Official data
South Korea: GDP per capita by year, 2000–2025
GDP per capita at current prices, US dollars
Latest year, 2025: $36,408
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare GDP per capita 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 NGDPDPC directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- NGDPDPC
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 36,408.31 |
| 2024 | 36,342.77 |
| 2023 | 35,657.63 |
| 2022 | 34,888.15 |
| 2021 | 37,548.98 |
| 2020 | 33,653.2 |
| 2019 | 33,826.94 |
| 2018 | 35,363.95 |
| 2017 | 33,296.98 |
| 2016 | 30,825.52 |
| 2015 | 30,171.79 |
| 2014 | 30,667.09 |
| 2013 | 28,449.36 |
| 2012 | 26,600.55 |
| 2011 | 26,177.94 |
| 2010 | 24,069.07 |
| 2009 | 19,933.01 |
| 2008 | 22,291.17 |
| 2007 | 25,075.29 |
| 2006 | 22,596.68 |
| 2005 | 20,162.88 |
| 2004 | 17,107.74 |
| 2003 | 15,211.15 |
| 2002 | 13,637.34 |
| 2001 | 11,983.38 |
| 2000 | 12,716.99 |