The original article, Growing Old, Baby Boomer Style by Tom Valleo can be read online here at WebMD and here at CBS News. It was originally published in 2006. Some things have certainly changed since it was written, such as the predicted worker shortage of 2010.[Click on the population pyramid on the left to see an animated projection of Japan's past and future population.]
In Japan, Seniors With an Edge was published in 2007 by the NYT. You may need to log in to the NYT to read it online, or read Google's cache of the page.
Read more at Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Be sure to see the animated population pyramid for Japan. They have a full report of Japan's population statistics (pdf).
The demographic transition to a stable industrial population is a centuries-long process that is ongoing in much of the world now.
Note that there are about four million births in the United States annually–only slightly below the peak years of the 1946-1964 Baby Boom.
The U.S. Census Bureau has a database of population information about many other countries of the world, too.
What is the population of the world? Over 6.8 billion in 2010!
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