Baby boomers
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Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964. T
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.
An automotive factory worker with his family, car, and home in 1954
Generation X
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Generation X, often shortened to Gen 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 year
Baby boomers
…Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964. These years span the mid-20th-century baby boom that followed the end of World War…
Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture popularized the term Generation X.
Western fertility rates, 1960–1980
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, speaking at a Web 2.0 conference
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a landmark event in Generation X's formative years.