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"A World Without Men: The Women of South Korea’s 4B Movement Aren’t Fighting the Patriarchy — They’re Leaving It Behind Entirely"

Nov. 12, 2024, 6:12 p.m.

Countries: South Korea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

“In December of that year, as Korea’s fertility rate hovered at 1.2 births per woman (it has since slid to 0.78, the lowest in the world)” (para 15).

China Divorce Cooling Off Period 2023

Nov. 5, 2024, 1:18 p.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"China’s population shrank in 2022 for the first time in more than 60 years, with just 6.77 births per 1,000 people – the lowest level since the founding of Communist China in 1949" (para 6).

Female Fertility in China 2023

Nov. 5, 2024, 1:02 p.m.

Countries: China
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-2, BR-DATA-1

"China reported its first population drop in six decades amid record low birth and marriage rates" (para 5).

China pays for IVF

Nov. 5, 2024, 12:59 p.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"[China has] a fertility rate so low that China’s population has started to shrink" (para 5, 10). "infertility affects 18 percent of couples in China, compared with a global average of around 15 percent" (para 24).

Belize CEDAW 2023

Oct. 9, 2024, 7:59 p.m.

Countries: Belize
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1, BR-DATA-1

"In 2019, the birth rate was at 58.2 per 1,000 for women aged 15-19 years indicating a high birth rate among adolescence" (4).

Guatemala CEDAW 2021

July 18, 2024, 6:38 p.m.

Countries: Guatemala
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Regarding universal birth registration, according to the National Institute of Statistics, coverage of births during the 2017–2021 period, which includes universal birth registration and underregistration, according to vital statistics disaggregated by sex, amounted to 1,641,666 births (30 August 2021), of which 49 per cent were girls (806,568)" (18).

Botswana 2017 CEDAW

Jan. 16, 2024, 6:33 p.m.

Countries: Botswana
Variables: BR-DATA-1

Table 13 on page 31 shows the total number of births in 2008 was 44, 961; in 2009, 45,365; in 2010 50, 328; in 2011, 45, 008; in 2012, 50,048 (31).

2021 Singapore CEDAW

Jan. 4, 2024, 10:41 a.m.

Countries: Singapore
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Singapore’s resident total fertility rate was 1.10 in 2020, compared to 1.20 in 2016. There were 38,590 live births in 2020, of which 20,023 (52 per cent) were males and 18,566 (48 per cent) were females" (9).

China's population

Dec. 5, 2023, 11:18 a.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"China is left with one of the lowest birthrates in the world" (pp 7). "In 2016, China reported 18.46 million births – just 1.4 million higher than the average number of births in the previous five years… Annual births continued to drop thereafter: from 17.23 million in 2017 to 15.23 million in 2018, 14.65 million in 2019, 12 million in 2020, then to 10.62 million in 2021" (pp 9). "In the 1970s, the total fertility rate (births per woman) fell from 5.8 in 1970 to 2.75 in 1979… [S]ince the 1990s, it has declined to below the replacement level. The 2010 and 2020 censuses yielded total fertility rates of 1.18...more

Chinese officials now nag couples for children

Nov. 28, 2023, 1:28 p.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"New births are set to drop below 10 million from last year's 10.6 million, a decline that will follow an 11.5% slide in 2020" (pp 8).

China's population and population policies

Nov. 28, 2023, 1:11 p.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"China's fertility rate [was] 1.16 in 2021" (pp 8). "New births in China are set to fall to record lows this year, demographers say, dropping below 10 million from last year's 10.6 million - which was already 11.5% lower than in 2020" (pp 10).

South Korean feminism faces backlash

Nov. 28, 2023, 12:49 p.m.

Countries: South Korea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"South Korea's alarming low fertility rate [is] at 0.8 children per woman" (pp 14).

SouthKorea Gender Ministry

Nov. 3, 2023, 11:41 a.m.

Countries: South Korea
Variables: CBMC-PRACTICE-2, BR-DATA-1

“Women who do not want to sacrifice their careers are now simply choosing not to have children. South Korea's fertility rate (the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) has fallen to 0.81, the lowest in the world. Its population is predicted to halve by the end of the century, meaning it may not have enough people to sustain its economy and conscript into its army” (para 32).

South Korea Fertility

Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.

Countries: Japan, United States
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"That is far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population and low even compared to other developed countries where the rate is falling, such as the United States (1.6) and Japan – which at 1.3 reported its own lowest rate on record" (para 4)

South Korea Fertility

Oct. 10, 2023, 12:58 p.m.

Countries: South Korea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate. Figures released in November showed the average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is down to just 0.79" (para 3).