Population on a Log Scale

The numbers are missing between 1944 and 1952. Otherwise, this graph goes back to 1900:

Graph #1: U.S. Population since 1900

Off the top of my head, it looks like the Baby Boom (first part of the red line) was no more than a return to the rapid population growth of the earlier years, which had been interrupted by a Great Depression and possibly a War.

Graph #2 shows the same measures of population (blue and red) along with two measures of prices, with prices scaled up to put the numbers in the same neighborhood as the population numbers.

Graph #2: Population and Prices (All as Natural Logs)