How East Asia's Population Crunch Could Lead to Crisis. Published Aug 29, 2024 at 4:00 AM EDT Updated Sep 09, 2024 at 1:08 PM EDT. By . Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei ...

After decades of sub-replacement fertility, East Asia’s trajectory of population loss has been largely baked into the cake for decades to come. East Asian demographic patterns stand in sharp contrast ...

South Korea’s population is poised to shrink by 12 percent. And Taiwan’s will go down by an estimated eight percent. The U.S. population, by contrast, is on track to increase by 12 percent.