South Korea (KR) is covered on EconEarth’s interactive globe with economy, market, and country data drawn from the same dataset used in the live app.
A technology heavyweight that punches far above its population, with semiconductors, batteries, shipbuilding and consumer electronics at the core. Households are productive and the export sector can swing the whole cycle when chips recover. The birth rate is extremely low, and the economy remains exposed to China, the United States and the politics of the peninsula.
Region: Asia. Population: 52M (rank #28). GDP: $1.70 trillion. GDP per capita: $37,412 (2026, IMF). GDP growth: +1.4%. Inflation: +3.4%. Policy rate: 3.5%. Currency: KRW. Equity market cap: $1.70 trillion.