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Korea’s Birth Rate Rose for a Second Straight Year. The Statisticians Who Tracked It Won’t Call It a Turnaround Yet.

by Hana Suh 2026-07-02

by Hana Suh 2026-07-02

For eight straight years, every annual fertility report out of South Korea told some version of the same story: lower than the year before. That streak broke in 2024, and …

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