baby boom

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The U.S. total fertility rate has been at or below the so-called replacement rate of 2.1 for around half a century, ever since the baby boom peaked around 1960.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

I was born in 1962, at the tail end of the baby boom era.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

As Pew notes in other research, there were 76 million births during the baby boom generation, and the oldest among that group are now hitting 80.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

For the baby boom generation, those included the JFK assassination and the Vietnam War.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

This spring in particular has seen quite the baby boom.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate