Elderly Population Reaches 9.2%

By Kim Tong-hyung , Korea Times-Seoul

October 11, 2006

The number of Korean people aged over 65 reached just under 10 percent of the population as of August, the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs said yesterday.

As of Aug. 29, about 9.2 percent of Korea’s 48.9 million people were aged 65 and over, a rise from the 8.1 percent at the end of 2003, according to the ministry’s numbers.

However, the birth registration rate, or the registered number of births per total population, stood just at 1 percent during the three-year period between January 2003 and December 2005.

South Cholla Province had the highest elderly rate, with more than 16 percent of its residents over the age of 65.

North Kyongsang Province, South Chungchong Province, and North Cholla Province had more than a 13 percent elderly rate.

The southern industrial city of Ulsan had the lowest elderly rate among cities, counties and provinces at 5.5 percent. Seoul had an elderly rate of 7.5 percent. 

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