page_title: Generation Z
section_title: Use of information and communications technologies (ICT)
hierarchical_section_title: Generation Z / Use of information and communications technologies (ICT)
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context_page_description: Generation Z, or Gen Z for short, are the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years. Most members of Generation Z are the children of Generation X and sometimes millennials.
  Most members of Generation Z have used digital technology since a young age and are comfortable with the Internet and social media, but are not necessarily digitally literate. Generation Z tends to be abstemious and risk-averse compared to millennials, and has a tendency to be more flexible in workplaces. However, even though it has lower rates of teenage pregnancies and alcohol and drug consumption compared to previous generations, the generation has also been characterized in the media as anxious and depressed. Some commentators attribute these effects to the generation having grown up in a time of social media, smartphones, the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing recession.
caption: Elementary school students in 2008, earlier members of Generation Z, using a laptop. Generation Z was the first generation to have widespread access to the Internet at an early age.
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