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Bonus: South Korea Is Disappearing

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History of Everything

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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South Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate, which indicates the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime. It recorded a rate of just 0.72 in 2023 – down from 0.78 the previous year, the latest drop in a long string of yearly declines. The country as it stands is on track to disappear  Travel to Germany with me here Check out our sister podcast the Mystery of Everything Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge COFFEE Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My friends, it looks like South Korea is going to disappear.

0:37.4

South Korea has beaten its own record once again, and yet, unfortunately, that is a record

0:41.6

that they have not wished to break.

0:43.1

In fact, they have wanted to do the exact opposite.

0:45.7

The country has registered a new low in its already faltering birth rate.

0:49.4

The rate for 2023, once everything was tallied, was just 0.72. What we're talking about here is an

0:56.0

unprecedented number in the global community, where the average for most developed nations was 1.58.

1:02.7

At the current pace that we're talking about here, it is estimated that the South Korean population

1:06.4

is going to have by the year 2100 to just 24 million people.

1:11.4

Over the course of the year 2022, 249,000 babies were born.

1:15.9

But for the country's labor market to actually function and for people to have jobs and

1:20.3

for things to actually be fulfilled, South Korea needs 500,000 babies born a year at minimum.

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