Economics
South Korea Set to Break Own Record on World’s Lowest Birth Rate
- Fertility rate reaches 0.88 in 3Q, the lowest on record
- Seoul, home to fifth of population, had the lowest at 0.69
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The record for the world’s lowest fertility rate looks set to be re-written in 2019 by South Korea, again.