Dear MEL Topic Readers,
In the country with the world's lowest birth rate, fertility clinics
are booming
South Korea is known for its low birth rate. In the last several years,
its birth rate has been below 1.0, the world’s lowest, and went down to 0.72 in
2023 and 0.75 in 2024. Higher education, job competition, patriarchal culture,
high living and education costs, and late or no marriage are some of the social
and financial factors for the extremely low birth rate. For example, the average
age at which South Korean women have their first child is 33.6, much older than
in other countries. In the meantime, the number of fertility treatments carried
out increased by 50% between 2018 and 2022. In fact, one in six babies born in
Seoul, the capital city where about half of the nation’s population lives, were
helped by fertility treatment. Why so? Do women of reproductive age in South
Korea have difficulty conceiving or want to control when and how to become pregnant?
Read the article and learn why fertility treatments are on the rise in
South Korea.
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