baby bust

English

Etymology

Coined as an opposite to baby boom.

Noun

baby bust (plural baby busts)

  1. A decrease in the birthrate.
    • 1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time‎:
      By contrast, when today’s 18-to-29-year-old group was born, the baby boom was fading into the so-called baby bust, with its precipitous decline in the U.S. birthrate.
    • 2021 March 4, Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, “We Expect 300,000 Fewer Births Than Usual This Year”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      But the real societal challenge of a Covid baby bust will be a smaller work force, which portends lower economic productivity and fewer workers to contribute to the tax base.

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