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The Black Death effected nearly all border countries. If South Korea was 'suiciding' via the same phenomena every country around it was experiencing, the differ
by friendlybus 7y ago
The Black Death effected nearly all border countries. If South Korea was 'suiciding' via the same phenomena every country around it was experiencing, the difference between itself and external threats would not be so significant.
- oska 7y agoSouth Korea's near neighbours (China, Japan, Eastern Russia) have below replacement total fertility rates. I just looked up North Korea's - apparently it was 2.05 in 2005-2010 which is also (just) below replacement level. [1] Not sure how trustworthy NK's statistics are but anyway, with it having had famines in recent living memory (the 90s) I doubt it's about to overwhelm South Korea by population growth. The statistics I looked at had the crude death rate almost doubling since 1980 while the crude birth rate declined. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_North_Korea#Vital_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_North_Korea#Vi...