baby boom

noun

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

Examples of baby boom in a Sentence

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

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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 Moreover, South Korea and Taiwan boomed during the postwar miracle years, when economic growth was supercharged all over the world by the baby boom and hyperglobalization. —

Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 31 Mar. 2020 See all Example Sentences for baby boom