Women will outnumber men in South Korea next year, while the country's working age population will reach its peak in 2016 before falling, a government forecast showed Sunday.
The future population estimate by Statistics Korea predicted the number of women in the country will reach 25.31 million in the new year, compared to 25.30 million men. The numbers represent the first time since related data collection began in 1960 that women will outnumber men.