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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.
Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials.Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980.
Millennials (born 1981-1996) and Generation X (born 1965-1980) aren't often compared. Although the two generations share much in common, Gen X can be overshadowed by the baby boomers who precede ...
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 ...
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 ...
From there, the midpoint birth year of each generation was used for comparison: 1955 for baby boomers, 1972 for Generation X, 1988 for millennials and 2004 for Generation Z.
He’s also a boomer himself, with Gen X children, who has taught millennials and members of Gen Z. By the end of 2024, everyone in the boomer generation will be at least 60.
The definition given is "a member of an age group born after Generation X and before the millennial generation (specifically in the late 1970s and early 1980s)". [16] Xennials received additional attention in June 2017 following a viral Facebook post by Mashable. [17]