Demographics
Population: 49,044,790 (July 2007 est.)
Location: Eastern Asia, southern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea
Nationality: Korean
Languages: Korean and English
Government: Republic
National Holiday: Liberation Day: (15 August 1945)
Age structure
- 0-14 years: 18.3% (male 4,714,103/female 4,262,873)
- 15-64 years: 72.1% (male 18,004,719/female 17,346,594)
- 65 years and over: 9.6% (male 1,921,803/female 2,794,698) (2007 est.)
Growth
- Birth rate: 9.93 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)
- Total fertility rate: 1.25 children born/woman (August 2007 est.)
- Death rate: 5.99 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)
- Infant mortality rate: 6.05 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)
- Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Sex ratio
- at birth: 1.13 male(s)/female
- under 15 years: 1.12 male(s)/female
- 15-99 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
- 65 years and over: 0.63 male(s)/female
- total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2000 est.)
Life expectancy
- total population: 79.05 years
- Male: 75.7 years
- Female: 82.4 years (2006 est.)
Religions
- Nonreligious: 46.92%
- Christianity: 29.25%
- Buddhism: 22.8%
- Confucianists: 0.23%
- Other: 0.8%
Literacy
- Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
- total population: 97.9%
- male: 99.2%
- female: 96.6% (2002)
