South Korean's level of fertility has risen for the first time in 2024, with marriages, initial data on Wednesday was marked by a sign that the country's demographic crisis could be a corner.

The rate of the country's fertility, the average number of babies, which a woman should have during its reproductive life in 2024 was 0.75 according to statistics of Korean statistics.

In 2023, the birth rate fell for the eighth year for 0.72, the lowest in the world, from 1.24 in 2015, causing concerns about economic shocks on such rapid pace economic shocks.

Since 2018, South Korea has been the only member of the Economic Cooperation and Development Organization (OECD) at a rate below 1.

South Korea has rolled various measures to get young people to marry and having children, now wise president Yun Suk has announced a program to create a new “National Demographic Crisis” and a new service.

“There was a change in social value, more positive views on marriage and childbirth,” Official Korea Statistics Park Hunik-Jung, citing epidemiological delays in the early 1930s.

“It is difficult to measure how much factor it is to promote new births, but they also affect each other,” Park said.

Marriages, a leading new birth rate, increased in 1424, in 2024. promote

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There is a large relationship between marriages and births for a period of one or two years, as marriage is often seen as a prerequisite for children.

The birth rate in the country last year was the lowest in the capital, Seoul at 0.58.

Recent data have shown that 120,000 people who died last year than the new ones, noting the fifth year of the population, are naturally narrowed. The administrative city was the city of Sejong the only main center, where the population has grown.

South Korean's population, which reached 51.83 million peaks in 2020, will drop to 36.22 million by the latest design of the statistics agency by 2072.