SEOUL, March 22 (IANS): Wednesday’s knowledge confirmed that the variety of youngsters born in South Korea fell to a different new low in January, reflecting the acute inhabitants disaster in Asia’s fourth-largest economic system.
Solely 23,179 infants had been born in January this yr, down 6 % from the earlier yr, in accordance with knowledge from Statistics Korea.
It’s the lowest determine for any January because the statistics company started compiling the month-to-month knowledge in 1981, Yonhap information company reported.