Best Case Study for Declining Populations? South Korea – | Geography Education | Scoop.it
From geographyeducation.org - August 1, 2019 2:46 PM
South Korea is the world’s first country to have a total fertility rate below 1 (in 2019, it dropped to 0.98). It may not be the largest population of the 86 declining populations (114 countries have TFRs above replacement level), but it makes for an incredibly important case-study to explore emerging demographic patterns because in the coming years, it probably won’t be the only country with a TFR below 1.