🇰🇷 Electricity Imports of South Korea

Since the start of the millennium, South Korea has decreased its imports of electricity due to increasingly stable domestic markets. In 2021, the region was a net exporter of electricity.

Net Electricity Imports of South Korea (2000-2021)

Between the year 2000 and 2021, South Korea net imports of electricity has decreased with 0.0 Terrawatt-hours (TWh). When compared with the start of the millenium, South Korea imported % less electricity in 2021.

What does Net Imports mean?

A net importer is an entity that imports more than it exports. In this case, net imports a specified with a postive or a negative number, if the number is positive, the entity imported more electricity than it exported. If the number is negative, the entity exported more than it imported.

What does YoY change mean?

Year over Year change (YoY change) measures the percentage of growth in an annualized metric across two comparable periods, in this case the current calendar year relative to the previous calendar year.

Formula:

YoY change = (final value – initial value) / initial value * 100

What does YoY absolute change mean?

Year over Year absolute change (YoY absolute change) refers to the simple difference in the indicator over two periods in time

Formula:

YoY absolute change = final value – initial value

Data Information

Data found on this page is a derivative of Ember-Climate Yearly electricity data.

Data Sources

Ember-Climate

Ember-Climate Yearly Electricity Data

This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, import and demand data for over 200 geographies. Data is collected from multi-country datasets (EIA, Eurostat, BP, UN) as well as national sources (e.g China data from the National Bureau of Statistics).

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