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Republic of Korea: Selected Issues
IMF
2025.12.05
Healthy ageing is evidenced by steady global improvements in a wide range of health indicators over successive birth cohorts (IMF, 2025a).3 Gruss and others (forthcoming) provide evidence that Korea experienced larger health improvements than its regional peers between 2006 and 2022. During 2000-21, Koreans gained additional years of healthy life, free from chronic diseases, which contributed to better life expectancy (Figure 3).4 While the UN defines elderly individuals as those aged 65 years and older, the analysis in this paper focuses on individuals aged 50 or 55 years and older ? depending on data availability. This is because Koreans typically retire in their early fifties, well before they reach the official retirement age, yet often remain active in the labor market.