South Korea Population

South Korea's total population is expected to drop from 51.75 million in 2024 to 36.22 million, a level not seen since 1977, according to the statistics office.

The number of South Koreans who tied the knot last year hit a record low, figures showed Thursday, compounding looming demographic troubles in a country with the world's lowest birth rate.

The average number of expected babies per South Korean woman over her reproductive life fell to 0.78 in 2022, down from 0.81 a year earlier.

The RCEP countries cover 45 per cent of the world population and more than $21 trillion combined GDP. Among the nations in RCEP, 10 are ASEAN countries along with China, India, Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.

North Korea has started firing drills near a disputed sea border with North Korea, South Korea's military said on Tuesday, after it notified the South earlier of two areas near populated islands where it would conduct the exercise.

South Korea, almost a quarter of whose population of 50 million are Buddhists, has received a sapling of the sacred Bodhi Tree from India's Bodh Gaya town, a fulfilment of an offer Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, as a special gesture of India's friendship and goodwill, when she visited India in Jan...

North Korea's prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang's notorious network of labor camps and detention centers.

South Korea's total population is expected to drop from 51.75 million in 2024 to 36.22 million, a level not seen since 1977, according to the statistics office.

The number of South Koreans who tied the knot last year hit a record low, figures showed Thursday, compounding looming demographic troubles in a country with the world's lowest birth rate.

The average number of expected babies per South Korean woman over her reproductive life fell to 0.78 in 2022, down from 0.81 a year earlier.

The RCEP countries cover 45 per cent of the world population and more than $21 trillion combined GDP. Among the nations in RCEP, 10 are ASEAN countries along with China, India, Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.

North Korea has started firing drills near a disputed sea border with North Korea, South Korea's military said on Tuesday, after it notified the South earlier of two areas near populated islands where it would conduct the exercise.

South Korea, almost a quarter of whose population of 50 million are Buddhists, has received a sapling of the sacred Bodhi Tree from India's Bodh Gaya town, a fulfilment of an offer Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, as a special gesture of India's friendship and goodwill, when she visited India in Jan...

North Korea's prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang's notorious network of labor camps and detention centers.