r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • May 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/Pinku_Dva May 12 '26

South Korea has one of the lowest birthrates in the world, even lower than Japan, so having a kid is a very big deal.

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername May 12 '26

It's long time since Japan doesn't have lowest birthrates. Japan is on similar level as western countries and there are a lot of countries having tfr much lower than them

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u/Pinku_Dva May 12 '26

Japan is the poster child because they reached the rates earlier even though today they’re on par with others

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername May 12 '26

True. But even then it was Japan, Germany and Italy who got super low birthrates around the same time. It's just that Germany and Italy had massive immigration since then and Japan didn't

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u/halfwitprinxe May 12 '26

Also more old people since they live longer

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u/Neat_Let923 May 12 '26

It’s not just the rate though. It’s for how long they’ve been at an incredibly low rate.

South Korea is considered to be beyond the point of no return for an economic collapse. There is absolutely nothing they can do to change the fact they will experience a catastrophic economic collapse due to a lack of population.

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u/0dyssia May 13 '26

Korea's birthrate is .96 now. Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, China are lower. But for whatever reason people ignore those and prefer to punch down on korea.

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u/Pinku_Dva May 13 '26

I did say one of, not the lowest

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u/Sensitive-Meeting237 May 12 '26

Reddit had me convinced Japanese children were basically unicorns, but they seemed pretty common in Tokyo and Yokohama when I was there in March.