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Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. By this dating, the youngest of them are 61, while the oldest are 79 in 2025.
The baby boomers are commonly defined as the generation born after the Second World War, generally from 1946 to 1964. However, this definition of baby boomers is based on American demographic trends which saw a surge in births post Second World War that was sustained into the 1960s.
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]
Once a reliable group for Republicans, senior voters have been trending toward the left as the baby boomer generation, which came of age during the 1960s and ’70s, now comprise a majority of the ...
A baby boomer putting money into a piggy bank. Following the Second World War, baby boomers benefited en masse from the economic boom that followed, with the U.S. coming out of the war as the true ...
Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older siblings in the earlier portion of the Baby Boomer population; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers.
Boomers and Gen X will remember "groovy" and "cool" as generational affirmatives for all things good, just like today's teens use "dope" or "sick" or "lit" for pretty much the same reasons.
Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s. In 2020, Xennial was added to the Oxford Dictionary of English. It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2021: [4] Xennial, n. and adj.: