Baby boomers

[benjaminmcgee]

Helo group,

Sorry if this is a repeat question. Was there the equivilent of the WW2 "Babyboomers" in the ACW. The reason I ask is all of my GGreat grandfathers were born between 62' and 64'. Thanks for the help!

Benjamin McGee

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Baby boomers

Hallo!

"Baby Boomer" is a strange creature as some define the brackets 1946-1964 even the though the U.S. population started increasing after 1941 and evening out with steady increase in 1948 and again in 1957.

Let's see in rough numbers, according to and limited by the U.S. Census:

1850: 23,191,876

1860: 31.443,321 up 35.4%

1870: 39,818,449 up 22.6%

1880: 50,189,209 up 30.2%

1890: 62,979,766 up 20.31%

1900: 76,212,168 up 21.0%


Of course there are "other" variables as the increase in population is not just new births but also immigration spikes, etc., etc. And birth rates are affected by the economy too.

IMHO, I believe the quesion is hard to impossible to answer as we do not have yearly data of new births as in the Modern World.

Others' mileage will vary...

Curt

[Hank Trent]

Re: Baby boomers

Here's a chart from A Population History of North America:

http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA315&id=BPdgiysIVcgC&output=html&start=5

While the crude birth rate isn't estimated before the 1870s, it looks like the rate of net increase was on a steady decline.

Around about here there's a specific discussion on post-war fertility rates and various proposed causes of the decline.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net