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South Korea: Exports

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

2025
1,220 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.5%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$857 billionUS dollars

Exports

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,967,086,976Forecast
20301,873,190,656Forecast
20291,784,444,544Forecast
20281,695,338,880Forecast
20271,606,909,952Forecast
20261,553,513,344Forecast
20251,218,515,328
20241,134,176,896
2023995,305,280
20221,052,553,600
2021874,074,176
2020712,542,272
2019755,863,104
2018791,798,592
2017751,428,416
2016698,621,312

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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