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Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
The Silent Generation: Born between 1928 and 1945 (ages 79 to 96) ... Millennials: Born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 28 to 43) Millennials, also known as Generation Y, were born between 1981 and 1996.
Among older millennials, those born 1981–1988, Pew Research found that 43% personally identified as members of the older demographic cohort, Generation X, while only 35% identified as millennials. Among younger millennials (born 1989–1997), generational identity was not much stronger, with only 45% personally identifying as millennials.
Gen Y, better known as millennials, were born from 1981 to 1996. The generation’s name originates from the fact that the oldest members were reaching adulthood around the turn of the millennium.
Doree Shafrir, writing for Slate magazine, chose "Generation Catalano" for its reference to the character Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto (born 1971), from the 1994–95 teen drama My So-Called Life. She defined "Generation Catalano" as those born from 1977 to 1981, the timeframe of Jimmy Carter's presidency. [21]
Generation X, made up of people born from 1965 to 1980, and Millennials, made up of people born from 1981 to 1996, seemed to agree it is somewhere between $5 and 6 million. Gen Z : $9,469,847 ...
Jon Miller at the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the University of Michigan wrote that "Generation X refers to adults born between 1961 and 1981" and it "includes 84 million people". [61] In their 1991 book Generations, authors Howe and Strauss indicated that the total number of Gen X individuals in the U.S. was 88.5 million. [62]
By George Lorenzo We hear a lot about millennials, gen Xers and baby boomers, but there are several generations interacting today. Demographers typically segment the world population into six ...