South Korea Government Debt (% of GDP)
Latest
50.7%
+0.9pp vs prior
2023 · updated 2026-09-09
Government Debt (% of GDP)
1990 to 2023
Source: FRED (IMF World Economic Outlook), annual. The IMF publishes this as an outturn only up to the year shown; its figures for later years are projections, held in a separate series that this site does not publish. So the year under the figure is the most recent actual available, not a sign the feed has broken.
Everything national and local government owes combined, compared with the size of the economy.