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Originally posted by bcdphie
I have posted this a few times before, but I have always been fascinated by demographics so I will share again.

While studying population history at UBC, we used a book entitled Boom, Bust and Echo 2000 by David Foot. While this refers to Canadian generations, it can be applied somewhat to the US as well.

My parents fit into 2 generations: my dad is considered a WWII baby - born between 1945-1949, and my mum is considered a Boomer, born between 1950-1966. The tail end of the boomers, born 1961-1966 are considered Generation X. Because so many children were born in the early 50's, the later boomers got the short end of the stick, so to speak.

Those born between 1967 & 1979 are considered the buster generation - I was born in this time period and it comprises Canada's tiniest generation.

Then there's the boom-echo; those born 1980-1995. Another baby boom, but nothing on the original, but definately a much larger generation than those born in the late 60's-70's.

The millenium babies were born starting 1995 till around now, and I believe 2005 marks the beginning of the Bust-Echo, but I don't have my book in front of me, so I am not entirely positive about that.

I'm not sure which edition of the book you have, but my 1996 (first) edition says that WWII babies were 1939-1946 and the Canadian Baby Boom started a year after the US, in 1947 (and ending in '66).