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by Erem 7 days ago
Korea is starting to turn things around! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/25/south-korea-bi...
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Fertility rate of 0.80.. and I thought Japan, Italy, and my own country had problems. Note however that https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/south-korea-p... says 0.76, and last year was 0.75, so there's barely any change there. Catastrophically low birth rate, and maybe it's not so hard to figure out why.
Maybe the fertility rate has to go below zero to bounce back... Japan's rate is like 1.14 yet [1].

Hopefully Korea has figure out something more actionable

[1] https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/77220

What's fertility rate below zero? Women not only have zero babies, they also sometimes kill babies of others?
A rate below 0.99… so less than 1 kid per 2 adults
Looks like that's below 1, but I don't have my glasses on so might be mistaken.
It is, merely saying what he meant