The Hill Times
LONDON, U.K.—There are enough people to go around: eight billion now, compared to two billion less than 100 years ago. Fifty-one million in South Korea, compared to only 12 million 100 years ago. So why are South Koreans obsessed about their low birth rate? It is certainly very low now. The average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is just 0.72, whereas the birth rate needs to be at least 2.1 children per woman to prevent the population from falling.
Now it is in the same income bracket as Canada, France, and Japan, but it made that transition three times faster than Japan did, and social attitudes don’t change that fast. Even in Japan, women face many challenges at work, but in South Korea they are virtually insurmountable. Three quarters of South Korean women have a post-secondary education, but they are expected to leave work for at least two years after having a child.
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