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If you live in North America, you will hear the phrase “baby boom” quite often in TV, newspapers, business, everyday conversations, and so on. The “baby boom” is especially refered to the “Post World War II Baby Boom (1940-1960)”.The Baby Boom is believed to be the cause of many socie-economic phenomenas which happens yesterday and today. If you still have no idea what is the Baby Boom, here are some definitions from Wikipedia.

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 (my parents are one of them). However, the term remains a general demographic term and is also applied to other similar population expansions.

Number of births in the United States, 1934 to present

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