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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1676977, member: 24544&quot;]What he is saying is absolute numbers of people matter more than percentage of population.&nbsp; Hypothetical, if there are 50 million white middle aged men today in a population of 300 million than the percentage is 16.7%.&nbsp; If the white middle aged male population goes to 70 million in a population of 700 million then demand may well be higher for the fixed number of coins existing, while the demographic percentage has gone down to 10%.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to say that the percentage of the population who is X is decreaseing does not tell you much about the absolute size of a given population, which is more important for demand considerations.&nbsp; With that said, the actual demographics look pretty bad for coin collecting, 80 million baby boomers aging through middle age now compared with 50 million gen X aging through middle age in a decade or so.&nbsp; I know there is more too it then just these demographic numbers, but if the same percentage of each generation collects coins, we are in for a 40% reduction in the number of collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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