Baby Boom
The baby boom is basically any period of time where there is a mass reproduction of babies. At the end of WWII there was a baby boom in like four countries; Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and of course the United States. Within 10 years of this happening in 1957 birth rates decrease a noticeable amount. In 51 a reporter by the name of Sylvia Porter who worked for the New York Times refered to this era as the boom. She also said,
"Take the 3,548,000 babies born in 1950. Bundle them into a batch, bounce them all over the bountiful land that is America. What do you get? Boom. The biggest, boomiest boom ever known in history.
This is how the boom was named so people say. There was an estimated amount of 77.3m people born during the boom. After the war families in the Great Depression who couldn't afford to have a family made up for the lost time that they had lost and had a bunch of babys until the 60's. Then the G.I. Bill came out and allowed a record number of grown men and women to go and finish high school and even go to colleges. This allowed people to learn different skills and learn how to do the skills correctly which caused a lot of the stock to go up because people were highering people and people were getting hired and stuff like that. Then also people had money.
The Baby Boom started roughly in 1941, and then in 1957 went back down to 1.5% which was what was being reproduced during the Pre-Depression. According to the sources the Boomer could have ended around January, 1944.
| Year | US resident population (thousands) | Net change (thousands) | Percent change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 133,121 | 1,161 | 0.88 |
| 1942 | 133,920 | 799 | 0.60 |
| 1943 | 134,245 | 325 | 0.24 |
| 1944 | 132,885 | −1,360 | −1.01 |
| 1945 | 132,481 | −404 | −0.30 |
| 1946 | 140,054 | 7,573 | 5.72 |
| 1947 | 143,446 | 3,392 | 2.42 |
| 1948 | 146,093 | 2,647 | 1.85 |
| 1949 | 148,665 | 2,572 | 1.76 |
| 1950 | 151,868 | 3,203 | 2.15 |
| 10 year average | - | 1,991 | 1.43 |
This graph is of the change in reproduction.
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