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Historical Statistics of Korea

Part of the Studies in Economic History Book Series

Editors: Cha, Myung Soo; Kim, Nak Nyeon; Park, Ki-Joo; Park, Yitaek

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-3874-2

ISBN: 978-981-15-3873-5

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore - Springer Journals

Jul 3, 2022

1 - 10 of 22 Chapters

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Chapter 1Environment and Geography

Cha, Myung Soo; Hwang, Junseok; Park, Heejin

Pages: 1 –36

[This chapter presents the climatic and geographical information for the Korean peninsula, which comprises today’s North and South Korea and lies in the temperate zone—between 33° and 43°N and between 124° and 132°E to be precise. The climatic data include precipitation, temperature, humidity,...
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Chapter 2Population

Cha, Myung Soo; Park, Heejin

Pages: 37 –75

[Over the past century, Korea underwent a demographic transition triggered by the mortality transition in the late nineteenth century and finalized by the rapid fertility decline in the two decades following the mid-1960s. This chapter presents information describing the shift from a regime of...
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Chapter 3Labor Force and Employment

Park, Yitaek

Pages: 77 –126

[The labor statistics presented in this chapter are divided into five groups: labor force, employment, unemployment, unionization, and industrial safety. The labor force and employment data include breakdowns in terms of age, sector, and educational attainment, among others.]
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Chapter 4Wages

Cha, Myung Soo; Hwang, Junseok; Lee, Wooyoun

Pages: 127 –165

[Long-run Trends]
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Chapter 5Education

Go, Sun; Park, Ki-Joo

Pages: 167 –227

[Korea’s economic growth in the past century was associated with rapid improvements in educational attainment.]
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Chapter 6Health

Hong , Sok Chul

Pages: 229 –286

[As life expectancy more than doubled from the early 1930s to the early 1980s, Koreans have benefited from rapidly improving health as a consequence of public intervention, medical modernization, and economic growth. Much of the mortality decline took place after the Korean War (1950–53), due...
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Chapter 7Agriculture

Cho, Seok Gon

Pages: 287 –372

[Korean agriculture achieved remarkable growth over the past century, as is indicated by the near quadrupling of rice yields from 1.4 to 5.4 tons per ha during 1918–2015. This chapter documents the growth of input, output, and productivity occurring in different components of the agriculture of...
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Chapter 8Natural Resources

Ryu, Sang Yun; Lee, Wooyoun; Song, Kyoung Eun

Pages: 373 –453

[In this chapter, natural resources comprise fishery, forest, and underground resources. After growing rapidly under Japanese rule, South Korea’s mining industry suffered a substantial contraction because the bulk of the accessible underground resources were in the northern part of the Korean...
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Chapter 9Construction and Housing

Park, Yitaek

Pages: 455 –494

[This chapter presents statistical information on construction industry in four categories: building permits and stocks, construction companies, residential building, and housing finance.]
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Chapter 10Manufacturing

Park, Ki-Joo

Pages: 495 –556

[The economic growth occurring in colonial and South Korea had been associated with industrialization until the mid-1980s, when the output share of manufacturing entered a phase of slow decline.]

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