State of the Nation

Tackling East Asia’s Demographic Implosion

By JAVIER M. PIEDRA on 15 September 2023

Over the past several decades, much of Asia, from Singapore to Seoul, has been experiencing a demographic implosion of unsettling proportions – just look at Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Kazakhstan and its Central Asia neighbors, meanwhile, stand out as exceptions to the regional norm.  Asian states jittery about...