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South Korea: Imports

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

2025
1,080 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.1%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$761 billionUS dollars

Imports

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,639,999,360Forecast
20301,556,103,424Forecast
20291,476,946,304Forecast
20281,401,809,280Forecast
20271,335,054,592Forecast
20261,267,300,096Forecast
20251,081,250,432
20241,030,011,072
2023986,033,024
20221,052,447,232
2021799,166,208
2020636,678,720
2019702,081,408
2018707,562,176
2017664,278,784
2016582,659,392

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1876–1938
  • Asian Historical Statistics1877–1944
  • 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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