How Many People Are Left From the Year You Were Born
11The U.S. fertility rate tumbled to its lowest level ever in 2017, with 60.2 births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The total fertility rate has been below replacement level since 1971.
Even so, the nation’s population continues to grow, climbing to about 327.9 million as of June 5, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. population has been rising because of immigration and longer life expectancy.
24/7 Wall St. has determined how many people born each year since 1933 are alive today. Not surprisingly, the share of people alive today generally increases as years go by. We used data collected from government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis to create the list.
Because of greater access to health care, which has improved dramatically over the last century, life expectancy has increased significantly. The average person born in 1930 lived to 59.7 years. By 2012, the average life expectancy had increased to 78.8 years, though that number has slightly declined in recent years.
To determine how many people are left from the year you were born, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed estimates of the native population by age from the U.S. Census Bureau. These estimates adjust for both naturalized citizens as well as native-born Americans living outside the United States. The share of people born each year since 1933 alive in 2018 was calculated by comparing these U.S. Census Bureau population estimates to the number of births each year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vital Statistics of the United States report series. Total U.S. population figures in each year are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
This is how many people from the year you were born are alive.
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Woo-hoo lookitme I’m still alive!
@Targaryen
When did you last check?
@Targaryen
@Targaryen Are you sure you aren’t a bot or a robot with an AI computer for a brain?
@Targaryen You’re immortal, so far!
@PlacidPenguin Good question, I haven’t had to carry around soil from my place of birth so I guess I’m doing ok?
@Kidsandliz if I had a computer for a brain math would be so much easier.
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Not too many this age (82) left.
@ESGERARD
More than folks might think, a little over half.
Around 44% of men and 58% of women.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
@ESGERARD My parents are both 82 this year. Happy to see there’s a lot of you still around.
How many folks remain from Social Security Administration.
Saw this online the other day. What is scary to me are the percentages for the years 2006-2009. For 2006-2007, more than 6% of the babies born then have already passed. For the years 2008-2009, more than 5% have passed. In 21st Century America. WTF.
Well the US does have the highest infant mortality rate in first-world countries
Except different countries count differently. In many countries, (eventual) death of premature babies counts as stillbirth and is not included in the infant mortality stat, whereas in the US, it is.
@lordbowen There is way too much variation in the percent alive for the recent years for me to believe these numbers.
@fibrs86 They base the percentages off the amount of people born which varies from year to year
@Khatton3 The points raised by @fibrs86 are actually valid because the values being compared are percentages. More importantly though is what is the margin of error and could that account for some of the differences.
@fibrs86 @Khatton3 so basically birth rates are lower, but we yell “Hey Y’all, watch this!” at a consistent rate.
These stats don’t include abortions so are not accurate.
@phatmass
@phatmass Should they also include all the sperm from when you jack off into a paper towel?
@seeds lets just say that if they did, I’d have single handedly tripled the mortality rates from 1989 to… now.
About half the people are left from the year I was born, and half are right.