The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

Generation X

The Silent Generation and many of the Boomers begat the Xers, born between 1965 and 1984.

Generation X is unfairly maligned because pundits miss the point; they don’t do their math. There are 11 percent fewer Gen Xers than Boomers. Yet they attended college at the rate of 500 per thousand compared to the Boomers at 250 per thousand. When this generation progressed through the public school system, 10 to 15 percent of public schools in the United States closed because of the dramatic drop in enrollment compared with the Boomers. When the Xers entered college, enrollment actually went up. This is noteworthy, especially when evaluating Generation X’s qualitative attributes.

Generation X numbers only 69.5 million, and members of this ...