Leading Economic Index South Korea increased to 120.50 in July of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. Leading Economic Index in South Korea averaged 46.52 points from 1970 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 120.50 points in July of 2025 and a record low of 3.70 points in January of 1970. source: Statistics Korea (KOSTAT)

Related	Last	Previous	Unit	Reference
Business Confidence	70.00	68.00	points	Aug 2025
Capacity Utilization	103.10	103.20	points	Jul 2025
Car Production	316295.00	353230.00	Units	Jul 2025
Car Registrations	138503.00	145842.00	Units	Jul 2025
Changes in Inventories	1989.90	896.70	KRW Billion	Jun 2025
Coincident Index	113.30	113.30	points	Jul 2025
Composite Leading Indicator	101.33	101.18	points	Aug 2025
Corruption Index	64.00	63.00	Points	Dec 2024
Corruption Rank	30.00	32.00		Dec 2024
Electricity Production	22192.91	21970.44	Gigawatt-hour	Jun 2025
Industrial Production YoY	5.00	1.60	percent	Jul 2025
Industrial Production MoM	0.30	1.70	percent	Jul 2025
Leading Economic Index	120.50	119.60	points	Jul 2025
Manufacturing Production YoY	5.10	1.80	percent	Jul 2025
Mining Production	0.00	-14.50	percent	Jul 2025
New Orders	13697423.00	11397974.00	KRW Million	Jul 2025
Steel Production	5300.00	5000.00	Thousand Tonnes	Jul 2025

South Korea Leading Economic Index

In South Korea, Leading Composite Index examines the overall economic situation, predicting the direction and speed of a turning point in the economy. The index integrates a set of selected major indices that reflect each part of economy: opening-to-application ratio, inventory circulation indicator, consumer expectation index, machinery orders received, import of capital goods, construction orders received, stock price index, total liquidity, interest rate spread, 3-year treasury bonds less call rate, net barter terms of trade. The index has a base value of 100 as of 2020.