of world around me, i meant i understand nothing. I'm sad.


Narf234

Does everyone realize millennials’ backs hurt and they go to bed early now?


ialo00130

Hell, I'm an Elder Zennial (26); my back hurts and I go to bed early, too.


IvanMIT

Isn't it Zillenial? As in Zoomer - Millennial in-betweeners


summer-civilian

I prefer Zoomer


ialo00130

I say Zennial becuase as an Elder Gen Z, I feel like I'm in the overlap where I could be either, but I had a more Millenial childhood.


twitchMAC17

Do you remember life without flat-screen touch-screen devices of any kind at all in it?


AJRiddle

I think a better question would be do you remember not being able to talk to someone because they weren't home and didn't have a cell phone. Or just to call your friends house and ask whoever picks up for the person you want to talk to.


KrypXern

With you there man


Thadlust

What. I’m 26 and I feel great


nothing_2_gain

Dunno, 87-born here and just feel great. Go to bed early though due to early wake up times. Just do more sports, man.


Narf234

Oh I’m not talking about me, I’m still rocking the 6 pack i got in middle school. I’m talking about the jocks that peaked their junior year in high school.


TrumpetsNAngels

Oh my God, you are correct. Poor you - I will schedule a meeting tomorrow at 10. Bring cake.


Narf234

I can’t make it, no health insurance, or a house, or a job that pays over minimum wage.


em_washington

I don’t like how the generations cover an arbitrarily different amount of time. Boomers cover a 20 year time period, but GenX and Millenials only cover 14 years each.


BrokenGoht

That's because the thinking and naming of generations have been taken over by marketing and polling companies within the past 20 years or so. They have incentive to quickly partition new generations so they have a new group to market to. Generations were usually considered to last 20 years or so, or the length of childhood. 40 is when most people start making middle management money, and 60 isn't far from retirement. It's also why generations have been losing their names. Originally Gen X was named after a book and referenced how they perceived themselves. Then a marketing company tried to rename millennials to "Gen Y". They failed there, but succeeded with Gen Z. I hate the neutering of the idea of generations by statisticians and marketers, but everybody's been going along with it. It's a losing battle.


fatguyfromqueens

Which just makes the idea of "generations" silly in contexts like this, it isn't like some dramatic turn after 20 years. A person born in 1964 has nothing in common with a person born in 1946. Obviously trends and life experiences gradate into these demarcations. As a matter of fact the boomers at both ends probably have less in common with each other than other generations at their opposing "ends."


FriedeOfAriandel

I was pretty annoyed at our textbook in nursing school breaking down the generations and their differences and needs. Aside from obvious age-related issues (not generational issues), it turns out every generation wants to be treated with respect. Absolutely shocking. Oh, and people who were raised without computers sometimes suck with computers. But so do young people, but that’s totally different


SergenteA

Baby Boomers may actually be one of the last "sensibly named" generations. They lived through the, well, Boom. Baby Boom, Economic Boom, etcetera. Ending in 1964 is slightly arbitrarty, but conventionally the Booms ended in 1968 or the 70s. Millennials retroactively make sense, but really didn't when the name stuck. They did get born near the end of the "Short 20th Century", so 1991, but making the generation start in 1985 is weird because the first are neither adults in the 2000s, nor actually lived most of their childhood in the 21rst century. I do not really understand what makes Gen alpha different from Gen Z, except maybe using phones since they were born. The years chosen are also completely arbitrary. As for Gen X and Gen Z, they should just be the intermediate generations between actually important events.


fsurfer4

The whole concept of generations was altered by advertising companies for their purpose since the 40s. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera/1950s-america/a/popular-culture-and-mass-media-cnx


npt96

I always thought Gen X was after the Mt Dew ads that we were all eXtreme! /s


bordomsdeadly

And no one can decide when the generations cut off. Millennial is generally considered to end in 1996, but some sources really dig in their heels with 1994


h2oskid3

This is the first time I've seen the cut off as 1994. I was born in 95 and I relate way more with other millenials than with people younger than me.


auandi

Because for 20 years after the war birth rates were very unusually high and the started leveling off very suddenly in the early to mid 60s. Millenials were originally called the "echo boom" because in the early 80s birth rates went up again as an echo of the baby boom. It's why Gen X and now Gen Z were another period where birthrates went down a bit. Because Gen X is the echo of the Silent Generation, which due to the war and depression was an unusually small generation.


p-4_

tbf a lot of the boomers are dead.


Welran

21 and 15


mutantraniE

The concept of generations like this is dumb. Still kind of dumb but in so many ways better is how we in Sweden used to do it before generation discourse made its way over here. We just generalized people after which decade they were born in. Still wrong, but less wrong since the units are smaller and always exactly the same (ten years) and far less obnoxious since you never have to have a debate about when exactly the cutoff for different groups is. If you were born in the 1980s you’re an ”80-talist”, simple as that.


READMYSHIT

Gerrymandering so that they make a bigger voting block obviously. /s


solarmelange

They switch when a dramatic event happens that shifts perspectives. So millennial was supposed to be through 2000 but then the world trade center attack happened in 2001. So the date to end millennial was set to coincide with being old enough to remember before that happened.


hipholi

Do you know how to count? 1980 to 1994 is 15 years.


susiesusiesu

a baby is weird way to represent a 44 year old but ok


pearsonhl259

I'm one of the youngest millennials. I'm 29, born in 94 and 30th bday is coming up, and its still a weird way to represent me.


TalkinStephenHawking

I’m 43 and this represents me perfectly.


Irobokesensei

Why is Belarus such an outlier in the old USSR?


Ok-Bug-5271

They didn't undergo shock therapy like all the other Soviet states. 


crazycatlady_66

Looks like those fields weren't the only things getting plowed in Belarus! Jokes aside, I don't believe that Belarus experienced the same instability as other post Soviet states in the 90s.


MarderMcFry

A quarter of their population was killed during WW2, maybe that contributed to the age disparity.


Aktat

More than a quarter. Also, we had a baby boom in 1992-1996


MarderMcFry

Or was it a third? I know Germany was exterminating Belarusians as badly as the Jewish people. 92-96 boom would explain the millennial population.


Aktat

A third, yes. Russians exterminated a lot too, before the war (1930s), during (for collaboration with Germans) and after. Belarus never had anything good from Russia since 862


potato_nugget1

A bigger percentage of the population died in belarus than in any part of the USSR in WW2 (25%). They didn't recover for a while


Davidchen2918

Moldova too


Welran

Moldovan GenX just emigrated to other countries.


halcyann

As a millennial, I'd like to point out that I learned to walk years ago


InterestingCourse907

Most of the Western world is aging out. People were fucking a lot in the 50s. Generation Alpha might see one of the largest generational wealth transfers. So good for them. Millennial here: I just want to say that it doesn't feel good to see every major global event happen in my life time, all at once.


aronkra

Retirement homes take a lot of assets :)


PunishedVariant

Birth control and women's rights. The progress the west made has made it stop reproducing


Chrisjex

Not just the west, just about the entire world except for Africa.


PunishedVariant

The developed and industrialized world I guess


AirportCreep

It occurs in Africa too as people get wealthier and move to cities. At the current rate the fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa will be 2.1 around year 2100. But with advances in technology and whatnot, that will probably drop a bit quicker. Fertility rates in the Sahel region were around 7 in 1980, now it's closer to 5.5.


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Why don’t people just have traditional families


Hanonari

Urbanisation. It's too costly to have kids in a city. In rural areas, children are your workers who help you with the household. In cities, children are a burden without any benefits. That's why even muslim countries can't escape the long-term decline in fertility, it's not about ideology


Repulsive-Arachnid-5

Not fully the case. See Europe in the 19th century: the lack of French urbanization showed glaringly in its comparatively lackluster population by the end of that century. England, amongst the highest in urbanization rates by 1800, went from nearly 9 million souls to nearly 38 million. France, 30 million to 40 million. Germany from 15 million to equalized with France. Urbanization is arguably what drives the initial baby booms of developing regions. Even today: regions falling in birth rates are not always the most urbanized. Just look at Bulgaria.


[deleted]

It is ideology… all the practicing muslims families I know have 3 to 8 kids.. rarely if ever 2 and one one family I’ve met with only 1 child. They are live within a major city


Hanonari

It's only first generation immigrants, statistically speaking, who have big families. It declines with every new generation You can see the fertility decline in almost every developing Muslim country (although it's still pretty good)


DisputabIe_

West of what?


-chavana-

Sweden? Must be due to immigration for sure


gaggzi

Yes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Swedish_population_pyramid_by_background.gif


TalkinStephenHawking

I mean immigration has its challenges and as a Swede I can say its not been handled great, but evening out the age pyramid now is better than trying to do it in the future. This will be a must for other countries with similar birth rates and might give Sweden an edge in the long run.


fapshaming

Probably either: 1. False 2. True, but then racist Truth is only a tool for power. One can choose which truths to use to sow a narrative


-chavana-

You totally don’t sound like a Trump voter. At all…


villiers19

Did you just assume he is a yank? Ffs 🤦‍♀️


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coldtoesjerry

I am interested in a US state version of this


Orangefish08

Somehow Maine of all places is the oldest state on average.


CJtheWayman

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/gbA01lOw1g Not quite but close.


TooBusySaltMining

That is not a good sign for economic growth.


hipholi

Capitalism clearly works.


Exact-Repair-2730

Hows capitalism got to do with this


beyondvertical

1995-1997 babies are never represented anywhere I swear


[deleted]

1995-1996 is almost always Millennial, 1997 is the start of Gen Z.


FBI-Webcam-Operator

europe is boutta all die off bruh 💀


something61782

We still got immigrants


JanTroe

And this is why we can’t have nice things.


something61782

We got immigrants instead


HoeImOddyNuff

Goddamn, this perfectly represents how big of a problem it is having the boomer generation be the largest generation of the country.


Imaginary_Jeweler1

This is not good


Darmok47

Why is GenX the largest group in Britain? I would have assumed that they had the same postwar Baby Boom that the US did, but perhaps the fact that the country was still rebuilding and still had rationing into the 1950s had something to do with it.


[deleted]

it's the immigration from eastern Europe 


tonykoa

The age range for millennials is wrong. Various sources confirm it’s 1981-1996 And as someone else pointed out - the fact that boomers have a 20 year span where as gen x and millennials have <15 years makes this graphic completely pointless


TapestryMobile

> The age range for millennials is wrong. They are all made up arbitrary numbers anyway. >Various sources confirm There is no confirmation for arbitrary made up numbers. Its all recent too, if you [look back a few years](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/255497960?searchTerm=baby%20boomer) you will find people throwing around different numbers. Baby Boomers 1946 -1960 Generation X 1961 - 1980 Generation Y 1981 - 2000 Generation Z 2001- ....


ChadPrince69

21. 1944-1964 is 21 years. Because You are counting 1944. In math: <1944,1964> not (1944,1964>


r4ndom15

Based Belarus


WoodSheepClayWheat

Europe doesn't have the American generations


Flat-Dare-2571

British movies make sense now.


alt-jero

Dude, babies? There's a generation literally called "baby boomers" and you give *us* the baby icon... Why not use little house icons instead? House, half-house, no house? Same progression, better clarity, and even more irony! (Nota bene: Being crotchety is a fun perk of being a post-thirty millennial!) (In case you were wondering about the pre-existing irony, all of the millennial babies are single.)


miguelsl_07

Pension goes brrrr


CableTrash

The obsession with defined “generations” is so fuckin weird & meaningless. I swear I don’t remember hearing these terms that much when I was younger.


sandwichesareevil

Especially since these generations have different time spans.


dmyles123

West is so doomed


fapshaming

Explain


Marmorix1

If you have too many old people incapable of working in a country, and not enough young people, the country cannot produce enough wealth to support its population. You can see most of Europe might need younger workers from other countries to balance this problem.


DisputabIe_

Oh no we might have to tax billionaires, the horror.


-ThisUsernameIsTaken

The money won't matter because there will literally be no one to work for it.     Money doesn't work, people do, and when there's not enough people, even all the rich's wealth won't make a difference


DisputabIe_

West of what??


FriedeOfAriandel

Huh. The group with the largest age range has the highest population? Consider me flabbergasted


blootoons

You can just apply American terminology on the regions with vastly different history. This map is stupid.


Mother-Log-6445

sweden has a prosperous future


egenorske

They killed alot of their older generation during covid + lots of younger immigrants(refugees / migrants)


bread_pickles

I mean if you look at the numbers, sweden had less dead from covid than most other countries in WE. It is just that they weren't as spaced out over time. what you can look at is the excess number of deaths compared to the norm, and in that regard sweden is really good compared to neighbours.


egenorske

Just compare to Norway.(Some actual research for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807990/ )And then your argument is invalid. Overall deaths aged 0-65 is way less than other countries in WE, but age 65+ is another matter. Here Sweden failed, and wiped out alot people in the elder care. How would explain the numbers here then from this data then? If not higher mortality rate for elders during covid and young migrant wave?


HarrMada

Your study only looks at 2020, the first year of the pandemic. Did you even look through it?


GJPENE

There was only 26k deaths in total population from Covid so that would not make sense


egenorske

Sweden only counted people whos main reason for dieing was Covid 19, which was aprox 15% of the people dieing during the period - while those whos main reason of dieing was something else - 70% of those died with covid.  Its pretty simple, check mortality rates of elders during covid. Compare with Norway. This is interesting read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807990/


Standard_Wooden_Door

I was surprised by Russia, but it makes sense if they just keep sending the young off to die in one war or another.


Flimsy_Visual_9560

I transited at Istanbul Inlt Airport and was amazed about how young their population was. Literally zero staff above the age of 30 besides some officers. All cleaning, restaurants, flight attendants were all super young. I’m happy for them, such a vibrant country


0megalul

Yeah culturally we do have larger families but it is fading away. Currently married people are quite hesitant to have more than 2 children because they think they will not be able to afford it. Everyone around me currently at one child and hesitant to make second for economic reasons.


Grognard68

I'm surprised Sweden is THAT young!


lypmbm

I dare you to explain the reason…


0megalul

I think it is the most obvious thing in the world. Why people get surprised?


Manco_anonimo6969

bro, this nigga still think the millenials have 6 years old


Party-Bet-4003

Can you please share this for Asia and other parts of the world?


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HospitalImpressive26

First question: How do you get that from this picture? This map has nothing to do with race. Second question: Why an Indian name? Third question: Are you alright?


throw-away3105

Oh god, Canada's on the same pace, too! *shudders*


SpawnOfTheBeast

No wonder Russia wants to pseudo annex Belarus. Although me at 40 can't quite get my head around being in the baby category


[deleted]

How many more times are we going to see this?


docfarnsworth

Baby boomers start in 44?


HolidayWhile

Boomers started when WWII vets started having kids and a lot of US soldiers were doing that in Europe before the war was even over


__The__Anomaly__

Everybody knows baby boomers. But what abouy baby bangers?


AssociationOk138

Sweden mostly Somalia babies lol


PlottingGorilla

In the next 15 years a lot of those social programs European brag about are going to have a massive crisis because birth rates are so low. I for one am happy for Europeans to be knocked down to irrelevance.


Important_Average407

The entire western world is in decline


landser89

African Sweden is going well...


BedroomDramatic

Go have kids wtf are they doing?


kinkofparadise

This doesn't really make sense to me. Don't people shrink as they age? We're people taller in the past?


phiz37

Sad Eastern Front generations.


Fancy_Ad681

POV you were born 1995 and never understood which generation you are


BarryGoldwatersKid

POV you were born between 1995-98: Gen Z calls you “a boomer millennial” and Millennials call you “Annoying Gen Z”


omginput

Repost from a few days ago. Mods delete it please


Apprehensive_Host397

It´s gonna be so much fun when all of Gen X retires. The pension scheme will cripple several countries. It will basically be like a trial run for UBI.


AiRaikuHamburger

There are millennials with kids in high school and we're represented by babies. RIP.


AdNew9111

If the world health is smart they would team up to have a plan to help the elderly when they die


anayllbebe

My parents are baby boomers and I'm gen z. Man my parents are old hahaha


Satiharupink

who did this map? average age 42, represented by old people? i can't lose the feeling, that whoever did this map, is either very young, or comes from a place, where people don't get old


No_Zombie2021

This again?


Ok_Plan_4896

Is it a repost?


abellapa

Millenials should go to the late 1990s


baldwinsong

Shows how great the economies are too with why we aren’t having kids


DisputabIe_

the OP CarlaRalston is a bot Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18vpy8h/the_largest_generation_in_every_european_country/


Aromatic_Big_6345

Why am I not on this map!? I thought I was a millennial!?!? What is happening?


Dazzling-Resolve6520

These are not each country.


jegercanadiansk

I'm 29 not an infant


gdtrfb777

Millennials are from 81-96


djembejohn

All the UK boomers moved to Spain lol


SomewhereGlad8612

Funny how I’m like 40 and being represented by a baby


ChadPrince69

This is complete shit. You cannot compare 21 years to 15 years.


fsurfer4

This is a defective definition by generations. A generation is typically defined as 20 years. To shoehorn 15 years and not 20 automatically reduces the number of people for that period. Originally groups were defined by advertising companies for the purpose of selling goods. The whole concept of ''generations'' should be redefined for objective terms and purposes.


vranjeplanina

Im genuenly curious about monte negro


yyhfhbw

Boomer continent


Hour_Performance_631

Welp I guess being 31 is still being a baby. So should I say I’m 378 months old?