Take Korea as an example, which is a developed country however with negative population growth.
According to the "Preliminary Statistics on Births and Deaths in 2021" released by the Statistics Korea, South Korea's total fertility rate fell to 0.81 last year, the population of newborns was 260,000, and the average age of women giving birth was postponed to 33.4 years old.
South Korea's 2020 census data shows that 42% of 30-year-olds are unmarried, and this figure is also hitting a new high every year.
According to the “2020 Newlyweds Statistics” recently released by the Statistics Korea, 44.5% of South Korean newlyweds who have been married for less than 6 years have children without children. 0.03.
As the country with the longest working hours in the world, in July this year, South Korea stipulated that the working hours in a week should not exceed 52 hours, which is 4.5 hours more than the average working hours per week (47.5 hours) of employees in Chinese companies.
In 2018, the Korean Labor Standards Law stipulates that the working hours of a week are at most 52-68 hours, which means that the average working time is at most 10.4-13.6 hours per day, and almost half of the time of the day is used for work.
Less than 50% of those aged 20-29 are employed.
Koreans jokingly call young people the "five abandoned generations" - giving up love, making friends, getting married, buying a house and having children, and their lives seem to have lost their purpose and have fallen into a "derailed" state.
In 2017, the average monthly tuition fee per person in Korean primary and secondary schools reached 271,000 won (about 1,603 yuan).
In a survey by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, more than 40 percent of women said they had quit their jobs because of pregnancy, childbirth or childcare, compared with just 0.4 percent of men. South Korea even coined a word for such women--workers-dun-daughter--among married women aged 15-54, those who quit their jobs on the grounds of marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, child-rearing, and children's education have their work history broken. female. When the children grow up, these women who are forced to leave the workplace are also difficult to return to their previous jobs due to problems such as too long a blank period, and most of them can only do some informal work of the nature of dispatch.
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