S. Korea's fertility rate rose to 0.99 in January, nearing the threshold of 1.0, but experts warn the increase does not ...

South Korea’s population has been shrinking since hitting its peak at 51.84 million in 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Korea saw its largest-ever gain in birth rate over the first five months of 2025, its statistics agency said Wednesday. File ...

South Korea has recorded its biggest annual birth rate bump in 15 years, official figures showed Wednesday, but still far below the threshold needed to stop its population shrinking. The country has ...

Joseph Henrich, 57, a professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, said, “During the Roman Republic, low birth rates emerged as male elites avoided marriage, but ...

South Korean authorities launched a flurry of initiatives in 2025 aimed at reversing the country’s demographic collapse—part of a broader effort to nudge up the world’s lowest fertility rate, which ...

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has the world’s lowest birth rate, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday, as women in Asia’s fourth-largest economy struggle to achieve a balance ...