South Korea's National Assembly Research Service is taking a long view of history and figures it doesn't have much future. In a report published last week the service said that, going on the country's present low birth rate, South Koreans will be extinct by 2750. South Korean women have, on average, 1.19 children. If this continues, said the report, the current population of 50 million will shrink to 40 million in 2056, 20 million in 2100, three million in 2200, one million in 2256 and zero in 2750. The last child to be born in the capital, Seoul, will arrive in 2505.
