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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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Generation Project
What the world will look like in 2100
(Credit: Mari Shibata)
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
By Vittoria Traverso
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
(Credit: Tom Bateman)
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
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