Generally, you'll see terms like "demographic collapse" instead, but yeah basically.

A lot of people were born during the immediate post-WWII years. Those people are now dying. Cause and effect.

Starts with a "oh shit these old people have expensive healthcare needs!", proceeds to "how the hell are we going to pay for their elder benefits?" (Social Security in the US), and eventually to "even their houses got gobbled up by the banks and private capital when they had to reverse mortgage their homes to pay off their medical bills and live out their final days...."

Yup.

It has already started.

A baby is the product of birth, the product of death is a corpse, so it'd be a corpse bloom.

I think the deaths are a little more spread out.

We can only fucking hope...

The "baby boom" happened between 1946 and 1964, an 18 year period. Not everyone will die within an 18 year period. Some have already passed, some will live into their 90's and could be around until the 2060's

I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.

I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths

yes. it's actually a huge thing the funeral world is dreading.

It's normally thought of as more of a "baby bust" but same thing really, a big whack of old people around for a while.

The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.

We had one in 2020 and 2021

Yes. We have been talking about it for 30 years at this point.

Retirement is more of a synchronized event, because folks generally retire around the same age...

Sort of. You do get an increase in death rates decades later as people from a baby boom eventually die. However births tend to be in relative sync (closer together anyway) during a baby boom say over a period of a few years, while deaths are much more spread out maybe over a decade or more. That's because other factors come into play such as individual health, and the differences in people of the same age's health depending on economic state and lifestyle etc. In otherwords, lots of people may have been born in say 1945 but their deaths will be spread out over years because not everyone dies at the same age.

Many western countries are going through a period of natural population decline due to low birth rates and increasing death rates as baby boomers from 1945 onwards start dying. But those deaths are spread out, and somewhat offset by immigration. So yes more people are dying but populations are overall stable or even growing as immigrants flow in.

One can only hope.

Of the 76M Boomers born between '45 and '69, 64M are still alive. With a life expectancy of 85 and the first traumch entering their 80s this year, we would expect to see a rapid fall off in the population (or a rapid climb in life expectancy average) over the next decade

Yea, but it has more to do with baby boomers wrecking everything than anything else.

Americans can't afford nursing homes and elder care.

So, afraid death it is. Hope there's no reverse mortgage for any of you to deal with.

Yes of course. The aging population phenomenon is well-documented. In Japan, it has been a matter of political discussion for decades. The U.S. has (until recently) relied on immigration to offset the declining birth rate.

Yeah, it's already happening in places like Japan but what'll really do it in for everyone is WW3. Any day now and Trump will cause it. I'd wage money but we all know once that starts, currency won't be worth damn.