The latest forecast by Statistics Korea puts the population in 2072 at 36.2 million, a 30% decline from the current 51.7 million, even though the fertility rate may recover a bit to 0.68 in 2026. The population is expected to fall every year starting in 2025.

  • phoenixz
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    7 months ago

    The issue isn’t fertility, it’s the country, the culture, the labor laws. Nobody will want to get kids in a climate like that