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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 refering 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.
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 (2000)
Other uses
Baby Boom is the title of a 1987 movie starring Diane Keaton, and of a subsequent television series based on the film that ran from 1988–1989 starring Kate Jackson.
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Topics referred to by the same term
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