Korea scored the lowest in terms of food security among 33 advanced economies in the International Monetary Fund. According to a chart cited in an Op-Ed column in the New York Times on Saturday, Korea had the largest number of respondents who felt food insecurity. The chart also compared income disparity, unemployment rate, level of democracy, wellbeing, life expectancy at birth, prison population and student performance in math and science.
In Korea, 16 percent of respondents said they had been short of money to buy food in the past 12 months, the most along with the U.S. Countries with strong welfare programs such as Singapore, Denmark and Switzerland scored high in terms of food security.
The life expectancy of Koreans averaged 78.81, among the bottom 10 countries. Japan (82.17 years), Hong Kong (81.96 years) and Australia (81.72 years) had the longest average life spans, while Eastern European countries, such as Slovakia (75.62 years), Czech Republic (77.01 years) and Slovenia (77.12 years) had the shortest.
Korea scored high in terms of the employment with the second lowest jobless rate of 3.7 percent after Singapore (2.3 percent), but the actual jobless rate is probably higher considering the number of people who are either preparing to enter the workforce or have given up looking for jobs.
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