Generations · 11 of 11
The babies being born right now.
Who is Gen Beta?
Gen Beta are the babies born from 2025 to 2039, in McCrindle's definition. They are the children of younger Millennials and older Gen Z. McCrindle expects them to make up 16 percent of the world's population by 2035, and many to live into the twenty-second century.
The years, by who you ask
Nobody owns these lines. Each researcher draws them for their own reasons, so the edges move.
| McCrindle | 2025–2039 1 |
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Only McCrindle has defined them so far. Everything else about them is forecast. 1
The world they were born into
What was going on while they were small, and while they were young enough for it to stick.
Where the name came from
The next Greek letter after Alpha. McCrindle chose the Greek-letter names to signal a new kind of world shaped by technology. 1
How they're usually described
The generalities: what researchers and writers say about the group as a whole. A group portrait, never a person.
Forecasts, not findings. McCrindle expects them to be the first to use self-driving transport at scale and to grow up with AI built into daily life. These are predictions about babies; read them as such. 1
Next to the other generations
Who raised them, who they raised, and where the friction and the common ground show up in the data.
Millennials and Gen Z. Their parents: younger Millennials and older Gen Z. 1
Gen Alpha. Their older siblings.
In the long cycle
A theory, not a finding: Strauss and Howe's idea that generations come round in a four-part pattern. How the theory works, and its critics.
Howe expects the current Crisis to peak around 2030, so in the theory Gen Beta would be born across the end of a Crisis and the start of a new High, as the Silent Generation and the early Boomers were around 1945. 6,7
The decades they were born in
Gen Beta are being born now, from 2025.
Questions people ask
What years is Gen Beta?
2025 to 2039, in McCrindle's definition.
Who are Gen Beta's parents?
Younger Millennials and older Gen Z.
What comes after Gen Beta?
McCrindle has floated Generation Gamma, with no years set yet.
Born this year? A card makes a good first gift.
Your generation is the crowd you were born into. Your card is worked out from your own birthday, minute and place: the sky that night, your numbers and your Chinese year. Sealed until you print it.
What your card covers
See all six pages, sealedFold the pages back
1 Who you are
2 The machine says
3 Your sky
4 Love & your people
5 Work & money
6 Your year ahead
Sources
- Generation Beta defined, McCrindle Research. Read on .
- U.S. Births down 1% in 2025, CDC, NCHS press release, 9 April 2026. Read on .
- NCHS – Births and General Fertility Rates: United States, 1909–2018, CDC, NCHS (data.gov dataset). Read on .
- Internet, Broadband Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center, 20 November 2025. Read on .
- Mobile Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center, 20 November 2025. Read on .
- The Fourth Turning: How History's Crisis Period Could Unfold, The Art of Manliness podcast #913, Brett McKay with Neil Howe, 19 July 2023. Read on .
- Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and Suzanne Newcombe (Inform), 2017, updated 15 January 2021. Read on .