North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
25,610,672 1
Urban
61.90% 1
Rural
38.10% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
0.2% 2
Homicides
4.41 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
174 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
1.97 births per adult woman 5
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
2.50% 5
Life Expectancy at Birth
71 years 5
Adult Literacy Rate
100.00% 5
Internet Users
0% 5
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
  • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
  • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.