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Population of Korea 1910-2015. The demographics of North Korea are determined through national censuses and international estimates. The Central Bureau of Statistics of North Korea conducted the most recent census in 2008, where the population reached 24 million inhabitants. [1]
Usually, statistical affairs in North Korea are run by the Bureau, but some statistics such as those pertaining to the total population and mortality, are done by a separate organization called the Population Division, which was founded in 1993 in time for the 1993 census. [3]
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. [209] About 20 percent of men aged 17–54 serve in the regular armed forces, [209] and approximately one in every 25 citizens is an enlisted soldier. [210] [211]
The 1993 North Korean census (Korean: 1993년 조선민주주의인민공화국 인구일제조사) was a census conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics of North Korea on 31 December 1993. It was the first census held in North Korea since the founding of the country in 1949, for which Beijing provided technical assistance to Pyongyang.
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 which sanctions the nation's Foreign Trade Bank).
In North Korea, people are required to call the great famine the Arduous March (Korean: 고난의 행군, romanized: ko'nan-ŭi haenggun). It was one of the most important events in the history of North Korea, because it forced the regime and its people to change their lives in fundamental and unanticipated ways. [8]
North Korea claims seven provinces on the territory controlled by South Korea. While people's committees for these claimed provinces were elected in 1950 during the Korean War , no government-in-exile for them exists as of 2025, unlike the South Korean counterpart .
The history of North Korea began with the end of World War II in 1945. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel , with the Soviet Union occupying the north, and the United States occupying the south.