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Answer for the clue "Period of high birthrate ", 9 letters:
baby boom

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Baby Boom is an Israeli television series that debuted in 2014 on Channel 10 . Category:Israeli reality television series Category:Channel 10 (Israel) Category:2014 Israeli television series debuts Category:Television programmes on Channel 10 (Israel)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coined 1941, from baby (n.) + boom (n.); derivative baby-boomer (member of the one that began 1945) recorded by 1974.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context singulare tantum English) The increase in the birth rate following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II. 2 Any similar increase in the birth rate.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n : the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II [syn: baby-boom generation ]

Usage examples of baby boom.

Stripped of costume-drama accoutrements, she's a twenty-first-century adult, born or decanted after the millennial baby boom.

I'm sorry I'm such an asshole, sorry I was such a bad husband, lousy father, shitty lawyer, mean middle-aged baby boom critter who sneers at street people and doesn't recycle.

He had read in the daily press of the postwar baby boom, of the growth of the suburbs, the expansion of American industry beyond the confines of the old cities.

By now, almost every female of child-bearing age, including the Deski and Rugarians, was expecting - which meant that Retreat Bay would have a baby boom of 2,103 new souls.