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Korea, Dem. People's Rep.

26,571,036

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+72.21K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+12.3%from 23.67M
Life expectancy73.7 years2024
Fertility rate1.78births per woman · 2024
Urban population64.2%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificLow income

A country at every age

How Korea, Dem. People's Rep. is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1418.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+12.7%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 rate12.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+3.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-2.79Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Korea, Dem. People's Rep. look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 25.79M in 2050—2.7% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202426.5M
  2. 205025.79M
  3. 210019.51M
Median age in 205042.9years
Births in 2050264.43Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050355.5Kduring the year
Life expectancy77.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196011.72M
  2. 197015.17M
  3. 198018.24M
  4. 199021.11M
  5. 200023.67M
  6. 201024.99M
  7. 202026.14M
  8. 202526.57M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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