birth rate

After years of headlines about Korea’s demographic collapse, the country’s birth numbers have started moving in an unfamiliar direction: up. Following a 2025 total fertility rate of 0.80, itself a …

For a country that has spent years as the global poster child for demographic decline, the numbers coming out of Korea this spring are turning heads. According to “March Population …

For eight straight years, every annual fertility report out of South Korea told some version of the same story: lower than the year before. That streak broke in 2024, and …