baby boom

noun

: a marked rise in birth rate (as in the U.S. following the end of World War II)

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There was a baby boom in the U.S. after World War II.

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Those who wistfully compare today’s relatively low fertility rates with the baby booms of the 1950s and 1960s should remember that the rates of this period were in fact historically outliers. —

Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024 More, the retirement of the huge baby boom generation will only add to entitlements spending pressures, in Social Security and Medicare especially. —

Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 Add to that a demographic backdrop that means there are twice as many Ukrainians in their late thirties, owing to a 1980s baby boom, as in their early twenties, when families grappling with the uncertainties of post-Soviet Ukraine weren’t rushing to have kids. —

Olesia Safronova, Fortune, 26 May 2024 The baby boom generation had the highest divorce rates and those divorce rates have come down quite a bit. —

Jonquilyn Hill, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 See all Example Sentences for baby boom