South Korea ’s birth population fell to less than 60,000 in the second quarter of this year, a decrease of 9.3% from the same period last year

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] South Korea's birth population fell to less than 60,000 in the second quarter of this year. According to the Yonhap News Agency on the 24th, a report released by the South Korean Department of Statistics on the 24th shows that the country's total fertility rate in the second quarter was 0.75, the lowest level in the same period, and the total number of fertility rates in the quarter was less than 1 in 13 consecutive quarters.

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According to the report, the number of Korean newborns has continued to decrease on the basis of the quarter since 2016. It is reported that the number of newborns in South Korea in the second quarter of 2022 was 5,9961, a decrease of 9.3%from the same period last year. This is the first time since the beginning of this statistics, the number of newborn in the second quarter is less than 60,000. From June, the number of newborns decreased by 12.4%to 18830, which was the lowest year -on -year. In addition, from the perspective of newborn composition in the second quarter, the first child accounted for 61.7%, and the second child and above accounted for 38.3%. The average marriage time before the birth of South Korean people was 2.73 years, an increase of 0.24 years. This means that the South Korean people have the first child to have the first child later. Due to the decrease in the number of newborns and the increase in the number of deaths, the population of South Korea naturally decreased by 30,445 in the second quarter. (Han Wen)

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