Familypedia talk:Population by year

Choices of birth and death year ranges
The coding for year 50 CE seems to include everyone who died after 25 CE having been born before 75 CE.

That will include all people (no matter how long they lived) who died between 25 or 26 and 49 or 50 CE or were born between 50 or 51 and 74 or 75 CE. What's the logic?

Wouldn't it be more accurate to have everyone who died after 50 CE having been born before 50 CE? The only inaccuracy would be the small number of infants born in 50 CE and dead by the end of the year - or, depending on the precise meaning of ">" and "<", those who were born or died in that year (about half of whom would have been alive on any particular day in that year), a larger number but nowhere near as large as the number who (no matter how long they lived) died in all the years from 26 CE to 49 CE added to those who were born between 51 CE and 74 CE.

I would like to have this settled before anyone adjusts the bar lengths.

-- Robin Patterson (Talk) 00:18, June 3, 2016 (UTC)