Did the "baby boom" after WWII make up for all the deaths?

Now here is an interesting thing. My dad was a pow of ww2. My mother was a war bride. She told me, ( she was a very different sort of thinker always) that, according to Edgar Cayce: ” They returned so quickly, after the war. The often generations long wait until returning was not applied here, with many having memories of bombs and burning. It was the biggest and quickest mass return ever”. Now she told me that when I was a little girl, because I dreamt of war until I was a young adult. Make of it what you will.

From a somewhat larger perspective: The human population is still growing exponentially. If anything we’ve got way too many people on this planet, and it’s only going to get worse unless people seriously try to take it down a notch with the babies.

So if your question is whether the human population has replenished itself to make up for the war’s casualties: yes, yes it has. And then some.
I don’t know how much of it is due to the Baby Boom era, though.

More than.

I understand your question and that you don’t mean to be disrespectful death and birth are an endless cycle.

However just to throw in a different perspective to those that loved and lost, to mothers and brothers and children no amount of birth would make up for casualities of war.

To more directly fall in line with your question why hasn’t there been a baby boom for every casuality heavy circumstance. Vietnam war had a costly amount of life. It dragged on so long. The twin tower tragedy are just two that pop into my mind.

A much stronger factor was medicine. If you just take penicillin. I’d say that an alternative history with no WWII and no penicillin would be a less populated world.

@Fyrius Agreed. One of the reasons I encourage women to really think about whether they want a child rather than bowing to societal pressures. Of couse in the US, you get a lot more money when you have kids, either at tax time or on your welfare check, etc…

There is no way to know how many babies, all those KIA, would have had.

It certainly does not correct for the 6,000,000 Jews slaughtered by the Nazis.

But they got their own country out of the deal and need more room.

I clearly stated that i meant it as humans as species.

@woodcutter The State of Israel so far has served as a reminder to Jews and the rest of the World, that we exist and intend to persist, no matter what.