Mainly because they, on average, were born after the rest of the country.
I can only really speculate but I’m gonna take a shot that 20-30 years ago, that area was doing better than the rest of the country due to the oil industry, so more people were settling down and having kids.
Lots of students in Dundee especially as a proportion of population
More people moving there from rest of UK to work in O&G, decom, renewables. These folk tend to be the easy to get, lower paid grads and recent trainees/apprentices looking to move into those industries.
Students
Dundee was once the teenage pregnancy capital of Europe
1. High student population in Dundee where roughly 10% of the population is at University or College.
2. High teen pregnancy and birth rate, dragging the average down. Dundee was the teen pregnancy capital of Europe for a good few years in the the 00’s.
This is purely to do with University attendance. You can see the stat also applies in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
If Stirling were a NUTS3 region on its own rather than being lumped in with Perth then the same would apply there.
Those 5 Local Authorities with large Universities have a spike of 18-24 year olds in their population pyramid.
Fife is net neutral with a gain due to St Andrews but some losses in south Fife to other areas.
The other 26 Scottish Local Authorities tend to have less 18-24 year olds due to migration to the big 5.
Both Aberdeen City and the Shire have had gradually increasing populations and this is projected to continue. Some areas of Scotland have falling populations.
University cities.
Nothing to do other than the obvious
There are alot of professional energy sector apprenticeships in Aberdeen. A lot of the younger folk from Highlands and Islands head to Aberdeen for the opportunities (also from all over the U.K. and world).
I can also speculate (as I know a lot of people who have done this). A lot of the original oil workers from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s have had the funds to retire abroad.
This means less older folk because of the money they have earned the last 40 years means they can move somewhere warm, and more younger folk for the work/learning opportunities which are in Aberdeen.
Edit: I would also speculate that a lot of the oil workers have seen a lot more of the world than most of the uk. They might have moved their families to Dubai, USA, Canada and wanted to return in their retirement. Hope that helps
Dundee, no a clue haha
The map shows the ‘LARGEST’ group, not the average age. Part of it is to do with the universities, but the largest groups are 20-29 (Dundee) and 30-39 (Aberdeen + shire). So it is likely that for Dundee it is a combination of university and the already mentioned teenage pregnancy rate from the past, there’s also large groups of Eastern Europeans in the surrounding area, often in their twenties, trying to save up for a house back home.
For Aberdeen + shire I’d guess it is to do with ‘imported workers’ as well, but probably a larger variety with the oil sector bringing in a lot of folks.
That’s just Ayrshire skewing the results for the rest of the country.
Dundee and Aberdeen have popular Universities but aren’t popular places to settle.
Students?
I’m in Shetland, and I know of a lot of young eens from here and the other isles who go to Dundee and Aberdeen for college since we don’t offer much here. I would assume that’s a big factor.
Why so many folk thinking this is showing an average? What indicates that here?
I’m more curious why there are areas in Europe where the largest group are under 10.
Half the population in Dundee is students, pretty much.
All of the 4 main cities have younger largest age groups (its just that edinburgh and glasgow are very small on the map)
Nothing better to do than fuck 😉.
Aberdeen has 2 universities and a large number of young adults move from the shire to the city proper in hopes of better opportunities.
Universities in cities with smaller populations than Glasgow and Edinburgh?
No one wants to retire in Dundee?
There’s a stereotype in aberdeen / Aberdeenshire where you leave school at 16, your dad gets you a job in oil, you buy an Audi a3 at 19%apr and find a blonde girlfriend that’s biggest aspiration is to go on holiday to Dubai.
Usually they have 2 kids before the age of 23 and name one after the boys dad and the other one a goofy name like Rheain (pronounced rain or some bullshit)
Big uni campuses, right?
There is a high proportion of the Dundee population in their 30s. Also need to factor in that a lot of these people in their 30s have kids and grand kids as well so brings the average age down.
It is also important to consider that the parents of the generation in their 30s will be dying off as well as they will have reached their 40s so again that brings the average age down.
At the end of the day, age is just a number and for the people of Dundee I imagine what is less important is the age you actually are and more important is the age you FEEL, when you take some heroin.
Because most the elders have died from overdoses
Aberdeen has two universities and I’m sure I heard / read ages ago that a huge amount of our population is made up by these students.
That, and employment opportunities post graduating meaning they hang around, could be why!
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Mainly because they, on average, were born after the rest of the country.
I can only really speculate but I’m gonna take a shot that 20-30 years ago, that area was doing better than the rest of the country due to the oil industry, so more people were settling down and having kids.
Lots of students in Dundee especially as a proportion of population
https://www.investindundee.com/human-capital/student-population-ratio
More people moving there from rest of UK to work in O&G, decom, renewables. These folk tend to be the easy to get, lower paid grads and recent trainees/apprentices looking to move into those industries.
Students
Dundee was once the teenage pregnancy capital of Europe
1. High student population in Dundee where roughly 10% of the population is at University or College.
2. High teen pregnancy and birth rate, dragging the average down. Dundee was the teen pregnancy capital of Europe for a good few years in the the 00’s.
This is purely to do with University attendance. You can see the stat also applies in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
If Stirling were a NUTS3 region on its own rather than being lumped in with Perth then the same would apply there.
Those 5 Local Authorities with large Universities have a spike of 18-24 year olds in their population pyramid.
Fife is net neutral with a gain due to St Andrews but some losses in south Fife to other areas.
The other 26 Scottish Local Authorities tend to have less 18-24 year olds due to migration to the big 5.
Both Aberdeen City and the Shire have had gradually increasing populations and this is projected to continue. Some areas of Scotland have falling populations.
University cities.
Nothing to do other than the obvious
There are alot of professional energy sector apprenticeships in Aberdeen. A lot of the younger folk from Highlands and Islands head to Aberdeen for the opportunities (also from all over the U.K. and world).
I can also speculate (as I know a lot of people who have done this). A lot of the original oil workers from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s have had the funds to retire abroad.
This means less older folk because of the money they have earned the last 40 years means they can move somewhere warm, and more younger folk for the work/learning opportunities which are in Aberdeen.
Edit: I would also speculate that a lot of the oil workers have seen a lot more of the world than most of the uk. They might have moved their families to Dubai, USA, Canada and wanted to return in their retirement. Hope that helps
Dundee, no a clue haha
The map shows the ‘LARGEST’ group, not the average age. Part of it is to do with the universities, but the largest groups are 20-29 (Dundee) and 30-39 (Aberdeen + shire). So it is likely that for Dundee it is a combination of university and the already mentioned teenage pregnancy rate from the past, there’s also large groups of Eastern Europeans in the surrounding area, often in their twenties, trying to save up for a house back home.
For Aberdeen + shire I’d guess it is to do with ‘imported workers’ as well, but probably a larger variety with the oil sector bringing in a lot of folks.
That’s just Ayrshire skewing the results for the rest of the country.
Dundee and Aberdeen have popular Universities but aren’t popular places to settle.
Students?
I’m in Shetland, and I know of a lot of young eens from here and the other isles who go to Dundee and Aberdeen for college since we don’t offer much here. I would assume that’s a big factor.
Why so many folk thinking this is showing an average? What indicates that here?
I’m more curious why there are areas in Europe where the largest group are under 10.
Half the population in Dundee is students, pretty much.
All of the 4 main cities have younger largest age groups (its just that edinburgh and glasgow are very small on the map)
Nothing better to do than fuck 😉.
Aberdeen has 2 universities and a large number of young adults move from the shire to the city proper in hopes of better opportunities.
Universities in cities with smaller populations than Glasgow and Edinburgh?
No one wants to retire in Dundee?
There’s a stereotype in aberdeen / Aberdeenshire where you leave school at 16, your dad gets you a job in oil, you buy an Audi a3 at 19%apr and find a blonde girlfriend that’s biggest aspiration is to go on holiday to Dubai.
Usually they have 2 kids before the age of 23 and name one after the boys dad and the other one a goofy name like Rheain (pronounced rain or some bullshit)
Big uni campuses, right?
There is a high proportion of the Dundee population in their 30s. Also need to factor in that a lot of these people in their 30s have kids and grand kids as well so brings the average age down.
It is also important to consider that the parents of the generation in their 30s will be dying off as well as they will have reached their 40s so again that brings the average age down.
At the end of the day, age is just a number and for the people of Dundee I imagine what is less important is the age you actually are and more important is the age you FEEL, when you take some heroin.
Because most the elders have died from overdoses
Aberdeen has two universities and I’m sure I heard / read ages ago that a huge amount of our population is made up by these students.
That, and employment opportunities post graduating meaning they hang around, could be why!
That, and we cull the old.