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Some countries with really low "total fertility rates" have a real crisis looming, especially with resistance to immigration and no internal ethnic / racial group that picks up some slack from the majority. (That's obviously a topic of debate for Europeans, with more fertile Africans and Muslims migrating in large numbers.)

South Korea’s birth rate currently stands at 0.748 in 2024 , a slight rise from the record low of 0.721 in 2023. That compares with an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average of 1.43 in 2023. The commonly cited “replacement rate” for countries to prevent a declining population is 2.1.

What a 0.72 fertility rate means for South Korea is that for every 100 Koreans, they would have about 36 children at current levels , shrinking the workforce across generations.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/27/south-koreas-birth-rate-collapse-threatens-growth.html

Also, "100 South Koreans will have an estimated 15 grandchildren."

https://x.com/Valen10Francois/status/1995986097977823728

A population goes down really fast with a birth rate like that.

In my own family, I have two daughters and two grandchildren = 1.0 fertility rate for them.