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South Korea isn't special for having bad demographics, it's just farther along the curve. Every single industrialized country is well below replacement rate TF
by sneed_chucker 3y ago
South Korea isn't special for having bad demographics, it's just farther along the curve.
Every single industrialized country is well below replacement rate TFR. The fact that modern society has this effect on fertility is something that every affected country is going to have to address sooner or later.
- matrix87 3y agoI don't think there's a monotonic curve where more development leads to lower fertility. Both Sweden and New Zealand have higher HDIs than SK, but their fertility rates are higher than many countries which are considered less developed I mean, there's definitely a correlation globally speaking, but after a certain point of development (e.g countries with HDI 0.8 and above) it looks like the correlation isn't as strong Edit: this Wikipedia page shows what I'm referring to, see section on Contrary Findings -> J-curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility You can see on the chart, for HDIs >= 0.8 there isn't a visible trend of decrease to the level where SK is currently
- fakedang 3y agoSwedish fertility rate could also be driven by immigration numbers. And considering a significant fraction of Swedish immigrants don't even know the language, that's definitely going to be a skewed number.