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South Korea: why is the country shrinking?


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South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world and last month it broke its own record. The average number of expected babies per South Korean woman fell to 0.78 in 2022 down from 0.81 a year earlier. This makes South Korea the only country in the world with a fertility rate below one, which means more people are dying than being born.

In this episode, we speak to professor in policy studies Ruth Phillips to find out why it's happening and if it could ever happen here.

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