South Korea's life expectancy rose from 73.7 yrs in 1995 to 83.6 yrs in 2024.
South Korea · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 22 with data
South Korea's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 66.6 yrs in 2000 to 72.5 yrs in 2021.
South Korea's infant mortality fell from 8.1 ‰ in 1995 to 2.3 ‰ in 2024.
South Korea's under-5 mortality rate fell from 10.5 ‰ in 1995 to 2.8 ‰ in 2024.
South Korea's maternal mortality ratio fell from 23.0 /100k in 1994 to 4.0 /100k in 2023.
South Korea's ncd mortality fell from 16.9 % in 2000 to 6.9 % in 2021.
South Korea's suicide mortality rate rose from 15.1 /100k in 2000 to 27.5 /100k in 2021.
South Korea's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 25.6 /100k in 2000 to 8.6 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.1 pts14th of 22
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +3.1 %15th of 22
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +2.0 pts21st of 22
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- Physiciansup +3.7 %60th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesup +2.0 %18th of 129
- Hospital bedsup +0.5 %1st of 113*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts31st of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts29th of 192
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- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −7.9 %95th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.0 pts28th of 148
- Safe sanitationdown −0.0 pts8th of 141
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