Not the prettiest graph, but a neat way of putting all this information into one image.
Wiki Commons page: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generation_timeline.svg#mw-jump-to-license
Wikipedia page on Generations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
I like how it shows when the first and last person of each generation hits certain milestones.
However I’m not sure if the cutoff makes sense. If the first section is birth to 18, then the final could be retirement (or 60) to ‘death of the last person from that generation’. That would be more meaningful visually, and it would also show how many people from each generation were still alive at each point.
Since “first person to die” doesn’t make sense, it would need to be a straight line at whatever year is the last confirmed death
I hear you but death age is likely a messy statistic. Using life expectancy might help, but that too depends on a number of things. So I can see why they went this way … it lets you apply the ages to what you know.
Good points, it’s hard to portray that part of the data either way
I’m really just splitting hairs, the chart is a helpful visualization otherwise. Thanks for sharing!