Inhabitants improve for first time in 3 years as a consequence of ‘improve in foreigners’… 1 in 10 households is ‘older individual residing alone’

It was discovered that the full inhabitants of Korea elevated for the primary time in three years as a consequence of a rise within the variety of foreigners residing. The variety of Koreans is regularly lowering, and the youth inhabitants has fallen by round 200,000. As well as, one in 10 households in Korea consisted of an individual over 65 residing alone. Inhabitants density within the metropolitan space can also be rising.

Based on the ‘2023 Inhabitants and Housing Census Outcomes’ (registration census methodology) introduced by Statistics Korea on the twenty ninth, the full inhabitants at midnight on November 1 final yr was 51.775 million, a rise of about 83,000 from the earlier yr. The entire inhabitants has decreased for 2 consecutive years from 2020 (51.829 million folks).

The rationale that the full inhabitants elevated in three years is as a result of the variety of foreigners has elevated in comparison with Koreans. Final yr, the variety of ‘resident aliens’ was 1,935,000, a rise of 183,000 (10.4%) in comparison with a yr in the past. A resident foreigner refers to a foreigner who has lived within the nation for greater than 3 months or has entered the nation to remain for greater than 3 months. The Workplace for Nationwide Statistics defined that the rise within the variety of folks coming into the nation and the enlargement of the employment allow system after the epidemic of COVID-19 had an impact.

The variety of Koreans has been lowering for 3 years from 2020. It recorded 49.94 million folks in 2022, falling to 40 million in 4 years, and final yr it decreased one other 100,000 to 49.83 million. The youth inhabitants between 0 and 14 (5.619 million folks) decreased by 241,000 folks, and the working age inhabitants between 15 and 64 (36.546 million folks) decreased by 140,000 folks. Alternatively, the variety of aged folks aged 65 or older elevated by 462,000 to 9.609 million.

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The rise in single-family properties additionally continued. Final yr, the variety of single-person households was 7.829 million, a rise of 327,000 from a yr in the past. The proportion of households with one individual out of the full (22,073,000 households) is 35.5%, the biggest quantity ever. It rose 0.1 proportion factors from a yr in the past. The proportion of single-person households was solely 4.8% in 1980, however reached 27.2% in 2015 and crossed the 30% mark in 2019 (30.2%).

The variety of ‘single aged folks’s properties’ aged 65 or over exceeded 2 million final yr. Final yr, there have been 2.138 million aged households, a rise of 165,000 households in comparison with a yr in the past. The proportion of aged households with one individual in each family elevated by 0.6 proportion factors from 9.1% to 9.7% in the identical interval. One out of each 10 households in Korea is residence to the aged.

Congestion within the metropolitan space is steadily rising. It was discovered that 26.226 million folks, or 50.7% of Korea’s inhabitants, reside intently within the metropolitan space, together with Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi. The proportion of the inhabitants within the metropolitan space continues to rise from 49.5% in 2015 to 50.0% in 2019 to 50.7% final yr.

Reporter Choi Ha-yan chy@hani.co.kr