韩国：人口减少和老龄化：对经济的威胁
韩国：
纽约时报1月5日指出。
朝鲜可能首先想到的是对韩国的主要威胁。
但是，他指出，更为微妙的危险实际上是人口下降和迅速老龄化。
普查资料发布：
人口普查资料已经发布，表明韩国人口在2020年首次下降。
简而言之，他解释了重要的担忧已经浮出水面。
韩国卫生与社会研究所：李相林研究员
他说：“我不确定韩国的年轻人将来会过上更好的生活。”
如此低的出生率可能导致严重的财务困难，例如劳动力短缺。
（哇！韩国）-雅虎新闻
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3b14057c6409ba57a32a0863c66a8ea8bdacca87
As Birthrate Falls, South Korea’s Population Declines, Posing Threat to Economy
Jan. 4, 2021
Think of major threats to South Korea, and its nuclear-armed neighbor North Korea may come to mind.
But a subtler risk to South Korea’s future well-being lies within its borders: a shrinking and rapidly aging population.
The concern
was underscored this weekend with the release of census data that showed South Korea’s population fell in 2020 for the first time on record.
A declining number of newborns
was exceeded by a growing number of deaths, according to census data released by the South Korean government.
a bad signal for replenishing the labor force and caring for retirees and other older people as they become a larger share of society.
The new data from South Korea, while not a surprise,
were nonetheless concerning for a country that in recent decades has become one of Asia’s economic and cultural dynamos.
The census data from the Ministry of Interior and Safety showed that
South Korea’s population
totaled 51,829,023 as of Dec. 31, down 20,838 from the end of 2019.
There were 275,815 births, down 10.65 percent from 2019, and 307,764 deaths, up 3.1 percent from 2019.
The ministry expressed alarm about the implications, saying that
“amid the rapidly declining birthrate, the government needs to undertake fundamental changes to its relevant policies.”
But a growing number of young South Koreans
are still choosing to remain single. When they do marry, they are doing so later in life and usually have only one child, or none at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/world/asia/south-korea-population.html