2025 to welcome ‘post-pandemic’ Generation Beta

2025 will mark the arrival of the new ‘Generation Beta’, children set to inherent a rapidly and consistently changing world, full of both technological and environmental uncertainty.

Born between 2025 and 2039, this generation is said to be completely centred around a technology-based future and will pioneer new solutions to problems across the coming generation. 

They are expected to face unprecedented changes within the technology space, the changing role of Artificial Intelligence and its integration into daily life being at the forefront of this. 

Evidence suggests that this will have a more direct role to play within the education space, where information technologies will reshape curriculums for future generations of children. 

One of the most pressing challenges that Generation Beta will face will be to find a solution for the ecological challenges currently precipitating a global climate crisis.

Generation Beta are the children of the oldest members of Generation Z (1996-2012) and the youngest members of the preceding Millennial generation (1981-1996). Their outlook is shaped by more personalised parenting methods that reflect the individualised beliefs and worldviews of their parents still being formed. 

One of the most pressing challenges that Generation Beta will face will be to find a solution for the ecological challenges currently precipitating a global climate crisis. Their role in responding to this will likely shape the latter half of the 21st Century. 

Generation Beta will also be one of the first generations with an average life expectancy that extends into the next century.

Generation Beta will also be one of the first generations with an average life expectancy that extends into the next century. They will be taking on a massively dynamic and multi-faceted world, with the challenges they face having tangible repercussions on the interplay of different groups and ages into 2050. 

This year marks one of the first times that seven different generations have emerged in co-existence with one another, reflecting an aging population across the globe. This indicates the potential removal of barriers around different generations and perhaps the future abandonment of generational labels entirely.  

The biggest characteristic of Generation Beta will be their understanding of a world where the distinction between virtual and technological spaces, and realities and physical spaces, will become increasingly blurred, as human processes become more greatly automated.