The US isn't aging, at least not significantly. The number of people in each 5 year bracket from 0 to 60 is roughly even: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Cen

The US isn't aging, at least not significantly. The number of people in each 5 year bracket from 0 to 60 is roughly even: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/blogs/2016/06/americas-age-profile-told-through-population-pyramids/Chart-1.png https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/blogs/201... The number of people over in the brackets over 60 is substantially less than the younger brackets. Median age of the US population is 37.9. Going back farther in history (like 1930 and before), the population pyramid did look quite different, though. There's a fun tool here to check it out (1900-2000): https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/055/ https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/055/