Baby boom
- "Baby Boom" redirects here. For the film, see Baby Boom (film).
A baby boom is any period of greatly increased birth rate within temporal and usually geographical bounds. Persons born during such a period are often called baby boomers. Many such instances have been recorded in human history and are often caused by uplifting factors such as good harvests, victories in sport or war, or just due to superstition. Some contest the general conventional wisdom that baby booms signify good times and periods of general economic growth and stability, but this is a controversial position that ignores much of the well-documented historical record from the 1500s to present.
The term Baby Boom most often refers to the dramatic post-World War II baby boom (notice the rate of change on the chart below), with the term Baby Boomer referring to the persons born during that iconic era. However, the term remains a general demographic term and is also applied to other similar population expansions. There will be a new baby boom projected to have 85-90 million babies born from the 2010s-2030s. These will be the children of the Echo Boomers and will be the grandchildren of the Baby Boomers.
Recent baby boom periods include:
- Post-World War II baby boom (1940s–1960s)
- Echo baby boom (Generation Y) (1978–1992), the children of the post-WWII baby boomers.
- Year 2000 baby boom[citation needed] (2000)
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Babyboom is the name of the acoustic reggae/folk side project of Manchester ska punk band Sonic Boom Six.
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