I don’t think “fertility” and “birth” are the same thing. But yes, there was a lot of post war enthusiasm.
I mean… yeah that’s what “baby boom” means. This is like a graph saying “the Industrial Revolution in England saw a sharp increase in the number of coal powered factories”
Is there a reason for why it seemingly started before the end of ww2? We’re soldiers coming home before the official end?
Pretty sure that’s the “boom” in baby boom….
And then, up to about 2000-2005, it more or less hovered around the normal displacement rate. And then it all collapsed.
Would be interesting to see this mapped with child mortality rates. I wonder how many of those 5.25 children in the 1800s survived into adulthood?
Interesting that it’s not really so much of a “boom” as a return to normalcy and the levels that were normal around 1920 and before.
It’s more like there was a “Baby Bust” between 1930-1940
What I find more interesting is that the downward trend picked up right where it left off in 1980 and continued going down. Eventually we’ll be gone if you believe the trend will continue inexorably.
We should have a name for the people born during that time.
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Sources: Gapminder (2024); UN World Population Prospects (2024)
Tools: the [owid-grapher](https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher) and Figma
[Learn more about the baby boom](https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-baby-boom-saw-a-sharp-rise-in-the-fertility-rate-in-the-united-states)
I don’t think “fertility” and “birth” are the same thing. But yes, there was a lot of post war enthusiasm.
I mean… yeah that’s what “baby boom” means. This is like a graph saying “the Industrial Revolution in England saw a sharp increase in the number of coal powered factories”
Is there a reason for why it seemingly started before the end of ww2? We’re soldiers coming home before the official end?
Pretty sure that’s the “boom” in baby boom….
And then, up to about 2000-2005, it more or less hovered around the normal displacement rate. And then it all collapsed.
Would be interesting to see this mapped with child mortality rates. I wonder how many of those 5.25 children in the 1800s survived into adulthood?
Interesting that it’s not really so much of a “boom” as a return to normalcy and the levels that were normal around 1920 and before.
It’s more like there was a “Baby Bust” between 1930-1940
What I find more interesting is that the downward trend picked up right where it left off in 1980 and continued going down. Eventually we’ll be gone if you believe the trend will continue inexorably.
We should have a name for the people born during that time.
I figured there would be a bigger Covid baby boom