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Korea, Rep.

51,684,564

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-66.5K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+9.9%from 47.01M
Life expectancy83.6 years2024
Fertility rate0.75births per woman · 2024
Urban population81.2%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificHigh income

A country at every age

How Korea, Rep. is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1410.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6469.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.3%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate4.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-2.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+65.73Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Korea, Rep. look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 45.14M in 2050—12.7% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202451.72M
  2. 205045.14M
  3. 210021.85M
Median age in 205056.7years
Births in 2050211.34Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050688.85Kduring the year
Life expectancy87.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196025.01M
  2. 197032.24M
  3. 198038.12M
  4. 199042.87M
  5. 200047.01M
  6. 201049.55M
  7. 202051.84M
  8. 202551.68M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryValidated dataChecked 9/23/2026

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