"The baby boom" is a term used in the West to describe the large group of people born after World War Ⅱ. It refers to those born when soldiers returning from the war married and then did their best to make up for the loss in population caused by the war.
「戰後嬰兒潮」，這個西方用以描述二次大戰後出生的廣大人口群，指的是戰後被徵調入伍的青年復員返鄉、結婚生子，努力「生產」，以彌補戰爭中損失的廣大人口。