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Florida’s median age in 2021 was 42.7, higher than the national median of 38.8 and that of neighboring Georgia (37.5). But even within Florida, the age structure varies widely, from 32.1 in Leon County to 68.3 in Sumter County — the highest median age of any county in the nation. A new U.S. Census Bureau interactive visualization shows the broad variations in age structure by state and county.
Median age is one way to represent an area's age distribution. Another way is using population pyramids providing the age and sex structure. Population pyramids in the data visualization below are commonly used in demographic research because they provide a condensed but powerful illustration of a population’s age distribution by sex. A population pyramid is essentially two bar charts, one for the male population on the left and the other for the female population on the right.
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