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1 in 5 elementary schools has less than 60 students amid low birthrate
One in five elementary schools across the country has less than 60 students, while one in 10 has less than 30 students, amid the continually falling birthrate, according to statistics released by the Korean Educational Development Institute, Monday.
The institute said that of the 6,175 elementary schools nationwide, the number of the entirety of students was less than 60 in 1,424 schools, or 23.1 percent, last year.
The figure has increased by 2.3 times from 2003 when 610, or 11.2 percent, of the 5,463 schools had less than 60 students.
South Jeolla Province had the largest number of such schools last year at 212, followed by North Gyeongsang Province at 207, North Jeolla Province at 206 and South Chungcheong Province at 177.
In the greater Seoul area, there were 107 such schools in Gyeonggi Province, 17 in Incheon and four in the capital.
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