02-05-2024, 01:34 PM
The South Korean government announced at the end of February 2024 that the total fertility rate (estimated number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) for 2023 was 0.72, a new record low.
This is a significantly lower rate than in Japan, which hit an all-time low of 1.26 in 2022.
The South Korean government has also been working on countermeasures, but the decline has not stopped, and no fundamental solution is in sight. Some experts point out that ``changes in Korean women'' are behind this change.
https://www.jiji.com/jc/v8?id=20240502world
This is a significantly lower rate than in Japan, which hit an all-time low of 1.26 in 2022.
The South Korean government has also been working on countermeasures, but the decline has not stopped, and no fundamental solution is in sight. Some experts point out that ``changes in Korean women'' are behind this change.
https://www.jiji.com/jc/v8?id=20240502world