February 25, 2026 11:54 AM
South Korea’s birthrate, the world’s lowest, rises again amid signs of easing demographic crisis
hSouth Korea's birthrate rose for a second straight year in 2025, government data showed on Wednesday, in a further sign that a country facing a demographic crisis for nearly a decade may be starting to turn a corner. South Korea's total fertility rate, the average number of babies a woman is expected to have during her reproductive life, stood at 0.80 in 2025, up from 0.75 in 2024, according to preliminary data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics. New births began rebounding in 2024 on a...