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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Because becoming a mother is not rewarding for women in these countries.
Young women are highly educated. As soon as they have a child, that career is over. Or they choose to continue work while having to hand over the child to grandparents and spend almost no time with them.
I worked for a large American corporate which allowed working from home whenever you pleased, a novelty in Japan at the time. The return-to-work rate for women after having a child, country wide, was about 5 percent. The company’s return rate: 100 percent.
If women are not penalized for becoming mothers, the birthrate will shoot up.
Source: Spent 10 years in the region.
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