Tag: Fertility

South Korea’s fertility rate plunges to record low

STORY: South Korea’s fertility rate is already the world’s lowest. And it continued its dramatic decline in 2023. “The number of newborns in 2023 was 230,000, which is 19,200 down or a decrease of 7.7% from a year earlier. The total fertility rate recorded was 0.72, which is 0.06 down from 0.78 the previous year.” […]

South Korea’s fertility rate dropped to fresh record low in 2023

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s fertility rate, already the world’s lowest, dropped to a fresh record low in 2023, defying the billions of dollars spent by the country to try to reverse the trend as the population shrank for a fourth straight year. The average number of expected babies for a South Korean woman during […]