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KMID : 0613620200400030534
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Health Social Welfare Review
2020 Volume.40 No. 3 p.534 ~ p.562
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Long-term Trends of Cohort Total Fertility Rates in Korea
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Shin Yoon-Jeong
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Abstract
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Despite the government’s efforts to increase fertility rate, Korea’s period total fertility rate was tentatively counted at 0.92 in 2019, which is consistently below 1 in 2018. This study looked at the long-term trends in the cohort total fertility rates, and analyzed postponement and recuperation of child births in each group of birth cohort. Both period total fertility rates and cohort fertility rates fell significantly. This means that the number of children women give birth during her reproductive period has decreased. Period total fertility rate fell because the age of childbirth rose and the delayed childbirth was not realized. The recent drop in the cohort fertility rate was largely due to the increase in women who did not have children. It is unlikely that Korea will expect to see a rebound in the fertility rate in the near future because delayed childbirths were hardly realized. The instability of the labor market due to the economic recession is likely to lead to uncertainty toward the future, resulting in involuntary unmarried young people. Promoting social policy to help younger generation have a positive outlook and a sense of stability is essential to tackling the deepening low birth rate.
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KEYWORD
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Low Fertility, Birth Cohort, Total Fertility Rate, Decomposition and Standardization
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