South Koreas birthrate rises for second year with experts saying echo boomers behind boost

Rebound in the country - which has been having demographic crisis - said to be partly because of 3.6 million born between 1991 and 1995 having childrenSouth Korea recorded 254,500 births in 2025, the largest annual increase in 15 years, driven largely by a temporarily enlarged generation - known as echo boomers - now in their early thirties, alongside marriage rates recovering from Covid-era delays.The countrys fertility rate - the average number of babies a woman is expected to have in her life...