What is Baby boomer?
{{Generations sidebar}} The term '''baby boomer''' most commonly refers to people born during the years 1946 to 1964 [[worldwide]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/|title=Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins|last=Dimock|first=Michael|date=January 17, 2019|website=Pew Research Center|language=en-US|access-date=2020-11-08}}</ref><ref name=USH>{{cite web |url=http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2061.html |title=Baby Boom Generation |publisher=u-s-history.com |access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref> In [[Canada]] it is anyone born between 1960 and 1980.<ref name=RosenbergAC>{{cite web |url=http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/babyboom.htm |title=Baby Boom |author=Matt Rosenberg |publisher=About.com |access-date=12 March 2015 |archive-date=4 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204215628/http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/babyboom.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Australia identifies baby boomers as those born between 1946 and 1961.<ref name=RosenbergAC/> Generally, after 1960 the [[birth rate]] started falling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/EvergreenEnergy/riverajm.pdf |title=Prolonged Health for Baby Boomers, Creative Retirement Transition for the Workforce |author=Jose Miguel Rivera |publisher=New York University |access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref> In 1951, Sylvia F. Porter, a [[Journalist|columnist]] for the New York Post, first used the term ''baby boom'' for the rapid rise in birthrate after Word War II.<ref>Sol Steinmetz, ''There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900'' (New York: Harmony Books, 2010), p. 99</ref> == Economic impact == From 1945 to 1964 about seventy-seven [[million]] babies were born in the [[United States]].<ref name=CNNff>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/us/baby-boomer-generation-fast-facts/ |title=Baby Boomer Generation Fast Facts |date=1 September 2014 |publisher=CNN |ac