If you are in your forties, there about the same number of...

If you are in your forties, there about the same number of people younger than you that people who born before you did. Above that figure, is more likely that this visualization will make you feel melancholic. And below forties, or well below, well… congrats too! ;-)

Via FlowingData:

Who is Older and Younger than You

Nerd Notes

Data comes from the 2014 American Community Survey, 5-year estimates, which I pulled from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

Analysis and tabulation was done in R and the interactive chart was made with d3.js.