As birthrates plummet, a serious Ob-Gyn shortage looms
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2023-10-09 10:31
As birthrates plummet, a serious Ob-Gyn shortage looms
A room for newborns at a hospital in Seoul, unrelated to the story. [YONHAP] Korea's obstetrics and gynecology (Ob-Gyn) field now faces extinction as the number of newborns rapidly shrinks. Korea today has the lowest fertility rate in the world. The fertility rate, or the number of children a woman gives birth to during her childbearing years, has continued to drop since falling below one for the first time in 2018. Last year, the total fertility rate hit a record low of 0.78 percent. The rate had further dropped to 0.

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