birth rebound

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 …

South Korea’s fertility rate rose to 0.99 in January 2026, nudging up against the symbolic threshold of 1.0 for the first time in years. Statistics Korea recorded 26,916 births that …