The proportion of boys among births has dropped to a record low last year.
The word’nam-a-preference’ has actually disappeared into history.
The advent of the yeocho era, in which the female population overtakes the male population, is also getting faster.
According to the preliminary results of the birth and death statistics of the 2020 Population Trend Survey by the National Statistical Office, the birth sex ratio was 104.9 last year.
The birth gender ratio refers to the number of boys per 100 girls, and it means that 104.9 boys per 100 girls born last year.
This is almost in the middle of the normal range of birth sex ratio (103 to 107) judged by the National Statistical Office.
It has reached the sex ratio that appears when a fertilized child is born naturally without preference for sex ratio.
Last year, the proportion of boys was the lowest since 1990 when the National Statistical Office had relevant data.
The birth gender ratio recorded 116.5 in 1990, followed by a gradual downward curve to 110.1 in 2000, 106.9 in 2010, and 104.9 in 2020.
It first entered the normal range with 106.2 in 2007, and has gradually converged to the middle of the normal range since then.
Dramatic changes occur in the sex ratio of the third child or higher.
This is because the proportion of children born naturally up to the second child was high, whereas the third child had a strong tendency to prefer a boy child, so-called’to join the generation’.
For example, in 1993, the birth rate of a third child or older was 209.7.
The gender imbalance was so severe that the number of boys per 100 girls exceeded 200.
However, the ratio of births of a third child or more also plummeted starting in the mid-1990s.
It recorded 143.6 in 2000 and 110.9 in 2010, then fell to 106.7 in 2020.
In 2019, the sex ratio of the third child or higher was 103.2, which was the first time that the total birth sex ratio decreased to 105.5.
It is interpreted that the fact that the overall birth sex ratio and the birth sex ratio of more than a third child almost coincide within the normal range can be seen as a sign that the boy preference idea has disappeared.
The disappearance of the atmosphere of preference for boys also means the advent of the female elementary society.
This is due to the shorter life expectancy of men by around 6 years.
The National Statistical Office predicted that the post-secondary society will begin in 2029 from a special estimate of the future population from 2017 to 2047 published in 2018.
It was considered that the’gender ratio’, which means the number of men per 100 women, recorded 99.9 for the first time in 2029, less than 100.
The National Statistical Office observed that the sex ratio fell even by a single year until 2047 (98.3 people), the last year of the fall.