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South Korea: Gross capital formation

Millions of local currency · 1911–2025 · 103 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv

2025
776 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.3%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$546 billionUS dollars

Gross capital formation

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,007,068,032Forecast
2030971,955,584Forecast
2029938,194,112Forecast
2028901,831,168Forecast
2027857,873,280Forecast
2026819,191,040Forecast
2025776,019,072
2024765,909,632
2023768,159,616
2022774,411,392
2021721,964,608
2020648,928,896
2019636,575,488
2018627,152,512
2017618,283,520
2016549,585,216

Sources

  • Cha et al.1911–2015
  • Mitchell1953–2010
  • Penn World Table1953–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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