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Born in 2012? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 2012, you turn 14 in 2026, and you're Gen Z. You're older than 22 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 2012 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
• 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
• Apple Pay 11 years old '14 10 20
• A rocket landing itself 10 years ago '15 12 21

You were born closer to these than to today

• The Sims' release (2000) details
• The start of permanent human presence in space (2000) details
• Wikipedia's launch (2001) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 2012.

• Candy Crush Saga 13 years old '12 11 14
• The Hunger Games (movie) 14 years old '12 3 23
• The Avengers 14 years old '12 5 4
• The Curiosity rover 14 years old '12 8 6

2012 by the numbers

• The world had about 7.2 billion people in 2012. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 2012 are older than about 23% of everyone alive.
• 2012 is roughly halfway between 1998 and today.
• If you were born in 2012, you've been alive for roughly 5,017 to 5,382 days.