Generation Alpha (Tech native)

WHAT'S NEXT?: Generation Alpha will be a generation that only knows a world living in real-time. There will be more than 2 billion Alphas by 2025.

• By 2025, Generation Alpha will number 2 billion globally.
• Generation Alpha comprises the children of millennials and is predicted to grow to 35 million in the next 2 decades.
• By 2025, which is the year when the youngest Alphas are born, Generation Alpha will account to 2 billion of the global population.
• In ten years, Generation Alpha will be reaching adulthood and when complete, this generation will number a staggering 2 billion people
• In 2024, Generation Alpha births will total almost 5 million over the 15 years from 2010.
• Companies that can harness the disruptive force and nascent trajectory of Generation Z will have unique access to a market that is $44 billion strong and growing.
• Annual smart-toy sales worldwide are expected to grow from $2.8bn in 2015 to $11.3bn by 2020.
• By 2031 when Generation Alpha enter the workforce at the tender age of 21 the youngest of Gen Xers will be only 55 years old.
• There will be more than 2 billion Alphas by 2025.
• Parents forget that their children are going to grow up one day and Google themselves and all this content about them will already be out there.
• Disney Research team has developed technology that digitally projects a 3D version of colouring-book characters while the artist is still working on them.
• Generation Alpha will be a generation that only knows a world living in real-time.
• Annual smart-toy sales worldwide are expected to grow from $2.8bn in 2015 to $11.3bn by 2020.
• By 2031 when Generation Alpha enter the workforce at the tender age of 21 the youngest of Gen Xers will be only 55 years old.
• There will be more than 2 billion Alphas by 2025.
• Parents forget that their children are going to grow up one day and Google themselves and all this content about them will already be out there.
• Disney Research team has developed technology that digitally projects a 3D version of colouring-book characters while the artist is still working on them.
• Generation Alpha will be a generation that only knows a world living in real-time.
• Annual smart-toy sales worldwide are expected to grow from $2.8bn in 2015 to $11.3bn by 2020.
• By 2031 when Generation Alpha enter the workforce at the tender age of 21 the youngest of Gen Xers will be only 55 years old.
• There will be more than 2 billion Alphas by 2025.
• Parents forget that their children are going to grow up one day and Google themselves and all this content about them will already be out there.
• Disney Research team has developed technology that digitally projects a 3D version of colouring-book characters while the artist is still working on them.

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Last updated: 17 January 2020