Official data
South Korea: public debt by year, 2012–2025
General government gross debt, % of GDP
Latest year, 2025: 52.4%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare public debt as a share of GDP since 2012 across South Korea, Japan, China, and United States.
Method
Official annual series (2012–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series GGXWDG_NGDP directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2012 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
- GGXWDG_NGDP
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.4 |
| 2024 | 49.6 |
| 2023 | 50.6 |
| 2022 | 49.7 |
| 2021 | 47.9 |
| 2020 | 45.9 |
| 2019 | 39.7 |
| 2018 | 37.9 |
| 2017 | 38 |
| 2016 | 39.1 |
| 2015 | 38.8 |
| 2014 | 37.9 |
| 2013 | 36 |
| 2012 | 33.5 |