In a development sparking cautious optimism, South Korea, a nation long plagued by an alarmingly low birth rate and rapidly ...

South Korea is determined to boost its birth rate, having joined Japan as a "super-aged" society, with more than 20 percent ...

Nearly 80 percent of South Korea's top 500 companies by revenue are headquartered in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province, ...

Data from the South Korean government and election watchdog shows the number of votes cast in a neighbourhood in a tightly ...

South Korea's population pyramid in 2060 is as follows. The population would fall by 30%, shrinking from 51.7 million to 35.8 million, meaning that about 16 million people would disappear.

South Korea’s population, which has hovered around the 50 million mark for some time, is expected to shrink to 36.22 million by 2072, according to the latest projection by Statistics Korea.

A change in Korea’s population pyramid was one of the reasons for the rise in the country’s birthrate, according to the statistics office. People born between 1991 and 1995, when the number of Korea’s ...

In previous decades, South Korea's population had consistently grown, though the growth rate had steadily decreased from 1.49 percent in 2010 to just 0.05 percent in 2019. In 2020, there were 275,815 ...

In 2024, South Korea experienced its first rise in newborns in nine years, with 2,42,334 births marking a 3.1% increase over the previous year. Despite this, the country's total population has ...

While South Korea reports a TFR of less than 1, and Uganda reports a TFR of more than 5, developed regions like Europe, East Asia, and parts of India have replacement levels with TFRs of 1.6-1.9.

South Korea has become a “super-aged” society, a concept defined by the United Nations, as the proportion of citizens aged 65 or older accounts for 20 per cent of its population, according to ...