[OC] South Korea Once Had a Higher Fertility Rate Than the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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[OC] South Korea Once Had a Higher Fertility Rate Than the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Posted by oscarleo0
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Data source: [https://population.un.org/dataportal/data/indicators/19/locations/180,410/start/1950/end/2023/table/pivotbylocation?df=64a6a839-293c-4f1e-9b37-f101d168f18b](https://population.un.org/dataportal/data/indicators/19/locations/180,410/start/1950/end/2023/table/pivotbylocation?df=64a6a839-293c-4f1e-9b37-f101d168f18b)
Tools used: Matplotlib
Yeah, pushing women onto a brutal and merciless career ladder might not have been the smartest idea.
It also had a lower GDP per capita than Congo until 1967. It’s hard to believe, but South Korea was an incredibly poor undeveloped country until quite recently. Even before the Korean War it was poor.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-project-database?tab=line&time=1910..latest&country=KOR~COG
Well birth rates always rocket during and after a war. So not really surprising.
Damn, it never really plateauedÂ