Roughly 35-hundred people who applied to take part in inter-Korean family reunions were estimated to have died last year alone.
 
According to the Unification Ministry’s database on separated families, around 129-thousand-600 people have applied to participate in family reunions as of the end of last year. Out of that group, roughly 68-thousand-200 were estimated to be alive and some 61-thousand-300 were estimated to be deceased.
 
Compared to the end of 2013, the number of applicants who died jumped by around 35-hundred.
 
Between 2004 and 2011, the number of family reunion applicants who died stood at roughly 41-thousand-900, due to the aging of separated family  members. That’s around 38-hundred per year on average.