To alleviate or prevent eyestrain, the Vision Council recommends that people limit screen time, take frequent breaks, adjust the screen brightness, change the background from bright colors to gray, increase text sizes, and blinking more often. The Australian Medical Associated and Obesity Coalition have urged the federal government to levy a tax on sugary drinks, to require health ratings, and to regulate the advertisement of fast foods. The percentage of that age group who said they often felt lonely (which had fallen during the early 2000s) increased from 26% in 2012 to 39% in 2017 whilst the percentage who often felt left out increased from 30% to 38% over the same period. . Millennials are also called Generation Y for following Generation X, and as the children of boomers, they're sometimes called "echo boomers." Generation Z: born 1997 to 2010 Then came Gen Z, or iGen, which roughly starts with people born in 1997. Looking beyond their local communities came last at 6%. The researchers also found that ID was more common among children and adolescents than adults. [37], In the United Kingdom, a survey of 2,000 parents and children from 2013 by Nielsen Book found that 36% of children read books for pleasure on a daily basis, 60% on a weekly basis, and 72% were read to by their parents at least once per week. Countries or education systems whose students scored near or above the international average of 496 in CIL were, in increasing order, France, North Rhine-Westphalia, Portugal, Germany, the United States, Finland, South Korea, Moscow, and Denmark. By age 15, this variation jumped to 53% for girls, and 41% for boys. The "lying flat" movement, popular among Chinese youths, also extends to the domain of marriage and child-rearing. [4], According to U.S. consultants Sparks and Honey in 2014, 41% of Generation Z spend more than three hours per day using computers for purposes other than schoolwork, compared with 22% in 2004. [2] It combines the shorthand boomer, referring to baby boomers, with the "Z" from Generation Z. Zoomer in its current incarnation skyrocketed in popularity in 2018, when it was used in a 4chan internet meme mocking Gen Z adolescents via a Wojak caricature dubbed a "Zoomer". [132], Data from Statistics Canada published in 2017 showed that Generation Z comprised 17.6% of the Canadian population. The percentage of students in the 12th grade (typically 17 to 18 years old) who said they met with their friends almost every day fell from 52% in 1976 to 28% in 2017. 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Countries or education systems whose students scored near or above the international average of 500 were, in increasing order, the United States, France, Finland, Denmark, and South Korea. [1] Prior to this, zoomer was occasionally used to describe particularly active baby boomers.[1]. [45][46] Their purchases are heavily influenced by trends they see on social media. [79][c], Other news outlets have used 1995 as the starting birth year of Generation Z,[d] as do various management and consulting firms. This was the best response, The Amish use tech differently than you think. This is contrary to the opinion of the majority of the 260 cognitive experts polled (84%), who thought this ability was deteriorating. [129], As a result of cultural ideals, government policy, and modern medicine, there have been severe gender population imbalances in China and India. [200], In China, young people nowadays are much more likely to deem marriage and children sources of stress rather than fulfillment, going against the Central Government's attempts to increase the birth rate. [152], In Canada, teenagers sleep on average between 6.5 and 7.5 hours each night, much less than what the Canadian Paediatric Society recommends, 10 hours. [94], During the 2000s and especially the 2010s, youth subcultures that were as influential as what existed during the late 20th century became scarcer and quieter, at least in real life though not necessarily on the Internet, and more ridden with irony and self-consciousness due to the awareness of incessant peer surveillance. [210] In 2015, an estimated 150,000 apps, 10% of apps in Apple's App Store, were educational and aimed at children up to college level,[211] though opinions are mixed as to whether the net result will be deeper involvement in learning[211] and more individualized instruction, or impairment through greater technology dependence[212] and a lack of self-regulation that may hinder child development. In all, about 36% of American children have some kind of allergy. Possible causes of early puberty could be positive, namely improved nutrition, or negative, such as obesity and stress. They also found that 57% of boys claimed to make friends through video gaming, while this was only true for 13% of girls. [132] In Europe generally, 13.9% of those ages 14 and younger in 2019 (which includes older Generation Alpha) were born in another EU Member State, and 6.6% were born outside the EU. A study by foodservice firm Aramark found 79% of members of the generation would like to eat more meatless meals. 57% said they went to bed with their phones beside them and 44% told the interviewers they felt "uncomfortable" in the absence of their phones. 12% of respondents aged 18 to 24 agreed with the claim that Christians were a bad influence on society, compared to just over half who disagreed. [161], Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal that 46% of Australians aged 18 to 24, about a million people, were overweight in 2017 and 2018. About one out of four came from families with voice-command computer assistants such as Alexa. In the Nordic nations, there was a clear decline in general intelligence starting in the 1990s, an average of 6.85 IQ points if projected over 30 years. [142], According to a 2022 Gallup survey, 20.8%, or about one in five, members of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ+. [153] According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, only one out of five children who needed mental health services received it. Twitter and Instagram are seen to be gaining popularity among members of Generation Z, with 24% (and growing) of teens with access to the Internet having Twitter accounts. Among fathers, the amount of time spent on childcare roughly quadrupled, from 16 minutes in 1965 to 59 in 2012. [52], The Pew Research Center surveyed the various names for this cohort on Google Trends in 2019 and found that in the U.S., the term Generation Z was overwhelmingly the most popular. Moreover, 43% said they had regrets about previous posts. [111] Fan fiction writers base their work on various internationally popular cultural phenomena such as K-pop, anime, video games, Disney films, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Twilight, Doctor Who, Star Wars, and My Little Pony, known as 'canon', as well as other things they considered important to their lives, like natural disasters. Move over millennials. In Australia and France, the data remained ambiguous; more research was needed. [109][110][111] For example, an analysis published in 2019 by data scientists Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis of the site FanFiction.Net showed that some 60 billion words of contents were added during the previous 20 years by 10 million English-speaking people whose median age was 15.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}12 years. [105], A 2019 report by Childwise found that children between the ages of five and sixteen in the U.K. spent an average of three hours each day online. They found that up to 10% of the human population have specific learning disabilities or about two to three children in a (Western) classroom. [187], During the 2010s, when most of Generation Z experienced some or all of their adolescence, reductions in youth crime were seen in some Western countries. [8], A study of social interaction among American teenagers found that the amount of time young people spent with their friends had been trending downwards since the 1970s but fallen into especially sharp decline after 2010. In fact, between the late 2000s and mid-2010s, the fall was especially rapid. For comparison, 14% of those aged 25 to 34 agreed. Those in the arts and those in the income bracket 25,001 to 55,000 were most likely to say no to having children. Others defend youths' freedom of expression over the Internet. [8] Research from Australia suggested that crime rates among adolescents had consistently declined between 2010 and 2019. [51], In 2014, author Neil Howe coined the term Homeland Generation as a continuation of the StraussHowe generational theory with William Strauss. [127], Statistical projections from the United Nations in 2019 suggest that, in 2020, the people of Niger had a median age of 15.2, Mali 16.3, Chad 16.6, Somalia, Uganda, and Angola all 16.7, the Democratic Republic of the Congo 17.0, Burundi 17.3, Mozambique and Zambia both 17.6. The secular decline of cognitive abilities observed in many developed countries might be caused by diminishing marginal returns due to industrialization and to intellectually stimulating environments for preschoolers, the cultural shifts that led to frequent use of electronic devices, the fall in cognitively demanding tasks in the job market in contrast to the 20th century, and possibly dysgenic fertility. Most teenagers encounter pornography on a dedicated website, but an increasing number watch it on social media platforms such as Snapchat and WhatsApp. But, as a wise man once said, the only constant in life is change, so it should come as no surprise that millennials are already becoming a thing of the past. [6] ICILS assesses students on two main categories: Computer and Information Literacy (CIL), and Computational Thinking (CT). What comes after Gen Alpha? Continue reading below [32] In Asia, educators in the 2000s and 2010s typically sought out and nourished top students; in Western Europe and the United States, the emphasis was on poor performers. [25] Reasons for this remain poorly understood. [149], Sleep deprivation is on the rise among contemporary youths,[150][28] due to a combination of poor sleep hygiene (having one's sleep disrupted by noise, light, and electronic devices), caffeine intake, beds that are too warm, a mismatch between biologically preferred sleep schedules at around puberty and social demands, insomnia, growing homework load, and having too many extracurricular activities. Plant-based meat is widely available in supermarkets and restaurants, but cultured and fermented meats (which are made without slaughtering animals) are not commercially available but are now being developed by companies. [11], As of 2019, cannabis was legal for both medical and recreational use in Uruguay, Canada, and 33 states in the US. [10] Marijuana use in Western democracies was three times the global average, as of 2012, and in the U.S., the typical age of first use is 16. The Oxford Dictionaries describes Generation Z as "the generation born in the late 1990s or the early 21st century, perceived as being familiar with the use of digital technology, the internet, and social media from a very young age.