Tajikistan: more babies born than in South Korea
births in 2023
South Korea has 5 times as many people (51.7M against 10.4M), yet more babies were born here in 2023: 271k against 230k. It overtook South Korea in births in 2020.
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Live births in a calendar year, for two countries: one has far fewer people yet more babies.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Tajikistan: Births thousand births per year
64 (1950) → 271 (2023)
- South Korea: Births thousand births per year
785 (1950) → 230 (2023)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → National Data Office (국가데이터처, formerly Statistics Korea), '2025 Birth Statistics' (final), released 2026-08-26, Table 1 and appendix table 1
- Tajikistan: Population thousand persons, 1 July
10,390 (2023)
- South Korea: Population thousand persons, 1 July
51,749 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024) and national statistics where available; population on 1 July of the same year.
A question for this picture
How many of these children will look for work in 20 years, and where?