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Korea

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Korea is a country. The capital city is Seoul, located in the Eastern Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 97,600 km², a population of 51,712,619 people and uses the currency Korean won. The President is Yoon Suk-yeol.

Key facts

currency: Korean won
capital city: Seoul
region: Eastern Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 97,600 km²
population: 51,712,619 people
political leader: Yoon Suk-yeol (President)

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central government debt: 51.18 % of GDP
expense: 33.64 % of GDP
GDP: 1,712,792,854,202.37 current US$
inflation: 3.60 annual %
self-employed workers: 23.18 % of total employment
tax revenue: 18.44 % of GDP
unemployment: 2.67 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 18.19 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 569,000 people
democracy score: 8.00
democracy type: Flawed democracy
individuals using the Internet: 97.40 % of population
military expenditure: 2.81 % of GDP
net migration: 87,800 people
press freedom: 3.14
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 19.06 %
birth rate: 4.90 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.30 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 3,123.95 current US$
health expenditure: 9.72 % of GDP
hospital beds: 12.75 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 83
suicide mortality rate: 28.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 16,030.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 15.96 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 573.54 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
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: 0.78 births per woman
forest area: 62,670 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 81.03 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 653.85 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 40.50
methane emissions: 45.90 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 14.33 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 25,898,790 people
male population: 25,813,829 people
renewable energy consumption: 3.60 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 86,793.37 km²
rural population: 9,589,588 people
urban land area: 12,473.41 km²
urban population: 42,123,031 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.57 % of total population

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Korea is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Eastern Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of athletes from Korea by birth date

Distribution of competitions in Korea by start date

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Correlation of access to electricity and renewable energy consumption by countries yearly in Korea

Correlation of access to electricity and self-employed workers in Korea

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Correlation of birth rate and vulnerable employment of countries yearly in Korea

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