Lyman Stone - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/501042/feed Lyman Stone is an economist who specialises in population change. He is an adviser at the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Lyman Stone - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com Birth rates throughout East Asia have fallen to critically low levels. South Korea’s rate fell to a record in 2020 – just 0.84 children were expected to be born per woman, versus the 2.1 needed for population stability. Korea is not alone; Hong Kong’s birth rate was just 1.05 in 2019 while Singapore’s had 1.1 births per woman in 2020. In Taiwan, women can expect to have just 1.05 children each. Japan, once the demographic laggard of East Asia, now has one of the highest birth rates in the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3131153/why-work-biggest-hurdle-solving-east-asias-population-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3131153/why-work-biggest-hurdle-solving-east-asias-population-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:45:13 +0000 Why work is the biggest hurdle to solving East Asia’s population crisis For about 20 years, women in Hong Kong have reliably told survey-takers that their ideal number of children is one or two. The average “ideal” value has been around 1.6 children. The statistic’s stability would make you think that this ideal is normal. But it’s quite unusual. According to research I’ve conducted for the US-based Institute for Family Studies, it is exceedingly rare for women to report average fertility ideals below two children. Women in South Korea, Japan and Singapore say they... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/chinese-women-have-fewer-children-norm-and-theyre-cool/article/3013346?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/chinese-women-have-fewer-children-norm-and-theyre-cool/article/3013346?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Jun 2019 08:57:16 +0000 Chinese women have fewer children – and they’re cool with that For about 20 years, women in Hong Kong have reliably told survey-takers that their ideal number of children is one or two. The average “ideal” value has been around 1.6 children. The stability of this estimate could easily cause one to think that a fertility ideal of 1.6 children is normal. But, in fact, it’s quite unusual. According to research I’ve conducted for the US-based Institute for Family Studies, it is exceedingly rare for women to report average fertility ideals below two children.... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3012996/chinese-women-hong-kong-and-mainland-have-fewer-children-norm-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3012996/chinese-women-hong-kong-and-mainland-have-fewer-children-norm-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:00:11 +0000 Chinese women in Hong Kong and on the mainland have fewer children than the norm – and they’re fine with that