population boom
Rapid people increase
A population boom is a rapid, substantial increase in the number of people in a region or country, typically over a relatively short period.
The term often refers to post-World War II growth in Western nations: the baby boom.
Population booms strain infrastructure and resources while also driving economic expansion: The population boom transformed the sleepy town into a sprawling suburb.
- explosionViolent burst of energy
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- growthIncrease in size
- baby boomers1946-1964 birth cohort
- ticking time bombLooming inevitable disaster
crowding · standing room only · migration · fertility · birthrate · birth rate · sprawl · urban sprawl · census · demographic · multiplying · teeming · swelling · influx · expansion · urbanization · congestion · housing
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- population termsbillion, million, thousand, hundred, census
- Urban Growthzoning, annexation, suburbs, sprawl, boomtown
- demographybirth rate, death rate, demographics, fertility rate, mortality rate
- overpopulationovercrowding, crowding, carrying capacity, birth rate, fertility rate
- urban demographicsurban migration, city growth, headcount, urban core, metro area
population boompopulation decline
Decreasing number of inhabitants
population crash · depopulation · population collapse · die-off · mass extinction
population boomextinction
Complete vanishing of a species
baby bust · mass mortality · plague · pandemic · famine
population, boom, populate, populated, populating, populates, populace, popular, popularity