From 2017 to 2020, news outlets such as the BBC, "The New York Times", and Reuters define Generation Z as starting in 1997. In 2019 and 2020, Generation Z was identified as people born between 1997 and 2012 by the Brookings Institution, Bloomberg News, PBS, "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Guardian", "Al Jazeera", and "The Irish Times". The US Census in 2021 defined Generation Z as the "young and mobile population" and identify the oldest members of Generation Z as being born after 1996.