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South Korea: Manufacturing, value added
Value added by manufacturing (ISIC divisions 10-33) as a percentage of GDP. Part of industry.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- World Bank
- Period covered
- 1960 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- South Korea
- Sector
- Manufacturing (a national-accounts sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimate% of GDP · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 27.4
- +0.8 pp vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- +1.7 pp
- since 20202
- 10-year change
- −0.4 pp
- since 20152
- Record high
- 29
- 20113
- Record low
- 11.4
- 19603
- Where the latest ranks
- 84th pct.
- Higher than 84% of the other 65 observations since 19604
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
Value added by manufacturing (ISIC divisions 10-33) as a percentage of GDP. Part of industry. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series NV.IND.MANF.ZS. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.ZS?locations=KOR
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.4 | +0.81 pp |
| 2024 | 26.6 | +1.16 pp |
| 2023 | 25.5 | −1.04 pp |
| 2022 | 26.5 | +0.25 pp |
| 2021 | 26.2 | +0.55 pp |
| 2020 | 25.7 | −0.67 pp |
| 2019 | 26.4 | −1.4 pp |
| 2018 | 27.8 | −0.27 pp |
| 2017 | 28 | +0.52 pp |
| 2016 | 27.5 | −0.31 pp |
| 2015 | 27.8 | −0.45 pp |
| 2014 | 28.3 | −0.59 pp |
| 2013 | 28.9 | +0.12 pp |
| 2012 | 28.7 | −0.26 pp |
| 2011 | 29 | +0.9 pp |
| 2010 | 28.1 | +1.79 pp |
| 2009 | 26.3 | +0.22 pp |
| 2008 | 26.1 | +0.16 pp |
| 2007 | 25.9 | +0.2 pp |
| 2006 | 25.7 | −0.37 pp |
| 2005 | 26.1 | −0.32 pp |
| 2004 | 26.4 | +1.98 pp |
| 2003 | 24.4 | −0.35 pp |
| 2002 | 24.8 | −0.36 pp |