Urgent.. The President of South Korea calls for the creation of a ministry to encourage births
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yul called on Thursday for the creation of a ministry to encourage births in the Asian country facing a demographic crisis.
Yon said in a speech, “I request Parliament’s cooperation to review the organization of the government in order to establish a ministry for planning to confront the decline.” Birth rate.
In 2023, the number of newborns in South Korea, a country with a population of 51 million people, fell to its lowest level (230 thousand) since the first census conducted at this level in 1970, according to What Seoul announced in February.
This decline occurred despite the government spending billions of dollars to encourage births.
The fertility rate in South Korea fell to 0.72 children per woman, which is Much less than the rate of 2.1 necessary to maintain the population at its current level.
This rate has not decreased to this level since the end of the eighties.
If this rate remains the same, The population of South Korea will decrease by half by 2100, according to experts.
The fertility rate in South Korea is the lowest among all member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the average age at which a woman gives birth to her first child is in This country’s age is 33.6 years, which is the highest among the other countries of the organization.
In vain, Seoul spent huge sums of money trying to encourage births, by providing financial subsidies, providing child care, and extending a helping hand to treat infertility.
- For more: Elrisala website and for social follow us on Facebook
- Source of information and images “rosaelyoussef“
