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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]
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. [208] About 20 percent of men aged 17–54 serve in the regular armed forces, [208] and approximately one in every 25 citizens is an enlisted soldier. [209] [210]
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.
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]
The United Nations Population Fund estimates North Korea’s fertility rate for 2023 at 1.8 births per woman. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com. Show comments.
Population Area (km 2) Density (/km 2) Capital Region; Chagang: ... North Korea claims seven provinces on the territory controlled by South Korea.
Far from their homes in one of the world’s most isolated and secretive states, about 11,000 North Korean soldiers find themselves at the center of Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.
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).