East Asia’s Future: Extinction? (life, 2013, people, time)

[jabber_wocky]

Increasing aging population with low birth rates in several asian countries.


East Asia

Fertility rate, total (births per woman) | Data | Table

[theunbrainwashed]

Yawn. They say white people are going to go extinct, too. Not gonna happen

[Dangerous-Boy]

This could be a good thing. Less scramble for resources

[PoppySead]

I think immigration will take hold eventually. When the older generations die off the young will welcome immigrants. Say hello to the Korean Statue of Liberty. lol The Empress of Immigration.
The older generation is the only ones holding back a blended Asia.

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by PoppySead

I think immigration will take hold eventually. When the older generations die off the young will welcome immigrants. Say hello to the Korean Statue of Liberty. lol The Empress of Immigration.
The older generation is the only ones holding back a blended Asia.

Not really. Even the young are against mass immigration. You can't apply Western points of view to Asia. This diversity and political correctness stuff in the West doesn't exist over there

[GoldenTiger]

Just because it is decreasing from an all-time high does not mean that people are going to die out. There's more than 1.5 billion people in East Asia, almost triple the population it had 100 years ago!

[japanese001]

Radioactive pollution, genetically modified foods is a threat.

[Greysholic]

Originally Posted by japanese001

Radioactive pollution, genetically modified foods is a threat.

O please Japan is totally fine...notwithstanding all the earthquakes.

[bigboibob]

Countries with high life expectancy tend to have lower birth rates which makes sense.

You aren't going to have 10 children if you know all of them are going to survive.

Healthcare has drastically improved life expectancy which decreases the need to have many children.

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by GoldenTiger

Just because it is decreasing from an all-time high does not mean that people are going to die out. There's more than 1.5 billion people in East Asia, almost triple the population it had 100 years ago!

Yeah seriously, even if 50% of East Asia dies out, that's still more people in the region than the US has I swear, they need less people, not more. In fact, the whole world needs less people. When more and more automation begins to happen, what's going to happen to the surplus population? Only the West relies on mass immigration and destroying their cultural identity to gain a buck, the rest of the world isn't like that