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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Birth Rate 2023

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Birth Rate 2023
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Crude birth rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

12.9 −0.2 from 2022 Global rank: 105th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate was 12.9 in 2023, decreased +0.2 from 13.1 in 2022. This was the 105th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2023▾

Birth Rate by Country - 2023
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Hong Kong SAR, China	4.4	0.0%
2nd	Korea	4.5	-8.2%
3rd	Macao SAR, China	5.5	-14.1%
4th	San Marino	5.6	-8.2%
5th	Ukraine	5.6	-1.0%
6th	Puerto Rico (US)	5.8	-1.7%
7th	Japan	6.0	-4.8%
8th	China	6.4	-5.6%
9th	Italy	6.4	-4.5%
10th	Spain	6.7	-2.9%
11th	Greece	6.8	-6.8%
12th	Andorra	6.9	0.1%
13th	Belarus	7.1	-11.5%
14th	Lithuania	7.2	-7.7%
15th	Poland	7.4	-10.8%
16th	Singapore	7.4	-6.3%
17th	Curaçao	7.5	-8.5%
18th	Latvia	7.7	-9.4%
19th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.7	-0.4%
20th	Finland	7.8	-3.7%
21st	Aruba	8.0	-6.5%
22nd	Estonia	8.0	-7.0%
23rd	Romania	8.0	-14.9%
24th	Slovenia	8.0	-3.6%
25th	Bermuda	8.0	-1.7%
26th	Malta	8.1	0.0%
27th	Portugal	8.1	1.3%
28th	European Union	8.2	-6.0%
29th	Channel Islands	8.2	0.0%
30th	Thailand	8.2	-1.6%
31st	Germany	8.3	-5.7%
32nd	Croatia	8.3	-5.7%
33rd	British Virgin Islands	8.3	-1.0%
34th	Isle of Man	8.3	-1.1%
35th	Czechia	8.4	-11.6%
36th	Austria	8.5	-6.6%
37th	Russian Federation	8.6	-3.4%
38th	Cuba	8.7	0.5%
39th	Canada	8.8	-2.2%
40th	Bulgaria	8.9	1.1%
41st	Chile	9.0	-7.3%
42nd	Switzerland	9.0	-4.3%
43rd	Slovak Republic	9.0	-7.2%
44th	Hungary	9.1	-2.2%
45th	Liechtenstein	9.1	-1.1%
46th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	9.1	-0.8%
47th	North Macedonia	9.2	-7.1%
48th	Netherlands	9.2	-3.2%
49th	Serbia	9.2	-1.1%
50th	Belgium	9.4	-4.1%
51st	Norway	9.4	0.0%
52nd	Monaco	9.4	8.7%
53rd	Luxembourg	9.5	-4.0%
54th	Sweden	9.5	-5.0%
55th	Denmark	9.7	-2.0%
56th	United Arab Emirates	9.8	5.2%
57th	Uruguay	9.9	-0.9%
58th	France	9.9	-7.5%
59th	Qatar	9.9	-1.9%
60th	United Kingdom	10.0	-0.8%
61st	Costa Rica	10.2	-1.4%
62nd	Mauritius	10.2	6.3%
63rd	Albania	10.2	-0.6%
64th	Ireland	10.3	-1.0%
65th	Kuwait	10.3	-5.0%
66th	Faroe Islands	10.6	-10.2%
67th	United States	10.7	-2.7%
68th	Trinidad and Tobago	10.7	-2.5%
69th	Turks and Caicos Islands	10.7	-2.2%
70th	Moldova	10.8	2.0%
71st	Cyprus	10.8	-2.3%
72nd	Australia	10.8	-6.9%
73rd	Bahamas, The	10.9	-0.8%
74th	New Zealand	10.9	-5.5%
75th	Palau	10.9	-2.0%
76th	French Polynesia	10.9	-2.2%
77th	Iceland	11.0	-4.3%
78th	Maldives	11.0	-3.3%
79th	Argentina	11.1	1.3%
80th	Dominica	11.1	-0.5%
81st	Azerbaijan	11.1	-8.3%
82nd	Barbados	11.2	-0.7%
83rd	Sri Lanka	11.2	-9.7%
84th	Montenegro	11.2	-0.9%
85th	Türkiye	11.2	-8.2%
86th	St. Lucia	11.3	-1.4%
87th	Virgin Islands (US)	11.4	-1.7%
88th	Georgia	11.5	-1.0%
89th	Jamaica	11.6	-2.0%
90th	Grenada	11.7	-1.9%
91st	St. Kitts and Nevis	11.7	-1.8%
92nd	Cayman Islands	11.8	-2.9%
93rd	Antigua and Barbuda	11.8	-1.3%
94th	Kosovo	12.1	-1.7%
95th	Gibraltar	12.1	0.4%
96th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	12.2	-1.9%
97th	Armenia	12.3	0.0%
98th	Brazil	12.3	-1.9%
99th	Cabo Verde	12.3	-0.9%
100th	Malaysia	12.4	0.1%
101st	Bahrain	12.5	-6.2%
102nd	Greenland	12.6	-4.5%
103rd	Bhutan	12.7	-1.1%
104th	Northern Mariana Islands	12.9	-6.4%
105th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	12.9	-1.5%
106th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	13.0	-2.7%
107th	Seychelles	13.0	-0.8%
108th	Colombia	13.5	-1.9%
109th	Brunei Darussalam	13.6	-1.9%
110th	Tunisia	13.7	-2.7%
111th	Viet Nam	13.8	-3.1%
112th	New Caledonia	14.3	-1.6%
113th	Ecuador	15.0	-2.5%
114th	American Samoa	15.4	-0.9%
115th	Mexico	15.7	-2.1%
116th	El Salvador	15.8	-1.0%
117th	Indonesia	15.9	-1.6%
118th	Peru	15.9	-1.5%
119th	Philippines	16.0	-0.2%
120th	Panama	16.0	-1.3%
121st	Lebanon	16.1	-1.4%
122nd	India	16.1	-1.2%
123rd	Saudi Arabia	16.4	7.9%
124th	Myanmar	16.7	-1.3%
125th	Morocco	16.7	-2.0%
126th	Oman	16.8	3.0%
127th	Libya	17.0	-2.9%
128th	St. Martin (French part)	17.1	-1.5%
129th	Suriname	17.3	-1.0%
130th	Guam	17.7	-1.9%
131st	Dominican Republic	17.9	-1.8%
132nd	Fiji	18.0	-1.3%
133rd	Belize	18.0	3.6%
134th	Israel	18.6	-2.1%
135th	South Africa	18.8	-1.6%
136th	Mongolia	19.0	-2.6%
137th	Nepal	19.3	-1.5%
138th	Nicaragua	19.4	-1.6%
139th	Algeria	19.6	-4.2%
140th	Paraguay	20.0	-1.8%
141st	Kazakhstan	20.1	-3.3%
142nd	Guyana	20.3	-2.2%
143rd	Bangladesh	20.4	-1.1%
144th	Kyrgyz Republic	20.6	-4.2%
145th	Jordan	20.6	-1.5%
146th	Cambodia	20.8	-2.5%
147th	Djibouti	20.8	-1.3%
148th	Guatemala	20.8	-1.2%
149th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	21.0	-0.4%
150th	Marshall Islands	21.1	-3.9%
151st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	21.2	-1.5%
152nd	Lao PDR	21.3	-1.9%
153rd	Turkmenistan	21.7	-4.0%
154th	Honduras	22.0	-1.3%
155th	Timor-Leste	22.1	-1.5%
156th	Syrian Arab Republic	22.1	4.1%
157th	Haiti	22.2	-1.5%
158th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.3	-0.9%
159th	Tuvalu	23.1	-4.2%
160th	Tonga	23.1	-1.0%
161st	Eswatini	24.1	-2.2%
162nd	Lesotho	24.1	-1.2%
163rd	Papua New Guinea	24.6	-2.3%
164th	Botswana	24.7	-2.1%
165th	Samoa	25.4	-2.7%
166th	Nauru	25.5	-4.2%
167th	Iraq	25.7	-1.1%
168th	Kiribati	25.8	-2.2%
169th	Namibia	25.9	-1.7%
170th	Tajikistan	26.1	-3.4%
171st	Ghana	26.3	-1.1%
172nd	Uzbekistan	26.5	-0.2%
173rd	Solomon Islands	26.9	-1.3%
174th	West Bank and Gaza	27.1	-1.9%
175th	Kenya	27.1	-0.9%
176th	Gabon	27.7	-2.2%
177th	Pakistan	27.8	-1.2%
178th	Vanuatu	28.1	-2.2%
179th	São Tomé and Principe	28.2	-0.3%
180th	Rwanda	28.3	-1.8%
181st	Eritrea	28.5	-0.5%
182nd	South Sudan	28.6	-1.6%
183rd	Comoros	28.7	-1.4%
184th	Senegal	29.4	-0.1%
185th	Equatorial Guinea	29.6	-1.7%
186th	Guinea-Bissau	30.0	-1.4%
187th	Zimbabwe	30.4	-1.5%
188th	Gambia, The	30.4	-1.1%
189th	Sierra Leone	30.6	-1.5%
190th	Congo, Republic of	30.6	-1.0%
191st	Liberia	31.0	-0.7%
192nd	Togo	31.1	-1.2%
193rd	Malawi	31.4	-1.1%
194th	Burkina Faso	31.6	-1.2%
195th	Côte d'Ivoire	32.0	-1.6%
196th	Madagascar	32.1	-1.2%
197th	Nigeria	33.0	-0.7%
198th	Zambia	33.1	-1.4%
199th	Sudan	33.6	0.2%
200th	Burundi	33.7	-1.9%
201st	Cameroon	33.7	-1.5%
202nd	Guinea	33.8	-1.6%
203rd	Benin	33.9	-1.4%
204th	Mauritania	34.4	-1.2%
205th	Uganda	35.2	-1.7%
206th	Yemen, Republic of	35.2	-0.6%
207th	Tanzania	35.2	-1.2%
208th	Afghanistan	35.4	-1.7%
209th	Mozambique	37.5	-1.3%
210th	Angola	37.6	-1.3%
211th	Mali	40.0	-0.8%
212th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	41.3	-0.8%
213th	Niger	41.9	-0.1%
214th	Chad	42.4	-2.2%
215th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	43.0	-1.9%
216th	Central African Republic	46.4	2.1%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate in 2023?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate in 2023 was 12.9. This ranked 105th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate change in 2023?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate decreased by 1.5% in 2023 compared to 2022.

Which country had the highest birth rate in 2023?▾

Central African Republic had the highest birth rate in 2023 at 46.4.

What is the birth rate of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2023?▾

The birth rate of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2023 was 12.9. This ranked 105th globally.

How does 2023 compare to 2022 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's birth rate went from 13.1 in 2022 to 12.9 in 2023, a 1.5% decrease.

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