'Generation Beta' Begins in 2025, Expert Says: Here's What to Expect from the Kids That Will Live Until 22nd Century
Babies born between 2025 and 2039 will be part of the next new generation, according to demographer Mark McCrindle
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Generation Beta is about to be born.Generation Beta is about to enter the world.
Babies born between 2025 and 2039 will be part of the next new generation, according to a blog post from demographer and consultant Mark McCrindle, who has been credited with helping define the generational labels used to group people by their birth years.
The start of Gen Beta at the end of 2024, according to McCrindle's timeline, will also mark the end of Gen Alpha births, which he sees as taking place between 2010 and 2024.
By 2035, McCrindle wrote, members of Gen Beta — who follow Gen Alpha, or "Gen Z," as well as Generation Y, also known as millennials — “will make up 16% of the global population” and many of them “will live to see the 22nd century.”
Additionally, Gen Beta is expected to make up about 19% of the world’s workforce by that same year.
“Generation Beta represents the dawn of a new era,” McCrindle wrote in his new blog post. “They will grow up in a world shaped by breakthroughs in technology, evolving social norms, and an increasing focus on sustainability and global citizenship.”
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Gen Beta will be the children of millennials and older members of Gen Z, according to McCrindle.
They will also enter a world where physical and digital worlds “will be seamless” and “where AI and automation are fully embedded in everyday life,” McCrindle predicted.
“Their formative years will be marked by a greater emphasis on personalisation — AI algorithms will tailor their learning, shopping, and social interactions in ways we can only begin to imagine today,” McCrindle wrote.
But Gen Beta will also face “major societal challenges” in their lifetimes such as the continued effects of climate change, a shifting global population and “rapid” urbanization in more parts of the world.
Given that they'll likely have more eco-minded parents in millenials and Gen Z, Gen Beta will be “more globally minded, community-focused, and collaborative than ever before," McCrindle expects.
“Their upbringing will emphasise the importance of innovation," he wrote, 'not just for convenience, but for solving the pressing challenges of their time.”
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