Birth rates in rich countries, including America, Europe, and East Asia, are declining, leading to shrinking populations. Governments are offering incentives to encourage more births to avert economic decline and social unrest. South Korea and Shanghai have extremely low fertility rates, with South Korea projected to experience a significant population decrease by 2052. The U.S. has also seen a record low birth rate in 2023, with a 2% decline from the previous year. Japan and South Korea perform relatively better in fertility rates within marriage. The fertility crisis in South Korea is attributed to cultural shifts, challenging the effectiveness of incentivizing childbearing.
As I try to explain here, https://t.co/D9aBe1drIo, the collapse in SK fertility is driven, in part, by a cultural shift which is not easily countered by paying people to have more children. https://t.co/mZLy3I9NjU
Statistics Korea released new South Korean birth data today. It's really bad. Q1 births were down 6.2% compared to Q1 2023. The world record lowest fertility is in Korea and they apparently still haven't found the floor. https://t.co/DONIO75u9D
The panic about falling birthrates is divorced from the realities of raising kids in today’s world. https://t.co/fklYtR9UhP https://t.co/VaO2Poe0mJ
🚨 2023 LOWEST FERTILITY RATES Number of children per woman: 1. Taiwan - 1.09 2. South Korea - 1.11 3. Singapore - 1.17 4. Hong Kong - 1.23 5. Macau - 1.23 6. Italy - 1.24 7. Puerto Rico - 1.25 8. Spain - 1.29 9. Monsterrat - 1.32 10. Mauritius - 1.35 11. British Virgin Islands… https://t.co/aqWqACxURw
South Korea's population is expected to fall in almost all regions by 2052 due to chronically low births https://t.co/YihbViZrnn https://t.co/f1aVQAWfIM
Pretty interesting observations in this thread on South Korean fertility crisis. Screencap is my previous conclusion on what is causing it: https://t.co/7EfPf9wST1 https://t.co/GzUlFMqdAY
If you counted fertility only for births within marriage, Japan would be among the top performers in the developed world, and South Korea wouldn't be doing too bad either. https://t.co/N0n7BlHoyw
🇺🇸 BREAKING: U.S BIRTH RATE HITS RECORD LOW U.S. fertility rate has dropped to its lowest since 1979, reaching 1.64 births per woman in 2023, a 2% decline from 2022. Teen birth rates reached a record low, while the highest birth rates were among women aged 30-34. Fertility… https://t.co/esL1hsLS9A
The Chinese city of Shanghai has half the population of South Korea and an even lower fertility rate than South Korea. in 2023, South Korea's fertility rate was only 0.72, and Seoul's was only 0.55. In 2013, Shanghai's fertility rate was only 0.60, and several districts were only… https://t.co/xZ6wLAfPh8
Not a single province in South Korea has a fertility rate above 1.0 https://t.co/5iGubbbexC
Shrinking populations mean less economic growth and a more fractious world. Politicians must act now to avert the worst https://t.co/Be6q3ellzu 👇
Birth rates in America, Europe and East Asia have fallen far enough that even the most appealing incentives are failing to stop populations from shrinking https://t.co/piL4i8zDUM 👇
Birth rates in rich countries are falling. Governments hoping to avoid a demographic crisis are spending big on rewards for people who have babies https://t.co/9muqROp6VU 👇