South Korea’s fertility rate has climbed for a second consecutive year, bucking a long-term trend of population decline that has plunged the country into one of the world’s worst demographic crises.
Korea’s total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime — climbed to 0.8 last year, up from 0.75 in 2024 and an all-time low of 0.72 in 2023, official data released on Wednesday showed.
The figure was better than even the government’s most optimistic projections for 2025 but remains below the 2.1 threshold that demographers consider necessary to maintain a stable population, absent net immigration.
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