SEOUL: The share of babies born through infertility treatment in South Korea has risen sharply over the past five years, as medically assisted conception makes up a growing portion of a shrinking total, government data showed.
According to a report released earlier in January by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, babies conceived through medical support such as in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) or artificial insemination accounted for 15.1 per cent of all newborns in 2024, up from 8.7 per cent in 2019.
