East Asia & Pacific · capital Seoul
Korea, Rep.
#29 by population · High income · ISO KOR
Population right now
51,561,283
-289.5 net per day · 1 birth every 129.9 s
·anchor 51,684,564 on 1 Jul 2025
·0.621% of the world
👶 Births today
586
0% of the way to the next birth · 0 while you've been here
⚰️ Deaths today
872
0% of the way to the next death · 0 while you've been here
🧳 Net migration / yr
+13,146
5-yr avg from 2025
📈 Net growth / day
−255
-0.21% per year, from births − deaths + migration
Profile
Birth rate
4.70 /1,000
2024
Death rate
7.00 /1,000
2024
Fertility
0.75 births/woman
Life expectancy
83.6 yrs
Aged 0–14
10.2%
Aged 65+
20.3%
Urban
81.2%
Land area
100,450 km²
Density
514.5 /km²
GDP / capita
$36,227
2025
Trend
Population 2015–2025
Same region
Largest neighbours
How these numbers are made. Nobody counts people in real time.
Each figure is recomputed every frame from a World Bank anchor and rate:
pop(now) = 51,684,564 − 0.0034/s × elapsed since 1 Jul 2025
births/day = 665 (crude birth rate 4.70/1,000, 2024)
deaths/day = 991 (crude death rate 7.00/1,000, 2024)
Births and deaths are estimates for a hypothetical average day; they do not reflect
seasonality, and the migration figure is a 5-year average. World Bank's separately
published growth rate is -0.13%/yr; the rate shown above is derived
from the components so it always agrees with the counter. Full method →