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South Korea: Current account

Millions of local currency · 1975–2025 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA

2025
175 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+28.2%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.9%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$123 billionUS dollars

Current account

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031194,714,496Forecast
2030188,044,804Forecast
2029179,591,205Forecast
2028169,021,691Forecast
2027299,855,303Forecast
2026361,563,452Forecast
2025175,016,258
2024136,473,263
202343,097,264
202227,407,181
202195,545,361
202088,832,659
201969,586,501
201885,287,562
201785,119,625
2016114,043,048

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

South Korea documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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