S. Korea's total fertility rate feared to fall below 1 in 2018
Social affairsJul 5, 2018
Korea's total fertility rate is likely to hit a record low this year, a presidential committee warned Thursday, prompting the government to take a series of steps to boost the country's chronically low birthrate.The total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime -- is expected to fall below 1.0 in 2018, down from 1.05 a year earlier, said the Presidential Committee on Aging Society and Population Policy.The figure is much lower than the replacement level of