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Your Shortcut to... shrinking populations

Your Shortcut to... shrinking populations

Update: 2023-07-05
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We’ve heard a lot about overpopulation but for some countries including Japan and South Korea, the issue is not too many people, but too few. So in this Squiz Shortcut, we take a look at why some populations are shrinking, what those countries are trying to do about it, and if too few people is really such a big deal.


Squiz recommends:

Japan's Shrinking Population Faces Point of No Return - Newsweek

OECD country birth rate tool


HOSTS: Claire Kimball and Kate Watson

PRODUCER: Lara Robertson

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Your Shortcut to... shrinking populations

Your Shortcut to... shrinking populations

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