South Korea Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
2.9%
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Explore the full South Korea economy17 live indicators on one dashboard, from growth and prices to jobs, trade and public finances. Updated automatically from official sources.Inflation Rate
Jan 2015 to Sep 2026
Source: OECD live prices system · CPI, all items, year on year.
South Korea Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In South Korea, the inflation rate rose by 0.8pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 2.1% in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.3% in Oct 2024 to 6.3% in Jul 2022.
Its average since Jan 2015 is 2.0%, and the latest reading is above that.
South Korea is 45th of 62 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- live
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The Bank of Korea targets 2% inflation.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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