'Generation Beta' Begins in 2025, Expert Says: Here's What to Expect from the Kids That Will Live Until 22nd Century

Mar. 15, 2025

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Generation Beta is about to enter the world.

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.”

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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.

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.”

source: people.com