Time for some general perspective.

🍜 There are approximately 1.69 billion people in East Asia. That would be China, Japan, Mongolia, North/South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. With a median age of 41.
Demographics being:
- China 84.4%, median age 39.0
- Japan 7.3%, median age 49.5
- South Korea 3.1%, median age 45.5
- North Korea 1.6%, median age 36.3
- Taiwan 1.4%, median age 44.5
- Hong Kong 0.4%, median age 46.3
- Mongolia 0.2%, median age 29.8
- Macau <0.1%, median age 38.4

🏰 There are approximately 752.8 million people in Europe, the median age being 42.5. While 449.3 million people live in the European Union, with a median age of 44.7.
Demographics of all Europe being:
- Eastern Europe 38.2%, median age 41.3
(includes Russia)
- Western Europe 26.8%, median age 43.6
- Southern Europe 20.3%, median age 46.4
- Northern Europe 14.7%, median age 40.4

🦅 There are approximately 341.2 million people in America. With an estimated median age of 39.1.
Demographics being: (single race only)
- White non-hispanic 59.3%, median age 44.9
- Black 12.7%, median age 35.8
- Multiracial 11.3%, median age ~22 (trend)
- White Hispanic 9.5%, median age 35
- Asian 6.2%, median age 37.6
(1.5% being Indian, nearly 5 million people)
- Indigenous 1.0%, median age of 32.1

*Jewish 2.4%, median age of 48.0 (counted primarily as single race White non-hispanic)
**Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) are also counted in the single race White non-hispanic group. A proposal to add a distinct MENA category to the 2020 Census was not approved.

Sources
U.S. Census Bureau
Pew Research Center
United Nations Population Division
Eurostat

Assembled by @irie

@[email protected] world full of middle aged niggers

@dilf to me what stands out is how massive China's population is, and yet younger than most other countries. Seems like a rare combo. And if you add their upward transformation of economy and infrastructure over the last decades then it feels like China is at least worth a visit.