South Korea's population may decline to just 15% of its current size by 2125 if existing demographic trends persist, a ...

South Korea 's plummeting birth rate, the world's lowest with just 0.72 births expected per woman lifetime last year, is likely to accelerate the population imbalance.

The rate at which a population needs to replace itself is considered to be 2.1. Meanwhile, the proportion of people aged 65 and or older is 30 percent in Japan and over 18 percent in South Korea.

South Korea's population could plummet to just 7.53mn by 2125 under the worst-case scenario, representing an 85% decline from ...

South Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall even further in the next two years while its overall population is expected to plummet to levels not seen since ...

South Korea's population might plummet to 15% of its current level over the next 100 years due to an ongoing demographic decline, according to a South Korean think tank.

A total of 49 elementary, middle, and high schools across 17 cities and provinces in South Korea will be forced to close by 2025.

South Korea needs to adopt an “emergency mindset” to reverse its fertility rate that ranks as the lowest in the world, its president said, calling for new initiatives to fix past policies that ...

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Last year South Korea's total population decreased for the first time since it began taking census data in 1949.

South Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall even further in the next two years while its overall population is expected to plummet to levels not seen since ...