Korea’s March Births Surge 19.4%, Largest Jump in 33 Years. Births rising 21 months straight. Marriages also up 10%
https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/05/27/koreas-march-births-surge-194-percent-largest-jump-in-33
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Korea’s March Births Surge 19.4%, Largest Jump in 33 Years. Births rising 21 months straight. Marriages also up 10%
https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/05/27/koreas-march-births-surge-194-percent-largest-jump-in-33
Posted by self-fix2
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What was particularly encouraging to see from this report was the greater number of younger women (24-29) having their first child. Births from this cohort rose 2.1 women per 1000, y-o-y, TFR rose +1.8 per 1000 women in ther fertile age cohort. This means that the bell curve for mothers giving birth are skewing to the younger side.
Some random figures:
Average Q1 TFR = 0.95
Q1 births = +14.8%
Q1 marriages = +6.1%
Seoul Q1 births = +18%
Seoul Q1 TFR = 0.77
Busan Q1 TFR = 0.88
Sejong Q1 TFR = 1.22 TFR
Go South Korea, until the “hyper-capitalism dystopia YouTube slop” crowd loses their jobs.
Welp a lot of redditor ain’t gonna like this
This is heartbreaking news for the far-right who claim that Korea will disappear due to a shrinking population.
you can’t post stuff like this, the anti-korea incel crowd isnt going to like this
The “KOREA DOOMED” crowd loves to conveniently forget that we have endured for over five thousand years.
Not an anti-Korea or whatever but we should still watch for a few more years before celebrating. A bump in our population pyramid has entered their mid 30s recently, and this could very well boosted our fertility rate.
In August last year (9 months ago), the new admin was settling in, so that sense of perceived political stability within the country may have bumped the numbers a little bit.
The number of births by month is usually in the 19,000-21,000s range, so 25,000 is certainly an outlier.
Our figures for January this year was high as well, nearly topping 27,000.
Yoon marital law: Dec 2024
Yoon removal: April 2025
LJM inauguration: June 2025
APEC: Oct 2025
|Month|2024|2025|2026|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Jan|21.5k|23.9k|26.9k|
|Feb|19.4k|20.0k|22.9k|
|Mar|19.7k|21.0k|25.2k|
|Apr|19.0k|20.7k|—|
|May|19.0k|20.3k|—|
|Jun|18.2k|20.0k|—|
|Jul|20.6k|21.8k|—|
|Aug|20.1k|20.9k|—|
|Sep|20.6k|22.4k|—|
|Oct|21.4k|22.0k|—|
|Nov|20.1k|20.7k|—|
|Dec|18.7k|20.8k|—|
According to a population calculator, the difference between a TFR of 0.75 and 0.95 for a population roughly similar to Korea leads to the following results:
TFR 0.75: 100y = 6.83M, 150 = 1.25M, 200y = 250K, 250y = 50K
TFR 0.95: 100y = 10.36M, 150 = 2.90M, 200y = 843K, 250y = 250K
(I set immigration to 0, pop to 50m, first birth to 30 and average age to 85)
https://ile.github.io/population-calculator/
It’s trending so it will become trendy to have babies again. They will also export to countries not having babies. Try K-S*X, and you can have babies too LOL.