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> How about some DATA: go to https://population.io https://population.io, select Rep. of Korea, plug in some age/gender b.s. and scroll down to "Age Distributio

> How about some DATA: go to https://population.io https://population.io, select Rep. of Korea, plug in some age/gender b.s. and scroll down to "Age Distribution" at the left column. Now look to the left of ~20yo (younger than 20), it's a nearly horizontal line. What does that tell you? Yeah, something is definitely wrong with the site because actual population pyramid data looks much more alarming: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019%EB%85%84_%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%9D%98_%EC%9D%B8%EA%B5%AC_%ED%94%BC%EB%9D%BC%EB%AF%B8%EB%93%9C.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019%EB%85%84_%ED%95... Or https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyramid/410 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyr... as mentioned by a sibling comment.

Thorrez 4y ago
Exactly. This one looks even more alarming: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/South_Korea_Population_Pyramid.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/South_Ko... Also it matches up with the article, which says 261k babies were born last year. wikimedia show about that, with ~130k male and ~130k female. population.io says 454k which is way off.
pengaru 4y ago
Nice catch! It looks like population.io's UN data is only real estimates up to 2010 then projections according to the Methodology pop-up. Which looks pretty divergent for the last 5 years specifically, judging from https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyramid/410 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyr...