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Although the number of births last year successfully rebounded for the first time in nine years, the population continues to decline naturally for the fifth consecutive year due to more deaths than births. Over the past five years, the population has decreased by more than 450,000, making the "population cliff" a reality, and urgent population policies to sustain the economic scale have become a top priority.
According to Statistics Korea on the 3rd, the natural decrease in population last year was 120,000 people. The number of births was 238,000, an increase of 8,000 compared to the previous year, but the number of deaths reached 358,000, resulting in a natural population decline of only 120,000.
The phenomenon of natural population decline has been ongoing for the fifth year since it first began in 2020. The natural decrease, which started with a reduction of 33,000 people in 2020, expanded significantly due to COVID-19, reaching 57,000 in 2021. Subsequently, in 2022 (-124,000) and 2023 (-122,000), the decline continued, and last year marked the third consecutive year with a decline in the 120,000s.
The Korean population has decreased by a total of 456,000 over five years. As of December last year, based on resident registration, our country's population was 51,217,000, meaning approximately 0.9% of the total population has disappeared over five years.
As the proportion of the elderly population increases here, the working-age population decreases, putting greater pressure on the economy. According to the National Statistical Office's future population projections, the population based on the median projection is expected to decrease from 51.67 million in 2022 to 51.31 million in 2030 and to 36.22 million by 2072. The proportion of the elderly population aged 65 and over is expected to rise to 47.7%, nearly half of the total by 2072.
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The population will continue to decrease..
Becoming a country with only elderly people
It's a big problem...