Birth year · Generation Beta · 2025–2039
The first year of Generation Beta. Every baby born from 1 January 2025 belongs to a cohort that will not close until the end of 2039.
A baby born in 2025 is Generation Beta, the cohort born 2025–2039. They turn 1 in 2026, and will be 18 in 2043. Roughly 132 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
Age 6
Age 7
Age 13
Age 18
Age 18
Age 21
Age 30
Age 50
The cohort this year belongs to
The cohort born between 2025 and 2039 — the first generation for whom artificial intelligence is not a product they adopted but the environment they were born into.
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 Beta. The cohort runs from 2025 to 2039 under the McCrindle boundaries used throughout this site.
They turn 1 during 2026, depending on whether their birthday has passed.
About 132 million worldwide, according to UN World Population Prospects.
Between 2029 and 2032, depending on the country. The United Kingdom and Ireland start at four, most countries at six, and Sweden, Poland and Indonesia at seven.
In 2043.
In most US states, class of 2043 if born January to August and class of 2044 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 2043 (born January to August) or 2044 (born September to December).
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