China News Service, June 6 (Yonhap News Agency) According to statistics released by the South Korean Ministry of Administration and Security on the 6th, as of the end of May 2022, the registered population of Seoul, South Korea, was 9,496,887, which is the first time since it fell below the 10 million mark. fell below 9.5 million a year.

Data map: Citizens of Seoul, South Korea eat at a restaurant in Mapo District.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xu

  According to reports, with the advancement of urbanization and industrialization, the population of Seoul has shown an explosive growth momentum and peaked at 10.97 million in 1992, and has continued to decline since then.

  At the end of May 2016, the registered population of Seoul fell below 10 million for the first time, reaching 9.995 million; at the end of 2020, the population of Seoul, including foreign residents, was 9.911088 million, the first time since the end of 1988 that it fell below 1,000 after a lapse of 32 years. million pass.

  According to the research results released by the Seoul Research Institute, the large increase in the supply of new houses in the metropolitan area last month was the main reason for the decline in Seoul's population.

The research institute predicts that Seoul's population decline may further accelerate under the influence of the natural population decline and the third phase of the new city construction plan.

  Statistics Korea estimated in May that under the background that the low fertility rate has not improved, the total population of South Korea will decrease from 51.84 million in 2020 to 47.36 million in 2050, and the population of Seoul will decrease from 9.62 million to 7.2 million in the same period. people.

  Compared with the declining population of Seoul, the population of Gyeonggi-do in South Korea is increasing rapidly.

As of the end of May, the registered population of Gyeonggi-do was 13.581496 million, 4.085 million more than that of Seoul.