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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.
The North Korean famine ( Korean: 조선기근 ), also known as the Arduous March ( 고난의 행군 ), was a period of mass starvation together with a general economic crisis from 1994 to 1998 in North Korea. [ 6][ 7] During this time there was an increase in defection from North Korea which peaked towards the end of the famine period.
Estimating gross national product in North Korea is a difficult task because of a lack of economic data [34] and the problem of choosing an appropriate rate of exchange for the North Korean won, the nonconvertible North Korean currency. The South Korean government's estimate placed North Korea's GNP in 1991 at US$22.9 billion, or US$1,038 per ...
North Korea says about 3.3 million people have come down with fever amid its COVID-19 outbreak but only 69 have died, a number that causes skepticism. North Korea announces a tiny COVID-19 death ...
North Korea has a life expectancy of 74 years as of 2022. [ 1] While North Korea is classified as a low-income country, the structure of North Korea's causes of death (2013) is unlike that of other low-income countries. [ 2] Rather, causes of death are closer to the worldwide averages, with non-communicable diseases – such as cardiovascular ...
The North's trade volume rose 74.6% to $2.77 billion in 2023, after growing by a record high of 123.9% in 2022, when the North started to ease border controls from the pandemic. The figure ...
Despite these changes, North Korea remains a command economy where the state owns almost all means of production and development priorities are defined by the government. [286] North Korea has the structural profile of a relatively industrialized country [289] where nearly half of the gross domestic product is generated by industry [290] and ...
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [ 9] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [ 8] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.