Sworn Score
Country profile
Korea, Rep.
Asia · Capital: Seoul
Score 69.0 ± 2 · Rank #30 of scored countries.
Based on 117/123 indicators, avg data age 3.0 years.
Category breakdown
How Korea, Rep. scores across the 7 dimensions
Weight-normalized averages over the indicators that have data. Categories below 70% coverage of their own indicators are suppressed.
Health
91.1
Economy
63.5
Governance
73.4
Education
80.2
Infrastructure
76.5
Environment
45.1
Rights
40.9
Promises
Latest promise updates
14 achieved · 4 failing
History
Korea, Rep. — Sworn Score over time
Each year is a snapshot using that year's methodology (trimmed-bounds over the trailing 5-year value pool). Click a column header to sort.
Change since 1965: +0.2 points
| Year | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 67.3 | 8 |
| 1966 | 66.7 | 8 |
| 1967 | 69.3 | 8 |
| 1968 | 71.8 | 8 |
| 1969 | 72.7 | 8 |
| 1970 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — |
| 1977 | — | — |
| 1978 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — |
| 1980 | — | — |
| 1981 | 54.8 | 50 |
| 1982 | 56.7 | 47 |
| 1983 | 60.8 | 45 |
| 1984 | 57.2 | 37 |
| 1985 | 59.5 | 38 |
| 1986 | 62.0 | 38 |
| 1987 | 62.7 | 38 |
| 1988 | 63.0 | 38 |
| 1989 | 64.1 | 39 |
| 1990 | 63.5 | 40 |
| 1991 | 64.7 | 37 |
| 1992 | 64.8 | 39 |
| 1993 | 65.8 | 43 |
| 1994 | 64.8 | 48 |
| 1995 | 66.0 | 42 |
| 1996 | 64.7 | 40 |
| 1997 | 65.6 | 39 |
| 1998 | 62.8 | 52 |
| 1999 | 66.9 | 34 |
| 2000 | 66.0 | 39 |
| 2001 | 65.5 | 37 |
| 2002 | 66.0 | 38 |
| 2003 | 65.8 | 39 |
| 2004 | 66.6 | 36 |
| 2005 | 67.0 | 36 |
| 2006 | 67.5 | 36 |
| 2007 | 67.8 | 37 |
| 2008 | 69.0 | 34 |
| 2009 | 69.0 | 30 |
| 2010 | 69.3 | 29 |
| 2011 | 69.3 | 29 |
| 2012 | 69.3 | 29 |
| 2013 | 67.9 | 31 |
| 2014 | 67.7 | 32 |
| 2015 | 67.4 | 35 |
| 2016 | 67.5 | 35 |
| 2017 | 68.4 | 34 |
| 2018 | 69.1 | 31 |
| 2019 | 69.3 | 31 |
| 2020 | 69.5 | 31 |
| 2021 | 69.8 | 31 |
| 2022 | 69.8 | 30 |
| 2023 | 69.4 | 31 |
| 2024 | 69.6 | 30 |
| 2025 | 68.3 | 30 |
| 2026 | 67.5 | 31 |