Baby boom, the increase in the U.S. birth rate between 1946 and 1964; also, the generation born during that period. The uncertainties of the Great Depression and World War II led many couples to delay having children. The economic prosperity that followed the war was accompanied by a surge in population.| Encyclopedia Britannica
Saloni Dattani worked with us from 2021 to 2025 as a writer and project lead, focusing on health. She has a Ph.D. in psychiatric genetics from the University of Hong Kong and King’s College London.| Our World in Data
The total number of births per 1,000 people in a given year.| Our World in Data
Lucas is a Senior Data Scientist at Our World in Data, mostly working on the curation of various datasets and the data infrastructure.He joined in 2021, after working as a Deep Learning Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan) and as a Data Scientist for the private sector. He studied an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at UPC (Barcelona, Spain) and KTH (Stockholm, Sweden).| Our World in Data
How does the number of children vary across the world and over time? What is driving the rapid global change?| Our World in Data
