Birth year · Generation Beta · 2025–2039
The second Beta year. The oldest members of the cohort turn one, and the first real research on Generation Beta childhoods begins to be designed.
A baby born in 2026 is Generation Beta, the cohort born 2025–2039. They turn 0 in 2026, and will be 18 in 2044. Roughly 131.8 million babies were born worldwide that year according to the UN medium-variant projection.
Events are included where they plausibly shaped childhood for this cohort, not as a general history of the year.
Age 4
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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 0 during 2026, depending on whether their birthday has passed.
About 131.8 million worldwide, projected by the UN medium variant.
Between 2030 and 2033, depending on the country. The United Kingdom and Ireland start at four, most countries at six, and Sweden, Poland and Indonesia at seven.
In 2044.
In most US states, class of 2044 if born January to August and class of 2045 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 2044 (born January to August) or 2045 (born September to December).
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