Similar to South Korea, North Korea is grappling with tumbling childbirths. The cause, however, is starkly different: famine and persistent economic hardships. | asianewsnetwork
Declining fertility rates led to an aging population. The number of North Koreans aged 65 years and older accounted for 9.75 percent last year, up 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier, making the North an “aging society” where the share of the population aged over 65 is above 7 percent, US Central Intelligence Agency data showed.
According to DPRK Today, a North Korean propaganda website, the country has introduced multiple policies to encourage more births, focused on cash grants and affirmative action. North Korean watchers in the South tend to play down the effectiveness of pro-natal policies, given the nation’s poor nurturing conditions that have worsened in recent years due to global sanctions for its nuclear and missile programs, unfavorable weather and border lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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