Shrinking, ageing population makes South Korea ‘super-aged society’


SEOUL: South Korea has become a “super-aged society”, with 20 per cent of its population aged 65 or older, official data showed on Tuesday (Dec 24), a gloomy trend driven by an alarmingly low birth rate. Asia’s fourth-largest economy recorded just 0.7 births per woman late last year – one of t

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