: a marked rise in birth rate (as in the U.S. following the end of World War II)
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There was a baby boom in the U.S. after World War II.
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The steep rises in home health care and nursing home employment reflect the baby boom generation hitting its retirement years.—Neil Irwin, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025 Fertility rates have been generally falling since the end of the baby boom in the mid-1960s.—Claire Moses, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025 All these alterations to existing theory come with side effects, like changes in how much dust there should be and puzzles about how stellar baby booms settled down.—Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024 When the asylum system was set up, in 1951, many of the most advanced countries in the world were experiencing a baby boom.—Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for baby boom
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