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The term "baby boom" is often used to refer specifically to the post–World War II (1946–1964) baby boom in the United States and Europe. In the US the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size). [22] An estimated 78.3 million Americans were born during this period. [23]
The term baby boom refers to a noticeable increase in the birth rate. The post-World War II population increase was described as a "boom" by various newspaper reporters, including Sylvia F. Porter in a column in the May 4, 1951, edition of the New York Post, based on the increase of 2,357,000 in the population of the U.S. from 1940 to 1950.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964, [2] although the U.S. birth rate began to increase in 1941, and decline after 1957. Deborah Carr considers baby boomers to be those born between 1944 and 1959, [23] while Strauss and Howe place the beginning of the baby boom in 1943. [24]
The roughly 71.6 million men and women of the postwar baby-boom generation started hitting retirement age about a decade ago. ... And in the same year, however, the median retirement balance among ...
Baby boomers (ages 59 to 77) reduced their debt load during that period — but only slightly, from $96,087 in 2022 to $94,880 in 2023. Meanwhile, the silent Generation (78+) reduced it from ...
Births have declined for three consecutive years, and are now 7% below the peak in 2007. [97] This drop has continued through 2010, according to data released by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics in June 2011. [97] Numerous experts have suggested that this decline is largely a reflection of unfavorable economic conditions. [98]
World population pyramid from 1950 to projected in 2100 (UN, World Population Prospects 2017) A population pyramid (age structure diagram) or "age-sex pyramid" is a graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex; it typically takes the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing. [1]
Pew found that in 2021, 15% of 25- to 34-year-olds in multigenerational households were living in their own home and had a parent or other older relative living with them—up from 12.7% in 2011 ...