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Facts

Population: 49,044,790 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 18.3% (male 4,714,103/female 4,262,873) 15-64 years: 72.1% (male 18,004,719/female 17,346,594) 65 years and over: 9.6% (male 1,921,803/female 2,794,698) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: 0.394% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 9.93 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 5.99 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.08 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.106 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.038 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.688 male(s)/female total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 6.05 deaths/1,000 live births male: 6.43 deaths/1,000 live births female: 5.64 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.23 years male: 73.81 years female: 80.93 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.28 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 8,300 (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 200 (2003 est.).

Nationality: noun: Korean(s) adjective: Korean.

Ethnic groups: homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese).

Religions: Christian 26.3% (Protestant 19.7%, Roman Catholic 6.6%), Buddhist 23.2%, other or unknown 1.3%, none 49.3% (1995 census).

Languages: Korean, English widely taught in junior high and high school.

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.9% male: 99.2% female: 96.6% (2002).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.196 trillion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 4.8% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $24,500 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3% industry: 45% services: 52% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 23.77 million (31 December 2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 6.4% industry: 26.4% services: 67.2% (2006 est.).

Population below poverty line: 15% (2003 est.).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.9% highest 10%: 25% (2005 est.).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.2% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 3.3% (December 2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $200 billion expenditures: $201 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: rice, root crops, barley, vegetables, fruit; cattle, pigs, chickens, milk, eggs; fish.

Industries: electronics, telecommunications, automobile production, chemicals, shipbuilding, steel.

Industrial production growth rate: 8% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 345.2 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - consumption: 321 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).

Exports: $326 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: semiconductors, wireless telecommunications equipment, motor vehicles, computers, steel, ships, petrochemicals.

Exports - partners: China 21.8%, US 14.6%, Japan 8.5%, Hong Kong 5.5% (2005).

Imports: $309.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel, transport equipment, organic chemicals, plastics.

Imports - partners: Japan 18.5%, China 14.8%, US 11.8%, Saudi Arabia 6.2% (2005).

Debt - external: $249.4 billion (30 September 2006 est.).

Economic aid - donor: ODA, $744 million (2005).

Currency (code): South Korean won (KRW).

Exchange rates: South Korean won per US dollar - 955.3 (2006), 1,024.1 (2005), 1,145.3 (2004), 1,191.6 (2003), 1,251.1 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.