South Korea registered, in 2022, a new historical minimum of births, according to data released this Monday by the authorities.
At the same time, the number of deaths has exceeded the number of births for the third year in a row.
Last year, 249,000 babies were born, 4.4% less than in 2021.
The fertility rate, the average number of children a woman has throughout her life, in South Korea was 0.78 in 2022, for the fifth consecutive year that it is below one, the lowest level since 1970, when it started to rise. in this area.
For a decade now, the birth rate in Asia’s fourth-largest economy has been the lowest among the 38 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Source: TSF
