Fertility in Dem. People's Republic of Korea, 2024

Dem. People's Republic of Korea
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.78
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Dem. People's Republic of Korea is projected at 1.78 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (193 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.8 years old. In total, 340,728 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.78
Births
340,728
Births per 1,000 people
12.9
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
0.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.84
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.0
Population
26,498,823
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-140.00.0%0
15-190.50.1%405
20-2446.312.9%40,804
25-29192.753.7%184,912
30-34102.528.6%99,462
35-3914.64.1%13,240
40-442.10.6%1,801
45-490.00.0%32
50-540.10.0%70