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Key facts
- Currency: Korean won
- Capital city: Seoul
- Region: Eastern Asia
- Continent: Asia
- Land area: 97,600 km²
- Population: 51,628,117
- Political Leader: Yoon Suk-yeol (President)
Latest news (see all)
South Korean government offers compromise on medical school quotas in bid to end walkout, following crushing election defeat
Read: SCMP
2024-04-19
Elderly South Korean woman dies after 5-hour wait for hospital that can perform heart surgery amid doctors' strike
Read: SCMP
2024-04-18
Japan, Korea, U.S. Note 'Serious Concerns' Over Recent Currency Moves
Read: The Wall Street Journal
2024-04-18
South Korean singer Park Bo-ram passes away at 30, investigation into death underway
Read: Independent
2024-04-12
South Korean voters--and spring onions--deliver a rebuke to the president
Read: The Economist
2024-04-11
Metrics
General information
Business
| Central government debt | 48.96 % of GDP |
| Expense | 30.49 % of GDP |
| GDP | 1,673,920,000,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 5.09 annual % |
| Self-employed | 23.45 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 16.73 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 2.66 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 18.59 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 16,030.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 15.96 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 569,682.00 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 43.08 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 22.37 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 0.39 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 30.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 2.28 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 1.50 % of total |
| Net energy imports | 81.45 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 0.81 births per woman |
| Forest area | 62,770 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 81.03 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 56,606.20 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 39.90 years |
| Methane emissions | 21,990.10 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 10,096.80 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 25,854,364 |
| Male Population | 25,773,753 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 3.63 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 86,793.40 km² |
| Rural population | 9,588,890 |
| Urban land area | 12,473.40 km² |
| Urban population | 42,039,227 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 1.57 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 5.10 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 6.20 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 3,031.18 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 8.36 % of GDP |
| Hospital beds | 12.43 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 84 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 28.60 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 100.00 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 97.17 % of population |
| Net migration | 29,998 |
| Press freedom | 3.14 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 569,000 |
| Democracy score | 8.00 |
| Democracy type | Flawed democracy |
| Military expenditure | 2.72 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 18.64 % |
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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
