ACOG - Democratic People's Republic of Korea - IBM

Geography

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


People

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%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
conventional short form: North Korea

Type: Communist state; Stalinist dictatorship

Capital: P'yongyang

Independence: 9 September 1948

Constitution: adopted 1948, completely revised 27 December 1972, revised again inApril 1992


Economy

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



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).