South Korea’s World-Lowest Fertility Rate Set to Fall Further
time.com
Low fertility threatens to undermine South Korea’s economic future by shrinking its workforce and slowing consumption.

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.

  • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    It seems for the past few years, it keeps going lower than predicted, and thus the predications keep going down. I wouldn’t be surpised if it instead bottomed out at 0.51 in say 2030

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    626·
    1 year ago

    I beg to differ. Nobody can beat my infertility rate, I have 0 children. Unless someone out there has -1 children…