South Korea recorded its largest-ever gain in birth rate over the first five months of the year, its statistics agency said ...

In 2024, South Korea ranked among the lowest five nations in birth rates, according to the World Population Review.

The surge follows South Korea’s first annual increase in births in more than a decade, which was fuelled by an increase in ...

South Korea registered record birth-rate growth during the first five months of 2025, a statistics agency official told ...

In South Korea, where childbirth outside of marriage remains rare, an increase in marriages tends to precede a rise in births ...

South Korea’s leader on Thursday said he plans to create a new government ministry to tackle the “national emergency” of the country’s infamously low birth rate as it grapples with a ...

Moreover, in the little over 60 years in which South Korea's fertility rate fell from 6.0 to 0.8, the United States saw a more gradual decline from 3.0 to 1.7.

South Korea will set up a ministry to address the country’s plummeting birth rate, president Yoon Suk Yeol announced on Thursday, calling it a “national emergency”. The fertility rate in ...

South Korea registered record birth rate growth during the first five months of the year, a statistics agency official told ...

South Korea recorded the highest birth rate in more than a decade in May, as a government push for women to have more ...