Alarm for Seoul/South Korea’s birth rate hits record low
| The birth rate in South Korea has reached its lowest level despite the efforts and spending of billions of dollars by the government of this country. |
report Mehr News Agency According to France 24, according to statistics, the birth rate in South Korea reached its lowest level in 2023, and this is while that this country has spent billions of dollars to encourage women to have children and maintain population stability.
South Korea is one of the countries with the highest life expectancy rate and the lowest birth rate; A combination of two not-so-pleasant components that has created a demographic challenge and sounded the alarm for Seoul.
According to statistics, the fertility rate (female fertility rate) in South Korea will decrease to 0.72 in 2023. did Compared to 2022, this figure has dropped by about eight percent. Also, this figure is much lower compared to the fertility rate (2.1) needed to maintain the current population of Korea (51 million people).
According to the report of the Institute of Health Indicators and Evaluation of the University of Washington in Seattle, the population of South Korea at this rate, by the year 2100 will be almost halved and will reach 26.8 million people.
Crude birth rate (number of babies born per thousand people) in 2023, with a decreasing trend It reached 4.5. In 2022, this figure was 4.9.
