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Identification of Baby-Boomers

belardo — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:49:48 +0000

So, during the first two decades of the 20th century, the growth of the US population was due to the high birth rate (in 1900 there were 32 newborns per 1000 inhabitants, or 32 %, in 1910 – 30.1 ‰, in 1920 – 27.7 %) and mass immigration, which from 1901 to 1910 amounted to 8.8 million people, and from 1911 to 1920 – 5.7 million people. As a result, the first decade of the last century was marked by the largest relative increase in the US population in the past 110 years – 21%; a very significant increase was also noted in the 1920s – 14.9%.

In the following decades, the birth rate declined at a fairly rapid pace, and this became the dominant historical trend: by 1930 the birth rate was 21.2 %, and during the years of the “Great Depression” it fell to 18.4-19 %, i.e. almost 1.7 times compared with the birth rate at the beginning of the century. The exception was the period from 1946 to 1964, which (at the end of the 1950s) gave the second highest demographic result since the beginning of the century in both indicators – absolute (28 million people) and relative (18.5%), which is explained by the post-war the birth rate boom – 24-25 %, which was never repeated or surpassed. This is the so-called baby boomer generation.

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The historical trend

belardo — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:45:53 +0000

The historical trend shows that if at the beginning of the 20th century, the growth rates of the US population were much higher than in all European countries, then over the century their decline began to gain momentum, which after 1960 manifested itself not only relatively, but also absolutely.

The rate of change in the US population is determined by three factors: the birth rate (the number of births per 1000 people – per thousand), the mortality rate (the number of deaths per 1000 people) and the amount of net migration (calculated as the difference between the number of immigrants who entered the country and those who left the country – emigrants for a certain period of time). For a hundred years (from 1900 to 2000), net migration to the United States amounted to 40 million people, the total birth rate reached 330 million, the number of deaths totals 165 million people3. From 2000 to 2009, net migration amounted to 8.9 million people, total fertility – 38.4 million, mortality – 22.5 million4. The share of these indicators in the increase / decrease in the population size varies from decade to decade.

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There are more Americans every year, but the population is growing at a moderate pace

belardo — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:44:34 +0000

According to the 2010 census2, the US population is 308.7 million. This means that over the past ten years, starting from 2000, when its population was 281.4 million, it has increased by 27.3 million, or 9.7%. These figures also indicate that from 2000 to 2010 the population growth in the country was less than in the 1990s, then it was equal to 32.7 million people (13.2%). The previous peak was in the 1950s – the American population increased by 28 million, or 18.5%. The indicators of the last decade are comparable to the relative data of the 1980s – 9.8%, and they turned out to be the lowest after the crisis of the 1930s – 7.3%, marked by an unprecedented drop in the birth rate and insignificant migration

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