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Born in 2006? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 2006, you turn 20 in 2026, and you're Gen Z. You're older than 48 things on our timeline, including the iPhone, Iron Man and Spotify.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 2006 ended.

• 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
• 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
• Airbnb 18 years old '08 8 11
• Twilight (the movie) 17 years old '08 11 21
• Bitcoin 17 years old '09 1 3
• WhatsApp 17 years old '09 5 3
• Avatar 16 years old '09 12 18
• Uber about 16 years old '10

See all 48 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• The fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) details
• The Simpsons' premiere (1989) details
• German reunification (1990) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 2006.

• Twitter 20 years old '06 7 15
• The Wii 19 years old '06 11 19
• Roblox 20 years old '06 9 1
• High School Musical 20 years old '06 1 20
• Pluto's demotion 20 years ago '06 8 24
• Hannah Montana 20 years old '06 3 24
• Cars 20 years old '06 6 9
• Montenegro 20 years old '06 6 3

2006 by the numbers

• The world had about 6.7 billion people in 2006. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 2006 are older than about 33% of everyone alive.
• 2006 is roughly halfway between 1986 and today.
• If you were born in 2006, you've been alive for roughly 7,209 to 7,573 days.