{"id":52834,"date":"2023-02-22T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/south-koreas-birthrate-sinks-to-fresh-record-low-as-population-crisis-deepens"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T07:02:44","slug":"south-koreas-birthrate-sinks-to-fresh-record-low-as-population-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52834","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s birthrate sinks to fresh record low as population crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest statistics show 249,000 babies were born in 2022, a fall of 4.4% from the previous year<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/19\/fear-older-future-japan-south-korea-birth-fertility-rates-population\">demographic crisis<\/a> has deepened after new data showed the number of babies born last year reached another record low.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures released on Wednesday by Statistics Korea, 249,000 babies were born in 2022, a fall of 4.4% from the previous year and the third year in a row that deaths have exceeded births in Asia\u2019s fourth-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/south-koreas-birthrate-sinks-to-fresh-record-low-as-population-crisis-deepens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest statistics show 249,000 babies were born in 2022, a fall of 4.4% from the previous yearSouth Korea\u2019s demographic crisis has deepened after new data showed the number of babies born last year reached another record low.According to figures releas&#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":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52834","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=52834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52835,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52834\/revisions\/52835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}