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'''Generation X''' consists of people born between 1965 and 1980, although the boundries of the ages vary.  They are typically the children of [[Baby Boomer|Baby Boomers]], and are now beginning their own families.  Author and artist [[Douglas Coupland]] first coined this term.
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'''Generation X''' consists of people born between 1965 and 1980, although the boundries of the ages vary.  They are typically the children of [[Baby Boomer|Baby Boomers]], and are now beginning their own families.  Author [[Douglas Coupland]]'s 1991 novel ''Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'' led to the popular use of this term to refer to the post-Boomer generation, although it had previously appeared as the title of a 1965 book on UK youth culture by sociologists Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson and as the name of a 1970s punk rock band led by Billy Idol.
    
see [[United States Population]]
 
see [[United States Population]]
    
[[category:demography]]
 
[[category:demography]]
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