South Korea is poised to record a rise in its birthrate for the first time in nine years, spurred by a rebound in marriages ...

The Asian country has recorded the world's lowest fertility rates, but the number of newborns between January 2024 and November 2024 rose 3% from a year earlier to 220,094, monthly government data sho ...

The number of babies born in South Korea rose at the fastest rate in 14 years in November, driven partly by an increase in ...

South Korea's birthrate is projected to rise in 2024 following a rebound in marriages delayed by the pandemic. After years of decline, the number of newborns increased by 3% from the previous year.

Hungary is one of the world's few demographic success stories, and its Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies last month ...

Japan will be down to its last child in 695 years, according to a university's "population clock"—a thought experiment and ...

The report said Korea was lacking in two key areas — flexible work environments and family care support — when compared with OECD nations with women's employment rate of above 70 percent, such ...

Young people in Seoul, South Korea, Dec 5, 2024. The upward trend in birth rates was likely to continue for ... a country with one of the world's lowest fertility rates, increased for the first time ...

Such infrastructural oversights are symptomatic of a deeper national decline, exemplified by South Korea's plummeting birth rate — the lowest globally. In 2023, the fertility rate fell to a ...

Ukraine was the fastest shrinking country in the world as the Russian invasion is driving its citizens from their homeland in ...

SEOUL, Jan 2 (Reuters) - South Korea released policy plans on Thursday ... population is shrinking due to the world's lowest fertility rate and as robust export growth is threatened by a global ...