South KoreaandSouth Africa

918 · 31 May 1910

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

South Korea

918 — Wang Kŏn founds Goryeo, which gives Korea its name

Dossier →Chronicle →

South Africa

31 May 1910 — Four colonies join to create the Union of South Africa

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
43
Domains
9
Crossed events
0
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

KORZAF
  • GDP
    $1.87 T2025$427 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $36,2272025$6,5982025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    1.0%20251.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    2.1%20253.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    86.4%202560.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

KORZAF
  • Population
    52 m202565 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    83.6 yrs202466.3 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    81.2%202563.8%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    0.720242.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

KORZAF

Health

KORZAF
  • Health spending
    8.7%20248.9%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    2.6120220.792022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    2.8202435.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    97.0%202476.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    99.3%202468.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

KORZAF

Technology

KORZAF
  • R&D spending
    4.9%20230.6%2022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    9,47220234442022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    97.9%202478.4%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    17320241792024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    36.3%20245.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

KORZAF
  • Land area
    97,600 km²20231,213,090 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    64.1%202314.0%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    16.1%202379.4%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    11.420246.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    3.6%20219.7%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

KORZAF
  • Resource rents
    0.0%20217.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20213.8%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.0%20210.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%202490.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Iron ore
    —66 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Gold (mined)
    —90 t2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Phosphate rock
    —2.2 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

KORZAF
  • Military burden
    2.6%20240.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $48 B2024$2.8 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    569,000202089,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

Neither nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — across both archives, no recorded event crosses between them. That is a fact about the two records as they stand, not a gap filled here: this page reports what the archives hold, and holds nothing they do not.