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Born in 2002? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 2002, you turn 24 in 2026, and you're Gen Z. You're older than 79 things on our timeline, including the Pumpkin Spice Latte, Finding Nemo and Facebook.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 2002 ended.

• 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
• Minecraft 17 years old '09 5 17
• Angry Birds 16 years old '09 12 11
• The iPad 16 years old '10 4 3
• Instagram 15 years old '10 10 6
• Snapchat 15 years old '11 7 8
• Frozen 12 years old '13 11 27
• Pokémon Go 10 years old '16 7 6
• Stranger Things 10 years old '16 7 15
• The Nintendo Switch 9 years old '17 3 3
• Fortnite 9 years old '17 7 25

See all 79 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• The first Walkman going on sale (1979) details
• Pac-Man's release (1980) details
• MTV's launch (1981) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 2002.

• American Idol 24 years old '02 6 11
• Crocs about 24 years old '02
• Euro cash 24 years old '02 1 1
• Timor-Leste 24 years old '02 5 20

2002 by the numbers

• The world had about 6.3 billion people in 2002. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 2002 are older than about 39% of everyone alive.
• 2002 is roughly halfway between 1978 and today.
• If you were born in 2002, you've been alive for roughly 8,670 to 9,034 days.