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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Highly developed societies tend to have less children, we don’t know exactly why and anyone who claims they do doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Generally we can point to some contributing factors, those being higher education, greater gender equality, higher income.
Many nations have tried to offer more money to people who have children and it never works to offset the birthrate, because paradoxically the more income someone has the less likely they are to have children.
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