How many Generation Alpha people are alive right now?

The counter is anchored to a published cohort estimate at a known instant, then advances using UN mortality rates for the relevant age bands. Because no Alpha can be born, the number only ever goes down.

Mortality inside a young cohort is low and unevenly distributed between countries, so the rate applied here is a global average. Treat the trend as sound and the final digits as decoration.

Full derivation on the methodology page. Where we model a figure rather than cite a published one, we say so — please do not present model output as a measured statistic.