Fertility in Dem. People's Republic of Korea, 2025

Dem. People's Republic of Korea
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.77
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Dem. People's Republic of Korea is projected at 1.77 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (191 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.8 years old. In total, 334,881 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.77
Births
334,881
Births per 1,000 people
12.6
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
0.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.83
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.0
Population
26,571,036
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%394
20-2445.812.9%39,247
25-29191.153.7%181,005
30-34101.628.6%99,121
35-3914.44.0%13,229
40-442.10.6%1,790
45-490.00.0%32
50-540.10.0%64