Korea has formally become a 'super-aged' society as the share of its population aged 65 or over surpassed 20 percent, the interior ministry said Tuesday, as the country copes with a demographic crisis of a rapidly aging population and low births.

Summary

South Korea has officially entered the “super-aged” category, with 20% of its population (10.24 million people) now aged 65 or older, according to the interior ministry.

This marks a significant demographic shift, as the nation struggles with low birth rates and a rapidly aging population.

Regions like Jeolla Province report the highest elderly percentage (27.18%), while Sejong has the lowest (11.57%).

In response, the government plans to create a population strategy ministry to address the crisis with systematic measures and long-term solutions.

    • Allonzee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      325·
      4 days ago

      Fuck no.

      The answer to capitalists demanding more desperate slaves isn’t to provide them more desperate slaves.

      It’s the opposite. For all the power the global oligarchs have over all of us, it’s one of the few things they’d have a great deal of difficulty forcing at gunpoint, as that just makes a stronger case for a mercy coat hanger abortion (since they’ll be outlawed everywhere sooner or later to feed the needs of the glorious capital markets) later on.

        • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          2 days ago

          That’s great. I hope you have the money, education, time and empathy for kids. Most don’t and should probably never have kids.

          • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            I’m doing all right but frankly *reproducing * is about as fundamental a human right and human experience as can be imagined. This antinatalist/childfree doomerism just seems like a rehash of individualizing the responsibility for environmental collapse that happened through the eighties and nineties. It’s the corporations and capitalists killing the world, not the people raising families.

            • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              Why fuck up a kid just because you think you deserve to have one? Properly raising kids to be intelligent and productive members of society is hard and a lot of people royally fuck it up.

              How many teens are having kids that can’t afford them? How many drug addicted people are having kids? How many apathetic people are having kids? It’s a fucking shame how many kids are let down by their parents.

      • abolishredditnaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
        102·
        4 days ago

        That’s just postponing the issue, not solving it

        If the root of the problem isn’t solved it will just pop-up again in a few decades

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        73·
        4 days ago

        I don’t think they have universal healthcare and their people are worked really hard, not sure why you’d want to go there other than it has a great city.

          • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            4 days ago

            Whoa, you’re right! The US should be so lucky.

            Healthcare in South Korea is universal, although a significant portion of healthcare is privately funded. South Korea’s healthcare system is based on the National Health Insurance Service, a public health insurance program run by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to which South Koreans of sufficient income must pay contributions in order to insure themselves and their dependants, and the Medical Aid Program, a social welfare program run by the central government and local governments to insure those unable to pay National Health Insurance contributions. In 2015, South Korea ranked first in the OECD for healthcare access.[1] Satisfaction of healthcare has been consistently among the highest in the world – South Korea was rated as the second most efficient healthcare system by Bloomberg.[2][3] Health insurance in South Korea is single-payer system.[4] The introduction of health insurance resulted in a significant surge in the utilization of healthcare services. Healthcare providers are overburdened by government taking advantage of them.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_South_Korea

            Edit: Acording to Numbeo (?), the Us is 38th and South Korea is 2. https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/rankings_by_country.jsp