Country comparison: South Korea / Mexico

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for South Korea and Mexico. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	South Korea	Mexico
Region:	East Asia	Central America
Area:	100,339 km²	1,964,375 km²
National language:	Korean	Spanish
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1948 AD	1810 AD
Capital:	Seoul	Mexico City

Population

Details for South Korea and Mexico

	South Korea	Mexico
Population:	51,745,000	126,705,000
Inhabitants/km²:	515.7	64.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 87 years	Ø 74 years
Average age:	Ø 43.2 years	Ø 29.3 years
Birth rate:	5.30 ‰	15.57 ‰
Death rate:	5.90 ‰	9.33 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.63 ‰	-0.76 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	South Korea	Mexico
Political stability:	84	49
Civil rights:	77	33
Health:	92	45
Climate:	56	82
Cost of Living:	42	34
Popularity:	41	53

Economy

Details for South Korea and Mexico

	South Korea	Mexico
Currency:	South Korean won (1 KRW = 100 Chon)	Mexican peso (1 MXN =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	3.6 %	4.1 %
Inflation rate:	2.50 %	5.69 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	86.98 %	54.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.20 %	55.10 %
Average income:	35,110 US$	9,590 US$
Corruption index:	37 (moderate)	69 (bad)

	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,810,956 M US$	35.00 M US$	1,272,839 M US$	10.05 M US$
Gross national product:	1,816,733 M US$	35.11 M US$	1,214,991 M US$	9.59 M US$
Exported goods:	771,202 M US$	14.90 M US$	522,235 M US$	4.12 M US$
Imported goods:	698,103 M US$	13.49 M US$	544,752 M US$	4.30 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for South Korea and Mexico

	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	100,428 km	1.94 km	704,884 km	5.56 km
Railways:	4,111 km	0.08 km	20,825 km	0.16 km
Waterways:	1,600 km	0.03 km	2,900 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	1,904	0.0368	671	0.0053
Passenger airports:	15	0.0003	67	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for South Korea and Mexico

	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	507.60 bn kWh	9.81 m kWh	258.70 bn kWh	2.04 m kWh
Energy production:	526.00 bn kWh	10.17 m kWh	302.70 bn kWh	2.39 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	7.31 bn kWh	57,677.22 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	3.53 bn kWh	27,875.74 kWh
CO2 emissions:	610.79 m t	11,803.87 t	449.27 m t	3,545.79 t

Telecommunication

Details for South Korea and Mexico

	South Korea	Mexico
International dialing:	+82	+52
Internet domain:	.kr	.mx

	KOR total	KOR per 1000 inh.	MEX total	MEX per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	23,213,189	449	24,366,595	192
Mobile cellulars:	72,855,492	1408	123,920,752	978
Internet server:	315,697	6	16,233,000	128
Internet users:	50,488,162	976	91,187,400	720
Broadband Internet:	22,944,268	443	23,315,640	184

Healthcare system

Details for South Korea and Mexico

	South Korea	Mexico
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	12.43	0.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.37	2.25
Diabetes:	6.9 %	13.5 %
Malaria:	0.1 %	0.3 %
Tuberculosis:	0.44 ‰	0.25 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	81.0 %	71.0 %
Smokers:	20.8 %	13.1 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: South Korea and Mexico

	South Korea	Mexico
Daytime temperatures:	18.3 °C	29.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.0 °C	16.3 °C
Water temperature:	12.8 °C	25.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	69 %	66 %
Rain days:	6.8	5.9
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	7.5

Native languages

	South Korea	Mexico
Korean:	99.9 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	92.1 %
Náhuatl:	n/a	1.8 %
Yucatec:	n/a	1.1 %
Zapotec:	n/a	0.6 %
Mixtec:	n/a	0.6 %
Otomí:	n/a	0.4 %
Chinese:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.0 %	3.4 %

Religions

	South Korea	Mexico
Christianity:	31.6 %	90.7 %
Nondenominational:	43.3 %	4.7 %
Buddhism:	24.2 %	n/a
other:	0.9 %	4.6 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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