Birth year · Generation Alpha · 2010–2024
The year the algorithm took over the feed. Children born in 2016 have never seen a chronological timeline as the default.
A baby born in 2016 is Generation Alpha, the cohort born 2010–2024. They turn 10 in 2026, and will be 18 in 2034. Roughly 140 million babies were born worldwide that year.
Events are included where they plausibly shaped childhood for this cohort, not as a general history of the year.
Age 4 — already passed
Age 6 — already passed
Age 7 — already passed
Age 13
Age 18
Age 18
Age 21
Age 30
Age 50
The cohort this year belongs to
The cohort born between 2010 and 2024 — the first born entirely in the 21st century, and the first raised with touchscreens and algorithmic feeds from infancy.
Cohort boundaries are hard lines drawn through a continuous thing. A child born a day before or after one of them lands in a different generation with an identical childhood.
They are Generation Alpha. The cohort runs from 2010 to 2024 under the McCrindle boundaries used throughout this site.
They turn 10 during 2026, depending on whether their birthday has passed.
About 140 million worldwide, according to UN World Population Prospects.
Between 2020 and 2023, depending on the country. The United Kingdom and Ireland start at four, most countries at six, and Sweden, Poland and Indonesia at seven.
In 2034.
In most US states, class of 2034 if born January to August and class of 2035 if born September to December, because 1 September is the most common kindergarten cut-off. In England and Wales they take A-levels in the summer of 2034 (born January to August) or 2035 (born September to December).
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