Can you imagine how Gen Z will rule the world when it’s their time? In a couple of decades, this generation will be the adults of the world
Carefree, vocal, little patience, the need for immediate results, esteem drawn from external validation, giving opinions even without valid legitimate sources—these are some of the many reasons Gen Zs have issues of mental health.
Search the web for the word youth and you will see millions of definitions, articles, and writeups. But have you heard the word “Youthquake?”
If you haven’t, it may be because it only appeared in the Oxford Dictionary in 2017 when it was awarded “Word of the Year.”
What does youthquake mean? Oxford Dictionary defines it as “a significant cultural, political. or social change arising from actions and influence of the young people.”
A very recent example is the election to power of a very young vice president in Indonesia.
To win, the campaign strategy was directed toward the youth to get majority of their votes.
Locally speaking, the youth voters outnumbered the elders during the 2022 election.
Millennials and Gen Zs made up 56 percent of the registered voters in the Philippines. That percentage is enough to change the political landscape of the country—that is also another example of a youthquake.
The world is heading for an African Youth Quake in 2050. While the US, Europe, and Asia are getting old, the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is as young as ever. It will overtake China, US, Europe, and Asia in terms of youth population in 2050. All three major regions I mentioned are having a decline in population, embracing DINK (double income no kids) lifestyle or minimizing children in the newly formed families.
Majority of the countries in those regions are secular with no regards to religious teaching of being open to life (the belief to accept the number of children each family is destined to have). Their governments are aggressively campaigning for sex education and birth control. In some countries, abortion is even legal. All these reasons contribute to the rich nations getting older.