Asia’s economies are increasingly reliant on foreign labour as populations shrink and age. YahooFinance
-- For Asia’s most prosperous societies, Covid-19 has exposed a big vulnerability: People simply aren’t having enough babies to replenish their aging populations. It's foreign workers that make these countries function.
Fertility statistics across the region are grim. In Singapore, the number of children per woman sank to a record low 1.14 in 2018. Korea's rate recently slipped below 1, the lowest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Japan is at 1.4; Hong Kong at 1.3 and Taiwan at about 1. The rate at which a population can replace itself is 2.1.
Until Covid-19 struck, more than 200,000 low-wage migrants — almost 4% of the population — lived in 43 dormitories, many of which were overcrowded. In one, workers said rooms were infested with cockroaches, rubbish was piling up and toilets were overflowing, the Straits Times reported.
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