The total fertility rate of South Korean women (ie, the average number of births they can expect) has dropped to just 1.26 (see chart 1), down from 4.5 in 1970 and 1.5 in 2000.

韩国妇女的生育率(即：他们希望生育子女的数量)从1970年的4.5降至2000年的1.5，现已降至1.26(参见表1)。

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Japan's fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — fell to an all-time low of 1.25 last year.

去年，日本的生育率(一个妇女一生中所生孩子的平均数量)下降至历史最低点，只有1.25。

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By the mid-1980s the fertility rate-the average number of children born to a woman-dropped to 1.36.

到二十世纪八十年代，生育率——一位妇女生育小孩的平均值——也降至1.36。

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Globally the average fertility rate (the number of children a woman can expect during her lifetime) has roughly halved in the past half century, from five in the mid-1950s to 2.5.

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They knew that China's fertility rate, or the average number of children born to each woman, was in decline even before the one-child policy began in 1980.

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At the same time, the fertility rate (the number of children an average woman will have in a lifetime) is now 1.39, well below the replacement level.

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