Gen Z Age Range 2018
Despite being dubbed digital natives members of generation z are.
Gen z age range 2018. Realistically the name generation z is a placeholder for the youngest. Picking a cutoff year is complicated of course as groups change over time. Gen y kids often raised in dual income or single parent families have been more involved in family purchases everything from groceries to new cars. Most members of generation z are the children of generation x and sometimes millennials.
They are currently between 5 24 years old nearly 68 million in u s the term millennial has become the popular way to reference both segments of gen y more on y 1 and y 2 below. 23 million and growing rapidly. The gen x cohort was another 16 year group but the boomers had a 19 year range and the silent generation an 18 year range. And among young adults ages 18 to 22 while 62 of gen zers were employed in 2018 higher shares of millennials 71 and gen xers 79 were working when they were a comparable age.
1995 2012 coming of age. Generation z anyone born after 2000 is part of generation z. 2013 2020 age in 2004. This generation has been raised on the internet and social media.
The gen x cohort was another 16 year group but the boomers had a 19 year range and the silent generation an 18 year range. Only 18 of gen z teens ages 15 to 17 were employed in 2018 compared with 27 of millennial teens in 2002 and 41 of gen xers in 1986. One in nine gen yers has a credit card co signed by a parent. Gen z is the newest generation to be named and were born between 1996 and 2015.
Picking a cutoff year is complicated of course as groups change over time. Generation z or gen z for short are the demographic cohort succeeding millennials and preceding generation alpha researchers and popular media use the mid to late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years.