South Korea Population
The total number of people living in the economy at mid-year, from the World Bank's estimates (everyone counted, whatever their legal status or citizenship).
51.7m
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1960 to 2025
Source: World Bank · Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), mid-year estimates, annual.
South Korea Population in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In South Korea, the population fell by 66.5k in 2025, from 51.8m in 2024.
It is the lowest reading since 2022.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 51.7m in 2022 to 51.8m in 2020.
South Korea is 22nd of 61 countries in our Population by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- people
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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