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The reality is cloudier than the UN forecast, for the ASEAN half with the factories
Thailand's births hit a 75-year low and its fertility, about 0.86, is below the UN's own forecast. WPP 2024 still splits Southeast Asia in two: the economies with the deepest supplier bases, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia, are ageing fastest. The workers and the factories are no longer in the same countries, with the labour, care and property consequences.


