Baby Boomer Resource was created to help the baby boomers generation enter into our retirement years by offering information on retirement, healthcare, aarp benefits, health issues, dating, medicare and medicaid, types of independent living and assisted living, life insurance, travel and other issues that we baby boomers are now facing.
But Baby Boomer Resource is not all seriousness. There’s also information on history of the baby boomers generation, baby boomer statistics, famous baby boomers, and the baby boomer generations contributions to the world.
So just who are we baby boomers? Here are a few interesting facts on just what and who the baby boom generation is:
- The United States Census Bureau defines a Baby Boomer as someone born between 1946 and 1964. (Seventy-six million American children were born between 1945 and 1964.)
- Today the baby boom generation represent 28% of the total U.S. population.
- The writer Landon Jones, coined the term “baby boomer” in his book “Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation”.
- A Golden Boomer is a baby boomer who have retired or are on the verse of retiring. And a lot of baby boomers are now retiring or will retire every year for the next 15 to 20 years.
- Every 7 seconds another baby boomer turns 50 years old.
- The biggest year of births of the baby boom era was 1957, when 4.3 million boomers were born.