Why East Asia birth rates are so insanely low?

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Shanghai in China has a fertility rate 0f 0.50

Some parts of South Korea like wards of Seoul and Busan are already in or below 0.30 children per woman

In 2023 Taiwan’s fertility rate was 0.865 and still going downside

The Hong kong one was 0.75 kids per woman

Singapore is 0.97 (and declining very fast)

Japan is the highest at 1.20 (with Tokyo being 0.99) and they’re declining also really fast

Why???

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Said simply everyone is overworked (60hrs is on the lighter side of a normal work week).
Why the change compared to, say, 30 years ago? Because women entered the workforce. Meaning now everyone (not just men) is too busy for a personal life, i.e. fewer and fewer social events to meet people and less time/month to spend with the people you do meet.

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