However, this news isn’t totally shocking. After all, since 2015, South Korea has seen a considerable fall in its birth rate. That’s not to mention the fewer births than deaths than happened in the nation back in 2020.
Women who do choose motherhood are also waiting longer to do so in South Korea. As of 2022, 33.5 stands as the average age of when a woman gives birth.
Experts believe that drops in fertility rates and birth rates are a cumulative result of the following factors:
- Growing living expenses
- Shifting dispositions toward women’s rights and marriage
- Declining wages
- Cultures in the workplace
- A lack of contentment among younger people
Unlikely to change?
The data tracking falling birth rates and fertility rates has been years in the making. This shift in attitude towards parenthood (and motherhood, in particular) did not happen overnight.
It is for these reasons that fewer people may have kids in the future. Already, some experts are sounding the alarm about a rapidly aging population with less folks to care for them.
