Alarmingly Low Birth Rate
Low-Birth Trend Continues Last Year
South Korea's birth rate, at 1.17 per woman, is among the world's lowest, along with Hong Kong, Latvia, and Bulgaria. The above article presents the following alarming projection:
The cost in terms of social upheaval will be enormous. In the sixties, seventies, and even eighties, the South Korean government, like most in the world, bought into the anti-human "population explosion" myth and encouraged people to have smaller families. The result of that gross miscalculation has spiraled out of control. Korea, like Japan and Europe, will soon be faced with a huge population of elderly people with a rapidly skrinking labor force to support them.
Disobeying Natural Law has its consequences. God's first commandment was "Be fruitful and multiply."
Low-Birth Trend Continues Last Year
South Korea's birth rate, at 1.17 per woman, is among the world's lowest, along with Hong Kong, Latvia, and Bulgaria. The above article presents the following alarming projection:
- "According to the survey, the Korean population will peak at 49.25 million in 2017 and then decline to 16.21 million by 2100, about one third the current level."
The cost in terms of social upheaval will be enormous. In the sixties, seventies, and even eighties, the South Korean government, like most in the world, bought into the anti-human "population explosion" myth and encouraged people to have smaller families. The result of that gross miscalculation has spiraled out of control. Korea, like Japan and Europe, will soon be faced with a huge population of elderly people with a rapidly skrinking labor force to support them.
Disobeying Natural Law has its consequences. God's first commandment was "Be fruitful and multiply."
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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