https://www.scmp.com/rss/509704/feed Laurie F. DeRose (Brown University, Ph.D.) is a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, director of research for the World Family Map Project, and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Catholic University of America. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png 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