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Born in 2005? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 2005, you turn 21 in 2026, and you're Gen Z. You're older than 56 things on our timeline, including High School Musical, Twitter and Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 2005 ended.

• 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
• TikTok 8 years old '18 8 2
• ChatGPT 3 years old '22 11 30
• Hannah Montana 20 years old '06 3 24
• The Kindle 18 years old '07 11 19
• Breaking Bad 18 years old '08 1 20
• The Dark Knight 18 years old '08 7 18

See all 56 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• Super Mario Bros.' release (1985) details
• The fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) details
• The Simpsons' premiere (1989) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 2005.

• YouTube 21 years old '05 2 14
• The Office (US) 21 years old '05 3 24
• Reddit 21 years old '05 6 23
• Google Maps 21 years old '05 2 8
• Guitar Hero 20 years old '05 11 8
• Grey's Anatomy 21 years old '05 3 27

2005 by the numbers

• The world had about 6.6 billion people in 2005. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 2005 are older than about 34% of everyone alive.
• 2005 is roughly halfway between 1984 and today.
• If you were born in 2005, you've been alive for roughly 7,574 to 7,938 days.