27 Facts About Generation X

Generation X is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the millennials.

Harvard University defines Generation X as those people born between 1965 and 1984.

Politically, in many Eastern Bloc countries, Generation X experienced the last days of communism and transition to capitalism as part of its youth.

Term Generation X has been used at various times to describe alienated youth.

In 1987, Coupland had written a piece in Vancouver Magazine titled "Generation X" which was "the seed of what went on to become the book".

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Generation X is the demographic cohort following the post–World War II baby-boom, representing a generational change from the baby boomers.

Time magazine states that Generation X is "roughly defined as anyone born between 1965 and 1980".

PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, describes Generation X employees as those born from 1965 to 1980.

Against this logic, Generation X begins in 1966 and ends in 1976, with those born between 1955 and 1965 being labelled as "trailing-edge boomers".

Generation Jones is identified as the group of people born in the latter half of the Baby Boomers from the early 1960s to the early years of Generation X Individuals born in the Generation X and millennial cusp years of the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s have been identified by the media as a "microgeneration" with characteristics of both generations.

Jon Miller at the Longitudinal Study of American Youth at the University of Michigan wrote that "Generation X refers to adults born between 1961 and 1981" and it "includes 84 million people".

Generation X's policies included cuts in the growth of government spending, reduction in taxes for the higher echelon of society, legalization of stock buybacks, and deregulation of key industries.

In 1997, Time magazine published an article titled "Generation X Reconsidered", which retracted the previously reported negative stereotypes and reported positive accomplishments.

In 1999, The New York Times dubbed them "Generation X 1099", describing them as the "once pitied but now envied group of self-employed workers whose income is reported to the Internal Revenue Service not on a W-2 form, but on Form 1099".

Males wrote "these young Americans should finally get the recognition they deserve", praising the cohort and stating that "the permissively raised, universally deplored Generation X is the true 'great generation', for it has braved a hostile social climate to reverse abysmal trends".

Generation X described them as the hardest-working group since the World War II generation.

Generation X reported Gen Xers' entrepreneurial tendencies helped create the high-tech industry that fueled the 1990s economic recovery.

Twenty-nine percent of Generation X adults were very happy with a score of 9 or 10 on the scale.

Unlike millennials, Generation X was the last generation in the U S for whom higher education was broadly financially remunerative.

In France, "Generation X" is not as widely known or used to define its members.

Generation X is closely associated with socialist Francois Mitterrand who served as President of France during two consecutive terms between 1981 and 1995 as most transitioned into adulthood during that period.

Term "Generation X" is used to describe Irish people born between 1965 and 1985; they grew up during The Troubles and the 1980s economic recession, coming of age during the Celtic Tiger period of prosperity in the 1990s onward.

The appropriateness of the term to Ireland has been questioned, with Darach O Seaghdha noting that "Generation X is usually contrasted with the one before by growing up in smaller and different family units on account of their parents having greater access to contraception and divorce – again, things that were not widely available in Ireland.

Generation X were far more likely to have children out of wedlock than their parents.

Generation X became more likely to vote as they entered the midlife age demographics.

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At the 2016 EU membership referendum and 2017 general election, Generation X was split with younger members appearing to back remain and Labour and older members tending towards Leave and Conservative in a British electorate more polarised by age than ever before.

Generation X are usually the parents of Generation Z, and sometimes millennials.