12 Facts About Millennial Generation

Millennials, 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.

Psychologist Jean Twenge, the author of the 2006 book Generation Me, considers millennials, along with younger members of Generation X, to be part of what she calls "Generation Me".

Millennial Generation asserted that some of the reasons for this are the surge in interest in higher education and cultural changes.

Millennial Generation discovered that their average IQ had dropped by more than two points during that time period.

Millennial Generation further noted that in the past, IQ gains had been correlated with socioeconomic class, but this was no longer true.

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The Millennial Generation of €700 is a term popularized by the Greek mass media and refers to educated Greek twixters of urban centers who generally fail to establish a career.

Millennial Generation homeowners are more likely to be in the suburbs than the cities.

Millennial Generation warned that the turbulent 1960s and 1970s could return, as having a massive young population with university degrees was one of the key reasons for the instability of the past.

Thirty-five percent of both millennials and Generation X were reported to be "active to a healthy level", with millennial's activity level reported as higher overall than that of Generation X in 2017.

However, a 2018 poll conducted by Harris on behalf of the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD found that despite being frequently described as the most tolerant segment of society, people aged 18 to 34—most millennials and the oldest members of Generation Z—have become less accepting LGBT individuals compared to previous years.

Demographer and futurist Mark McCrindle suggested the name "Generation Alpha" for the offspring of a majority of millennials, people born after Generation Z, noting that scientific disciplines often move to the Greek alphabet after exhausting the Roman alphabet.

Globally, there are some two and a half million people belonging to Millennial Generation Alpha born every week and their number is expected to reach two billion by 2025.