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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.