Baby boomers are the generation following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. They were born from 1946 to 1964 during the post-World War II baby boom, when birth rates in the United States spiked. Early baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1955, and late boomers were born between 1956 and 1964.

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