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South Korea: Exports

Millions of local currency · 1876–2025 · 147 observations · forecasts to 2031 · exports

2025
1,230 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.6%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$864 billionUS dollars

Exports

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,698,000,000Forecast
20301,617,000,000Forecast
20291,540,000,000Forecast
20281,463,000,000Forecast
20271,387,000,000Forecast
20261,308,000,000Forecast
20251,229,000,000
20241,144,000,000
2023996,900,000
20221,053,000,000
2021874,100,000
2020712,500,000
2019755,900,000
2018791,800,000
2017751,400,000
2016698,600,000

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1876–1938
  • Asian Historical Statistics1877–2013
  • Cha et al.1877–2015
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1888–2014
  • Penn World Table1953–2019
  • Mitchell1957–2009
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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