Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by yongjik on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:27PM (#32589115)

> How about some DATA: go to https://population.io, select Rep. of Korea, plug in some age/gender b.s. and scroll down to "Age Distribution" at the left column. Now look to the left of ~20yo (younger than 20), it's a nearly horizontal line. What does that tell you?

Yeah, something is definitely wrong with the site because actual population pyramid data looks much more alarming:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019%EB%85%84_%ED%95...

Or https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyr... as mentioned by a sibling comment.

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Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by Thorrez on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:12AM (#32589778)

Exactly. This one looks even more alarming:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/South_Ko...

Also it matches up with the article, which says 261k babies were born last year. wikimedia show about that, with ~130k male and ~130k female. population.io says 454k which is way off.

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Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by pengaru on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:46AM (#32589990)

Nice catch! It looks like population.io's UN data is only real estimates up to 2010 then projections according to the Methodology pop-up.

Which looks pretty divergent for the last 5 years specifically, judging from

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyr...

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