South Korea recorded 24,275 births in July, an 11.1% increase from the same month a year ago and the highest July figure since 2019, according to the Ministry of Data and Statistics. The streak marks 25 consecutive months of year-on-year gains since July 2024, with births over the first seven months of 2025 up nearly 15% compared to the same period last year. Officials attribute the rebound to rising marriage rates, a growing population in their thirties, and shifting attitudes toward parenthood — though the country's total fertility rate of 0.89 remains far below the 2.1 needed to sustain population levels without immigration.