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Serving Students at Santa Ana College and Santiago Canyon College SOUTH KOREA Population

Nationality:
noun: Korean(s) 
adjective: Korean 

Ethnic groups: homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) 

Population:  47,470,969 (July 2000 est.) 
The 46.9 million (1998) people of South Korea are ethnically homogeneous; 99.9 percent are Korean with a very small Chinese population.  With 46 million people, South Korea has one of the world's highest population densities--much higher, for example, than India or Japan--while the territorially larger North Korea has only about 22 million people.  Ethnic Koreans now residing in other countries live mostly in China (1.9 million), the United States (1.52 million), Japan (681,000), and the countries of the former Soviet Union (450,000). 

Age structure:
0-14 years: 22% (male 5,471,520; female 4,867,688) 
15-64 years: 71% (male 17,155,401; female 16,662,227) 
65 years and over: 7% (male 1,274,943; female 2,039,190) (2000 est.) 

Population growth rate: 0.93% (2000 est.) 

Birth rate: 15.12 births/1,000 population (2000 est.) 

Death rate: 5.85 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.) 

Sex ratio: 1.01 male(s)/female (2000 est.) total population

Infant mortality rate: 7.85 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.) 

Life expectancy at birth:  74.43 years total population
male: 70.75 years 
female: 78.54 years (2000 est.) 

Total fertility rate: 1.72 children born/woman (2000 est.) 

Work Force:  21.5 million.
Services  61%
Mining and manufacturing  24%
Agriculture  15%. (1997 est.)

Sources: 
Central Intelligence Agency