from the article: > For three consecutive years, the country has had the lowest fertility rate in the world, with an average of 0.78 children per woman. [...]

from the article: > For three consecutive years, the country has had the lowest fertility rate in the world, with an average of 0.78 children per woman. [...] The country is on alert, since an average of 2.1 children per woman is estimated to be necessary to keep the population stable. In 2020, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births in South Korea. Many cities are at risk of disappearing in the coming years. you're going to have more of a problem writing that one off as "basically nothing."