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Society profile

Korea, Rep.

Korea, Rep.: 57 indicators from open sources, newest value for each.

Demography

Population, total 51.7 MWorld Bank2025 Population aged 0-14 10.2%World Bank2025 Population aged 15-64 69.5%World Bank2025 Population aged 65+ 20.3%World Bank2025 Female share of population 50.1%World Bank2025 Urban population 81.2%World Bank2025 Fertility rate 0.7World Bank2024 Adolescent fertility rate 0.5World Bank2024 Life expectancy at birth 83.6yearsWorld Bank2024 Infant mortality 2.3‰World Bank2024 Net migration 65 731World Bank2025

Education

Adult literacy rate 98.0%World Bank2008 Secondary school enrolment 96.3%World Bank2024 Tertiary enrolment 111.9%World Bank2024 Education spending 5.4%World Bank2022

Income

GDP per capita, PPP $63 125$World Bank2025 GNI per capita, PPP $64 210$World Bank2025 Gini index 32.9World Bank2021 Poverty headcount at $2.15/day 0.1%World Bank2021 Income share held by richest 10% 25.0%World Bank2021

Health

Suicide rate 27.5per 100kWorld Bank2021 Health spending 8.7%World Bank2024

Connectivity

Individuals using the internet 97.9%World Bank2024 Mobile subscriptions 172.5per 100World Bank2024 Access to electricity 100.0%World Bank2024

Environment

CO2 emissions per capita 11.4tWorld Bank2024

Religiosity

Religion is very important in life survey10.3%World Values Survey2018

Religious Practice

Attends religious services monthly or more survey22.8%World Values Survey2018 Believes in God survey40.6%World Values Survey2018

Trust People

Most people can be trusted survey32.9%World Values Survey2018 Trusts people met for the first time survey17.5%World Values Survey2018

Trust Institutions

Confidence in the government survey51.3%World Values Survey2018 Confidence in parliament survey20.7%World Values Survey2018 Confidence in the police survey56.5%World Values Survey2018 Confidence in the courts survey61.5%World Values Survey2018 Confidence in the press survey49.6%World Values Survey2018

Family Structure

Family is very important in life survey88.9%World Values Survey2018

Gender Roles

Women in national parliament 20.3%World Bank2025 When jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job survey52.9%World Values Survey2018 Men make better political leaders than women survey52.0%World Values Survey2018

Democracy

It is important to live in a democracy survey65.3%World Values Survey2018 Satisfied with how democracy works survey90.2%World Values Survey2018 A strong leader without elections is good survey66.8%World Values Survey2018

Participation

Has signed a petition or joined a demonstration survey17.5%World Values Survey2018

Immigration Attitudes

Would not want immigrants as neighbours survey22.0%World Values Survey2018

Employment

Unemployment rate 2.7%World Bank2025 Youth unemployment rate 6.7%World Bank2025 Female labour force participation 56.8%World Bank2025 Male labour force participation 72.0%World Bank2025 Self-employed share 22.7%World Bank2025

Redistribution

Incomes should be made more equal survey12.4%World Values Survey2018 Work is very important in life survey42.6%World Values Survey2018

Happiness

Very happy or rather happy survey89.1%World Values Survey2018

Safety

Intentional homicides 0.5per 100kWorld Bank2023 Feels safe walking alone at night survey54.0%UN SDG2022

Tolerance

Homosexuality is justifiable survey13.8%World Values Survey2018 Would not want people of another race as neighbours survey15.2%World Values Survey2018

Socially closest countries

  1. Kazakhstan75%
  2. Russian Federation75%
  3. Mongolia74%
  4. Hong Kong SAR, China72%
  5. Thailand72%
  6. Singapore70%

Distance is computed on 23 value questions the two societies were both asked, standardised within each survey so that a different questionnaire does not pass for a different society. Similarity is relative to the widest distance in the world.

Every number carries its source and year. Where a country is missing, it is missing — we do not interpolate.