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South Korea: Current account

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

2025
176 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+49.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.0%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$123 billionUS dollars

Current account

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031185,400,000Forecast
2030179,000,000Forecast
2029171,000,000Forecast
2028160,900,000Forecast
2027157,700,000Forecast
2026118,400,000Forecast
2025175,500,000
2024117,300,000
202346,698,031
202231,142,946
202197,173,797
202088,131,309
201969,652,185
201885,338,551
201785,140,528
2016114,000,000

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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