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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
South Korean population plummet predicted
July 2 (UPI) -- South Korea's population might plummet to 15% of its current level over the next 100 years due to an ongoing demographic decline, according to a South Korean think tank. South Korea's population of 51.68 million could decline to as low as 7.53 million by 2125, the Korean Peninsula Population Institute for the Future announced on Wednesday, The Korea Herald reported. KPPIF officials assessed immigration trends and birth and mortality rates to project the nation's population change over the next 100 years. The study projected a 2125 population of between 7.53 million and 15.73 million, with a median of 11.15 million, in South Korea. It predicts an increasing rate of population decline of 30% over the next 50 years, followed by more than a 50% decline from 2076 to 2125. Declining birth rates and fewer people born each generation will cause South Korea's population decline to accelerate if it is not reversed, according to the KPPIF. South Korea's total fertility rate refers to the average number of children women are expected to have and is the world's lowest at 0.75 per woman in 2024, The Korea Times reported. Last year's fertility rate represented a slight increase from 0.72 in 2023. "As the pace of pace of population decline accelerates, by the year 2100, Korea's population will have fallen to less than half of its current size," officials with Statistics Korea said. Analysts for Statistics Korea have forecast three possible fertility rates in South Korea through 2072. The lowest is 0.82, which would represent a slight increase from South Korea's current fertility rate and result in a population of 14.66 million by 2100. A moderate fertility rate of 1.08 gives the nation a population projection of 17.87 million by 2100, while the highest projection of 1.34 would result in a population of 21.65 million. Another sign of South Korea's declining population is a projected increase in the proportion of elderly people who are age 65 and over compared to those who are between ages 15 and 64. South Korea is projected to have 100 working-aged individuals for every 140 seniors by 2100.
UPI
2 days ago
- Politics
- UPI
South Korean population plummet predicted
A police officer monitors crowds in the Hongdae nightlife area of Seoul, South Korea (October 2023). According to a new report, South Korea's population might plummet to 15% of its current level over the next 100 years due to an ongoing demographic decline. File Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI | License Photo July 2 (UPI) -- South Korea's population might plummet to 15% of its current level over the next 100 years due to an ongoing demographic decline, according to a South Korean think tank. South Korea's population of 51.68 million could decline to as low as 7.53 million by 2125, the Korean Peninsula Population Institute for the Future announced on Wednesday, The Korea Herald reported. KPPIF officials assessed immigration trends and birth and mortality rates to project the nation's population change over the next 100 years. The study projected a 2125 population of between 7.53 million and 15.73 million, with a median of 11.15 million, in South Korea. It predicts an increasing rate of population decline of 30% over the next 50 years, followed by more than a 50% decline from 2076 to 2125. Declining birth rates and fewer people born each generation will cause South Korea's population decline to accelerate if it is not reversed, according to the KPPIF. South Korea's total fertility rate refers to the average number of children women are expected to have and is the world's lowest at 0.75 per woman in 2024, The Korea Times reported. Last year's fertility rate represented a slight increase from 0.72 in 2023. "As the pace of pace of population decline accelerates, by the year 2100, Korea's population will have fallen to less than half of its current size," officials with Statistics Korea said. Analysts for Statistics Korea have forecast three possible fertility rates in South Korea through 2072. The lowest is 0.82, which would represent a slight increase from South Korea's current fertility rate and result in a population of 14.66 million by 2100. A moderate fertility rate of 1.08 gives the nation a population projection of 17.87 million by 2100, while the highest projection of 1.34 would result in a population of 21.65 million. Another sign of South Korea's declining population is a projected increase in the proportion of elderly people who are age 65 and over compared to those who are between ages 15 and 64. South Korea is projected to have 100 working-aged individuals for every 140 seniors by 2100.
South China Morning Post
16-03-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Most young people in Korea view marriage and childbirth with mix of sadness, fear, disgust
Despite a slight rebound in South Korea's total fertility rate in 2024, young people overwhelmingly associate marriage and childbirth with negative emotions such as sadness, fear and disgust, according to a new study. Advertisement The Korean Peninsula Population Institute for Future (KPPIF), a non-profit population policy research institute, analysed roughly 50,000 posts related to marriage, childbirth and parenting on the workplace community platform Blind. The findings highlight the prevailing negative perceptions towards marriage and childbirth among young people. The study examined posts from December 2017 to November 2024 using frequency, topic, network and sentiment analysis to gain insights into young people's perspectives, the institute said. Couples walk along a street in the Sinchon area of Seoul. Photo: AFP According to the sentiment analysis, more than 60 per cent of posts on marriage, childbirth and parenting expressed negative emotions.
Korea Herald
11-03-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
Marriage, childbirth evoke fear, not joy among young South Koreans, study finds
Amid birth rate crisis, new support plans unveiled, including 'fast-track' airport entry for large families, affordable housing Marriage and parenthood are increasingly associated with fear and anxiety among South Korea's younger generation, according to an analysis released Tuesday. Despite government efforts to reverse the country's declining birth rate through a range of policies, negative perceptions toward family life persist, reflecting deep-rooted societal and economic concerns. According to an analysis of posts on Blind, an online community for young workers, two-thirds of marriage-related posts carried emotions of "sadness," "fear" or "abomination." Of these, 32.3 percent displayed feelings of "sadness" while 24.6 percent exhibited "fear" and 10.2 percent were categorized under "abomination." On the other hand, only 9.3 percent of the posts expressed happiness. A similar trend could be observed for childbirth and childrearing. According to the institute, over 60 percent of childbirth-related posts carried these negative emotions, with "abomination" leading at 23.8 percent, followed by "fear" (21.3 percent) and "sadness" (15.3 percent). Nearly 70 percent of posts about childrearing exhibited such emotions. The analysis was conducted by not-for-profit private-sector think tank Korean Peninsula Population Institute for Future. It was based on some 50,000 Blind posts combined from December 2017 to November last year about marriage, childbirth or childrearing. The same analysis also indicated that the word "money" appeared in nearly 30 percent of all posts related to marriage and in 13.2 percent of posts about childbirth. Moreover, nearly 60 percent of the marriage-related posts centered around the "preparations and conditions for marriage," while almost 20 percent of childbirth-related posts talked about "financial support related to childbirth." This came as South Korea showed signs of a rebound from the downtrend in its birth rate. On average, the number of children born to a South Korean woman in her lifetime was estimated at 0.75 in 2024, up from 0.72 the previous year. It was the first rebound in South Korea's fertility rate in nine years. However, the institute noted that young people's perceptions of marriage, childbirth and childrearing remains negative. It cautioned that the recent rise in the birth rate may be temporary, as it could be driven by a base effect following the COVID-19 pandemic, making it too early to conclude that the trend will continue. Yoo Hye-jeong, director of the population research center at the KPPIF, called for a strong policy drive to address the young generation's financial difficulties and their struggle to achieve a work-family balance so that the rebound in the birth rate can continue. Meanwhile, acting president and Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok on Tuesday laid out a new batch of support plans for young married couples or couples willing to get married. The government laid out plans to enable families with at least three kids get priority in airport boarding processes in South Korea when traveling overseas and offer affordable public housing to a wider range of newlywed couples or couples with a newborn child. Also, Seoul and local governments will work together in May on a pilot program in which some 5,000 senior citizens will drop off children at schools and kindergartens amid high demand for childcare workers among working parents. South Korea is now suffering the double blow of an extremely low birth rate and an aging population. In December, over 20 percent of South Korea's population was aged 65 or older, marking South Korea's official transition into a superaged society.
