Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of newborns and the fertility rate in South Korea are bucking the trend and rising for the first time in nine years of steady decline. According to the 2024 ...

The government attributes the reversal to a shift in perceptions surrounding family institutions among people of procreating age.

The number of babies born in Korea last year increased for the first time in nearly a decade, data showed, Wednesday. The government views the upward trend ... s total fertility rate — the ...

South Korea’s fertility rate has risen for the first time in nine ... adding that last year’s trend was also driven by an increase in the number of people in their early 30s as well as ...

South Korea’s statistics agency said Wednesday that 238,300 babies were born last year, an increase of 8,300 from a year earlier. It said the country’s fertility rate — the average number of babies ...

South Korea's statistics office earlier in the day announced that the country's fertility rate, or the average number ... "South Korea's birth rate graph looks like a bitcoin chart now." Office worker ...

A total of 238,300 babies were born last year, up 3.6% on-year from a record low of 230,000 in 2023, Statistics Korea said in a provisional report. South Korea's fertility rate also grew for the ...

interrupting a continuous downward trend since 2014, according to preliminary data from Statistics Korea. And the fertility rate, or the average number of babies a woman is expected to have in her ...

A line chart of South Korea's total fertility rate since 2013. It shows a rate of 1.19 in 2013 and a steep decline below 1 from 2018, to it's lowest in 2023 at 0.72. "There is a high possibility ...