South Korea Sets New Record Low for Child Births
The birthrate continues to decline significantly in South Korea:
A total of 18,982 babies were born in November, plunging 4.3 percent from the previous year, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It marked the lowest number for any November since the statistics agency started compiling related data in 1981.
South Korea remains dogged by a chronic decline in childbirths as many young people delay or give up on having babies in the face of an economic slowdown and high home prices.
Over the January-November period, a total number of 231,863 babies were born, down 4.7 percent from a year earlier.
Yonhap
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South Korea can thank Moon for this.
This is a good thing.
I realize there are still a lot of places not covered in concrete and there are rivers that can eat a lot more sewage before the downstream tap water processing facility is overloaded…
…but MOAR BABYZ is not the answer.
And it will be less of an answer as robots and AI take over more and more duties, from truck driver to radiologist.
Now, if only there was some way to get the non-critical thinkers, the political fetishists, and the lower intelligence crowd to self-select themselves out of the equation.
So the population is now at 51.44 million – which is at the 2016 level.
But remember, in 1970 – at the height of state-sponsored birth control due to fears that the country was severely overpopulated, it was at 33 million.
ANKARA Anadolu Agency staff |
Maybe they just don’t know what goes where, and why.