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原文：

For some time now, South Korea has been a striking case study in the depopulation problem that hangs over the developed world. Almost all rich countries have seen their birthrates settle below replacement level, but usually that means somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 children per woman. For instance in 2021 the United States stood at 1.7, France at 1.8, Italy at 1.3 and Canada at 1.4.

But South Korea is distinctive in that it slipped into below-replacement territory in the 1980s but lately has been falling even more — dropping below one child per woman in 2018, to 0.8 after the pandemic, and now, in provisional data for both the second and third quarters of 2023, to just 0.7 births per woman.

译文：

在困扰发达国家的人口衰减问题上，韩国成为突出案例已有一段时间了。几乎所有富裕国家的生育率都低于更替水平，但每名女性平均生育1.5名子女是比较常见的情况。比如在2021年，美国生育率为1.7，法国为1.8，意大利为1.3，加拿大为1.4。

韩国的不同之处在于，上世纪80年代其生育率就已经下滑到更替水平以下，但近年的下滑更为严重——2018年每名女性生育不到一名子女，疫情后降至0.8人，而从2023年第二和第三季度的初步数据来看，韩国每名女性如今仅生育0.7人。