The number of babies born in September jumped by more than ten percent year-on-year, continuing a three-month streak of increase.

According to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, 20-thousand-590 babies were born in September, up ten-point-one percent from a year earlier.

The on-year rise is the biggest for the month of September since 2010.

The total number of births for the first nine months of the year reached 178-thousand-600, as compared with 177-thousand-315 during the same period last year.

The total fertility rate, indicating the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime, increased zero-point-05 on-year to zero-point-76 in the third quarter.

The number of marriages, a leading indicator of births, stood at 15-thousand-368 in September, rising a record 18-point-eight percent on-year.

The number of deaths increased three-point-eight percent on-year to 29-thousand-362 in September, resulting in a population decline of eight-thousand-772.