Born As · country file
If you were born in South Korea today
About 1 in 554 babies born in the world right now is born in South Korea (0.18%). This is what that life starts with — and you can live one, to the very end.
Life expectancy at birth83.0years · world 69.3
Children who die before five3per 1,000 births · world 48
Income per person$44,923a year, at local prices · world $13,616
Expected years of school16.5years · world 12.0
Life satisfaction5.9out of 10 · world 4.8
Live in cities82%world 52%
Mothers who die giving birth12per 100,000 births · world 239
Girls married before 180%world 22%
- Out of every 1,000 babies born here, about 3 will not live to see their fifth birthday — a fraction of the world average of 48.
- A life here lasts 83.0 years on average — 13.7 years longer than the world's 69.3.
- Income per person is about $44,923 a year at local prices, 3.3 times the world's.
Be born — maybe hereWhere you are born is drawn by real birth odds: today, 0.18% of the time it is South Korea.
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Sources: UN World Population Prospects, UN IGME, World Bank, UNDP, World Happiness Report, WHO, UNICEF. Some small territories use regional estimates.