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Asia > Korea, South > People

KOREAN PEOPLE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Age structure > 0-14 years 19.4 [178th of 226]
Age structure > 15-64 years 72 [7th of 226]
Age structure > 65 years and over 9.2 % [70th of 225]
Birth rate 9.09 births/1,000 population Time series [209th of 226]
Chinese population 30,000 [31st of 127]
Death rate 5.73 deaths/1,000 population Time series [168th of 226]
Ethnic groups
homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese)
Nobel prize laureates 1 [31st of 44]
Percentage living in urban areas 80% [44th of 199]
Population 48,379,392 Time series [25th of 242]
Population growth rate 0.269% Time series [177th of 235]
Population in 2015 49,092 [26th of 225]
Projected population growth 4.78% [108th of 141]
Sex ratio > 15-64 years 1.03 [64th of 223]
Sex ratio > Total population 1 male(s)/female Time series [86th of 224]
Sex ratio > Under 15 years 1.11 male(s)/female Time series [6th of 224]
Teenage birth rate 2.9 [28th of 28]
Total fertility rate 1.2 children born/woman Time series [217th of 225]
Total Population 48,846,823 [24th of 227]
Urbanization 83 [36th of 204]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; University Libraries, Ohio University; The Nobel Foundation; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights. Estimates and projections of urban and rural populations are made by the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat and published every two years. These estimates and projections are based on national census or survey data that have been evaluated and, whenever necessary, adjusted for deficiencies and inconsistencies; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; UNICEF; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center Spanish Statistical Institute; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Korea, South, Republic of Korea, South Korea, Taehan-min'guk, korea, republic of, korea, rep. of, korea-south, SKOREA, Korea Republic, Korean Republic, Korea (Rep.), Korea

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Korea4one (Boston, Mass. USA)
30th November 2008
Korean total population need updated.

1) South Korea population: 49,044,790.- (50,000,000)2008.
2) North Korea population: 23,301,725- (25,000,000) 2008.
3) Overseas Korean population: 7,044,716.
4) Half Korean and North Korean refugee: (9,000,000).

Korean Peninsula population: 72,346,515.
Korean overseas population:7,044,716.
Korean total population: 79,391,231.
Plus half Korean, NK( refugee) 10,000,000.

Korean total population: 89,391,231 million.

1) Half Korean-Chinese: 5 million.
2) Half Korean-Japanese: 3 million.
3) Half Korean-Anglo(USA): 1 million.
4) North Korean refugee ( China, Russia) 1 million
total 10,000,000.

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