Baby bust: Can policymakers boost dwindling world fertility rates?
April 20, 2022
When Choi Yoon-seo became pregnant in 2020, South Korea paid her $500 — a reward for helping the country address its dire demographic crunch. That year it hit its lowest fertility rate on record at 0.84 children per woman — the lowest in the world.
That year it hit its lowest fertility rate on record at 0.84 children per woman — the lowest in the world.
