International rankings of South Korea
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The following are international rankings of the   South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

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Demographics

Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 - Population
2009 25 223 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
CIA World Factbook - Infant mortality rate 2007 10(low) 195 http://www.prb.org/Datafinder/Topic/Bar.aspx?sort=v&order=d&variable=28
CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook
The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office...

 – Life expectancy
Life expectancy
Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by ex, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x, according to a particular mortality experience...

2009 40 223 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
CIA World Factbook - Death rate 2009 146(Low) 192 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/tw.html
CIA World Factbook - Number of Christian population 2007 32 192 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/tw.html

Economy

Economic Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....

 – Patents
2005 &4 20 http://www.cetraonline.it/file_doc/285/wipo_pub_931.pdf
The World Factbook
The World Factbook
The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office...

 – Exports
2009 &8 194 http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres10_e/pr598_e.htm
IMF
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

 - GDP (Nominal)
2009 &15 179 http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do?Step=12&id=4&CNO=2
IMF
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

 - GDP (PPP)
2009 &12 180 http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do?Step=12&id=4&CNO=2
IMF
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

 – GDP per capita (Nominal)
2009 &37 180 http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do?Step=12&id=4&CNO=2
IMF
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

 – GDP per capital (PPP)
2009 &30 181 http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do?Step=12&id=4&CNO=2
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 – Global Competitiveness Report 2009–2010
2009 &19 133 http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullreport.pdf
International Telecommunication Union
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...

 - number of broadband Internet users
2006 &1 181 http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3343,en_2649_34225_39574076_1_1_1_1,00.html
The Economist Intelligence Unit – e-readiness
E-readiness
E-Readiness is the ability to use information and communication technologies to develop one's economy and to foster one's welfare.There are several benchmarking indices at the macro level, e.g., those calculated by the UNPAN, World Bank, Economist Intelligence Unit etc.Because what appear on the...

2008 &15 &70 http://a330.g.akamai.net/7/330/25828/20080331202303/graphics.eiu.com/upload/ibm_ereadiness_2008.pdf
World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

 – Ease of Doing Business Index
Ease of Doing Business Index
The Ease of Doing Business Index is an index created by the World Bank. Higher rankings indicate better, usually simpler, regulations for businesses and stronger protections of property rights...

2009 &19 &183 http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/
Legatum InstituteProsperity
Prosperity
Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune and/or successful social status. Prosperity often encompasses wealth but also includes others factors which are independent of wealth to varying degrees, such as happiness and health....

2009 &26 &104 http://www.prosperity.com
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 – Enabling Trade Index ranking
2008 &27 &125 http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/GlobalEnablingTradeReport/index.htm
The Economist Intelligence Unit – Quality-of-life index
Quality-of-life index
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s quality-of-life index is based on a unique methodology that links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys to the objective determinants of quality of life across countries...

2005 &30 &111 http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/QUALITY_OF_LIFE.pdf
Wall Street Journal / The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is a conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C. Heritage's stated mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong...

 – Index of Economic Freedom
Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom is a series of 10 economic measurements created by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. Its stated objective is to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations....

2007 &31 &179 http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking.aspx
The World Factbook
The World Factbook
The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office...

 – Unemployment rate
2009 &36 &200 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2129rank.html

Education

Educational Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 - Education Index
Education Index
This article contains information based on the pre-2010 Human Development Reports. The HDI and its education component have changed in 2010.The United Nations publishes a Human Development Index every year, which consists of the Education index, GDP Index and Life Expectancy Index...

2008 &7 176 http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_complete.pdf
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP operates in 177 countries, working with nations on their own solutions to...

 - Literacy rate
2008 &21 180 http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2009_EN_Complete.pdf
United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 – Human Development Index
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

2010 &12 182 http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

Environment

Environmental Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
New Economics Foundation
New Economics Foundation
The New Economics Foundation is a British think-tank.NEF was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit with the aim of working for a "new model of wealth creation, based on equality, diversity and economic stability"....

 – Happy Planet Index
Happy Planet Index
The Happy Planet Index is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in July 2006. The index is designed to challenge well-established indices of countries’ development, such as Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index...

2006 68 143 http://www.happyplanetindex.org/explore/global/
Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 / Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 – Environmental Performance Index
Environmental Performance Index
The Environmental Performance Index is a method of quantifying and numerically benchmarking the environmental performance of a country's policies. This index was developed from the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, first published in 2002, and designed to supplement the environmental targets...

2008 &94 163 http://epi.yale.edu/Home

Industry

Industrial Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
Shipbuilding Production 2008 &1 http://www.shipbuilding.or.kr/Report/Foreign/Foreign_Review/Foreign_Review.html
Nuclear Energy Production
Nuclear power in South Korea
The total electrical generation capacity of the nuclear power plants of South Korea is 18.5 GWe from 21 reactors. This is 29.5% of South Korea's total electrical generation capacity, but 45% of total electrical consumption...

2009 &5 http://the-diplomat.com/2010/07/19/another-korean-nuclear-issue/
OICA
Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles
The Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles, commonly abbreviated OICA , is a federation of automobile manufacturers, based in Paris, founded in 1919...

 - automobile production
2009 &5 52 http://oica.net/wp-content/uploads/all-vehicles.pdf
The World Factbook
The World Factbook
The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office...

 - Steel Production
Steel production by country
This article summarizes the world steel production by country. For the company-oriented account, see List of steel producers.In 2010, total world crude steel production was 1,413.6 million metric tonnes . The biggest steel producing country is currently China, which accounted for 44.3% of world...

2008 &6 40 http://www.worldsteel.org/index.php?action=publicationdetail&id=81
Electricity Production 2009 &10 211 http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=2&pid=2&aid=12&cid=&syid=2007&eyid=2008&unit=BKWH

Military

Military Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Center for Strategic and International Studies is a bipartisan Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank. The center was founded in 1962 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and Ambassador David Manker Abshire, originally as part of Georgetown University...

 - active troops
2006 &6 166 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/060626_asia_balance_powers.pdf
Reserve troops 2006 &3 166 http://index.go.kr/egams/stts/jsp/potal/stts/PO_STTS_IdxMain.jsp?idx_cd=2757&bbs=INDX_001&clas_div=C&rootKey=1.48.0


Politics

Political Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
The Economist Intelligence Unit – Index of Democracy
Democracy Index
The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit that claims to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 165 are UN member states...

2010 &20 167 http://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf
NationMaster
NationMaster
NationMaster is a statistical website that aims to facilitate comparison of publicly available data on all countries of the world. Self-described as "a massive central data source," the developers bring together information found in a wide range of documents, including the Central Intelligence...

's index of civil and political liberties
2001 &35 132 http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dem_civ_and_pol_lib-democracy-civil-and-political-liberties
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is a France-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. It was founded in 1985, by Robert Ménard, Rony Brauman and the journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud. Jean-François Julliard has served as Secretary General since 2008...

 – Worldwide Press Freedom Index
2007 &&39 169 http://en.rsf.org/spip.php?page=classement&id_rubrique=34
Transparency International
Transparency International
Transparency International is a non-governmental organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development. It publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a comparative listing of corruption worldwide...

 – Corruption Perceptions Index
Corruption Perceptions Index
Since 1995, Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index annually ranking countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private...

2009 &39 180 http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/2009-transparency-international-corruption-perceptions.html

Society

Social Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
Official Development Assistance
Official development assistance
Official development assistance is a term compiled by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to measure aid. The DAC first compiled the term in 1969. It is widely used by academics and journalists as a convenient indicator of...

 - as a percentage of GNI
2006 &29 http://www.globalissues.org/article/35/us-and-foreign-aid-assistance
OECD - Digital opportunity
Digital Opportunity Index
The Digital Opportunity Index is an index published by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union based on internationally-agreed ICT indicators. This makes it a valuable tool for benchmarking the most important indicators for measuring the Information Society...

&2007 1
Save the Children
Save the Children
Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...

 – Mother's Index Rank
2007 &5 &66 http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2007/SOWM-2007-final.pdf
Save the Children
Save the Children
Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...

 – Women's Index Rank
2007 &5 &66 http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2007/SOWM-2007-final.pdf
Save the Children
Save the Children
Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...

 – Children's Index Rank
2007 &8 &79 http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2007/SOWM-2007-final.pdf
World Health Organization
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...

 – suicide rates by country
2008 &8 106 http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/country_reports/en/index.html
Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index
The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected...

 – Institute for Economics and Peace
2009 &33 144 https://www.economicsandpeace.org/
The Economist Intelligence Unit – Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index
The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected...

2008 &43 149 http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2010/scor/KR
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 – The Global Gender Gap Report 2007
2007 &97 128 http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2007.pdf
World Giving Index
World Giving Index
The World Giving Index was compiled by the Charities Aid Foundation, using data gathered by Gallup, and ranks 153 countries in the World according to how charitable their populations are. The Charities Aid Foundation claims that WGI is the largest study ever carried out into charitable behaviour...

2010 &81 153 http://www.cafonline.org/PDF/World_Giving_Index_2010_A4.pdf
  • University of Leicester
    University of Leicester
    The University of Leicester is a research-led university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College....

     2006 Satisfaction with Life Index
    Satisfaction with Life Index
    The Satisfaction with Life Index was created by Adrian G. White, an Analytic Social Psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations....

     ranked 102
  • 2010 Newsweek
    Newsweek
    Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

     World's Best countries ranked 15

Tourism

Tourism Rankings
Name Year Place Out of # Reference
World Tourism Organization
World Tourism Organization
The World Tourism Organization , based in Madrid, Spain, is a United Nations agency dealing with questions relating to tourism. It compiles the World Tourism rankings. The World Tourism Organization is a significant global body, concerned with the collection and collation of statistical information...

 - World Tourism rankings
World Tourism rankings
The World Tourism rankings are compiled by the United Nations World Tourism Organization as part of their World Tourism Barometer publication, which is released three times throughout the year...

2009 &31 133 http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/TravelandTourismReport/index.htm
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 - Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report
Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report
The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report was first published in 2007 by the World Economic Forum. The 2007 report covered 124 major and emerging economies. The 2008 report covered 130 countries,, the 2009 report expanded to 133 countries, and the 2011 report to 139 countries...

2009 &35 132 http://www.unwto.org/facts/eng/barometer.htm
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