Location:
Eastern Asia, northern half of the Korean
peninsula bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan,
between China and Russia
Area:
total area:
120,540 sq km
land area:
120,410 sq km
comparative area:
slightly smaller than Mississippi
Land boundaries:
total 1,673 km ;
China 1,416 km, South Korea 238 km, Russia 19 km
Coastline: 2,495 km
Population: 23,486,550 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
30% (female 3,402,672; male 3,540,313)
15-64 years:
66% (female 7,840,465; male 7,741,155)
65 years and over:
4% (female 622,250; male 339,695)
Population growth rate: 1.78% (1995 est.)
Birth rate: 23.31 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 5.47 deaths/1,000 population
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 26.8 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
70.05 years
male:
66.96 years
female:
73.29 years
Total fertility rate: 2.34 children born/woman
Ethnic divisions: racially homogeneous
Religions:
Buddhism and Confucianism,
some Christianity and syncretic Chondogyo
Languages: Korean
Literacy:
age 15 and over can read and write Korean (1990 est.)
total population:
99%
male:
99%
female:
99%
Names:
conventional long form:
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
conventional short form:
North Korea
Type: Democratic People's Republic
Capital: P'yongyang
Independence: 9 September 1948
Constitution:
adopted 1948, completely revised 27 December 1972,
revised again in April 1992
National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $21.3 billion
National product real growth rate: 0%
National product per capita: $920
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
Unemployment rate:
Electricity:
capacity:
9,500,000 kW
production:
50 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
2,053 kWh
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