Official data
South Korea: GDP growth by year, 2000–2025
Real GDP, annual change (%)
Latest year, 2025: 1.1%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare real GDP growth since 2000 across South Korea, Japan, China, and United States.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series NGDP_RPCH directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws each year as a bar around zero.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- NGDP_RPCH
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 2.2 |
| 2023 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 4.7 |
| 2020 | -0.7 |
| 2019 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 3.2 |
| 2017 | 3.4 |
| 2016 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 3.3 |
| 2012 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2009 | 0.8 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2007 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 5.2 |
| 2005 | 4.4 |
| 2004 | 5.2 |
| 2003 | 3.1 |
| 2002 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 4.7 |
| 2000 | 9.2 |