[Keywords of the times] Demographic cliff, low birth rate crisis, fundamental problem solution
‘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...