Has been falling each year for the past few years.
According to this it is pretty much flatlining at the moment: South Korea Population | Historical Data | Chart | 1950-2025
Anyway, it it is far from a demographic collapse.
Changing the present wage/pension structures is the nettle that has to be grasped. Automation and AI are the issue, not low fertility rates.
Populations fall in villages and towns because young people leave.
Traditions evolve, thankfully, as do dialects: In GraubĂźnden entstehen gerade neue Dialekte - Radio SRF 1 - SRF
One of the big criticisms of AI driven data is that, whilst there are advantages, it is leading at best to a dumbing down and at worst to creation of much more fake or misleading information.
Have you never noticed that the Swiss like to travel and find significant others around the world? Many guys fly to Thailand and ladies seem to like Africa.
And itâs great. Now we have a champion in steeplechase and a decent national football team. Since football players from the first generation of Kosovo refugees are slowly retiring and secondos are not very interested in football, itâs great to have motivated young players of Swiss-African descent.
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If you look at total population, you donât see what is happening. Hereâs the chart for age group 0-14. Which has more than halved since the peak in the 80s.
Even if growth rates stabilize from now on, youâre looking at the population halving in 50 years.
This split into age groups shows the problem. Population of under 24 is declining. Working age population already peaked and is declining. The only population group rising is the over 65 group ageing out and this is expected to peak in 25 years time.
Check out more data here: World Population Prospects
I think we agree that an ageing population is a problem. The disagreement is about whether or not increasing fertility rates is going to help or not.
Anecdotally the Koreans that I have spoken to leave Korea because the opportunities are better abroad. Ironically a similar number of foreigners think the same and enter Korea at the moment. Opportunity and poverty are relative and Korea would be typical of many countries.
I am a bit out of my depth trying to look critically at population projections, but one thing seems clear - the number of seniors is going to increase in the next 30 years whatever the birth rate. A bigger world population is not positive.
I think that the population is not declining per-se.
Hear me out.
At the end of the second world war the survivors celebrated by boning the heck out of each other. Hence the baby boomers and now as we shuffle off this mortal plane the population growth is getting back to normal levels. Governments saw this coming and wanted to keep the levels high and imported forriners by the oodle.
Thing is now, the way we have created our very expensive society are we are being outboned by these immigrants.
so what if theres less births. who gives a shit!
thatâs precisely the issue, no one cares hahaha
Yes, âflatliningâ, pun intended.
they are too much on their handy to be bothered with sex.
What ever the reason the FDA has the solution
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5639883/fda-testosterone-treatment-martin-makary