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The term baby boomer was first used in a January 1963 Daily Press article by Leslie J. Nason. The phrase was coined by newspaper reporter Sylvia F. Porter in a New York Post column on the 4th of May 1951.
The baby boomer cohort was born between 1946 and 1964. There were over 71.6 million baby boomers in the United States as of 2019.
The number of university students worldwide more than doubled in the 1970s. James R. Flynn discovered in the 1980s that IQ scores were increasing significantly between the early 1930s and late 1970s, with younger cohorts scoring higher than their elders.
In May 1968, French youths launched massive protests demanding social and educational reforms. The Central Intelligence Agency reported to the President that counterculture was a highly disruptive force not just in the nation but also abroad.
People who experienced the Great Famine of China from 1958 to 1961 were noticeably shorter than those who did not. The Cultural Revolution resulted in general mayhem before Mao eventually opted to deploy the People's Liberation Army against his own Red Guards to restore public order.
By the mid-2010s, Canada had an aging population with more people aged 65 and over than people below the age of 15. The baby boomers' retirement will create unprecedented challenges for social security systems and economic growth in developed nations.