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The deviation from the traditionally religious South Korean culture and demographics is the rise of atheism. Previous to this sudden change, A Cohort Analysis of Religious Population Change in Korea [49] launched by the Korean Citation Index analyzed South Korean religious demographics from 1999 to 2015. The data from the study focused on ...
Population of the Korean Peninsula 1910–2016. Demographic features of the population of South Korea include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
However, due to the regime's policy of stifling religion, North Korea's religious population has been greatly reduced, In a report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2001, the North Korean regime recorded a total of 37,800 religious people, including 15,000 Chondoists, 10,000 Buddhists, 12,000 Protestants, and 800 Catholics. [28]
The 2005 South Korean census showed 29.2 percent of the population identifying as Christian, up from 26.3 percent ten years previously. [16] Catholics tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in South Korea, in the sense that they have a high number of college graduates (50.4%) and post-graduate degrees (11.6%) per capita. [17]
The Catholic Church in South Korea (called Cheonjugyo, Korean : 천주교; Hanja : 天主教; lit. Religion of the Lord of Heaven) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2020, it had 5,841,000 members (11.28% of the population) with almost 5,000 priests and 9,000 nuns serving across ...
However, the actual number of Buddhists in South Korea is ambiguous as there is no exact or exclusive criterion by which Buddhists can be identified, unlike the Christian population. With Buddhism's incorporation into traditional Korean culture, it is now considered a philosophy and cultural background rather than a formal religion.
South Korea is noted for its population density, which was an estimated 514.6 per square kilometre (1,333/sq mi) in 2022, [261] more than 10 times the global average. Most South Koreans live in urban areas following rapid migration from the countryside during the country's rapid economic expansion in the 1970s through the 1990s. [275]
South Korea has an area of 38,023 square miles (98,480 km 2) and a population of 52 million people in 2022. According to the 2015 national census, 56.1% of people have no religious beliefs, 19.7% of the population is Protestant, 15.5% follow Korean Buddhism and 7.9% follow Catholicism.