North Korea
35 figures for North Korea, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how North Korea compares.
Economy
- Unemployment 3.5% (2025)
People
- Population 26.4 million (2023)
- Population growth +0.27% (2025)
- Births per woman 1.78 (2024)
- Typical age 36.0 (2023)
- Living in cities 64.2% (2025)
Health
- Life expectancy 73.6 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 16.7 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 67 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 99% (2024)
- Overweight adults 37.0% (2022)
Education
- Expected years in school 12.2 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 94.3% (2015)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 2.36 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 62.6 million (2024)
- Forest cover 49.6% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 21.2 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 14.7% (2021)
- Average temperature 7.4 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 665 (2023)
- Access to electricity 61.4% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 63.4% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 34.1% (2024)
Technology
- Internet users 0.0% (2004)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 24.1 (2022)
- Satellites by owner 1 (2026)
Food and farming
- Hunger 47.0% (2018)
- Cereal yield 3,539 (2023)
- Farmland 21.6% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 54.1% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.08 (2025)
- Human rights 0.02 (2025)
- Control of corruption −1.55 (2025)
- Women in parliament 17.6% (2025)