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South Korea Expects Its Already-World’s-Lowest Fertility Rate to Keep Falling

time.com South Korea’s World-Lowest Fertility Rate Set to Fall Further

Low fertility threatens to undermine South Korea’s economic future by shrinking its workforce and slowing consumption.

South Korea’s World-Lowest Fertility Rate Set to Fall Further

The latest forecast by Statistics Korea puts the population in 2072 at 36.2 million, a 30% decline from the current 51.7 million, even though the fertility rate may recover a bit to 0.68 in 2026. The population is expected to fall every year starting in 2025.

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