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The population density is 199.54 inhabitants per square kilometre, and the 2014 estimated life expectancy is 69.81 years. In 1980, the population rose at a near consistent, but low, rate (0.84% from the two censuses). Since 2000, North Korea's birth rate has exceeded its death rate; the natural growth is positive.
With an active duty army consisting of 4.9% of its population, North Korea maintains the fourth largest active military force in the world behind China, India and the United States. [206] About 20 percent of men aged 17–54 serve in the regular armed forces, [206] and approximately one in every 25 citizens is an enlisted soldier. [207] [208]
This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations [1] ... North Korea: 0.5%: 26,160,822:
This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, ... North Korea: 26,329,845: 26,418,204 +0.34%: Asia: Eastern Asia
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) was founded in 1952 under the State Planning Commission of North Korea, but the relationship between these two organizations today is not known. [1] CBS held the first North Korean census in 1989. Before that, the most up-to-date population figures were available from 1963. [2]
All population figures come from the 2008 North Korean census. Several former special cities have been re-merged with their provinces, including Chongjin , Hamhung and Kaesong . Rason was annexed into North Hamgyong Province in 2004, but was later promoted back to special city in 2010 to help manage it for foreign investment.
Village. (리 里 ri) Workers' District. (로동자구 勞動者區 rodongjagu) v. t. e. Provinces are the first-level division within North Korea. There are 9 provinces in North Korea: Chagang, North Hamgyong, South Hamgyong, North Hwanghae, South Hwanghae, Kangwon, North Pyongan, South Pyongan, and Ryanggang.
2018 North Korean census. The Government of North Korea had planned to hold a census in the country in 2018, ten years after the 2008 census. However, the census was reportedly canceled because South Korea had stopped funding the project [1] (because such funding would be in violation of international sanctions, specifically Resolution 2371 ...