Baby Boom to Bust

The second episode takes us into the lives of people across the world already impacted by the inevitable march of global ageing.

This opening episode takes us to four countries all grappling with declining birthrates and potential economic decline. Catholic Italy: a country with one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, Japan: where there are now more dogs than young children, Australia: where careerism has spawned a multi-million dollar dating industry, and in China: where the governments one-child policy has taken the country from one extreme to another within a generation.