Baby+Boom2

=Baby Boom 2=

In the 1950s to about 1965 the baby boom was a period of increased birthrates. In the 1930s there had been a decline in Canada’s birthrate the lowest point for Canada was in the 1937 when the gross birthrate was 20.1. When they had improved economic conditions it caused a recovery during WWII. When 1945came around the birthrate had grown to 24.3per 1000 inhabitants when 1945 had come the birthrate had grown to 27.2 per 1000 inhabitants it stayed that way until 1959. The Canadian population had increased by 50 percent, from 12 to 18 million. The depression had kept people from having big families it also had people putting off getting married and when they hadn’t got married they put off having children.

The post-war years saw an economic boom people were willing and ready to have more children. Four million Canadian babies were born in the 1950s. After the Depression a large proportion of adults married and ended up having children or having more children. Married and single woman who were born  between 1911 and 1912 had an average of 2.9 children, whereas those born between 1929 and 1933 had an average of 3.3 it separated the generations by 20 years. The number of children per woman increased by 0.4/ 13 percent between the end of WWII and 1965, young couples tended to have their children during the first few years of their married life. In 1940 to 1965 Canada’s birthrate rose from 253 000 to 479 000 but in 1965 the birthrate had dropped to 419 000. The baby boom produced about 1.5 million births and increase of 18percent. The baby boom made the 1950s and 1960s the era of youth. By 1965 people were marrying at and were waiting longer to have children.