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The baby boom — The postwar birth wave (1946–1974)
From 1946, a wave of births for nearly thirty years: France grew from forty to fifty million, schools overflowed, the country grew young — the youth that would make 1968 is born here. (Editorial synthesis)
The baby boom began in 1946. (source: INSEE)
The baby boom ended in 1974. (source: INSEE)
The baby boom ended in over eight hundred thousand births a year. (source: INSEE)
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