By 2100, the largest age cohort in South Korea is anticipated to be 85-89-year-olds. Countries Set for Population Growth On the other hand, sub-Saharan Africa is poised for a population boom.

South Korea faces a profound demographic shift as its young adult population is anticipated to halve by mid-century, contributing to concerns in the country grappling with the planet's lowest ...

S. Korea’s population has been decreasing for five consecutive years since it first recorded a natural decline in 2020. The rate of decline has also widened, growing from 33,000 in 2020 to ...

South Korea’s total fertility rate, the number of births from a woman in her lifetime, is now expected to drop from 0.78 in 2022 to 0.65 in 2025, according to the government’s Statistics Korea.

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 ...