Total birth rate ”rebounds” but South Korea's population will ”drop sharply” to 36 million in 2072

A forecast has been released stating that South Korea's total population, currently at 51.2 million, will plummet to 36 million by 2072.
Last year, South Korea's total births rebounded for the first time in nine years, but the death toll was the second highest on record.
The natural population decline has reached 120,000 as the number of deaths continues to exceed the number of births, and the report points out that "the population decline cannot be stopped."
On the 27th, in the first issue of the newly launched “NABO Population and Employment Trends & Lee SHOO” by the National Assembly Budget Office, National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik said, “Our country will be
"In early December, we entered into a full-fledged aging society," he said, adding, "Due to the effects of an increase in life expectancy and a decline in the birth rate, the total population will drop significantly to 36 million by 2072, with the elderly accounting for nearly 48% of the total population.
Chairman Woo said, "The national system that was designed based on the premise of a continuous increase in population and a pyramidal population structure with a large number of young people is now in need of a complete overhaul.
The reason for Chairman Woo's argument is the "natural decline in population where the number of deaths exceeds the number of births."