![[경제]Last year, per capita national income of ,755… decreased for 2 consecutive years](https://image.ytn.co.kr/general/jpg/2021/0304/202103041332059024_t.jpg "[경제]Last year, per capita national income of ,755… decreased for 2 consecutive years")
Last year’s growth rate -1%… Lowest level in 22 years due to Corona 19
Last year’s total savings rate of 1.2%p, domestic total investment rate of 0.2%p ↑
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Last year, in terms of US dollars, Korea’s gross national income per capita reached 31,755 dollars.
It declined for the second year in a row following 2019 amid the Corona 19 economic shock.
Reporter Lee Jong-soo on the report.
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According to the Bank of Korea, the gross national income per capita in the US dollar last year, GNI was $31,755, down 1.1% from 2019.
Korea’s per capita GNI declined for the second consecutive year in 2020 following 2019.
[신승철 / 한국은행 국민계정부장 : 2년 연속 달러 기준 1인당 국민소득이 감소했는데 과거 사례를 보면 외환 위기 시기인 1997년과 1998년, 또 글로벌 금융위기 시기인 2008년과 2009년에도 2년 연속 감소한 사례가 있었습니다. 모두 위기 상황이었고 환율이 급등한 시기였습니다.]
GNI per capita is an indicator of the average standard of living of the people, and Korea opened the era of’national income 30,000 dollars’ in 2017 and has since increased in 2018, but decreased in two years in 2019.
However, the GNI per capita in won was KRW 3,7473,000, an increase of 0.1% from 2019.
Last year’s real GDP growth was -1%.
It is the lowest level in 22 years since the IMF International Monetary Fund’s foreign exchange crisis hit -5.1% in 1998.
Last year’s total savings rate was 35.8%, up 1.2 percentage points from 2019.
The total domestic investment rate also recorded 31.4%, up 0.2%p from the previous year.
YTN Jongsoo Lee[[email protected]]is.
[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]