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Botswana 2017 CEDAW

Jan. 16, 2024, 6:33 p.m.

Countries: Botswana
Variables: BR-DATA-1

Table 13 on page 31 shows the total number of births in 2008 was 44, 961; in 2009, 45,365; in 2010 50, 328; in 2011, 45, 008; in 2012, 50,048 (31).

2021 Singapore CEDAW

Jan. 4, 2024, 10:41 a.m.

Countries: Singapore
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Singapore’s resident total fertility rate was 1.10 in 2020, compared to 1.20 in 2016. There were 38,590 live births in 2020, of which 20,023 (52 per cent) were males and 18,566 (48 per cent) were females" (9).

China's population

Dec. 5, 2023, 11:18 a.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"China is left with one of the lowest birthrates in the world" (pp 7). "In 2016, China reported 18.46 million births – just 1.4 million higher than the average number of births in the previous five years… Annual births continued to drop thereafter: from 17.23 million in 2017 to 15.23 million in 2018, 14.65 million in 2019, 12 million in 2020, then to 10.62 million in 2021" (pp 9). "In the 1970s, the total fertility rate (births per woman) fell from 5.8 in 1970 to 2.75 in 1979… [S]ince the 1990s, it has declined to below the replacement level. The 2010 and 2020 censuses yielded total fertility rates of 1.18...more

Chinese officials now nag couples for children

Nov. 28, 2023, 1:28 p.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"New births are set to drop below 10 million from last year's 10.6 million, a decline that will follow an 11.5% slide in 2020" (pp 8).

China's population and population policies

Nov. 28, 2023, 1:11 p.m.

Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"China's fertility rate [was] 1.16 in 2021" (pp 8). "New births in China are set to fall to record lows this year, demographers say, dropping below 10 million from last year's 10.6 million - which was already 11.5% lower than in 2020" (pp 10).

South Korean feminism faces backlash

Nov. 28, 2023, 12:49 p.m.

Countries: South Korea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"South Korea's alarming low fertility rate [is] at 0.8 children per woman" (pp 14).

SouthKorea Gender Ministry

Nov. 3, 2023, 11:41 a.m.

Countries: South Korea
Variables: CBMC-PRACTICE-2, BR-DATA-1

“Women who do not want to sacrifice their careers are now simply choosing not to have children. South Korea's fertility rate (the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) has fallen to 0.81, the lowest in the world. Its population is predicted to halve by the end of the century, meaning it may not have enough people to sustain its economy and conscript into its army” (para 32).

South Korea Fertility

Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.

Countries: Japan, United States
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"That is far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population and low even compared to other developed countries where the rate is falling, such as the United States (1.6) and Japan – which at 1.3 reported its own lowest rate on record" (para 4)

South Korea Fertility

Oct. 10, 2023, 12:58 p.m.

Countries: South Korea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate. Figures released in November showed the average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is down to just 0.79" (para 3).