South Koreans are on course to become extinct
by the year 2750, making them potentially the
first national population to disappear from the
planet due to a critically low birth rate.
According to a projection carried out as part of a
parliamentary study, the last survivor in the
capital Seoul will be born in 2505, while the last
South Korean anywhere will enter the world in
2621, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported.
The southern port city of Busan, which has one of
the most rapidly-aging populations in the country,
will be the first to empty and see its last resident
born in 2413, the study suggests.
In the shorter term, South Korea’s current
population of 50 million was forecast to drop to
40 million by 2056 and to 20 million by 2100.
The research was commissioned by the liberal
New Politics Alliance for Democracy party, and
carried out by the National Assembly Research
Service in Seoul.
It draws attention to the country’s fertility rate of
1.19 children born per woman recorded in 2013,
far below that which would be required to sustain
the population.
The rate is below that of China – despite its one-
child policy – and Japan, where the Financial
Times reports that the sales of nappies for old
people are expected to soon sell more than those
for babies.
The study follows on from the work of Oxford
University population expert David Coleman, who
said in 2006 that South Korea’s fertility rate
threatened the existence of the nation.
In Japan, a similar study in 2012 projected that
the last child would be born in 3011, the
Telegraph reported.
The government in South Korea has put in place
measures in recent years to try and combat the
trend, thought to have been started by campaigns
to restrict family size in the 1980s.
One of the most prohibitive influences making
parents stop at just one child was the extremely
high cost of private tuition, which has now been
capped.
Cha Woo-gyu, a professor at the Korea National
University of Education, told the FT that the
parliamentary study’s predictions failed to
account for such measures and instead that “the
report’s purpose is to generate alarm”.


Source: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-koreans-to-become-extinct-by-2750-due-to-dangerously-low-birth-rate-9691258.html

Times reports that the sales of nappies for old
people are expected to soon sell more than those
for babies.

Who cares it's not as if I want to be a Methuselah to monitor this report either.

@Op is that ur main concern? You neva solve your own country problem, you dey expose anoda countries longitivity.

More lands for us to occupy.
Korea soon to become no man's land.

I suggest we begin the exportation of Idomas to south Korea ASAP

Export Nigerians to that country and watch wonders work.

Na wa o. Which one come concern you.

xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa, this white uk people are funny. what is the difference between the north/south korea, japan, and a little bit different chinese? are they not brothers divided by confusion? white people na una dey dwindle, with this your war games, i dey give una 20 years! only halfcaste we go take dey remember you.