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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Heavy work culture, combined with sky high real estate prices then hit gender norms that want a stay at home mother, but you need two salaries to buy a house.
So combine heavy housing prices, stagnant wages, and cultural expectations of ‘breadwinner’ families and it means that very few can meet the norms expected to have a family.
Then on top of this, once you start having less kids, in a while, you have a ton of your population way past childbearing age. Most western countries have this already, but Japan has it more so, that is, much more elders, and retired people don’t really procreate.
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