Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The population of South Korea showed robust growth since the republic's establishment in 1948, and then dramatically slowed down with the effects of its economic growth. In the first official census, taken in 1949, the total population of South Korea was calculated at 20,188,641 people. The 1985 census total was 40,466,577.
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [1] ... South Korea * 0.23: 2023: 0.1: 0.57:
With scant immigration, 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 Statistics Korea.
South Korea has one of the highest rates of growth of foreign born population, with about 30,000 foreign born residents obtaining South Korean citizenship every year since 2010. As of 2016 [update] , South Korea had 1,413,758 foreign residents, 2.75% of the population; [ 282 ] however, many are ethnic Koreans with a foreign citizenship.
South Korea has spent billions of dollars to try to stop its population from shrinking, as concerns about career advancement and the financial cost of raising children drive many South Korean ...
The natural increase in population, from the CIA World Factbook, 2017. ... South Korea: 6.9: 7.1-0.2: ... List of countries by population growth rate; Notes
As South Korea hits the world's lowest birth rate, a rural elementary school struggles to stay open amid a nationwide drop-off in school-age children.
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.