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South Korea: Gross capital formation

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

2025
803 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.2%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.6%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$565 billionUS dollars

Gross capital formation

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,034,000,000Forecast
2030998,200,000Forecast
2029963,600,000Forecast
2028926,200,000Forecast
2027881,100,000Forecast
2026838,300,000Forecast
2025803,200,000
2024793,400,000
2023774,100,000
2022774,400,000
2021722,000,000
2020648,900,000
2019636,600,000
2018627,200,000
2017618,300,000
2016549,600,000

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

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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