The world’s most industrially productive society is South Korea. With 50 million people packed into a territory the size of tiny Iceland, South Korea is, of course, outproduced on an absolute scale by many far more populous countries like the United States or China. But, per person, no country produces as many automobiles, ships, and tons of steel as South Korea does. Per worker, it has more industrial robots installed in its factories than any other country, more than twice as many as second-ranked Germany and five times as many as the U.S.
The only major countries that use more energy or electricity per capita than South Korea are the U.S., Canada, and Sweden. If Taiwan didn’t exist, South Korea would also be the world’s foremost per capita manufacturer of both advanced and everyday semiconductors, at least ten times more productive than the U.S. or Japan, who currently occupy distant third places. South Korea also exports electronics, medicines, tanks, aircraft parts, and nuclear reactors.
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