(measure: percent; Source: Global Financial Development Database)
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
South Korea: Stock price volatility, percent
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For that indicator, Global Financial Development Database provides data for South Korea from 1981 to 2017. The average value for South Korea during that period was 22.2 percent with a minimum of 9.7 percent in 1985 and a maximum of 44.57 percent in 1999.
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Definition: Stock price volatility is the average of the 360-day volatility of the national stock market index.
Volatility is a statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. In most cases, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security.
