South America Hx. Ancient Hx. North America. Baby Boomer HeadQuarters: WWW.BBHQ.COM. Boomer Statistics. A Special Feature of Baby Boomer HeadQuarters: WWW.BBHQ.COM The United States experienced an “explosion” of births after American soldiers returned home from World War II. The sociologists define those born between (and including) 1946 and 1964 as “baby boomers.” To be fair, some people born on the fringes of this time period do not think of themselves as boomers. When we think of the baby boomer generation, we often think of the 60s. That is the decade that seems to have defined the boomers. So you may argue the fine points a bit, but there is no doubt that there was indeed a population explosion in the years after the war. One can easily see a “boom” in 1946, when births went from 2.8 to 3.4 million. “Every 7 Seconds” I believe it was Bill Geist who noted first (in 1997) in his book “The Big 5-Oh” that another boomer turns 50 every 7 seconds. And 7.1 per minute amounts to one every 8.5 seconds.
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