South Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rate, which indicates the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime. It recorded a rate of just 0.72 in 2023 – down from 0.78 ...

South Korea's fertility rate fell to a record low of 0.72 in 2023 from 0.78 in 2022, the country's statistics agency said.

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’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.

Lee Eun-sook, the principal at Dochang Elementary, teaches Chinese characters to second-graders. The decline of South Korea’s rural towns and their schools began with the country’s rapid ...

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.