How old am I if I was born in 1998?
If you were born in 1998 you are 27 or 28 years old, depending on whether your birthday has already come round this year. Pick your exact date below for your age to the second — and for everything else 1998 says about you.
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Being born in 1998
Anyone born in 1998 turns 28 at some point during 2026. Until their birthday arrives they are still 27, which is why an age calculator that only knows the year can never give one answer. Enter the full date above and the number becomes exact, down to the second.
1998 makes you Gen Z, and in the Chinese calendar it was the Year of the Tiger.
What 1998 looked like
Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture and Saving Private Ryan was the biggest film at the box office. In the news, 1998 was the year of Google is founded.
The world in 1998
There were about 5.98 billion people alive, against roughly 8.25 billion today. Atmospheric CO₂ stood near 366 ppm, compared with about 427 ppm now. And money went further: $100 in 1998 bought roughly what $198 buys today.
Sport around 1998
The nearest Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta in 1996. The closest World Cup was won by France in 1998. Around then, the moment people still talk about was Zidane’s two headers win France the World Cup.
What else you can work out from a 1998 birthday
Once you enter the exact day, the cards above fill in: the phase of the moon on the night you were born, your star sign and birthstone, how many people share your birthday, which famous people were born on it, your age in dog years using the real 2019 formula rather than the old “multiply by seven” myth, how far you have travelled around the sun, and which historical event your birth date sits closer to than it does to today.