In 2023, the share of households with three or more persons in South Korea dropped to around ** percent. The share of three or more person households has declined over the past two decades, while the shares of one and two-person households have increased. Since 2000, the share of one-person households nearly doubled, while larger households, which used to make up the majority of households, now make up less than half of national households.
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