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The Generation Project examines how major trends in work, housing, and demographics around the world are impacting life now and for generations to come.

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Population Paradox

The Population Paradox

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Generation Project

What the world will look like in 2100

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Population Paradox

Japan’s empty ‘ghost homes’

By Mari Shibata
As China embraces a Westernised lifestyle the country will need more senior parks to help out elders (Credit: Alamy)
Population Paradox

Building playgrounds – but not for kids

An older driver caused a multi-injury accident in Kobe after crashing into a monument. Similar accidents caused by elder drivers are prevalent across Japan (Credit: Alamy)
Japan 2020

The car-crash crisis in ageing Japan

By Bryan Lufkin
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Generation Project

The city attracting 100 people an hour

France has strong pro-child resources, such as publicly and privately run nurseries, called crèches, which families can access soon after a child is born (Credit: Alamy)
Generation Project

Should we be paid to have kids?

By Jenna Vehviläinen
With increased immigration and influx of foreign cultures, the Nordic concept of Jantelagen seems to be disappearing but to what extent remains to be seen (Credit: Benoit Derrier)
Generation Project

Why Swedes don't talk about wealth

By Maddy Savage and Benoît Derrier
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Generation Project

Have more kids, win a medal

By Taylor Weidman and Azat Ruziev
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Generation Project

This town pays you €10K to raise kids

By Tom Bateman
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Generation Project

South Korea’s population problem

By Miriam Quick (research), Valentina d'Efilippo (illustrations)
Japan, the world’s fastest ageing nation, may have the biggest market for the longevity economy as elders desire things such as travel and recreation (Credit: Alamy)
Population Paradox

The boomers spending like millennials

By Mari Shibata
Formerly a priest in southern India, Fr Kochuveettil now ministers to Catholics in the Shannon Parish, in south-west Ireland (Credit: Father Francis Xavier Kochuveettil)
Generation Project

The ‘imported’ priests of Ireland

By Tim O'Donnell
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Generation Project

Kenya's human 'infographic'

By Katie G Nelson
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Generation Project

'There’s only elderly people left'

By Anna Pérez
Partners Brandalyn Bickner and Chase Morgan credit their desire not to have biological children to their time in the Peace Corps in Malawi (Credit: Brandalyn Bickner)
Generation Project

Child-free because of climate fears

By Ted Scheinman