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A lot of country's population pyramid doesn't look like a pyramid. It's more like a rhombus.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2024/

I noticed some middle eastern countries have a very skewed male female ratio among people born roughly 30 years ago.



The ME countries you are talking about are UAE, Qatar etc. where a lot of labourers are brought in from South Asian countries for construction etc. That's why you see so many 20-40 males.


Interestingly enough if you change the filter to "US" and rewind the data to 1950 (it looks like that's how far this graph goes), if you advance up by 5 years you can see the "bulge" of baby boomers age up into retirement where they are right now.


Very nice. There’s also a second bulge starting around 1990.


Could be the children of baby boomers, except it seems like it's about a decade late?




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