Baby boom

The best-known baby boom occurred in the mid-twentieth century, sometimes considered to have started in the Aftermath of World War II, sometimes from the late 1940s, and ending in the 1960s.

The child mortality rate started to decline steadily in the 1960s, due to the increased access to health care.

High unemployment and uneven income distribution welcomed Generation X, giving them little opportunity to produce the next baby boom.

[6] Israel has been in a constant baby boom since independence, with the highest fertility rate in the OECD at 3.1 children per woman.

The number of births had remained stable with 74,650 babies born in 2012, higher than the 65,600 average during the Celtic Tiger (1995–2007), despite the struggle to emerge from financial crisis.

Health Service Executive figures show 59,874 babies were born in maternity hospitals and units in 2021, up from 56,858 the previous year, which could continue into the early 2020s.

The number of annual Russian births hit a low in the 1990s and early 2000s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the 1998 financial crisis.

[16] To many Russians, this was not only a sign of economic prosperity, but also a recovery from the poverty and social decline following the downfall of the Soviet Union.

Following the Orange Revolution, the total fertility rate gradually elevated, eventually to a peak of 1.49 births per women in 2014.

However, the millions of refugees and emigrants fleeing since the Russian Invasion will keep the overall population falling short of what it was before the war for at least a few decades, despite the baby boom.

However, this definition of baby boomers is based on American demographic trends which saw a surge in births post Second World War that was sustained into the 1960s.

Due to the different demographic profile seen in the UK compared to America, British people usually define as those born between 1960 and 1969 (inclusive) as baby boomers.