“Korea will be the first country in the world to disappear.”

Technology is changing rapidly, prices are also followed by soaring, in the case of Life under considerable pressure, fewer and fewer people want to have children, not only Taiwan, many countries have also seen a decline in fertility, South Korea is last year (2020) there is a death cross, (meaning that the death of the population is greater than the birth of the population), and a British professor said that South Korea may become the world’s first country to disappear.

South Korea’s population for the first Time appeared death crossover, fertility rate hit a record low. (Photo/reproduced from pixabay)

According to Korean media reports, 10 years ago, the number of people in South Korea’s natural growth of more than 200,000 people, but in 17 years for the first time fell below 100,000, and then every year declining, the fertility rate in 2020 is only 0.84, is also the first time in South Korea, “the death of the population is greater than the birth of the population” death cross, low fertility rate coupled with an aging population, so that South Korea for the first time The low fertility rate, combined with an aging population, has led to negative population growth for the first time.

According to the statistics, because of the impact of fewer children, half of the universities in Korea may disappear within 20 years. It is estimated that by 2065, the elderly population over 65 years old will be higher than the working population, and the dependency ratio will be seriously imbalanced. The National Assembly of Korea has analyzed that if such a scenario continues, Korea may be extinct by 2750.

Some reports also predict that Busan will be the first region to “empty out”, with 2413 being the last year of birth, and Seoul in 2505. In fact, as early as 2006, David Coleman, a professor of demography at Oxford University, warned that South Korea would become the first country in the world to disappear if its population continued to show negative growth. The reason why young people are less and less willing to have children is not only the economic pressure, but also the high housing price and high unemployment rate in Korea, which discourage many couples.