I think replacement rate is 2.1 or 2.2 right? At least DPRK is close enough that some more active focus on family planning could easily bring it back. South Korea is just in the midst of societal suicide right now though.
Give people more time off and turn off the television and videogames. Guarantee your fertility rate goes up.
With due respect, I don't think this is good analysis. Time off and hobbies are likely quite a small component in fertility rates. Look at the birth rates of non-immigrants in places like Italy and Germany which have comparatively generous time off and they're still well below replacement rates.
Probably not for a country that relies entirely on its own labour, has zero immigration and extremely little trade. The more their labour decreases the less they can do for themselves. It directly conflicts with the juche idea.
Is the Juche idea predicated on perpetual population growth, or is it based on stability, a drive to optimize labor input, a balance of humanity and the natural factors that support it, and a recognition that there are almost twice as many people in the DPRK as there were in the entire peninsula a century ago?
One way or another it still relies on sustainability. You might argue it can be ignored until the population returns to previous numbers (I would say that's wrong due to the war and aging population) but it will still become a problem eventually.
A big part of what drives birth rates down is crowdedness, and an attitude that there really doesn't need to be that many more people. We have more people on the planet than at any previous time in history, and I hardly expect the above factors to stay the same throughout a long period of population change. It's moderate, it's nothing to worry about.
Give people more time off and turn off the television and videogames. Guarantee your fertility rate goes up.
1.9 births per woman in DPRK vs 0.9 births in occupied Korea.
Still below 2 though, which I guess is still a problem particularly for Juche given that they can't just get migrants.
I think replacement rate is 2.1 or 2.2 right? At least DPRK is close enough that some more active focus on family planning could easily bring it back. South Korea is just in the midst of societal suicide right now though.
With due respect, I don't think this is good analysis. Time off and hobbies are likely quite a small component in fertility rates. Look at the birth rates of non-immigrants in places like Italy and Germany which have comparatively generous time off and they're still well below replacement rates.
One point nine is fine!
Probably not for a country that relies entirely on its own labour, has zero immigration and extremely little trade. The more their labour decreases the less they can do for themselves. It directly conflicts with the juche idea.
Is the Juche idea predicated on perpetual population growth, or is it based on stability, a drive to optimize labor input, a balance of humanity and the natural factors that support it, and a recognition that there are almost twice as many people in the DPRK as there were in the entire peninsula a century ago?
One way or another it still relies on sustainability. You might argue it can be ignored until the population returns to previous numbers (I would say that's wrong due to the war and aging population) but it will still become a problem eventually.
A big part of what drives birth rates down is crowdedness, and an attitude that there really doesn't need to be that many more people. We have more people on the planet than at any previous time in history, and I hardly expect the above factors to stay the same throughout a long period of population change. It's moderate, it's nothing to worry about.