[243] By the 2020s, 39% of Millennials had at least a bachelor's degree, more than the Baby Boomers at 25%, the Economist reports. Between 1981 and 1996, an average of 3.6 babies (millennials) were born each year, compared to 3.4 million (Generation X) between 1965 and 1980. However, when delayed viewing within three days is taken into account, the top shows all saw their viewership numbers boosted. According to a 2007 study, across Europe, many young Muslims were finding themselves attracted by transnational Islam; those under the age of 25 were more likely to support Muslim-only schools, and Sharia law, and to condone violence to defend their religion than their counterparts over the age of 55. The nation's younger workers have benefited least from an economic recovery that has been the most uneven in recent history. [85], Fred Bonner, a Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chair in Education at Rutgers University and author of Diverse Millennial Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs, believes that much of the commentary on the Millennial Generation may be partially correct, but overly general and that many of the traits they describe apply primarily to "white, affluent teenagers who accomplish great things as they grow up in the suburbs, who confront anxiety when applying to super-selective colleges, and who multitask with ease as their helicopter parents hover reassuringly above them." As the Democratic Party attempted to make itself friendlier towards the university-educated and women during the 1990s, more blue-collar workers and non-degree holders left. For comparison, this number was 12% for Generation X and 5% for the Baby Boomers. By comparing with a 2004 poll of Americans aged 18 and over, Gallup discovered that teens were substantially more moderate then adults (56% to 38%), less conservative (25% to 40%), and just about as liberal (16% to 19%). Mannheim emphasised that the rapidity of social change in youth was crucial to the formation of generations, and that not every generation would come to see itself as distinct. Despite their initial interest in secondary school, many university students find themselves overwhelmed by the reality of a rigorous STEM education. [6] By the mid-2010s, it had already become clear that the U.S. economy was evolving into a highly dynamic and increasingly service-oriented system, with careers getting replaced by short-term full-time jobs, full-time jobs by part-time positions, and part-time positions by income-generating hobbies. [288] In the U.S. and UK during the mid-2010s, younger millennials brought changes to higher education via drawing attention to microaggressions and advocating for implementation of safe spaces and trigger warnings in the university setting. Overall, the American people remain divided over the size and scope of government, with 48% preferring smaller government with fewer services and 46% larger government and more services. "[32], Oxford Living Dictionaries describes a millennial as "a person reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century. [66][67][68] Author Neil Howe, co-creator of the Strauss–Howe generational theory, defines millennials as being born from 1982 to 2004;[9] however, Howe described the dividing line between millennials and the following generation, which he termed the Homeland Generation, as "tentative", saying "You can't be sure where history will someday draw a cohort dividing line until a generation fully comes of age. [334] There is a trend towards irreligion that has been increasing since the 1940s. Meanwhile, Trump voters included 41% of white millennials. In 2016, 63% of Americans in that age group said they felt comfortable interacting with members of the LGBT community; that number dropped to 53% in 2017 and then to 45% in 2018.
It also debuted at number one on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart in the United States. You Might Be a Millennial", "The game for 2020 Democrats: wooing millennials", "Parkland highlights political potential of millennials. [228] According to Census data, Los Angeles County in particular lost 98,608 people in 2018, the single biggest loss in the nation. [376], A 2015 study found that the frequency of nearsightedness has doubled in the United Kingdom within the last 50 years. 2019 was the fourth year in a row where the number of millennials living in the major American cities declined measurably. [25], It is not where the birth cohort boundaries are drawn that is important, but how individuals and societies interpret the boundaries and how divisions may shape processes and outcomes. He also believed that a number of distinct sub-generations could exist.