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The term baby boomer most commonly refers to people born during the years 1946 to 1964 worldwide.^[1][2] In Canada it is anyone born between 1960 and 1980.^[3] Australia identifies baby boomers as those born between 1946 and 1961.^[3] Generally, after 1960 the birth rate started falling.^[4] In 1951, Sylvia F. Porter, a columnist for the New York Post, first used the term baby boom for the rapid rise in birthrate after Word War II.^[5]

1. ↑ Dimock, Michael (January 17, 2019). "Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
2. ↑ "Baby Boom Generation". u-s-history.com. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Matt Rosenberg. "Baby Boom". About.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
4. ↑ Jose Miguel Rivera. "Prolonged Health for Baby Boomers, Creative Retirement Transition for the Workforce" (PDF). New York University. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
5. ↑ Sol Steinmetz, There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900 (New York: Harmony Books, 2010), p. 99