baby bust

American  

1. a period of sharp decrease in the birthrate, as that in the U.S. after 1965.

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Other Word Forms

• baby buster noun

Etymology

Origin of baby bust

1970–75,

Example Sentences

Oscillations in the birth rate sometimes made anxieties about a “baby bust” seem overstated.

From Slate

Despite decades of declining birth rates and years of hand-wringing over a pandemic baby bust, there are now more than 2 billion alpha children worldwide — more than quarter of the population of the planet — and some 6 million in California alone.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, the opposite happened: a baby bust.

From Salon

“The working-age population has flatlined and will soon begin falling,” said Mr. Carney, the author of an upcoming book on the “baby bust” and parenting.

From Washington Times

Instead the opposite happened: a baby bust.

From Scientific American