At a glance
Twelve headline indicators, latest available year.
56th of 218 · 11th in East Asia & Pacific
62nd of 185 · 18th in East Asia & Pacific
119th of 217 · 17th in East Asia & Pacific
75th of 216 · 12th in East Asia & Pacific
94th of 212 · 18th in East Asia & Pacific
198th of 198 · 31st in East Asia & Pacific*
What changed in North Korea
Statistically notable movements in the latest data.
No notable changes detected in the latest snapshot.
Countries similar to North Korea
Nearest peers by standardised distance on the selected dimension.
Not enough data to compute peers.
Country DNA
Percentile rank among all countries on nine dimensions. Descriptive, not a score.
DNA not available for this country yet.
Key facts
Computed from the data — no model-generated numbers.
No verified insights yet.
Borders: China, South Korea, Russia
Languages: Korean
Timeline
Records, reversals and turning points across the whole history.
No events detected.
Explore North Korea by topic
19 topics · 154 indicators with data.
- Economy0 with data · 27 indicators
- Government & public finance1 with data · 18 indicators
- Population & demographics23 with data · 23 indicators
- Employment & wages11 with data · 19 indicators
- Income & inequality0 with data · 10 indicators
- Housing0 with data · 12 indicators
- Health17 with data · 23 indicators
- Education10 with data · 16 indicators
- Trade3 with data · 21 indicators
- Energy26 with data · 26 indicators
- Climate15 with data · 16 indicators
- Environment9 with data · 10 indicators
- Infrastructure & transportation6 with data · 10 indicators
- Digital economy & Internet3 with data · 6 indicators
- Innovation, research & technology3 with data · 9 indicators
- Agriculture & natural resources13 with data · 20 indicators
- Tourism0 with data · 5 indicators
- Security & governance5 with data · 15 indicators
- Quality of life9 with data · 14 indicators