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Korea's total fertility rate for 2018 expected to fall to 0.96

2019-01-18 4 Dailymotion

Now to some news that doesn't bode well for the country in the future.<br />New figures show South Korea's total fertility rate for 2018 is expected to drop below one.<br />According to the Presidential Committee on Aging Society and Population Policy on Friday, last year's total fertility rate is expected to record zero-point-nine-six... with around 325-thousand births in the country.<br />The fertility rate is down from one-point-zero-five in 2017, and is the lowest rate since Statistics Korea started recording the data. <br />The fertility rate is defined as the total number of children that would be born to each woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years.<br />Korea's fertility rate ranks the lowest among 35 OECD countries. <br />

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