To ask what age you consider someone young to

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Seems these no definition anymore. I would personally say under 30. When I say young I mean as a young adult.

I have no idea what you are on about but 29 year olds are not really young adults are they?

I'm just asking what age people consider to be a young adult.

29 is far from a young adult.

Under 25 I would say.

Under 25

In context of what though imo a young adult would be 16to 21 anybody after that is an adult

A young adult I would probably say 18-24
A young person 13-17

I’d say under 25

I agree with you OP. Under 30.

In context of life expectancy and experience.

What ever age I am and younger

Under 25

Well under 30s are Drs and police officers etc etc I think that is quite experienced regardless of age.

I would say 16-21 is a young adult personally. We disregard 16 and 17 year olds forgetting the fact they can work, live alone if they want to, legally have sex etc.

Saying young adult conjurs up images of students and people waifing about in casual jobs many under 30s have mortgages and children

Under 25s I'd say.

And off topic but young doctors and policemen/women always make me feel like they should be in school.

At 29 I had been married for 9 years, owned my own home and had 3 young children. I certainly didn't class myself as a "young adult"!

From my perspective, anyone under 50!!

Seriously though - 18-25 is a young adult.

Under 30

That is very true sugar but that is due to our age not theirs

I suppose it means what parameters you use.

Average life expectancy for the UK is now around 80 years.

So define young, middle aged and old.

By virtue of 80 being life expectancy, 40 is the middle of middle aged.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2014to2016
Main points
A newborn baby boy could expect to live 79.2 years and a newborn baby girl 82.9 years if mortality rates remain the same as they were in the UK in 2014 to 2016 throughout their lives.
Improvements in life expectancy at birth for males in the UK have slowed from 13.6 weeks per year between 1980 to 1982 and 2009 to 2011, to 6.0 weeks per year between 2010 to 2012 and 2014 to 2016; for females improvements have slowed from 10.0 weeks to 3.6 weeks per year for the same periods.
In 2014 to 2016, a man in the UK aged 65 had an average further 18.5 years of life remaining and a woman 20.9 years.
A male born in 2014 to 2016 had a 21% chance, and a female a 32% chance, of surviving to at least age 90.

I'm 31 and have been a qualified nurse since 21. A couple of years ago at 29 I was married, a band six deputy ward manager and a home owner. Not really a young adult. My friendship group include; teachers, solicitors and lecturers. A few years ago should we have all been back in school uniform? Rather than successfully doing our jobs?

It depends on the context, patients on my ward are considered young if they are under 70.

I describe my DDs as young adults and they are 20 and 25. I have been thinking recently though that the older one is actually just an adult in that she works, lives with her partner and generally does anything any other adult does. The younger one is a student so still not quite there yet as we still have responsibility for her financially.

technically 18 and 19 yo are still teenagers, which makes it a bit tricky. I'd say very early 20s. A 30 yo is just an adult, who can enjoy not being "middle-age" just yet.

Apollo I think you define it very well there, I would have considered myself a young adult while at university and financially reliant on my parents and for a short while after again while reliant financially on them for deposits for renting etc