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.
Well birth rates always rocket during and after a war. So not really surprising.
Damn, it never really plateaued
In the early 1960s the South Korean government started state-led family planning programs, distributing birth control products such as IUDs and birth control pills to the population.
Boy they will have to feed a lot of retirees…
Soon all governments will have to PAY BIG FCKN MONEY for women to have babies.
I’d love to see this charted alongside Milkis and Um Bongo sales.
![[OC] South Korea Once Had a Higher Fertility Rate Than the Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/3ry0rtrqimvf1-1920x1024.png)
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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 plateaued
In the early 1960s the South Korean government started state-led family planning programs, distributing birth control products such as IUDs and birth control pills to the population.
Boy they will have to feed a lot of retirees…
Soon all governments will have to PAY BIG FCKN MONEY for women to have babies.
I’d love to see this charted alongside Milkis and Um Bongo sales.
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