Baby boomers
Videos
Page
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country. Most baby boomers are the children of either the Greatest Generation or the Silent Generation, and are often parents of Gen Xers and Millennials.
Baby boomers are sometimes referred to as the "Vietnam generation" due to the significance of the War in Vietnam. In the United States, roughly 1 in 10 baby boomer men served in the U.S. Armed Forces, some of whom were deployed to Vietnam.
Two Dutch children playing with toys (1958): The 1950s and 1960s were an economically prosperous time in the West.
A household refrigerator (Frigidaire) drawn for the Ladies' Home Journal (1948)
About 21 million Volkswagen Beetles were sold, and they are a generational icon of the 1960s and 1970s.
Generation X
Videos
Page
Generation X is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials. Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980. By this definition and U.S. Census data, there are 65.2 million Gen Xers in the United States as of 2019. Most of Generation X are the children of the Silent Generation and early Baby Boomers; Xers are also often the parents of Millennials and Generation Z.
Douglas Coupland popularized the term Generation X in his 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.
Western fertility rates, 1960–1980
America Online (AOL) version 2.0 program disk for Microsoft Windows (1994), widely used by younger Gen Xers to access the Internet
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, speaking at a Web 2.0 conference