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Market share has gone down, although number of users hasn't declined that much.

2022 rankings:

Argentina: 3

France: 4

Croatia: 12

Morocco: 22

I'm looking for a gift for my aunt...

That's the thing though. The age gap isn't really increasing. All Americans are getting older about proportionally with the Senate.

Good idea, I might reupload with that line if I can find the data. Also, it's 25 and 30 (US Constitution Article 1, Sections 2 and 3).

It shows an aging population for sure.

The main thing that I would infer here is that while Senators in 2022 are older than they used to be, so is the general population. Proportionately, the current Senate isn't any less representative with regards to age than they were in the '50s and '60s.

I'm not implying anything else with this data really. In another comment I explain that the Senate was always intended to be a bit older than the House, although the Founders probably did not anticipate these kinds of ages (the median age of the first Senate was 47.5 years).

Yep, in hindsight I agree this one is much clearer and faster to read than the old one.

True enough.

I dunno about 'false': an 8-year, 25% drop in the 13 years between '68-'81 is still pretty drastic. But in hindsight I do agree with you guys that this graph is much better (and more representative) than the old one.

Yep, the idea was always to have Senators be slightly older than Representatives. Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist no. 62:

>The qualifications proposed for senators, as distinguished from those of representatives, consist in a more advanced age [...] A senator must be thirty years of age at least; as a representative must be twenty-five. [...] The propriety of these distinctions is explained by the nature of the senatorial trust, which, requiring greater extent of information and stability of character, requires at the same time that the senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages [...]

Although I'm not sure if Hamilton had quite these ages in mind. I did some quick Wiki-searching and put the dates of birth of all the first Senators in LibreOffice, and found out that the median age of the 1789 Senate was only 47.47 years.

I cannot find a clear value for median age in 1789, but based on what little I've found, the median age certainly wasn't 20 so the age difference between Senators and the general population was a lot lower at the first Senate meeting.

Following feedback on my previous post here I decided to upload a (hopefully) more readable version using the same data.

I saw u/SandiePandleton's post on the average age of Senators over time, and I couldn't help but wonder: have Senators gotten older, or has the US population just gotten older?

As you can see, despite appearances 2022 is really not far out of the ordinary: the US Senate has always been a bunch of old geezers. Outliers are 1968, when the average senator was more than twice the age of the average American (27.3 vs 59.3), and 1981, when the difference was 'only' 24 years.

Since I had already done most of the work out of curiosity, I figured I'd clean up the graph a bit and post it for others like me.

Source:

1. Senator average age: u/SandiePandleton's earlier post, sources linked there.
2. US median age: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022, Online Edition.

Tool:

LibreOffice Calc.