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Table 1 Definition and size of cohorts

From: The impact of generational change and retirement on psychiatry to 2025

  

Number of psychiatrists (% of total workforce)

Cohort

Birth years

1995

2003

Pre-Depression

Before 1929

244 (8%)

83 (3%)

War and Depression

1929–1945

661 (28%)

513 (17%)

Older Baby Boomers

1946–1956

708 (30%)

738 (24%)

Younger Baby Boomers

1957–1964

630 (26%)

864 (29%)

Generation X

1965–1975

143 (6%)

720 (24%)

Generation Y

After 1975

0

108 (4%)

Total workforce

 

2389

3026

  1. Generation Y, the oldest aged 28 in 2003, had not completed its entry into the workforce in 2003. Similarly, not all of Generation X (the youngest aged <25 in 1995) had entered the workforce in 1995.