2030 forecast: meet the Gen Beta baby
theday.co.uk/2030-forecast-meet-the-gen-beta-baby-26 January 2025
Newborn: By 2035, Gen Beta children like Remi (above) are expected to make up 16% of the world population.
Will Remi have a better life than you? All this week, we are looking ahead to life in 2030. With the New Year, a new generation has
begun.
Add climate change to the mix, and Gen Beta’s life might not look very good.
What’s happening?
Yet others see a bright side. Gen Beta will be born to parents who know about the
Babies are born every second. But sometimes a birth makes history. dangers of social media and climate change.
Baby Remi was born at 12.05am on 1 January 2025 in Australia. Remi is one of And by the time Gen Beta grow up, their parents might have found the ways to
the first babies to be born Generation Beta — a new label for those born between save the planet — and make a more peaceful world.
2025 and 2039.
Will Remi have a better life than you?
Find out more
Some say
Babies like Remi will have more technology in their childhood than anyone who
has lived before them. Gen Beta replaces Gen Alpha, born between 2010 and Yes! Gen Beta will live in an age run by Millennials and Gen Z. Today’s young
2024. Alpha were the first age group to grow up with social media in full flow. people will make them a world that is more equal and more peaceful.
Gen Z before them grew up with the internet as a part of their daily lives. Others think
Millennials, grew up as computers were on the rise.
No! It is difficult to see how. The world faces so many problems. If climate change
Gen Beta will grow up in a time when owning a digital device will be needed for gets worse and technology takes over our lives, life might not look very good for
taking part in large parts of life. Beta babies will also be the first to be born in the Gen Beta.
age of advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
Six steps to discovery
Some people say 1. Connect
How do you feel about this story? - What generation
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to are you?
pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
2. Wonder
Martin Luther (1483 – 1546), German theologian What questions do you have? - For example: Who
invented the idea of labelling generations? What
Empty heading generation do your parents or teachers belong to?
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What do you think? 3. Investigate
What are the facts? - How many babies are born
every day? Can you look up the answer?
4. Construct
What is your point of view? - If you could be born
any year, when would you choose?
5. Express
What do others believe? - In groups, discuss how you
think the world will change in your lifetimes.
6. Reflect
What might happen next? - Write a diary of a week
in your life — if you were your current age in 1930.
Glossary
Australia - The largest country in Oceania, home to
only 27 million people.
Social media - Social media is defined by websites,
apps and social games that connect people to each
other through the sharing of pictures, thoughts, ideas,
articles, and other content.
Gen Z - Short for Generation Z, meaning people born
in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Millennials - People who reached adulthood in the
early 21st Century.
Artificial Intelligence - Artificial intelligence, or “AI,”
is the ability for a computer to think and learn. With
AI, computers can perform tasks that are typically done
by people, including processing language, problem-
solving, and learning.
Climate change - Long-term shifts in temperatures and
weather patterns. Human action is a major cause of
climate change.
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