KaranjaDec 9, 2022

“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

Korea to scrap local age counting system from next year

Koreans are expected to get one or two years younger from June next year, as the country has decided to scrap the so-called “Korean age system” in favor of the internationally recognized age calculation standard.

The Korea Times
Stéphane HelleringerNov 19, 2022
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