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Put up to five countries side by side across every indicator. The leader in each row is marked — direction-aware, so “best” always means best.
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IndicatorKORKorea, Rep.East Asia & Pacific
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.91rank #20
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile65.1rank #40
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.75rank #15
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.71rank #18
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #10
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile80.2rank #20
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.91rank #20
Military spending% GDP2.6%rank #34
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.55rank #26
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile76.8rank #58
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile70.8rank #33
Rule of Law0-100 percentile76.2rank #30
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #27
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.82rank #18
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.74rank #21
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile71rank #50
Women in parliament% seats20.3%rank #111
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.88rank #29
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment5.1%rank #128
Agriculture value added% GDP1.5%rank #139
Annual working hours per workerhours1,910.2rank #73
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker396,881.1rank #33
Current account balance% GDP6.6%rank #10
Employment-to-population ratio%62%rank #56
FDI net inflows% GDP0.84%rank #72
GDPcurrent US$1.87Trank #13
GDP growth%1%rank #159
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$36,227rank #32
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $55,697.1rank #26
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $49,726.5rank #31
Government expenditure% GDP28.3%rank #40
Gross capital formation% GDP29.1%rank #28
Gross savings% GDP35.6%rank #7
High-technology exports% manuf. exports36.3%rank #12
Human capital indexindex3.8rank #5
Industry value added% GDP34.3%rank #30
Inflation%2.1%rank #59
Labour force participation rate%63.9%rank #74
Personal remittances received% GDP0.38%rank #73
R&D expenditure% GDP4.9%rank #3
Researchers in R&Dper million9,471.8rank #2
Tax revenue% GDP13.3%rank #67
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.61rank #68
Trade openness% GDP86.4%rank #63
Unemployment% labor force2.7%rank #28
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%3%rank #40
Vulnerable employment% employment17.7%rank #62
Youth unemployment% ages 15-246.7%rank #39
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-247.4%rank #44
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #1
Basic sanitation access% pop99.7%rank #15
Child mortalityper 1000.28rank #9
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,430.3rank #31
DTP3 immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Health spending% GDP8.7%rank #14
Infant mortalityper 1k births2.3rank #8
Life expectancyyears83.6rank #14
Maternal mortalityper 100k4rank #4
Measles immunization% children97%rank #3
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Physiciansper 1k2.6rank #59
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m321.9rank #128
Road traffic deathsper 100k8.6rank #35
Smoking prevalence% adults18.6%rank #62
Suicide mortality rateper 100k27.5rank #177
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k35rank #62
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births2.8rank #17
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Adult literacy%98%rank #3
Education spending% GDP5.4%rank #34
Expected years of schoolingyears16.6rank #34
Mean years of schoolingyears12.7rank #25
Primary completion rate% relevant age102.9%rank #16
Primary enrollment% gross100.9%rank #58
Secondary enrollment% gross96.3%rank #47
Tertiary enrollment% gross111.9%rank #4
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0004.7rank #198
Fertility ratebirths/woman0.75rank #198
Median age of populationyears44.5rank #16
Net migration rateper 1,0001.7rank #66
Populationpeople51.68Mrank #29
Population growth%-0.13%rank #182
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years87.3rank #6
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands45,143.1rank #47
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age41.5rank #196
Urban population%81.2%rank #43
Climate
CO₂ emissionst583.68Mrank #9
CO₂ per capitat11.3rank #21
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation31.1%rank #43
Electricity from hydro% generation0.61%rank #78
Electricity from solar% generation6.1%rank #45
Electricity from wind% generation0.58%rank #70
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita11,350.2rank #8
Forest area% land64.1%rank #21
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita12.4rank #169
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh417.1rank #52
Renewable electricity%10.4%rank #78
Renewable energy share%3.6%rank #150
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e642.7rank #177
Society
Asylum seekerspeople630rank #62
Extreme poverty% pop0.1%rank #2
Female labor participation%56.8%rank #65
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10047.8rank #6
Gender Development Indexratio0.96rank #57
Gender Inequality Index0-10.04rank #11
Gini indexindex32.9rank #26
Homicide rateper 100k0.48rank #5
Human Development Index0-10.94rank #14
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.86rank #14
Internet users% pop97.9%rank #11
Life satisfaction0-106rank #65
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.75rank #27
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #15
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #5
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #13
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #17
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people4,407rank #107
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people117rank #31
Youth NEET rate%11%rank #43
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-104.3rank #37
Human hazard & exposure0-102.1rank #21
INFORM risk score0-102rank #9
Lack of coping capacity0-101.3rank #5
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.5rank #2
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-102.1rank #7
Natural hazard & exposure0-106rank #47
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.4rank #5
Vulnerability0-101.5rank #7
Vulnerable groups0-102.5rank #20
marks the leader in each row across the selected set · ranks are world ranks in the comparison spine