America's Baby Boom is an important part of American history, but I haven't heard about similar phenomena happening in other countries. Was the Baby Boom a uniquely American event, or is this simply a case of an American-centered education? In particular, I'm curious about China and the Soviet Union, and how long it took them to return to pre-war population levels.
For the Soviet Union, I touch on some of that here which may be of interest.
The Baby Boom was hardly a uniquely American event. A lot of countries after the war experienced increases in population for several reasons:
-In the US, the baby boom was mostly encouraged via the GI Bill and the rise of suburbs. Other European countries had post war population booms as a result of pronatalist policies as well as from immigration from their colonies.
-The other reason is more applicable to Eastern Europe, Germany, and Japan, and that is because of the freeing up of resources from a massive loss in population which encouraged people to have more children