North Korea
North Korea in numbers
31 measures of North Korea from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare North Korea with…
- North Korea vs China
- North Korea vs Indonesia
- North Korea vs Russia
- North Korea vs Japan
- North Korea vs Philippines
- North Korea vs Vietnam
- North Korea vs Thailand
- North Korea vs Myanmar (Burma)
- North Korea vs South Korea
- North Korea vs Malaysia
- North Korea vs Australia
- North Korea vs Cambodia
- North Korea vs Papua New Guinea
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU, World Bank and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time