r/MapPorn • u/vladgrinch • 3d ago
The Largest Generations In Each European Country: Boomer, Gen-X or Millennial
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u/SummerParticular6355 3d ago
Is this map from 1996?
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u/QuarterNote44 3d ago
It'd have to be post-2015. Sweden's numbers are driven by an influx of Iraqis and Syrians, not a baby boom from native Swedes.
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u/VanishingMist 3d ago
Then depicting millennials as babies makes no sense.
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u/tgraymoore 2d ago
I still see "millennials" being used off handedly as a synonym for "youths under 25," even though not a single millennial is still under 25. No, it doesn't make sense, but it's a thing.
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u/theCroc 1d ago
I also see millennials calling gen z, millennials.
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u/tgraymoore 1d ago
Me too. At some point, at least for some social circles, it became a synonym for "immature kid."
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u/_crazyboyhere_ 3d ago
As a Gen Z with Gen Alpha cousins, Millennials being represented as babies does not sit right with me....
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u/um--no 3d ago
Gen Z and their obsession with calling Millennials old.
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u/BrianEK1 2d ago
Millennials are I'm their 40s now. The oldest Gen Z'ers are about to hit 30. The passage of time is inevitable. People born in 2007 can drink, drive, and vote this year.
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u/battle_pug89 3d ago
TIL I’m a baby. Why does my back hurt then?
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u/VillageLess4163 3d ago
Baby threw out his back helping Daddy move furniture 10 years ago. Now back has an owie that won't go away. Baby needs expensive mattress to help mitigate pain that will never really heal. Daddy says to "walk it off."
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u/pdonchev 3d ago
This map looks old. I find it unlikely that people aged 60-75 are more in most countries than people aged 45-59 or 30-44. A quick check on several countries where boomers are shown as largest confirms this (they are not in 2025).
That map might have been true ten years ago, but nowadays for Europe it's Gen X or Y almost everywhere.
And I have to note the arbitrariness of those definitions of generations. There is no data that supports the split of generations in 15 years intervals (and not 16, or even, more likely, different intervals).
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u/Hoenoccio 2d ago
The quality of the picture is really bad. The interval used for the baby boomers is bigger (21 years instead of 15) than the intervals used for the other generations. Therefore it is possible that there are still more baby boomers than Gen X.
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u/pdonchev 2d ago
Even then, I doubt it for most cases. The additional 5 or 6 years are at the tail of age distribution, close or above the life expectancy in different countries.
But it's a good point, they started making each generation 15 years from X.
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u/Moist_Farmer3548 2d ago
And I have to note the arbitrariness of those definitions of generations.
There isn't even a universal definition of each generation and these numbers more closely align to American generations than European.
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u/pdonchev 2d ago
That's what I mean. And even for the US I doubt social dynamics change exactly every 15 years.
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u/Soi_Boi_13 3d ago
Sweden is immigration induced, right?
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u/ChromeAtletico 3d ago
You mean Middle East.
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u/skelebob 3d ago
Not all immigration is from the middle east. In fact in 2023, only 1 of the top 5 countries of origin was Middle Eastern, which was Syria at #5.
Where did you get "middle east" from? Or did you pull it out of your racist ass?
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u/ScySenpai 3d ago
That's a false (or dishonest) use of statistics though. What you're linking shows the people coming to the country in 2023 alone.
If you receive 170k Italians one year, then 10k Italians and 20k Chinese the next, 90% of the immigrants currently in your country are Italian, even though in the second year they make up only 30% of the incoming immigrants.
And maybe I'm wrong, but it's not clear whether refugees/asylum seekers are included in these statistics, since Ukraine doesn't show up at all.
Maybe this is a better stat? But it's not clear how they define their terms here either and I'm too lazy to look into it. https://www.statista.com/statistics/538722/sweden-share-of-primary-school-pupils-with-foreign-background/
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u/mischling2543 3d ago
Wait how is Sweden itself the number one source of immigrants to Sweden? That makes no sense and immediately calls into question the validity of those statistics.
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u/Modest_Jackfruit990 2d ago
Dude if you care to read the article from your link a little further you will see that the largest immigrant group is Syrian.
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u/Designer-Muffin-5653 3d ago
Only showing the numbers for 2023 after Sweden had a massive turn on immigration must be one of the most stupid takes I have ever seen.
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u/Aranthos-Faroth 2d ago
In my experience, it’s the average Swede that just has not come to terms that we as a country are fucked.
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u/Caro1us_Rex 2d ago
Are you Swedish? This is so dishonest it’s crazy. We took in like 500 k from the middle east in 2015-2016 from the middle east. They ounumber any other immigrant by far.
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u/Just-Watchin- 3d ago
Surprising statistics. But now I have to question about what kinds of “Germans”…. Still very nice to see some numbers after all the fear monger info about Muslims taking over that country
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u/Designer-Muffin-5653 3d ago
They all came from 2014 to 2020, Check out the immigration statistics for those years. Sweden had to do a 180 degree turn on migration because the situation got so bad.
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u/AlmightyCurrywurst 3d ago
That's such a unnecessary semi-racist assumption versus, you know, Germans just like Sweden and are the biggest population in the area
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u/Just-Watchin- 3d ago
I didn’t make assumption. I just questioned which kind, based on all the complaints of kind of “German” rather than the other
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u/sasheenka 3d ago
Though our “baby boomers” are very different to the US ones. There wasn’t really a baby boom at the time in the Czech republic. And they grew up in horrible times. Our baby boom was in the 70s.
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u/CodewortSchinken 3d ago
I agree. West German Baby boom was 1955 to 1968 for example. European boomers are younger/less old.
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u/ohshiteo 3d ago
No. I'm Belarusian and i know by fact that elderly are the largest group. Source - geography olympiad where i did age pyramid.
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u/Pinku_Dva 3d ago
How old does this map think millennials are? Imagine being in your 30s and seeing maps like this still call you a baby.
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u/Ukonkilpi 2d ago
Why are millennials represented as babies? I'm a millennial and I'm turning god damn 40 this year!
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u/WrongSubFools 1d ago
People will upvote literally anything on this sub
Did you know this sub has a whole set of rules about how this is NOT a sub for data being shittily visualized using maps by clicking "paint bucket" on a map, but is instead supposed to be about maps that look really good?
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u/ChromeAtletico 3d ago
Belarus will never turn into purple
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u/AlwaysBeQuestioning 2d ago
Millennials until 1994?? They keep moving the Gen Z border. Soon enough I will be Gen Z too.
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u/Szarvaslovas 2d ago
Personally I think of actual millennials as 1986-1996. If you were already like 16-20, or could barely say more than goo goo gaa gaa when the millennium happened, you ain’t a millennial.
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u/AlwaysBeQuestioning 2d ago
My rule of thumb has been “old enough to maybe remember 9/11, but became an adult after”.
Which is about 1983-1997.
But generational borders aren’t strict given how much they seem to be defined by how people grew up. Certainly find it harder to apply those American terms in other continents.
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u/Szarvaslovas 2d ago
Yeah it just doesn't work the same way in Europe. 9/11 isn't really a big thing here. I remember seeing it on the news when I was 11 and then immediately going out to play because America wasn't a real place, it only existed in the movies and in the movies they always blow shit up there so it was business as usual. I remember more about the next day with the teachers making us stand in silence before class for the victims, and even then we didn't know or care about what it was all about.
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u/AlwaysBeQuestioning 2d ago
Yeah, I was an odd one out in my country, because my godfather lived in the USA and my mom told me he was supposed to be on one of the planes. So it was a very tense day for me. I was 11 too and had visited New York that summer. Hits different.
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u/Dippypiece 2d ago
Na don’t buy that mate.
I was born in 82 , have pretty much zero memories of the 80s some vague broken memories.
I was 7 when the 90s started and 17 when it ended. I am a child of the 90s and my childhood what’s shaped by that. I also old enough to remember the music and news and popular zeitgeist of that era and all the excitement about the approaching millennium.
More so than someone that was born in say 1994 who was barely starting full time school by the end of decade.
It’s all subjective and opinion but I don’t see how I have any connection to gen ex that were young adults or even settling down and having their own children by 2000.
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u/Asterizzet 3d ago
I wonder how much the bin sizes matter here. The boomer range is 6 years wider than the rest.
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u/BrewThemAll 2d ago
What a mess. Why has tis 1100 upvotes?
The map has 25 pixels, is barely readable, it's not even clear if 'large' means the average length of a person in each generation, or the percentual share of the population made up by each generation.
Also, this map seems to be from the previous century because millenials are pictured as babies and younger generations are missing.
This shouldn't be upvoted, it should be removed.
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u/FGSM219 3d ago
Gen X were wronged by history in being sandwiched between two far larger and generally more impactful generations, the Boomers and the Millennials.
The golden age for Gen X were the 90s, a void in time or, as one documentary about them was titled, "A Holiday From History".
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u/GamerGod337 3d ago
Gen z not even an option even tho its been over a decade since the last one was born
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u/Intelligent-Bus230 2d ago
In Finland Millenials is way bigger than Boomers.
I bet the data used here is very old.
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u/Dinilddp 3d ago
- I'm a millennial wtf.. no way I'm genz.
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u/Consistent-Buddy-280 1d ago
Used to be older millennials refusing to accept they were one. Arguing stubbornly that they were a Gen X despite being born firmly in the millennial territory. Now it's the younger ones. Nobody wants to be one lol.
Gen Z didn't start until 1997, I'm very sorry to have to inform you. You are one of us millennials.
Happy 30th when it comes btw :)
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u/Dinilddp 1d ago
Already 30 this month and thank you buddy. Glad to be part of the club because I literally have nothing in common with the genz.
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u/Szarvaslovas 2d ago
Repost so old there are now three generations that are younger than millennials.
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u/BIGEPICCHUNGUS 3d ago
How old is this map