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South Korea: Household consumption

Millions of local currency · 1911–2025 · 103 observations · forecasts to 2026 · hcons

2025
1,280 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.2%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.9%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$898 billionUS dollars

Household consumption

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100M10B1T100T10,000T192019401960198020002020South KoreaSouth Korea
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20261,338,000,000Forecast
20251,276,000,000
20241,237,000,000
20231,198,000,000
20221,139,000,000
20211,047,000,000
2020984,100,000
20191,022,000,000
2018991,700,000
2017946,900,000
2016902,800,000

Sources

  • Cha et al.1911–2015
  • Penn World Table1953–2019
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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