Old Europe Shame On You

From boom to bust

Saturday March 20, 2004
Ayako Doi on Japan
Financial Times

Birth rates are plummeting in much of the developed world. The Japanese population could halve by the end of the century; Italian women are having fewer children than at almost any time; but some countries, such as Norway, have bucked the trend. Three writers examine a fertility watershed:

AYAKO DOI
ON JAPAN

EMMA FEENY
ON ITALY

SIMON KUPER
ON NORWAY