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South Korea recorded its first-ever decline in total population last year, data showed Thursday, with fewer births, an aging society, and falling numbers of foreigners entering the country due to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the census data released by Statistics Korea on Thursday, 51.74 million people were living in Korea in 2021, about 91,000 less than the year before.
It is the first time Korea’s population shrank since the records began in 1949.
Annual population growth has declined since peaking in 1960 at 3 percent. In 1960, it dropped below 1 percent for the first time.
South Korea recorded its first-ever decline in total population last year, data showed Thursday, with fewer births, an aging society, and falling numbers of foreigners entering the country due to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the census data released by Statistics Korea on Thursday, 51.74 million people were living in Korea in 2021, about 91,000 less than the year before.
It is the first time Korea’s population shrank since the records began in 1949.
Annual population growth has declined since peaking in 1960 at 3 percent. In 1960, it dropped below 1 percent for the first time.
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