Ostasien steht vor einem demografischen Wendepunkt

Von vladgrinch

26 Kommentare

  1. FrostyDimension9226 on

    China really screwed up with their one child policy. India also historically had high birthrates, and theirs has started to slow more naturally but is still high. China is going to have a hard time increasing birthrates again.

  2. SaltedCaffeine on

    SK, Japan, and Taiwan are already employing foreign labor for blue collar essential jobs (farming, manufacturing, transportation, etc.), but what about China? I know that China has special arrangements with some African countries and I saw Africans working in China.

  3. Most estimates put North Korea’s TFR at 1.8 so Ironically it might end up winning the long game against South Korea purely because it’s not actively going extinct

  4. AverageFishEye on

    Wow, this is not a decline, like with the europeans, this is an implosion

  5. AgeOfReasonEnds31120 on

    Why does Japan have by far the highest of them? Is the school system the least strict in East Asia, while still being very demanding?

  6. IanRevived94J on

    In China’s case this is a manufactured crisis. Result from the idiotic one child policy of the government.

  7. Leading-Alarm3955 on

    I mean sure East Asia is entering a demographic crisis but so is most of Europe with countries like Italy, Spain, and Portugal with a lower birth rate than Japan. And also Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand are all below replacement level and so is India. It is just the natural progression of things you cannot have infinite growth rates forever.

  8. American_Crusader_15 on

    I honestly dont think Immigration would fix this either. It takes generations for immigrants and their descendents to take up institutions that keep a country stable.

    How do you do that if millions of people are dying of old age every year?

  9. Aeon_Return on

    I imagine it’s going to look pretty similar to this in Europe within the next few decades. Anecdotal but I don’t personally know one single Czech Gen Zer who has or is planning to have children. I know a few Millennials who have or want children but I also know plenty who have no intention. I imagine it’s only going to get more pronounced in the near future.

  10. Lucky-Banana-2101 on

    I wonder what policies will china introduce to combat this. They are an authoratarian goverment with very strong power so they could introduce very strong systems that might be ableto raise the ferility. Childless tax system is already being discussed by ccp policy advisors and its possible they will tie pensions to the number of children you raise. We will never see a democracy take action like this which could actually work because of the public backlash.

  11. AdditionalLack1127 on

    Let’s wait and see before dooming. Projections don’t go on forever, and for context:

    – China’s population stayed below 200M for most of its history. 

    – Japan, below 30M.

    – Both Koreas, below 20M combined. 

    I see a bunch of countries with abnormally high populations. We should see 20th-century exponential population growth as an exception, not the norm. 

  12. HolyKnightHun on

    Is population decline actually a bad thing?

    With the advancement of AI and Automation technology we could potentially be facing an unemployment crisis in a decade or two.

    If that happens lower replacement rate today could be looked at advantageous in 20 years.

    Also more resources per capita could help with sustainability and more space per capita could help with the housing crisis.

    The only issue that needs to be solved is to tax the corporations who benefit from AI more… nevermind we are fucked.

  13. Abalone_Antique on

    Props for listing Hong Kong and its stats separately!

    I guess the lack of population decline despite the low birth rate must be due to the influx of mainland Chinese.

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