原文如下: South Korea’s fertility rate, already the world’s lowest, fell to a new record low in 2023 due to women’s concern about their career advancement and the financial cost of raising childre...
SEOUL--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 Sout...
SEOUL--South Korea’s fertility rate fell to the lowest in the world last year, data showed on Wednesday, as uncertainty over the coronavirus discouraged couples from marrying and having children. The number of expected babies per South Korean woman fell to 0.84 in 2020, dropping further from ...
Seoul— South Korea's overall birth rate hit a record low of 0.72 in 2023, and with that figure projected to fall even further in 2024, some Korean businesses have started offering remarkably generous incentives to convince their workers to become parents. "The declining fertility rate lead...
Sustained lowest-low fertilityHousingEconomic uncertaintyEducationFamily policyPopulation agingBetween 1960 and 2001, the total fertility rate (TFR) in South Korea dropped from 6.0 to 1.3 children per woman, and fertility has remained below 1.3 ever since. South Korea's fertility decline is uni...
Background: The total fertility rate (TFR) in South Korea has fallen below 1.3 since 2001. The role of the rapid shift toward a late-childbearing pattern in driving Korean fertility decline to this ultra-low level has been little explored until now. Objective: We provide an in-depth ...
This is especially evident in South Korea, which has the lowest fertility rate in the world, far below the 2.1 children per woman threshold that represents replacement fertility. In response to the expected economic consequences of a declining population, South Korea has implemented various ...
found the fertility rate per woman in south korea was only 1.1, the lowest among 201 countries surveyed. "even as women have gained equality in access to education and work, decisions on having more children are constrained by their 'second shift' in taking care of children and ...
South Korea's fertility rate dropped to a record low of 0.78 last year in yet another grim milestone for the country with the world's lowest number of expected children for each woman. The number is far below 1.66 in the United States and 1.3 in Japan in 2021. The averag...
It's been 10 years since South Korea's fertility rate, the number of babies born to a woman in her reproductive years, went down to below 1.1. The latest figure stands at 0.78, and further decline is forecast in the short term, to 0.7, according to Statistics Korea. This couple is pr...