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Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) — Korea, Rep.: 2.683 (2025)
The World Bank indicator SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS reports unemployment of 2.683% for Korea, Rep. for 2025. The dataset was updated 2026-07-13.
Categories: economy-and-trade, positive-progress
Generated scores
Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.
- Confidence
- 6/10
- Geographic reach
- 4/10
- Global importance
- 2/10
- Impact magnitude
- 3/10
- Positivity
- 7/10
- Urgency
- 1/10
Why it matters
This provides a national unemployment statistic for South Korea for 2025 that may inform economic assessment and policy analysis.

