SouthKorea's fertility rate drops below one for first time
SEOUL - South Korea's fertility rate hit another record low last year, government data showed Wednesday , falling below one for the first time despite a raft of measures to try to reverse one of the world's lowest birth rates. The country's fertility rate - the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime - fell to 0.98 in 2018, far short of the 2.1 needed to maintain population stability.
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