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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
New Resource for Discovering America’s Demographic Past, Present and Future
In a 1947 report, the Census Bureau noted a “huge and steady increase” in the post-World War II birth rate.
These estimates of rapid growth in the birth rate were the first signs of the baby boom, the famous period of increased fertility that would last until the mid-1960s, as detailed in a 1965 report on national population estimates.
This early look at the baby boom comes from the Census Bureau’s P25 series of publications on population estimates and projections.
The complete series of P25 reports is now posted on census.gov, and offers historical insight into the nation’s demographic transformation over seven decades.
The series contains over 1,000 reports stretching from 1947 to the present. To learn about highlights from these reports, continue reading...
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