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\u00a0SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — South Korea’s total fertility rate hit a four-year high in 2025 due to a continued growth in births, statistical ministry data showed Wednesday.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The total fertility rate, or the number of children a woman is expected to bear during life, rose 0.05 to 0.80 in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to the Ministry of Data and Statistics.<\/p>\n

It marked the highest in four years since 2021 when the fertility rate recorded 0.81.<\/p>\n

The rate, required to stay at the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman to maintain a stable population, tumbled from 1.24 in 2015 to 0.72 in 2023 before rebounding to 0.75 in 2024.<\/p>\n

The number of newborn babies swelled 6.8 percent from a year earlier to 254,500 in 2025 after growing 3.6 percent in 2024.<\/p>\n

The figure had continued to go down for the eighth consecutive year through 2023.<\/p>\n

The number of deaths gained 1.3 percent over the year to 363,400 in 2025.<\/p>\n

Affected by higher deaths than births, the natural population decline reached 108,900 in 2025. The country’s total population saw a natural decline for the sixth straight year since 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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