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by petercooper 1380 days ago
I enjoy his work, though I occasionally find contradictions. He says the US has favorable demographics through having plenty of millennials and suggested the UK was not so lucky, but they look roughly the same to me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingd... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

Germany and China, on the other hand, both do have a huge drop off from the baby boomer generation onward and I wonder how they'll cope with that.

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To me what stood out most starkly was how few black and hispanic people are found in older cohorts. It seems to imply they die much younger.
That doesn't play, for me. I tried to find it on YT, no luck.
It's from this bit of one of his shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6Ez8oYDrU
Thank you. Nobody can argue with Chris Rock.
Not that I have a perfectly photographic memory, but I can't recall him ever presenting the UK pyramid chart in any of his presos.