[Korea Selected financial newspaper reporters - it showed that last year's per capita gross national income (GNI) of South Korea have ceased to 27,000 US dollars for. Also last year, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate totaled 2.8%.
According to the Bank of Korea on the 28th released "2015 National Accounts confirmed and National Accounts Interim 2016 'release, last year's GNI per capita is 27,561 US dollars (31,984,000 won) by 1.4% compared to the previous year (20,000 US dollars 7171) increased (390 dollars).
GNI per capita in dollar terms have increased slightly but was collapsed again be talking about 30,000 US dollars to developed countries standards. This then is the first time exceeded $ 20,000 to 20,000 US dollars for 10 years, 795 years, 2006 was not entered 30 thousand US dollars. GNI per capita refers to the indicators that determine the living standards of the nations.
The impact of exchange rate also gave an impact on GNI per capita figures. Last year annual average won / dollar exchange rate rose 2.9% to 1160.4 won (28.9 W) than the previous year. While the won fell against the dollar to the US dollar in terms of reduced scale.
Total disposable household income per capita (PGDI) increased by 10,000 to 5,632 US dollars in 2015 by 0.9% ($ 145) than (10,000 US dollars 5487).
The Bank of Korea last year, announced the preliminary GDP growth to 2.8%. It was revised up 0.1 percentage points than the preliminary figure published in January this year. GDP growth was 3.7% in 2011, fell back to 2.3% in 2012 and 2.9% in 2013 and 3.3% in 2014 and 2.8% for two consecutive years since 2015.
Last year, nominal GDP has increased by 4.7% trillion (733 billion) to 637.4 billion won more in 2015.
Last year, the total savings rate rose 0.2 percentage points from the previous year to 35.8%, and recorded the highest level in 17 years since 1999 (35.9%).
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