South Korea was not mentioned last week, but they have their declining birth rate problems too. According to Financial Times, their average age will climb faster than any other country's. It seems to be linked to the high cost of education and to the decline of lasting marriages, causes author Jonathan Last also cited.
Bloomberg Business Week has a slide show of countries with lowest birth rates here.
In USA Today, James Dobson says, "It comes down to this: A society with a serious decline in its birth rate will become a world without springtime or regeneration. The laughter and exuberance of the young will become a diminishing treasure. The result will be a self-absorbed culture dominated by old, tired, dying individuals."
Today's kids - and then their children - will not pass on to their heirs the same kind of society they grew up in.
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