South v.

North Korea

Area
Natural
resources
Land use
Irrigated land
Environmentcurrent issues
Total
renewable
water
resources
Freshwater
withdrawal
(domestic/
industrial/
agricultural)
Population

South Korea
Total: 99,720 sq km
Land: 96,920 sq km
Water: 2,800 sq km

Arable land: 14.93%

Permanent crops: 2.06%
Other: 83% (2011)
8,804 sq km (2003)
Air pollution in large cities; acid rain;
water pollution from the discharge of
sewage and industrial effluents; drift
net fishing

North Korea
Total: 120,538 sq km
Land: 120,408 sq km
Water: 130 sq km
Coal, lead, tungsten, zinc, graphite,
magnesite, iron ore, copper, gold,
pyrites, salt, fluorspar, hydropower
Arable land: 19.08%
Permanent crops: 1.7%
Other: 79.22% (2011)
14,600 sq km (2003)
Water pollution; inadequate supplies of
potable water; waterborne disease;
deforestation; soil erosion and
degradation

69.7 cu km (2011)

77.15 cu km (2011)

Total: 25.47 cu km/yr (26% / 12% /

62%)
Per capita: 548.7 cm m/yr

Total: 8.66 cu km/yr (10% / 13% / 76%)

Per capita: 360.6 cu m/yr (2005)

49,039,986 (July 2014 est.)

24,851,627 (July 2014 est.)

Coal, tungsten, graphite, molybdenum,

lead, hydropower potential

Age structure

Population
growth rate
Birth rate

0-14 years: 14.1%

o Male 3,603,943
o Female 3,328,634
15-24 years: 13.5%
o Male 3,515,27
o Female 3,113,257
25-54 years: 47.3%
o Male 11,814,872
o Female 3,113,257
55-64 years: 12.4%
o Male 3,012,051
o Female 3,081,480
65 years and over: 12.7%
o Male 2,570,433
o Female 3,639,083) (2014
est.)

0-14 years: 21.5%

o Male 2,709,580
o Female 2,628,456)
15-24 years: 16.6%
o Male 2,041,86
o Female 1,997,413
25-54 years: 44%
o Male 5,465,889
o Female 5,456,850
55-64 years: 8.6%
o Male 1,007,667
o Female 1,127,455
65 years and over: 9.7%
o Male 826,175
o Female 1,590,281 (2014
est.)

0.16% (2014 est.)

0.53% (2014 est.)

8.26 births/1,000 population (2014

14.51 births/1,000 population (2014

2.02 physicians/1,000 population

(2010)

est.)
9.18 deaths/1,000 population (2014
est.)
Total: 24.5 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 27.18 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 21.68 deaths/1,000 live births
(2014 est.)
Total population: 69.81 years
Male: 65.96 years
Female: 73.86 years (2014 est.)
Traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist,
some Christian and syncretic
Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly
Way)
Note: autonomous religious activities
now almost nonexistent; governmentsponsored religious groups exist to
provide illusion of religious freedom
3.29 physicians/1,000 population
(2003)

10.3 beds/1,000 population (2009)

13.2 beds/1,000 population (2002)

Literacy

Definition: age 15 and over can read

and write
Total population: 97,9%
Male: 99.2%
Female: 96.5% (2002)

Industries

Electronics, telecommunications,
automobile production, chemical,
shipbuilding, steel

Definition: age 15 and over can read

and write
Total population: 100%
Male: 100%
Female: 100% (2008 est.)
Military products; machine building,
electric power, chemicals; mining (coal,
iron ore, limestone, magnesite,
graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and
precious metals), metallurgy; textiles,
food processing; tourism
$3,954 billion (2012 est.)
$3,703 billion (2011 est.)

Death rate
Infant
mortality rate
Life
expectancy at
birth

Religions

Physicians
density
Hopital bed
density

Exports

Exports commodities

est.)
6.63 deaths/1,000 population (2014
est.)
Total: 3.93 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 4.13 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 3.73 deaths/1,000 live births
(2014 est.)
Total population: 79.8 years
Male: 76.67 years
Female: 83.13 years (2014 est.)
Christian 31.6% (Protestant 24%,
Roman Catholic 7.6%)
Buddhist 24.2%
Other or unknown 0.9%
None 43.4%
(2010 survey)

$557.3 billion (2013 est.)

$547.9 billion (2012 est.)
Semiconductors, wireless
telecommunications equipment, motor
vehicles, auto parts, computers,
display, home appliances, wire
telecommunication equipment, steel,
ships, petrochemicals

Minerals, metallurgical products,

manufactures (including armaments),
textiles, agricultural and fishery
products