Statistics Korea (KOSTAT; ) is a government organization responsible for managing
national statistics in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
. KOSTAT is headquartered in
Daejeon, South Korea and operates under the
Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Statistics Korea generates population and household
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
yearly (every 5 years until 2015). It also gathers analytic and administrative statistics.
See also
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List of national and international statistical services
The following is a list of national and international statistical services.
Central national statistical services
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Official statistics
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References
External links
Official site, in Korean and English
Government agencies of South Korea
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
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