Comparison of the total fertility rate of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea

South Korea will be the oldest country in the world by 2040

[Reporter Gao Jiahe/Taipei Report] According to the National Development Council’s estimates of the population of major countries, my country will replace South Korea as the country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world in 2035; South Korea’s median age in 2040 Up to fifty-four.

At six years old, it surpassed Japan to become the oldest country in the world.

Taiwan and South Korea will age faster than Japan

Taiwan's total fertility rate in 2015 fell below one, only 0.

Nine, representing an average of less than one child per woman in her lifetime, once the lowest total fertility rate in major countries in the world; but South Korea's total fertility rate in 2020 was only 0.

Eighty-four people, more than Taiwan's ○.

Ninety-nine people are still low; it is estimated that by 2035, Taiwan will be one.

One or two surpassed one in South Korea.

18 people, making it the country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world.

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Taiwan and South Korea are the two countries with the lowest total fertility rates in the world. Together with Japan, they are known as the "Three Elders of East Asia".

According to the definition of the World Health Organization, if the proportion of the elderly over 65 years old reaches 20%, it is called a "super-aged society". Japan entered a super-aged society as early as 2005, and Taiwan and South Korea also It will enter a super-aged society, and the aging speed will exceed that of Japan.

Taiwan ranks second in the world after 33 years

According to the estimated population of the three countries, the median age of South Korea in 2040 was 54.

Six years old, the proportion of the elderly population in 2045 reached 37.

4%, surpassing Japan one after another, becoming the oldest country in the world; in 2055, Taiwan's elderly population accounted for 39.9%.

3%, also more than Japan's 38%, only lower than South Korea's 41%.

six%.

In addition, in terms of the aging index (the elderly population divided by the population aged between 0 and 14), the aging index of Taiwan and South Korea rose rapidly to 408% and 456% by 2050.

2%, ranking the two fastest aging countries in the world, and only one young population has only four elderly people.

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