South Korea’s unusually rapid transition to a super-aged society means it has had little time to find solutions for pension funding and healthcare for the elderly.
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Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.
Embracing the lower fertility rates we’re seeing could help ease humanity’s impact on the planet.
In the short term, falling fertility rates can actually have some economic benefits. But the picture gets more complex in the long term, and far less rosy.
For decades it seemed as if nothing could change the trajectory of population growth. But a huge change is looming.
People with secure work and a regular income are more likely to start a family than those working in casual jobs with irregular hours.
Most of the problems confronting the world come down to population growth. But where women are given the choice, they limit the number of children they have.
Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
Childbearing goals have remained remarkably consistent over the decades. What has changed is when people start their families and how many kids they end up having.
Economic opportunities, social norms and expanding education and employment options for many women help explain why U.S. fertility has slowed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
If we want a liveable future for our grandchildren is it ethical to reduce the number of people being born into that world?
Our species has far exceeded its fair share of the planetary bounty, and Brown is right to call for the global population to peak.
Why there’s no need to panic over warning of ‘jaw-dropping’ fertility decline.
South Korea is facing a low fertility trend. Valentine’s Day serves as a reminder to help ease the domestic burden on young women so they can consider partnerships again.
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