North Korea Analytics

North Korea is a mid-size country with 0.3% of the world's population. North Korea is a communist republic country. It has 2 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Korean : 25,743,446
2. Standard Chinese : 51,398

Mother Tongue : Korean

Literacy Rate (%) : 100

Details

Country Capital	:	Pyongyang
GDP Per capita	:	0
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	186^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	73
Unemployment Rate	:	2
Number of Internet Users	:	0
Internet Users Rank	:	193^rd/195
Area	:	120,409
Area Rank	:	97^th/195
Total Population	:	25,972
Total Population Rank	:	54^th/195

Continent: Asia

Cities with > 100K popln: 27

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North Korea Highlights

North Korea is the 54^th ranked country in population and 97^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than World Average-

1. North Korea is the 1^st highest ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that there is a better educational infrastructure in this country as compared to other countries.
2. The average Total Military Force of 195 countries in the world is 353,432. North Korea is the 1^st highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that the country is facing higher threats compared to other countries or may imply that the size or population of the country is higher.

Worse than World Average-

1. North Korea is the 85^th worst ranked in Total No. of Doctors out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population
2. The average Onion prod. of the countries in the world is 759,968. North Korea is the 86^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This is indicative of less focus on the production of onion, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, North Korea is the 110^th worst ranked in Wheat prod. . This is indicative of less focus on the production of wheat, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.

North Korea Metrics

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Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	1	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	162	1230
2	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	157	1232
3	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	113	1234
4	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	110	1234
5	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	111	1235
6	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	107	1231
7	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	103	1232
8	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	81	1231
9	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	77	1230
10	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	65	1230
11	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	65	1232
12	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	56	1235
13	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	49	1232
14	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	46	1234
15	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	46	1232
16	Total Literate Pop.	# People	68,251,097	46	1233
17	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	38	1232
18	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	29	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	353,432	1	1128
2	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	1	1126
3	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	1	2	1129

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Korean	# People	407,376	2	1129
2	Korean as a % of total Korean speakers	% People	0	2	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	22	1234
2	Mandarin Chinese as a % of total Mandarin Chinese speakers	% People	0	14	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	4	1127
2	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	10	1127
3	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	33	1125
4	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	33	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	167	1232
2	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	163	1231
3	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	147	1234
4	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	140	1234
5	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	141	1233
6	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	83	1230
7	Formal Jobs	# People	20,455,444	80	1231
8	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	58	1232
9	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	28,805,473	46	1231
10	Employment in Services	# People	19,494,546	45	1231
11	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	39	1235
12	Employment in Agriculture	# People	10,466,926	22	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	16	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	186	1235
2	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	1	16	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	33	1127
2	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	35	1126
3	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	93	1126
4	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	6,979,145	17	1126
5	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	15	32	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	164	1232
2	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1235
3	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	106	1235
4	# Cities>1M	# Cities	3	40	1230
5	Rural Pop.	# People	36,027,518	55	1233
6	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1232
7	# Cities>500000	# Cities	8	43	1233
8	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	45	1230
9	# Cities>100000	# Cities	42	36	1234
10	# Cities>300000	# Cities	14	32	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	36	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	1	110	1230
2	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	110	1234
3	Tree density .	Density	828	91	1230
4	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	1	80	1230
5	Wheat prod.	Weight	6,681,335	86	1235
6	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	66	1230
7	Barley prod.	Weight	1,558,004	69	1232
8	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	69	1231
9	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	2	69	1230
10	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	59	1230
11	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	60	1230
12	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	58	1233
13	Soyabean prod.	Weight	3,628,152	30	1230
14	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	2	30	1235
15	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	27	1230
16	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	1	28	1235
17	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Weight	833,178	20	1232
18	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	21	1230
19	Flourite prod.	Weight	231,501	15	1235
20	Flourite Produced/Total Flourite Produced %	Weight	8	16	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	72	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	134	1232
2	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	123	1230
3	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	68	1231
4	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	55	1233
5	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	54	1233
6	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	54	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	81	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Total No. of Doctors	# People	118,384	112	1232
2	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	35	109	1234
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	28,678	62	1232
4	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	39	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	191	1232
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	129	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	155	1232
2	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	10,566	162	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	151	1235
2	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	110	1233
3	# Olympic Medals	Count	126	40	1235
4	Silver Medal	Count	3	31	1235
5	Total Medals	Count	12	35	1231
6	Bronze Medal	Count	4	22	1233
7	Buddhist Population	# People	1,912,220	15	1235

North Korea Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Korean	99.12 %
2	Standard Chinese	0.2 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Anju	255,060
2	Chongjin	709,514
3	Chongju	201,519
4	Haeju	290,328
5	Hamhung	816,488
6	Hoeryong	163,064
7	Huichon	178,680
8	Hyesan	204,706
9	Kaechon	339,513
10	Kaesong	327,615
11	Kanggye	267,701
12	Kimchaek	220,216
13	Kusong	208,743
14	Manpo	124,077
15	Munchon	130,557
16	Nampo	389,123
17	Pyongsong	302,120
18	Pyongyang	3,458,124
19	Rason	209,274
20	Sariwon	326,978
21	Sinpo	162,320
22	Sinuiju	381,686
23	Songrim	136,825
24	Sunchon	315,823
25	Tokchon	251,873
26	Tanchon	367,452
27	Wonsan	385,723