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Born in 1999? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 1999, you turn 27 in 2026, and you're Gen Z. You're older than 100 things on our timeline, including The Sims, the PlayStation 2 and permanent human presence in space.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 1999 ended.

• The Sims 26 years old '00 2 4
• The PlayStation 2 26 years old '00 3 4
• Humans living in space full-time 25 years ago '00 11 2
• Wikipedia 25 years old '01 1 15
• Shrek 25 years old '01 5 18
• The iPod 24 years old '01 10 23
• Windows XP 24 years old '01 10 25
• Monsters, Inc. 24 years old '01 11 2
• The first Harry Potter movie 24 years old '01 11 16
• The Lord of the Rings movies 24 years old '01 12 19
• The Pumpkin Spice Latte about 23 years old '03
• Finding Nemo 23 years old '03 5 30
• Facebook 22 years old '04 2 4
• Mean Girls 22 years old '04 4 30
• YouTube 21 years old '05 2 14
• The Office (US) 21 years old '05 3 24
• High School Musical 20 years old '06 1 20
• Twitter 20 years old '06 7 15
• Pluto's demotion 20 years ago '06 8 24
• Roblox 20 years old '06 9 1
• The Wii 19 years old '06 11 19
• The iPhone 19 years old '07 6 29
• Iron Man 18 years old '08 5 2
• Spotify 17 years old '08 10 7

See all 100 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• Microsoft's founding (1975) details
• Star Wars' release (1977) details
• The Happy Meal's debut (1979) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 1999.

• The first emoji about 27 years old '99
• SpongeBob SquarePants 27 years old '99 5 1
• The BlackBerry 27 years old '99 1 19
• Bluetooth about 27 years old '99
• Napster 27 years old '99 6 1
• The Matrix 27 years old '99 3 31

1999 by the numbers

• The world had about 6.1 billion people in 1999. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 1999 are older than about 43% of everyone alive.
• 1999 is roughly halfway between 1972 and today.
• If you were born in 1999, you've been alive for roughly 9,766 to 10,130 days.