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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.
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, who created the Strauss–Howe generational theory, coined the term 'millennial' in 1987. [15] [16] because the oldest members of this demographic cohort came of age at around the turn of the third millennium A.D. [17] They wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991) [18] and Millennials Rising ...
The survey revealed that millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z all believe the “normal” retirement age is 67 to 68. Whether they’ll actually be able to retire at that age may be a different story ...
Generation Z and Millennials were also more likely to consider the Bible to be at odds with science than older cohorts. (See chart.) [339] The same Barna survey revealed that the percentage of atheists and agnostics was 21% among Generation Z, higher than 15% of Millennials, 13% of Generation X, and 9% of Baby Boomers. [339]
The report found once again that a large share of Gen Z wants to retire early: 44% said they want to leave the workforce before age 60, and 14% said they plan to retire between 65 and 69.
That comes out to a CAGR of 5.98% in real dollars from 1990 to 2006, meaning tuition costs actually slowed their rate of increase between Gen X and millennials.
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is 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, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012.
A new study from Life Happens surveyed 2,000 Americans split evenly by generation (500 Gen Zers, 500 millennials, 500 Gen Xers and 500 baby boomers) on the major milestones that define adulthood ...