Colloquium in Oct. 2022
Yoo, Samhyeon (Professor, Department of Sociology at Hanyang Univ., South Korea)
The share of immigrant population has increased in South Korea since the early 1990s. The fertility of immigrants is one of the important factors contributing to the population change. However, few data are available on the fertility patterns of immigrants in South Korea.
This study provides estimates of the level and trend of immigrant fertility in South Korea between 2006 and 2020. We use the data from the 2010, 2015, and 2020 Population Census 20% samples with Own-Children Methods. To avoid migration-related tempo effects, we also estimate duration-based total fertility rates (TFRd), along with conventional age-based total fertility rate (TFR).
Results suggest that the TFR of foreign-born women has declined and converged to that of native-born women. The fertility estimates using TFRs also demonstrate that the fertility of foreign-born women has been at a very low level in South Korea in the last decade. Assimilation and a change in immigration flows may partly explain their relatively lower levels of fertility.
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