Ground News - South Korea may face 'age quake' as fertility rate hits record low in 2021
South Koreans are having so few children that their country had the world's lowest fertility rate in 2021. The number of newborns in the country plunged to a new, all-time low of 260,000, down 4.3% from the year prior. South Korea faces the prospect of its population of 51 million people more than halving by the end of this century.
Source: ground.news
