{"id":26319,"date":"2021-01-04T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/04\/south-korea-population-falls-for-first-time-in-history"},"modified":"2021-01-04T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:23:15","slug":"south-koreas-population-falls-for-first-time-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26319","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s population falls for first time in its history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ageing population and low birth rate create demographic tipping point in Asia\u2019s fourth-largest economy<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s population has fallen for the first time in the country\u2019s history, as it battles an ageing population and chronically low birth rate.<\/p>\n<p>The latest census figures, released at the weekend, show the population stood at 51,829,023 at the end of December, down from 20,838 from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/04\/south-korea-population-falls-for-first-time-in-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ageing population and low birth rate create demographic tipping point in Asia\u2019s fourth-largest economySouth Korea\u2019s population has fallen for the first time in the country\u2019s history, as it battles an ageing population and chronically low birth rate.The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,706,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-population","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319\/revisions\/26322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}