baby boomlet
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baby boomlet
noun baby boomlets
- An increase in birth rate that occurred when the baby boomers reached childbearing age. The baby boomlet was a period marked by increases in the number of women of childbearing age and increases in fertility rates of those women.
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A child of a baby boomer, born during the baby boomlet.
Over a long-term period, population growth would be affected by changing birth rates due to shifts in social values and movement of age cohorts such as baby-boomers and baby-boomlets through the child-bearing years.
Similar: echo boomer
- Any spike in birth rate that is smaller than the baby boom. Following the Second World War there were "baby boomlets" in Europe, but these lasted for only a year or two, unlike the prolonged birth rise in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
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