Country

domain

Returns ordinal version of a number with "th", "nd" or "st".

ordinal

Given a date, returns you the date in words
Year --> 2023= 2023
Quarter --> 20231 = 2023-Q1
Month --> 202301 == Jan 2023

time

Converts a country code to small flag icon.

flag

link

Abbreviates a number into a smaller more human-readible number.

abbreviate

incompleteYearName

Change month id to name (202405 --> May 2025)

longMonth

initMonthQuarterIncomplete

prevMonthQuarterIncomplete

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monthName

increaseOrDecreasePresent

Rounds to nearest whole number and adds commas.

commas

increaseOrDecreasePast

Return period in month when you have data in quarters

incompleteYearQuarter

timeFull

Return boolean (or boolean[]) if input country/ies are in subnational countries list.

hasSubnat

Return boolean (or boolean[]) if input country/ies are in subnational complexity countries list.

hasComplexitySubnat

hasCountryLatestTrends

apostrophe

Returns boolean if the subnational cube has HS classification

hasSubnatHS

Checks if the cube should have complexity values at subnational profile

subnationalComplexityAvailability

lowerCaseFirst

ordinalSuperscript

If n < 20 returns the number name, else returns the number

numbersWord

countryPotentialExportsAvailability

Adds abbreviate with subnational data currency support

abbreviateSubnat

symmetricRange

hasSubnatMap

Receives a cube and returns its data source link

dataSource_

Add link to the source data page and add a description

dataSource

dollar

toUpperCase

Joins an array of strings together, adding commas and 'and' when necessary.

list

Calculates the growth percentage between two numbers provided the following object format: {curr, prev}. Also supports calculating the growth between two margin of errors using this format: {curr, currMoe, prev, prevMoe}.

growth

growthPct

shortMonthName

South Korea

In 2023, South Korea was the number 14 (out of 195) economy in the world in terms of GDP ($1.71T current US$), the number 6 (out of 226) in total exports, the number 41 (out of 196) economy in terms of GDP per capita (current US$).

In 2023, South Korea was the number 4 (out of 132) most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (Trade, 2023), the number 32 (out of 96) most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (Technology, 2021), the number 63 (out of 137) most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (Research, 2023).

Product Space of South Korea

Relatedness Space for South Korea

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tabler

transparent

Digital Trade

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Bill of Lading

Importing Companies

The first treemap shows a breakdown of the shipments by imported product. The second treemap is broken down by importer company, and the map presents shipments by destination state.

This section presents company level data for import shipments to the <a href="/en/profile/country/usa">United States</a> from South Korea, during the chosen time period.

Click on any product in the first chart, any company on the second chart, or any state in the map to explore.

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Latest Trends

Share of a Product Total Trade

Keep exploring data about South Korea: <a href="https://pantheon.world/profile/countries/south-korea">Human collective memory</a> & <a href="http://rankless.org/countries/south-korea">Academic impact</a>

Partner

Trade Flow

Time

Product

Trade Value

Weight

trade_n_kor_m_hs

Latest Trade

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Historical Data

Yearly Trade

Trade Balance

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Economic Complexity

Overview

Product Space

Economic Complexity Ranking

During the last 20 years, South Korea's economy has become relatively more complex, moving from the 23 to the 4 position in the ECI rank.