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Re:South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, go... by huytersd on Friday December 15, 2023 @08:21PM (#38660889)
Kind of is a disaster. It’s not a lower, but stable, birth rate. It’s precipitously dropping.
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Re:South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, go... by gumby on Saturday December 16, 2023 @02:01AM (#38662347)
I guess I don’t consider it disastrous. There is no shortage of babies being born.
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Re:South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, go... by huytersd on Saturday December 16, 2023 @02:20AM (#38662427)
The rate is 0.72. Every 20 years you lose 20% of your population or a percent a year. That would give South Korea 100 years of existence at this point. It’s dire.
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Re:South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, go... by wizofaus on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:46PM (#38675221)
Pretty sure your maths is off - even if it did steadily fall by 20% every 20 years, it'd still have a population of 16 to 17 million in 100 years' time. So no, not especially dire.
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