After now-impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol declared a “national statistical issue” and a plan to establish a new government devoted to tackling low birth rates, South Korea has implemented a number of measures to encourage young persons to marry and have children.
” There was a change in social benefit, with more positive opinions about relationship and childbirth”, Park Hyun-jung, an official at Statistics Korea, told a presentation, even citing the influence of a rise in the number of individuals in their early 30s and pandemic disruptions.
” It’s difficult to quantify how much each element contributed to the rise in new birth, but they themselves had an impact on each other as well,” said Park.
Relationships, a leading indicator of fresh babies, jumped 14.9 per share in 2024, the biggest jump since the information started being released in 1970. Couples increased by 1 % thanks to a post-pandemic increase, for the first time in 11 times in 2023.
There is a significant relationship between marriages and births in the Asian nation, with one or two decades of gap between marriage and childbirth.
Across the country, the population last year was the lowest in the money, Seoul, at 0.58.
According to the most recent statistics, there were 120, 000 more deaths past year than those who were newly born, making it the second consecutive year for the people to be naturally shrinking. Sejong, the managerial city, was the only key center where the population increased.
South Korea’s people, which hit a maximum of 51.83 million in 2020, is expected to reduce to 36.22 million by 2072, according to the latest forecast by the data firm.