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Korea is starting to turn things around! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/25/south-korea-birth-rate-increase-rise-echo-boomers https://www.theguardian

• Tor3 4mo ago
  Fertility rate of 0.80.. and I thought Japan, Italy, and my own country had problems. Note however that https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/south-korea-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/south-korea-p... says 0.76, and last year was 0.75, so there's barely any change there. Catastrophically low birth rate, and maybe it's not so hard to figure out why.
• flakiness 4mo ago
  Maybe the fertility rate has to go below zero to bounce back... Japan's rate is like 1.14 yet [1]. Hopefully Korea has figure out something more actionable [1] https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/77220 https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/77220
  • karmakurtisaani 4mo ago
    What's fertility rate below zero? Women not only have zero babies, they also sometimes kill babies of others?
    • moi2388 4mo ago
      A rate below 0.99… so less than 1 kid per 2 adults
      • karmakurtisaani 4mo ago
        Looks like that's below 1, but I don't have my glasses on so might be mistaken.
        • moi2388 4mo ago
          It is, merely saying what he meant