If you’re worried about the digital age and the lowered global fertility rate, like most people on TikTok — China has just given us a glimpse of how the future might look if we continue down this path. At the top of the charts in China’s Apple Store is an app called Demumu. Its purpose is straightforward: you have to press the screen every time it asks you whether you’re dead or not.
China is currently experiencing a major demographic shift, with rural-to-urban migration higher than it’s ever been. Some conservative estimates have found that by 2030, China is expected to have 150 million people living alone in urban areas. The birth rate in China is not quite plummeting at the rate of fellow regional superpowers Japan and Korea — but millennials and younger generations are not exactly rushing down the aisle at the rate they used to.
