Birth year · Generation Alpha · 2010–2024
The last year before generative AI was public. Children born in 2022 are the final cohort to be born into a world where machines could not write.
A baby born in 2022 is Generation Alpha, the cohort born 2010–2024. They turn 4 in 2026, and will be 18 in 2040. Roughly 133.1 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
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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 4 during 2026, depending on whether their birthday has passed.
About 133.1 million worldwide, according to UN World Population Prospects.
Between 2026 and 2029, depending on the country. The United Kingdom and Ireland start at four, most countries at six, and Sweden, Poland and Indonesia at seven.
In 2040.
In most US states, class of 2040 if born January to August and class of 2041 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 2040 (born January to August) or 2041 (born September to December).
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