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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. But it’ll be another dozen years before the whole generation has ...
Babies born in the new year, ... Baby Boomers: 1946-1964 (age 61-79) Generation X: 1965-1979 (age 46-60) ... it is likely that the next generational group, after Gen Beta, will be Generation Gamma ...
From a demographic point of view, the labor shortage in the United States during the 2020s is inevitable due to the sheer size of the aging Baby Boomers. [98] [99] As the oldest economically active cohort, [99] the Baby Boomers comprised about a quarter of the U.S. workforce in 2018. [100]
Baby boomers: b. 1946-1964 Baby boomers are individuals born between 1946 and 1964, during a period known as the "baby boom," which saw a significant increase in birth rates following World War II.
The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the mid-20th century baby boom. Pages in category "Baby boomers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.