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Re:Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive m... by eneerhut on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:07AM (#40196168)
Korea is used interchangeably with South Korea. In the same way the United States of America and America are used interchangeably.

And it's South Korea, not Southkorea if you want to be pedantic.

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Re:Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive m... by nickserv on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:13AM (#40196204)
Off topic, but would be interesting to compare the birthrates in both countries.
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Re:Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive m... by pjc50 on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:50AM (#40196395)
You're not going to get good statistical information out of NK; it may not even exist. And it also matters what the death rates and child mortality rates are in a country which apparently has famines. Almost certainly the NK birth rate is higher to compensate.
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Re:Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive m... by justsomehnguy on Monday April 29, 2024 @06:12AM (#40196505)
It took less time in the search to get [0] than for you to type your comment.

> it may not even exist

Why did you even think what NK doesn't have that data?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_North_Korea

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Re:Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive m... by Moldoteck on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:04AM (#40196817)
most recent data is from 2008 and still you can't be sure data was not faked since it's a dictatorship (it is considered credible, but there's no way to check)
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Re:Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive m... by korowod on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:12AM (#40196200)
Actually, it's Republic of Korea.
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