Unemployment
2.68% of labor force · 2025 observationSaved snapshot · 2026-09-27Modeled ILO estimate; may differ from national survey releases.
World Bank source ↗How economies
use people and time.
Compare employment pressure, price change, labor participation, and output per worker across countries.
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Connect employment, participation, productivity and consumer prices.
What the picture means
Jobs, participation rates and price inflation have different units. Distribution and unpaid care require measures beyond GDP.
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Jobs and consumer prices
South Korea in this diagram: explore the related annual observations and their history. Country comparisons remain in the diagram above.
World Bank annual observations · saved 2026-09-27. Each measure retains its own observation year.
Consumer-price inflation
2.12% · 2025 observationSaved snapshot · 2026-09-27Annual change in the consumer price index.
World Bank source ↗Unemployment · % of labor force.
Exact annual observations
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.68 |
| 2024 | 2.78 |
| 2023 | 2.67 |
| 2022 | 2.86 |
| 2021 | 3.64 |
| 2020 | 3.93 |
| 2019 | 3.75 |
| 2018 | 3.82 |
| 2017 | 3.65 |
| 2016 | 3.65 |
| 2015 | 3.55 |
| 2014 | 3.08 |
| 2013 | 3.07 |
| 2012 | 2.81 |
| 2011 | 2.99 |
| 2010 | 3.32 |
| 2009 | 3.36 |
| 2008 | 2.96 |
| 2007 | 3.01 |
| 2006 | 3.25 |
| 2005 | 3.48 |
| 2004 | 3.42 |
| 2003 | 3.35 |
| 2002 | 3.05 |
| 2001 | 3.70 |
| 2000 | 4.06 |
Source and definition for selected indicator ↗
Annual data, not live prices or forecasts. Money and credit are stocks relative to annual GDP; output, exports and imports are flows. These measures cannot be added. Missing years remain gaps. Refresh failures retain the dated snapshot. Bank of Korea ECOS provides national statistics with potentially different definitions and release dates.
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