South Korea Analytics

South Korea is a mid-size country with 0.7% of the world's population. South Korea is a democratic republic country. It has 16 world heritage sites. It produces 1.1% of Onions, of the World.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Korean : 51,661,000
2. Standard Chinese : 52,000

Mother Tongue : Korean

Literacy Rate (%) : 98

Details

Country Capital	:	Seoul
GDP Per capita	:	65,582
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	26^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	84
Unemployment Rate	:	2
Number of Internet Users	:	50,403,243
Internet Users Rank	:	22^nd/195
Area	:	98,943
Area Rank	:	105^th/195
Total Population	:	51,667
Total Population Rank	:	29^th/195

Continent: Asia

Cities with > 100K popln: 73

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South Korea Highlights

South Korea is the 29^th ranked country in population and 105^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than World Average-

1. South Korea is the 2^nd highest ranked in Total Military Force out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that the country is facing higher threats compared to other countries or may imply that the size or population of the country is higher.
2. The average Military Budget (in Billion $) of 195 countries in the world is 15. South Korea is the 11^th highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that threats to the country is higher compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Korea is the 12^th highest ranked in Total Nursing . This implies better healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or higher level of health awareness among the people in the country

Worse than World Average-

1. South Korea is the 110^th worst ranked in Wheat prod. out of 195 countries in the world. This is indicative of less focus on the production of wheat, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.
2. The average Barley prod. of the countries in the world is 1,576,534. South Korea is the 130^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This is indicative of less focus on the production of barley, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, South Korea is the 130^th worst ranked in Potatoes prod. . This is indicative of less focus on the production of potatoes, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.

South Korea Metrics

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Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Korean	# People	407,376	1	1126
2	Korean as a % of total Korean speakers	% People	0	1	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	21	1234
2	Mandarin Chinese as a % of total Mandarin Chinese speakers	% People	0	12	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	1	1130
2	1M+ Cities per 100000 ( 1M+ Cities/ Tot Pop.)* 100000		0	7	1126
3	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	9	1126
4	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	9	1126
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	10	1128
6	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	10	1128
7	# Cities>5M	# Cities	0	11	1127
8	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	11	1129
9	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	12	1130
10	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	13	1128
11	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	16	1129
12	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	16	1129
13	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	23	1126
14	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	45	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	149	1235
2	1M+ Cities Ratio ( 1M+ Cities/ # Cities> 100000)		0	52	1233
3	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	55	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	2	1126
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	2	1127
3	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	2	1125
4	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	11	1125
5	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	11	1125
6	Police Officers	# People	138,224	14	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Judges Per 100K	People Per 100K	11	71	1234
2	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	20	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	4	1128
2	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	12	1128
3	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	12	1128
4	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	15	1127
5	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	18	1130
6	#Dentists	# People	13,328	24	1126
7	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	34	1128
8	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	39	1126
9	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	72	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	84	1231
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	79	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	6	1127
2	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	9	1130
3	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	9	1130
4	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	11	1128
5	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	11	1128
6	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	12	1130
7	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	12	1127
8	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	22	1130
9	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	22	1127
10	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	26	1128
11	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	68	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	82	1234
2	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	60	1234
3	No. of Companies Listed in NYSE	Count	65	15	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Population	# People	1,911,974	7	1126
2	Gold Medal	Count	3	8	1128
3	Silver Medal	Count	3	9	1128
4	Bronze Medal	Count	4	10	1128
5	Total Medals	Count	12	10	1128
6	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	16	1128
7	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	21	1128
8	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	36	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	122	1233
2	Jewish Population	# People	78,295	77	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	0	7	1128
2	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	10	1125
3	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	36	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	164	1234
2	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	107	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	11	1129
2	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	16	1129
3	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	17	1126
4	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	19	1130
5	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	19	1125
6	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	21	1126
7	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	23	1128
8	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	42	1128
9	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	44	1125
10	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	45	1126
11	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	58	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	132	1231
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	132	1230
3	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	122	1231
4	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	118	1230
5	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	59	1234
6	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	34	1233
7	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	31	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	14	1127
2	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	14	1127
3	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	14	1130
4	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	22	1125
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	35	1126
6	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	15	37	1127
7	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	58	1130
Below than World Average-
1	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	154	1231
2	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	144	1232
3	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	130	1231
4	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	126	1235
5	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	45	1231
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	45	1232
7	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	42	1230
8	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	42	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	15	1127
2	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	15	1128
3	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	21	1128
4	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	21	1129
5	Tree density.	Density	22,685	45	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Tree density .	Density	828	133	1232
2	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	86	1232
3	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	66	1232
4	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	66	1230
5	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	67	1235
6	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	66	1231
7	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	66	1234
8	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	66	1232
9	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	62	1232
10	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	38	1233
11	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	1	33	1231
12	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	26	1233
13	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	26	1232
14	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	16	1233
15	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	16	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	15	1130
2	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	29	1126
3	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	29	1125
4	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	30	1125
5	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	121	1125
6	Total Deaths	# People (In Thousands)	319	31	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	160	1232
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	121	1235
3	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	81	1232
4	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	74	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	23	1125
2	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	53	1125

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	26	1130
2	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	65	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	177	1231
2	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	170	1230
3	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	168	1230
4	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	169	1233
5	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	129	1231
6	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	121	1234
7	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	72	1234
8	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	53	1234
9	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	51	1232
10	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	40	1234
11	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	36	1231
12	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	30	1233
13	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	22	1235
14	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	15	1233
15	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	11	1232
16	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	9	1235

South Korea Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Korean	99.99 %
2	Standard Chinese	0.1 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Andong	159,087
2	Ansan	715,293
3	Anseong	202,602
4	Anyang	594,431
5	Asan	339,832
6	Bucheon	846,435
7	Busan	3,381,948
8	Changwon	1,068,099
9	Cheonan	665,092
10	Cheongju	831,564
11	Chuncheon	284,041
12	Chungju	217,971
13	Daegu	2,444,891
14	Daejeon	1,530,390
15	Dangjin	168,668
16	Gangneung	216,075
17	Geoje	246,515
18	Gimcheon	138,827
19	Gimhae	549,719
20	Gimpo	426,960
21	Gongju	108,087
22	Goyang	988,156
23	Gumi	426,960
24	Gunpo	275,059
25	Gunsan	268,472
26	Guri	191,623
27	Gwangju	1,514,122
28	Gwangju	286,137
29	Gwangyang	143,618
30	Gwangmyeong	297,515
31	Gyeongju	261,286
32	Gyeongsan	283,143
33	Hanam	279,251
34	Hwaseong	639,642
35	Iksan	284,740
36	Incheon	2,908,779
37	Icheon	225,756
38	Jecheon	134,535
39	Jeju	592,335
40	Jeongeup	106,491
41	Jeonju	651,119
42	Jinju	351,708
43	Miryang	102,997
44	Mokpo	224,059
45	Naju	113,078
46	Namyangju	711,900
47	Nonsan	119,465
48	Osan	240,128
49	Paju	426,860
50	Pocheon	157,590
51	Pohang	515,486
52	Pyeongtaek	499,817
53	Sacheon	110,882
54	Sejong	226,854
55	Seogwipo	178,249
56	Seoul	9,815,394
57	Seongnam	992,248
58	Seosan	176,054
59	Siheung	510,795
60	Suncheon	271,865
61	Suwon	1,207,824
62	Tongyeong	122,759
63	Uijeongbu	435,643
64	Uiwang	159,886
65	Ulsan	1,144,549
66	Wonju	332,147
67	Yangju	232,842
68	Yangsan	350,511
69	Yeoju	113,177
70	Yeongcheon	100,103
71	Yeongju	103,596
72	Yeosu	270,967
73	Yongin	969,393