Countries / Korea (Republic of)
Korea (Republic of)
Very HighRanked #20 of 195 in 2023 · Not part of UNDP’s regional groupings (used for high-income/OECD countries)
Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 composite indices. All figures below come directly from that dataset — nothing here is estimated or AI-generated.
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0.937 in 2023, compared against the world average.
Components
84.3 yrs
Life expectancy
16.6 yrs
Expected schooling
12.7 yrs
Mean schooling
49,726
GNI per capita
Related indices
Inequality-adjusted HDI
0.857
HDI adjusted downward for inequality in the distribution of health, education, and income within the country — lower than HDI whenever inequality exists.
Gender Development Index
0.959
Ratio of female to male HDI — 1.0 means parity; below 1.0 means women's human development lags men's.
Gender Inequality Index
0.038
Reflects gender-based disadvantage in reproductive health, empowerment, and labour markets — 0 is parity, 1 is total inequality.
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI
0.745
HDI adjusted downward for a country's carbon emissions and material footprint — the gap from HDI shows the cost to planetary pressure.