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Born in 2011? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 2011, you turn 15 in 2026, and you're Gen Z. You're older than 26 things on our timeline, including Frozen, Pokémon Go and Stranger Things.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 2011 ended.

• 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 Hunger Games (movie) 14 years old '12 3 23
• The Avengers 14 years old '12 5 4
• Candy Crush Saga 13 years old '12 11 14
• Vine 13 years old '13 1 24
• The Ice Bucket Challenge 12 years ago '14 8
• Alexa 11 years old '14 11 6
• The Apple Watch 11 years old '15 4 24
• Discord 11 years old '15 5 13
• AirPods 9 years old '16 12 13
• The fidget spinner craze about 9 years ago '17
• Among Us 8 years old '18 6 15
• Bluey 7 years old '18 10 1
• The first photo of a black hole 7 years ago '19 4 10
• Squid Game 5 years old '21 9 17
• Wordle 4 years old '21 10
• The James Webb Space Telescope 4 years old '21 12 25
• The Curiosity rover 14 years old '12 8 6

See all 26 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• Netflix's founding (1997) details
• The movie Titanic's release (1997) details
• The Furby's release (1998) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 2011.

• Snapchat 15 years old '11 7 8
• Siri 14 years old '11 10 4
• Twitch 15 years old '11 6 6
• Game of Thrones 15 years old '11 4 17
• South Sudan 15 years old '11 7 9

2011 by the numbers

• The world had about 7.1 billion people in 2011. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 2011 are older than about 25% of everyone alive.
• 2011 is roughly halfway between 1996 and today.
• If you were born in 2011, you've been alive for roughly 5,383 to 5,747 days.