Foreign population nears 2 million, population decline halted - South Korean report

It has been found that South Korea's total population last year increased by 80,000 people from the year before. This means that the country's total population, which entered a downward trend for the first time in 2021, has turned to increase for the first time in three years.
According to the results of the 2023 Population and Housing Census released by the Korea National Statistical Office on the 29th, the total population of South Korea as of November 1st last year was 5.
The number of foreigners who stayed in Korea for more than three months was 1.935 million.
This is an increase of 183,000 (10.4%) from the previous year. This is analyzed as being due to the end of the COVID-19 virus outbreak and the expansion of the employment permit system last year, which led to an increase in the number of foreigners being hired.
The number of Koreans was 49,839,000 (96.3%), a decrease of 101,000 (-0.2%) from the previous year.
Last year, the working-age population of Japan between the ages of 15 and 64 accounted for 70.6% of the total population.
The total number of people of working age was 36,546,000. The working-age population has been decreasing for six years since 2018, and was down 140,000 people (down 0.4%) from the previous year.
Foreigners, who make up the majority of the population, have contributed to the productive population, slowing the downward trend. The elderly population aged 65 and over is 18.6% (9,609,000 people), down 5.1% (462,000 people) from last year.
The number of single-person households increased by 7,829,000 (35.5% of the total), of which 10.5% were people aged 85 or older. By type of household, the trend of an increase in single-person households continues.
The number of elderly people and single-person households has increased in both number and percentage, but the rate of increase in single-person households is gradually slowing.
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