South Korea
49 figures for South Korea, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how South Korea compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $36,227 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $63,125 (2025)
- Economic growth +1.0% (2025)
- Unemployment 2.7% (2025)
- Inflation +2.3% (2024)
- Exports 44.4% (2024)
- Income per person $49,513 (2023)
People
- Population 51.7 million (2023)
- Population growth −0.13% (2025)
- Births per woman 0.75 (2024)
- Typical age 44.5 (2023)
- Living in cities 81.2% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.937 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.959 (2023)
Health
- Life expectancy 84.3 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 2.8 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 4 (2023)
- Health spending per person $3,044 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 97% (2024)
- Overweight adults 35.9% (2022)
Education
- Years of schooling 12.7 (2023)
- Expected years in school 16.6 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 96.3% (2023)
- Education spending 5.4% (2022)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 11.3 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 584 million (2024)
- Forest cover 64.1% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 21.0 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 3.6% (2021)
- Average temperature 13.3 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 5,337 (2023)
- Access to electricity 100.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 9.7% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 30.2% (2024)
- Coal electricity 30.5% (2024)
Technology
- Internet users 97.9% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 148.7 (2022)
- Home broadband 45.5 (2022)
- Satellites by owner 60 (2026)
Food and farming
- Hunger 2.5% (2023)
- Cereal yield 6,615 (2023)
- Farmland 16.1% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 5.1% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.82 (2025)
- Human rights 0.91 (2025)
- Control of corruption +0.92 (2025)
- Women in parliament 20.3% (2025)
- Military spending 2.6% (2024)
- Clean government 64.7 (2022)