Donald Trump says Argentina is fighting for her life and thinks that without his help could well succumb to her largely self-inflicted injuries, but it so happens that she is by no means the only country that could soon shuffle off this mortal coil. Almost all, including the United States, face life-threatening dangers. Of these, the hardest to confront because nobody seems to know what can be done about it, is the one posed by a plunging birth rate: unless their demographic trends change abruptly in the very near future, many other countries will precede Argentina on the path into the unknown.
Leading the doleful procession towards the burial grounds where failed national projects feed the worms are South Korea, Japan and China; every generation is half the size of the previous one. To put it another way, for every grandchild there will be four grandparents.
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