East Asia & Pacific · capital Pyongyang
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.
#56 by population · Low income · ISO PRK
Population right now
26,663,333
216.7 net per day · 1 birth every 92.4 s
·anchor 26,571,036 on 1 Jul 2025
·0.321% of the world
👶 Births today
824
0% of the way to the next birth · 0 while you've been here
⚰️ Deaths today
632
0% of the way to the next death · 0 while you've been here
🧳 Net migration / yr
−557
5-yr avg from 2025
📈 Net growth / day
+191
0.30% per year, from births − deaths + migration
Profile
Birth rate
12.86 /1,000
2024
Death rate
9.86 /1,000
2024
Fertility
1.78 births/woman
Life expectancy
73.7 yrs
Aged 0–14
18.9%
Aged 65+
12.7%
Urban
64.2%
Land area
120,540 km²
Density
220.4 /km²
GDP / capita
—
Trend
Population 2015–2025
Same region
Largest neighbours
How these numbers are made. Nobody counts people in real time.
Each figure is recomputed every frame from a World Bank anchor and rate:
pop(now) = 26,571,036 + 0.0025/s × elapsed since 1 Jul 2025
births/day = 935 (crude birth rate 12.86/1,000, 2024)
deaths/day = 717 (crude death rate 9.86/1,000, 2024)
Births and deaths are estimates for a hypothetical average day; they do not reflect
seasonality, and the migration figure is a 5-year average. World Bank's separately
published growth rate is 0.27%/yr; the rate shown above is derived
from the components so it always agrees with the counter. Full method →