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Fertility rate in Europe and North America is sub-replacement, but mostly not that bad as in East Asia, with added benefit of being able to fill the gaps with i
by The_Colonel 3y ago
Fertility rate in Europe and North America is sub-replacement, but mostly not that bad as in East Asia, with added benefit of being able to fill the gaps with immigrants almost at will (which East Asia can't really do for a couple of reasons).
> We may as well focus on places that speak English; then everyone on HN can follow the news and review the stats.
I'm kinda perplexed about what your problem with this submission is. There's no problem with looking up the stats even if you don't speak the native language, e.g. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=CN-JP-KR https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
- roenxi 3y agoMy problem with this specific article is it is paywalled and so I'm not going to read it. More generally my complaint is that noting that Japan's birthrate being down is that it is like observing the sky is blue. The globe has been seeing declining birth rates for 60 years. There are a large number of countries where birthrates are hitting record lows (picking some from a theme; the UK, US, Canada and Australia). It isn't news, focusing on Japan isn't interesting and picking a country where the official documents aren't in English makes it harder to research the truth if there is a disagreement on a point of fact.
- The_Colonel 3y ago> focusing on Japan isn't interesting I think that's just your imagination. If I search "births" on HN, most of the top results are about US drop in births.