Generation Alpha are defined as those born from 2010-2024. More than 2.5 million are born globally every week.
For a while I've theorized that there's a generation in between millennials and “Gen Z”, spanning roughly 1997 to 2001, which I like to call Generation Delta. The idea emerged because I see disparities between the childhood of people my age and a few years older and people only a few years younger than me.
Generation Beta will be born from 2025 to 2039. Continuing to follow the Greek alphabet, the generation after Beta will be Gamma, born from 2040 to 2054.
That is why the generations today each span 15 years with Generation Y (Millennials) born from 1980 to 1994; Generation Z from 1995 to 2009 and Generation Alpha from 2010 to 2024. So it follows that Generation Beta will be born from 2025 to 2039.
Generation Alpha is considered to be the most technological-infused demographic up-to-date. Alphas seem to know and understand complex ideas and able to do things that are well beyond their age.
Alpha children are permanently connected. Such is their attention to new technologies that it becomes a way of life. Independents. They are independent when it comes to making their own decisions and managing their digital identities, and they expect their individual needs and preferences to be taken into account.
Understanding Generation X
Baby Boomers (circa 1946 to 1964) Generation X (circa 1965 to 1985) Millennial Generation (circa 1985 to 1996) Gen Z (post-Millennial) (circa 1997 to 2012)
Generation Alpha describes the current generation of children who began being born in the year 2010. They are the children of the Millennials, and often the younger siblings of Generation Z. There are more than 2.8 million born globally every week.
Generation Alpha is the group of people born between 2010 and 2024. Today, more than 2.5 million people are born into Generation Alpha every week – and by 2024, there will be more than 2 billion of them.
Gen Z, born approximately 1997–2012, are beginning to make an impact in the workforce. As the oldest members of this generation start to find their way in the professional world, they've already been fairly vocal about what they want and need from their employer.
Zennials, nestled between Millennials and Gen Z and born between 1992 and 1998, represent the next iteration of a cusp cohort under spotlight.
Individuals born in the Generation X and millennial cusp years of the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s have been identified by the media as a "microgeneration" with characteristics of both generations.
The youngest great-great-great-great-grandparent being Augusta Bunge (USA) aged 109 years 97 days, followed by her daughter aged 89, her grand-daughter aged 70, her great-grand-daughter aged 52, her great-great grand-daughter aged 33 and her great-great-great grand-daughter aged 15 on the birth of her great-great-great ...
Generation Omega bears the seeds of another generation, a Generation Alpha, because generations always do. That Generation Omega is as yet provisional—that we may bear or even become Generation Alpha—gives me hope, and even faith.
Unlike the previous generation who had fought for "changing the system," the Silent Generation were about "working within the system." They did this by keeping their heads down and working hard, thus earning themselves the "silent" label.
Who is Generation Alpha? Gen Alpha is the generation following Gen Z and currently includes all children born in or after 2010—the same year the iPad was born. The majority of this demographic is under 12 years of age, but the oldest of them will become teens in 2022.
Generation X, a term typically used to describe the generation of Americans born between 1965 and 1980, although some sources used slightly different ranges. It has sometimes been called the “middle child” generation, as it follows the well-known baby boomer generation and precedes the millennial generation.
Generation Z (or more commonly Gen Z for short), colloquially known as zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years.
Generation Alpha are defined as those born from 2010-2024. More than 2.5 million are born globally every week.
Gen Alphas born in 2020 have a global average life expectancy of 73 years—16% longer than their Millennial parents.
Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha for short) is the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 2010s as the starting birth years and the mid-2020s as the ending birth years.