Worldwide Demographics

[Crawford]

South Korea has crazy demographics. Something like 80% of women under 20 claim they don't want children, so it's probably gonna get much worse.

There's a celebrated "three no's" - no sex, no marriage, no kids, until men start treating women better.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by Crawford

South Korea has crazy demographics. Something like 80% of women under 20 claim they don't want children, so it's probably gonna get much worse.

There's a celebrated "three no's" - no sex, no marriage, no kids, until men start treating women better.

One wonders if they realize this is making all of their problems worse—worse economy, worse demographics, and (honestly) likely worse treatment of women by men.

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by Crawford

South Korea has crazy demographics. Something like 80% of women under 20 claim they don't want children, so it's probably gonna get much worse.

There's a celebrated "three no's" - no sex, no marriage, no kids, until men start treating women better.

And as result we have one of the fastest transitions anywhere (Puerto Rico tracking close behind, but they have the emigration).

As recent as 2000, there were 640k births in South Korea for only 248k deaths. It seems by 2024, South Korea birth/death ration will become worst than Japan, a country that whose demographic transition predate South Korea by 3-4 decades.

[mhays]

South Korea also lacks women of childbearing age. It's worse than the 0.78 would suggest.

The peak populations by far are in their early 40s to early 60s. The next "boom" has 20% fewer people per peak year, and they're already 30 years old. Teenagers are literally 50% fewer. Small kid numbers plummet way beyond even that.

[Yuri]

Folha:

Portugal speeds up the regularization of migrants from Brazil

Apparently, there are 150,000 in line. There are tens of millions of Brazilians holding or eligible to hold European citizenships and still Portugal is making things even easier: after one year living and working there, any Brazilian can require Portuguese citizenship.

Portugal seems to be "going full Germany or Sweden" and it's very aggressive on attracting immigrants. Even though population is already declining there, they're in a much better position than Eastern Europe, where emigration is much higher and immigration is negligible. There are problems though: xenophobia and racism are quite strong on Portuguese society.

[New Brisavoine]

Evolution of Toulouse: aerial views 2002 >> 2022

Toulouse is the 3rd fastest growing metro area in Europe after Stockholm and Oslo. Between the 1999 and 2020 censuses, its population (within constant borders) grew by more than 38% (i.e. +1.57% per year), reaching 1.47 million at the 2020 census.

[MolsonExport]

^interesting how patch-worky the development has been, with almost random fields vs. developed subdivisions.