South Korea Population Data

This repo hosts South Korean population data from the 2010 Census in CSV format.

Description

Data

South Korean administrative divisions are consisted of three levels:

• Provinces (시도): Special City(특별시), Metropolitan City(광역시), Province(도), Special Self-governing Province(특별자치도), Special Self-governing City(특별자치시)
• Municipalities (시군구): Si (시, city), Gun (군, county), Gu (구, district)
• Submunicipalities (읍면동): Eup (읍, town), Myeon (면, township), Dong (동, neighborhood), Ri (리, village)

2010

Raw data in data/2010/*.csv were gathered in 2010. These were converted to UTF-8 by the names data/2010/*_utf8.csv.

Codebook

This codebook was written in April, 2010.

1. codenames-20100401.xls: Raw data
2. codenames-20100401-06-translation.* : Regional names' English, Chinese translation in csv, json formats.

Copyright and License

Author

Team POPONG.

Data Source

• Population data are provided by KOSIS.
• Codebooks are provided by KOSTAT (in Korean)

License