The U.S. population is older than ever. What that means
LA TimesCalifornia’s median age in 2022, 37.8 years, was just below the national level of 38.9 years. From 2021 to 2022, the nation’s median age — at which half the population is younger and half is older — increased 0.2 of a year to an all-time high of 38.9 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released Thursday. “As the nation’s median age creeps closer to 40, you can really see how the aging of baby boomers and now their children — sometimes called echo boomers — is impacting the median age,” Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Census Bureau’s Population Division, said in a news release. The median age could go up even more in the next few years, Beveridge said, as COVID-19 took a disproportionately high toll on older Americans. “Even if we pick up fertility, it’s still not gonna be enough to bring up the baby boomer generation because women of a child-bearing age are a smaller proportion of the population,” he said.
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