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	:	0
Number of Internet Users	:	0
Internet Users Rank	:	195^th/195
Area	:	120,410
Area Rank	:	97^th/195
Total Population	:	26,571
Total Population Rank	:	56^th/195

Continent: Asia

Cities with > 100K popln: 27

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North Korea Highlights

North Korea is the 56^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 358,465. 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.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, North Korea is the 19^th highest ranked in Employment in Agriculture . Thisimplies that a significant portion of population is living in rural areas or simply imply that the country is developing

Worse than World Average-

1. North Korea is the 106^th worst ranked in Formal Jobs out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate that the country is not highly urbanised or indicate that the unemployment rate is high compared to other countries
2. The average Wheat prod. of the countries in the world is 6,698,590. North Korea is the 113^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This is indicative of less focus on the production of wheat, 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 119^th worst ranked in Enrolment in primary edu. . This may take into context a lower country population, or imply that lesser people in this country pursue primary education when 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	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	162	1234
2	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	157	1235
3	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	113	1234
4	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	110	1233
5	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	111	1230
6	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	107	1235
7	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	103	1230
8	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	81	1231
9	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	77	1234
10	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	65	1235
11	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	65	1231
12	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	56	1232
13	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	49	1230
14	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	48	1235
15	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	46	1234
16	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	46	1232
17	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	38	1235
18	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	29	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	1	1127
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	1	1129
3	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	1	1126

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Korean	# People	407,376	2	1125
2	Korean as a % of total Korean speakers	% People	0	2	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	22	1231
2	Mandarin Chinese as a % of total Mandarin Chinese speakers	% People	0	14	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	4	1129
2	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	4	1128
3	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	19	1129
4	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	26	1129
5	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	26	1130
6	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	81	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	170	1232
2	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	151	1232
3	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	145	1234
4	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	145	1231
5	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	90	1232
6	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	58	1231
7	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	44	1234
8	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	44	1234
9	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	37	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	15	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	184	1235
2	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	0	15	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	28	1129
2	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	37	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	108	1234
2	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	98	1232
3	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	74	1232
4	#Dentists	# People	13,328	70	1230
5	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	39	1232
6	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	38	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	31	1130
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	33	1125
3	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	35	1127
4	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	35	1127
5	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	94	1126
6	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	16	1125
7	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	14	30	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	166	1230
2	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1234
3	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	101	1231
4	1M+ Cities Ratio ( 1M+ Cities/ # Cities> 100000)		0	94	1235
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	39	1235
6	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	54	1233
7	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	47	1230
8	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	48	1232
9	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	42	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	36	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Flourite Produced/Total Flourite Produced %	Weight	4	15	1235
2	Tree density .	Density	828	91	1234
3	Wheat Produced /Total Wheat Produced. %.	Weight	0	79	1232
4	Wheat prod.	Tons	6,698,590	83	1235
5	Barley Produced/Total Barley Produced.%	Weight	1	71	1233
6	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	72	1230
7	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	68	1235
8	Barley prod.	Tons	1,576,534	71	1233
9	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	66	1233
10	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	69	1234
11	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	60	1230
12	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	57	1232
13	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	55	1230
14	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	1	30	1231
15	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	30	1230
16	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	28	1235
17	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	28	1234
18	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	21	1233
19	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	21	1231
20	Flourite prod.	Tons	231,501	15	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	85	1128
2	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	85	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	141	1231
2	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	111	1232
3	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	68	1232
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	56	1234
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	56	1232
6	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	56	1233
7	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	46	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	191	1233
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	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	150	1235
2	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	111	1231
3	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	43	1231
4	Silver Medal	Count	3	31	1233
5	Total Medals	Count	12	35	1232
6	Bronze Medal	Count	4	22	1232
7	Buddhist Population	# People	1,911,974	15	1232

North Korea Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Korean	96.89 %
2	Standard Chinese	0.19 %

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