How unusual is it to have all four grandparents alive?

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A friend of mine is 31 and has all four of her grandparents. They’re all in their late 80s. I said to her that must be quite rare but she said she’d never thought of it like that.

I am 34 and all my grandparents are still alive. All but one are mid 70s. One is mid 60s.

When our eldest was born, he had a great-great-grandparent alive.

I only had 1 grandparent growing up, until I was 20idh. But DH had all 4 and all of our children met them. He still has 2 grandparents alive and our eldest is nearly 20 so not in the realms of impossible for his children to meet a great-great-grandparent.

No teen pregnancy's or anything like that. On my husband's side, maternal age ~25 and on mine ~28.

I have young parents and grandparents and have been lucky to have all my 4 grandparents alive till I was 30 - when I lost my Grandad. My Granny is still going 15 years later. I only lost my other set grandparents in the last couple of years. My Granny was a Great Great Grandma!

I got to be around 3 of my Great Grandmas as well. My daughter who is now 21 knew my Grandparents. I have some treasured photos with my Grandparents holding my daughter!

My husband lost his all before his late teens.

I would say it is definitely unusual to have all grandparents alive in your thirties without doubt.

I only knew 3 of the 4. Our DC used to visit and stay with both sets of their GPs.
After doing Ancestry a very different life expectancy between my Parents families, Father's side, His Father and his twin sister made 80 and 3 great Aunts.
On Mothers side many unfortunately checked out before 60 yoa.

38 and none left.

#1 died well before I was born in his 50s
#2 and 3 when I was 12ish in their 70,s

I was 28 but she had dementia for years, early 70s it started I think.

My kids are 7 and 9 and so far all their grandparents alive and well, all in their 60s although step grandparents late 50s. Hope we get many more years together.

I deal with a lot of older people at work, 70s/80s and they are all fully functioning members of society. I am forever surprised at their age because I felt like my grandparents at 70 were old but these people seem so young. Could also be the fact that I'm older yet my parents seemed so much older when they were my age... I don't feel older than 20 and am still surprised that I am an adult with kids!

No idea why some of that is huge and bold!

Dh lost his first grandparent aged 23 which I thought was amazing as I felt lucky to be born with all 4 still alive. I have 1 grandparent left. He is 96, I am 42 and my eldest is 18.

When I was born I had two sets of grandparents, two sets of great grandparents and even a great-great grandmother ( she died a few months later and we didn’t meet)
I still had both sets of grandparents up until I was 18. I am in my 50’s now and still have a grandmother going strong at 93!

My FIL and his partner both had their mothers live to 98 & 99 years, so when they were into their 70's their mothers were still alive! I always find that crazy as when I was 39 my Mum got dementia, so FIL's partner and I were dealing with similar situations, though I was 30 years younger than her.

(So my partner lost his last grandparent, his Gran, when he was 44 which I think must be pretty unusual.)

Not unusual. Had all of them up until was 27, then they started going. The last one went just a year before the turned 100 and that was very recently. I am almost 50

I’m 34 and still have all 4 grandparents.

I was 23 when I lost my 1st grandparent & 46 when my last one passed away. I had my great grandma until I was 26. My DDs are 24 & 26 & still have all 4 grandparents.

I'm 36 and have one Gran in her 90s and one Gran and Grandad in their 80s. My other Grandad was quite a bit older than my Gran and passed away at 86 years ago. I had my Great Gran until I was 23 also.

I've always thought of myself and incredibly lucky to have them.

Unusual, I'd say. None of my kids ever had 4 Grandparents as my Mum died when i was 20.

My first wasn't born til i was 26. In 1993.

Then my dad died 2012 so there were two.

Father in law died 2015.

And now just one Grandma left. She just turned 80.

I think it will get less common as women start having kids later. I had 3 in my 20s, one in my 30s and one in my 40s

It seems very unusual to me but my grandfathers died when I was 4 and 5 and my own DD is 13 & only has one grandmother. My mum died when she was a baby & both grandfathers before she was born.

I'd say pretty unusual by 30, though obviously depends on how old each generation was when they had their children.

I only ever had 2 grandparents, as my mum's parents both died before I was born (youngish, I think 58/60). My grandma died when I was 19 and grandpa when I was 24 - he was the oldest at 84 by then.

DH still had one grandpa living when he was 30, he died a few years later aged 96.

I think it's quite rare outside of families with teenage parents. I lost my first of the four when I was 14 and the last at 32. They were all in the 80s and 90s when they died and had their children at "normal" ages as did my parents.

By the time the last died I didn't know anyone else my age with living grandparents and most people seem shocked when I mentioned visiting her. She died at 94.

My kids won't get the same if I ever have any. I lost my father 6 months ago just a year after Nan died.

I'm 44, up until I was 32 I had all 4 alive.

Up until 2 years ago I had 5 living generations on my mums side. Amazing

I had all my grandparents at that age but 2 died v close together the year after. My parents are both oldest children and we’re the oldest grandchildren so that goes some way to explaining it!

All 4 of my grandparents were alive when I was 31. My nana will be 100 this year and I have 4 grandkids 😃

I lost my last grandparent at 21. My kids lost their last grandparent aged 9 and 11.

My grandparents all died by the time I was about 6 .My children never knew their grandfathers both died in their 60s . My children now have a Grandmother alive but she is in her 90s ,has dementia and she hasn’t recognised them for about 5 years …so sad !

I had lost two gps by the time I was 10. Don't think I actually knew anyone even in their 20s with 4gps alive.

I’m 32 and until this year had three biological grandparents and a step grandparent. My parents weren’t particularly young when they had me either! Sadly DF’s mum died when I was about 10.

We celebrate my grandad’s 95th birthday this week!