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Birth rate for Korean women in the US among lowest of all immigrant groups

December 1, 2015
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The data, based on American Community Survey results in 2014, showed that 48 out of every 1,000 Korean women gave birth, in comparison to an average of 75 births per thousand for all immigrant women.

By Kim Sang-mok

Birth rate among Korean women in the United State is among the lowest of all immigrant groups, according to recent data from the Center for Immigration Studies.

The data, based on American Community Survey results in 2014, showed that 48 out of every 1,000 Korean women gave birth, in comparison to an average of 75 births per thousand for all immigrant women.

Data was based on women born outside the U.S. ages 15 to 44, CIS said.

Forty-eight is lower than even the native-born women average, at 59 per thousand, and by far lower than Somalian immigrant women, who had 128 births per thousand last year.

Only women from Iran (45 per thousand), Jamaica (43) and Colombia (43) had a lower rate than Koreans.

The highest birth rates after immigrant women from Somalia were Nigeria (110 per thousand), Venezuela (105), Israel (104), Egypt (103), Guatemala (102) and Ethiopia (88).