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Born In · 2000 to 2009

Born in the 2000s? You have never known a world without the internet.

What was it like to be born in the 2000s?

Being born in the 2000s meant arriving in a connected world: half of American adults were online in 2000, and the iPhone came in 2007, the year US births hit a record 4.3 million. Every 2000s baby is Gen Z to Pew. The Great Recession began in December 2007.

What it was like to arrive

You were born into a record. US births reached 4.06 million in 2000 and 4,316,233 in 2007, the most ever registered in the United States. 1,2

You were born online. 52 percent of American adults used the internet in 2000; home broadband went from 1 percent of homes in 2000 to 29 percent by early 2005. 3

You were born after September 11, or too young to remember it, which is exactly the line Pew uses to begin Gen Z. 4,5

And you were born into a crash. The Great Recession ran from December 2007 to June 2009; unemployment hit 10 percent in October 2009. 6

The generations born this decade

Which label you get depends on the year, and on who is counting.

Gen Z. Every year of the decade, by Pew's lines (from 1997). McCrindle ends Gen Z in 2009; Strauss and Howe start their Homeland Generation in 2005. 4,7,8

The decade, year by year

The headlines, the inventions and the money, with sources.

  1. Recession2001A recession ran from March to November 2001. 9
  2. September 112001The attacks killed 2,977 people from 90 nations: 2,753 in New York, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 on Flight 93. 5
  3. Phones2007Steve Jobs announced the iPhone on 9 January 2007; it went on sale in June at $499. 10
  4. Births2007The most births ever registered in the United States: 4,316,233. 1,2
  5. The crash2007–2009The Great Recession, the longest since the Second World War. Real GDP fell 4.3 percent from peak to trough. 6

The decade's sky: ten Lunar New Years

The Chinese zodiac year starts at the Lunar New Year, not January 1, so early-year birthdays belong to the year before. Dates worked out by the machine.

  1. 2000

    Year of the Dragon (Metal) from February 5, 2000. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Rabbit (Earth).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2000: coming soon.

  2. 2001

    Year of the Snake (Metal) from January 24, 2001. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Dragon (Metal).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2001: coming soon.

  3. 2002

    Year of the Horse (Water) from February 12, 2002. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Snake (Metal).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2002: coming soon.

  4. 2003

    Year of the Goat (Water) from February 1, 2003. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Horse (Water).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2003: coming soon.

  5. 2004

    Year of the Monkey (Wood) from January 22, 2004. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Goat (Water).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2004: coming soon.

  6. 2005

    Year of the Rooster (Wood) from February 9, 2005. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Monkey (Wood).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2005: coming soon.

  7. 2006

    Year of the Dog (Fire) from January 29, 2006. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Rooster (Wood).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2006: coming soon.

  8. 2007

    Year of the Pig (Fire) from February 18, 2007. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Dog (Fire).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2007: coming soon.

  9. 2008

    Year of the Rat (Earth) from February 7, 2008. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Pig (Fire).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2008: coming soon.

  10. 2009

    Year of the Ox (Earth) from January 26, 2009. Birthdays from January 1 to the day before belong to the Rat (Earth).

    Generation: Gen Z

    Then vs now for 2009: coming soon.

The slow planets

The outer planets move so slowly that everyone born within a few years shares their signs, which is why astrologers read them as a generational layer. Which signs they were in on your birthday, and what that is said to mean, is worked out on your card and sealed there.

Questions people ask

What generation is someone born in the 2000s?

Gen Z, by Pew's definition, which starts in 1997. McCrindle counts 2000 to 2009 as Gen Z too. Strauss and Howe start a new Homeland Generation in 2005.

Which year had the most US births?

2007, with 4,316,233 births, the highest number ever registered in the United States.

What happened in the 2000s?

The September 11 attacks in 2001, the spread of home broadband, the iPhone in 2007 and the Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009.

Millions were born in the 2000s. Your card was written for one.

A decade gives you the headlines. Your card is worked out from your own birthday, minute and place: the sky that night, your numbers and your Chinese year, read together. Sealed until you print it.

What your card covers

Worked out from the day, the minute and the place you were born. Sealed until you print it.

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  1. Page 1 of 6, Who you are, with every line sealed. Sections: Your sign, Your Moon, Your rising sign, Your number, Your strongest traits, Your gifts, Your challenges, Chinese year · stone · flower, Your angel number.1 Who you are
  2. Page 2 of 6, The machine says, with every line sealed. Sections: The machine's reading, The lesson that keeps finding you, Your turning points, The old rhyme, Your days.2 The machine says
  3. Page 3 of 6, Your sky, with every line sealed. Sections: Your placements, Your aspects, The sky the day you arrived.3 Your sky
  4. Page 4 of 6, Love & your people, with every line sealed. Sections: Your love chart, Your love matches, The people in your life.4 Love & your people
  5. Page 5 of 6, Work & money, with every line sealed. Sections: Your work, Your money, Work this year, Money this year.5 Work & money
  6. Page 6 of 6, Your year ahead, with every line sealed. Sections: Your year ahead, Love this year, Month by month, Your lucky charms.6 Your year ahead

Who you are

  • Your sun sign, its decan and any cusp (sealed)
  • Your strongest traits (sealed)
  • Your gifts (sealed)
  • Your challenges (sealed)
  • The lesson that keeps finding you (sealed)
  • The machine's reading (sealed)
  • Your headline (sealed)

Your birth chart

  • Your birth chart wheel (sealed)
  • Your placements: Sun, Moon and planets by sign (sealed)
  • Your Moon with a birth time (sealed)
  • Your rising sign with a birth time and place (sealed)
  • Your Ascendant, Midheaven and houses with a birth time and place (sealed)
  • Your aspects (sealed)

Your love chart

  • Your love chart (sealed)
  • Your Descendant: who you're drawn to with a birth time and place (sealed)
  • Your love matches (sealed)
  • Love this year (sealed)

Your people

  • The people in your life (sealed)

Your work

  • Your work (sealed)
  • Work this year (sealed)

Your money

  • Your money (sealed)
  • Money this year (sealed)

Your numbers

  • Your number (sealed)
  • Your angel number (sealed)

Your year ahead

  • Your year ahead (sealed)
  • Month by month (sealed)
  • Your lucky charms (sealed)

Your sky and your years

  • The sky the day you arrived (sealed)
  • Your days (sealed)
  • The old rhyme for your weekday (sealed)
  • Your Chinese year, birthstone and flower (sealed)
  • Your turning points (sealed)
  • The machine log: every step it took (sealed)
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Sources

  1. NCHS – Births and General Fertility Rates: United States, 1909–2018, CDC, NCHS (data.gov dataset). Read on .
  2. Births: Preliminary Data for 2007, CDC, National Vital Statistics Reports 57(12), 18 March 2009. Read on .
  3. Internet, Broadband Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center, 20 November 2025. Read on .
  4. Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins, Pew Research Center, Michael Dimock, 17 January 2019. Read on .
  5. 9/11 FAQs, 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Read on .
  6. The Great Recession, Federal Reserve History, Robert Rich. Read on .
  7. Generation Alpha defined, McCrindle Research, Mark McCrindle. Read on .
  8. Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and Suzanne Newcombe (Inform), 2017, updated 15 January 2021. Read on .
  9. US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions, National Bureau of Economic Research. Read on .
  10. Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone, Apple Newsroom, 9 January 2007. Read on .

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