Talk:Millennials

The opening paragraph wrongly states that millennials are likely to be the children of Boomers or older generation Xers. Millennials are not likely to be the offspring of older generation Xers but rather older boomers even in reference to "early stage millennials". The cited article correctly states it. Dwightfryebrain (talk) 17:39, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Don't follow your logic at all. If we go by the ages of the mothers, the average child-bearing age during the 80s and 90s was 27/28, so going with that average birth-age the year range that produced the millenial generation (which I will consider as 1980–2000 for the sake of simplicity) was primarily produced by mothers born 1953–1972 i.e. younger boomers and older Gen X. Older boomers are more like to have Gen X children. Betty Logan (talk) 04:03, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia, please PLEASE stop promoting determinism and pseudoscience by pretending they do with infographics which purport to show the "official" beginnings and endings of arbitrary generation labels, which people see on Google and take to think are official and objective fact. This is damaging to society as a whole. ~2026-17541-2 (talk) 04:45, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't promoting anything. You'll have to take it up with the reliable sources themselves, which these articles are based on. Some1 (talk) 04:57, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Promoting determinism? What promotion? You have made this same discussion on Talk:Generation, Talk:Generation Z, and Talk:Millennials, Please stop trying to cause ruckus or useless flame wars on purpose, especially on Wikipedia.

Also, Most people do not care about pseudoscience or anything promoting it. and these subjects (social generations) ARE supposed to be arbitrarily defined, since this is a soft subject. ★ Campssitie (msg) (contribs) 🧋🏖 09:01, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Hey, @Betty Logan, this is why I’m stating that it’s important to wait for the 2026 update in August to see what’s going on. The Australian Bureau of Statistics used the Pew range (25 to 39 in 2021, which is the Pew 1981–1996 range) in a 2022 October report analyzing their 2021 population census and with a specific focus on Millennials. The government of Australia also worked with Ipsos on a recent Gen Z report (which uses the Pew 1997 range) this past 2025 September. I don’t think that the 1981–1995 range from the other source is going to stay. Here’s the October 2022 report analyzing the 2021 census made by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that defines the Millennials with the Pew range: https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/back-my-day-comparing-millennials-earlier-generations#:~:text=Sources-,Overview,back%2520in%2520my%2520day%E2%80%A6'. ChicagoGirlD (talk) 21:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

On closer inspection the Australian Bureau of Statistics uses a 1982–1996 date range with the “age 25 to 39 in 2021” to define Millennials in the October 2022 report. Nevertheless, this still contradicts with the earlier July report. As I’ve already mentioned, the July definition is not going to stick and is unreliable. A couple months ago Ipsos used Pew’s definition to define Gen Z in a report working with the government of Australia. It’s pointless having ranges clutter up the Millennial article, especially those that are dubious. ChicagoGirlD (talk) 22:14, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

I disagree with your interpretation. The new source does not provide dates, it provides ages. The ages most likely apply to the date the census was taken or some other fixed date in 2021. Therefore a 25 year-old in 2021 would have been born in 1995/96, and a 39 year-old could have been born in 1981/82. This source from 2024 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics explicitly states "Age in 2021: 25–39", and is paired with "Year of birth: 1981-1995". Betty Logan (talk) 22:59, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

The statistic from 2015 of 18 to 24 yo is misleading because in 2015 millennials were 20-34 only capturing 4 years of millennial participants and including 14 years of the generation after. It's reflecting the attitudes and norms of the following generation. ~2026-17706-50 (talk) 00:46, 22 March 2026 (UTC)