{"id":72640,"date":"2025-06-26T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/26\/south-korea-birthrate-surge"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:15:02","slug":"south-korea-births-surge-to-fastest-rate-in-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72640","title":{"rendered":"South Korea births surge to fastest rate in a generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of babies born in April rises to 20,717 at a year-on-year rate last seen in 1991, though overall fertility rate remains below replacement levels<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s birthrate surged at its fastest pace in more than three decades in April, offering tentative signs of recovery in a country grappling with the world\u2019s lowest fertility rate, official data showed.<\/p>\n<p>The number of babies born in April reached 20,717, marking an 8.7% increase from the same month last year and the steepest monthly growth since April 1991, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kostat.go.kr\/board.es?mid=a10301010000&amp;bid=204&amp;act=view&amp;list_no=437275&amp;tag=&amp;nPage=1&amp;ref_bid=203,204,205,206,207,210,211,11109,11113,11814,213,215,214,11860,11695,216,218,219,220,10820,11815,11895,11816,208,245,222,223,225,226,227,228,229,230,11321,232,233,234,12029,10920,11469,11470,11817,236,237,11471,238,240,241,11865,243,244,11893,11898,12031,11825,246,0067&amp;keyField=T&amp;keyWord=&amp;bodo_b_type=all\">Statistics Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/26\/south-korea-birthrate-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of babies born in April rises to 20,717 at a year-on-year rate last seen in 1991, though overall fertility rate remains below replacement levelsSouth Korea\u2019s birthrate surged at its fastest pace in more than three decades in April, offering tent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[706,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-population","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\/72640","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72641,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions\/72641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}