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  ‘Population cliff’ is especially severe in East Asian countries, why is that so? *Source_The Hankyoreh 6 countries in the top 10 in the world for ‘low birth rate crisis’; commonality is the unbreakable operation of ‘Confucian culture’ If you look at the ‘United Nations World Population Prospects 2022’ report released by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in July of last year, you can see that East Asia’s low birth rate crisis is particularly serious. If you list the total fertility rates of 238 countries around the world (as of 2021) in descending order, the top 10 in the world are Hong Kong (1st, 0.75 people), Korea (2nd, 0.88 people), Singapore (5th, 1.02 people), and Macau. There are six countries, including (6th place, 1.09 people), Taiwan (7th place, 1.11 people), and China (10th place, 1.16 people). The world average ‘total fertility rate’ (the number of children expected to be born to a woman of childbearing age between 15 and 49) is 2.3, but it i...

 ※2024 Korea childbirth/birth fact check Q&A/Nocut News (CBS) -Planning/Reporting: Park Ki-mook, Yang Min-hee, Song Jeong-hoon, Kang Ji-yoon -This project was supported by the Journalism Society of Korea-SNU Fact Check Center. [2024 Korea Childbirth/Birth Fact Check Questions and Answers③] Is Korea the only country with a total fertility rate of 1 or less? Not true at all *Source_CBS Nocut News Reporter Yang Min-hee Source_Worldwide total fertility rate data (2022·PRB). Provided by U.S. Census Bureau Last place according to OECD standards... Is Korea the only country with a total fertility rate of less than 1? A country where there are fewer people born than people who die. A country where women on average do not give birth to even one child. A country that pours 280 trillion won into a broken dock. This is a story about South Korea standing on the edge of a population cliff. From the second quarter to the third quarter, Korea's total fertility rate (the average number of babie...