Childless 30-year-olds worry Japan

The Australian reports:

MORE than half of Japanese women born in the early 1970s were still childless at 30, intensifying fears about the nation's already low birthrate, Japanese media said today.

The baby shortage, which has contributed to a decline in the overall population that began last year, is now an urgent problem for policy makers, who fear a smaller workforce supporting a growing number of elderly will hurt the world's number two economy.

According to Health Ministry figures released late on Friday, 50.3 percent of women born between 1971 and 1974 -– what Japan calls the second baby boomer generation - had had no children by the time they reached 30.

Fifty-one percent of those born in 1973 were childless at 30.

These sorts of stories will become more prevalent.Particularily in Europe and Blue city America.