South Korea has been ranked near the bottom of the world in terms of fertility rate.

According to the U.N. Population Fund’s State of World Population report for 2010, South Korea’s average fertility rate stood at 1.24, 184th in the world and ahead of only Hong Kong and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Fertility rate refers to the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.

Meanwhile, the report estimated that the world population has risen by around 79 million from last year to stand at around six-point-nine billion.

China was found to have the largest population, with one-point-three billion people, followed by India and then the United States.

South Korea’s population came in at 48-point-five million, or 26th place overall. North Korea had a population of 24 million, or the 49th largest in the world.

The average life expectancy for South Korean men was 76-point-four years and Korean women 82-point-nine years. The average for North Korean men was 65-point-five and women 69-point-seven years.