“Unlike the international norm that starts with the age of zero at birth and then adds a year on birthdays, under the Korean system, a newborn baby's age is counted starting from one rather than zero, and everyone gets a year older all together on New Year's Day. The third system adds a year to a person's day on the first day of the New Year.”

#crvs #korea #identification

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/12/113_341383.html

Population & development review has interesting collection of essays on #8billion people, but I’m puzzled that article on « the data we need » does not even mention the need to count populations more regularly, and to dramatically improve registration of births & deaths in many parts of the world. I hope research on developing civil registration systems becomes much more of a focus among demographers, and that this is reflected in our flagship journals.
#Demography #CRVS #population