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ISTANBUL  South Korea’s alarmingly low birth rate could cause the country's population to fall in half over the next 60 years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned. In a report released on Wednesday, the OECD pointed out that South Korea’s fertility rate of 0.72 children per woman in 2023 is the lowest in the world. This is the first official OECD report addressing South Korea's declining birth rate. If the birth rate remains at the current level, the