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In 1965, South Korea's rate of economic growth first exceeded North Korea's in most industrial areas, though South Korea's per capita GNP remained lower than North Korea's. [ 78 ] In 1979, North Korea renegotiated much of its international debt, but in 1980 it defaulted on its loans except those from Japan.
Market exchange rate-based cross-country comparisons of GDP at its expenditure components reflect both differences in economic outputs (volumes) and prices. Given the differences in price levels, the size of higher income countries is inflated, while the size of lower income countries is depressed in the comparison.
The North Korean government, therefore, does collect revenue, in a manner which has been compared to a taxation system by international observers. However, inside North Korea the word "tax" is not used, and the term for state revenue has been variously translated as "socialist income accounting", "socialist economic management income", and in ...
Asian countries by GDP (PPP) per capita in 2017. This is a list of Asian countries by GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity.All figures are given in international dollars and are the latest estimates from the International Monetary Fund. [1]
These economies are not ranked in the charts here (except Kosovo and Taiwan), but are listed in sequence by GDP for comparison. In addition, non-sovereign entities are marked in italics. Four UN members (Cuba, Liechtenstein, Monaco and North Korea) do not belong to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), hence their economies are not ranked ...
In June 2020, North Korea blew up a joint liaison office that had been installed on its side of the border to facilitate communication with Seoul. It also resumed its nuclear program, rebuilding ...
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.
This story is the first installment of a two-part series on nuclear energy in Asia. MORONG, the Philippines — On a steamy June afternoon, Jimmy Arquero, 65, took off his red cap, wiped his brow ...