Echo boom generation

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The Echo Boom generation is an expansive term for children born between roughly 1988 and 1992 (though sources disagree on the exact years). In 1989 the number of live births exceeded four million for the first time since 1964, and the Echo Boom peaked in 1990 (33 years after the peak of the Baby Boom) with 4.16 million live births, the greatest number since 1962 in the United States.^[1] Children of this generation are called Echo Boomers, a reference to the fact that the generation falls between about 30 and 36 years after the Baby Boomer generation, and thus many Echo Boomers are the children of Baby Boomers.

In the Generations theory of William Strauss and Neil Howe, the Echo Boom Generation is a sub-generation in North America and some European countries branching off Generation Y. In this theory, the generation spans from, and immediately follows, the so-called MTV Generation and immediately precedes the Internet Generation. This generation is significant because they are the last born to appreciate the changes of the digital revolution, and the rise of the internet and computer technology. The "Echo Boomers" are expected to be highly involved in what is sometimes being called Generation C.

David Foot popularized the term in his book Boom, Bust and Echo.

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^ CDC report- Table 1-1. Live Births, Birth Rates, and Fertility Rates, by Race: United States, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/statab/t001x01.pdf. Retrieved on 7-jun-08