South Korea Inflation
South Korea inflation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 2.12%.
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South Korea · inflation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
South Korea recorded 2.12% for Inflation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.20 percentage points, from 2.32% to 2.12%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (2.09%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.38% in 2019 and the high was 5.09% in 2022.