The data collected by the enumerators observed is accurate enough to ensure a good census.
North korea population manual#
No major problems were observed and the errors have been or will be corrected through the supervision mechanism, and at the manual editing and coding stages. All the 5 observation teams observed that the procedures of the census taking followed by the DPRK conform to the general international procedures. The observation by UNFPA international personnel to the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) population census in 2008 was made in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding, such as access to site, households, institutional living quarters, and questionnaires for military and prisons, despite of few challenges and spaces for improvement. The Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea 2008 Census was carried out 1-15 October. However, given that the similar-sized Province of Gangwon-do that accounts for as much as 8.5% of Pyeongyang’s incoming population and 14.3% of its outgoing population, the low migration trend for Yanggang-do and Jagangdo appears to be related to their socioeconomic conditions, two of the most backward provinces in the country.The Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2008 Census This trend may be a result of the fact that the two provinces have smaller populations. Similarly, those people moving from Yanggang-do and Jagang-do to Pyeongyang stand only at 0.03% and 0.04%. One of the interesting features of Pyeongyang’s population movement is that a significantly small number of people move to Yanggang-do (0.01%) or Jagang-do (0.03%) compared to all of the other provinces. Pyeongyang’s population out-migration to other regions is generally evenly distributed.
Among those who leave Pyeongyang, 40% choose to go to Pyeongannam-do. FAST FACTS OFFICIAL NAME: Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Single-party state CAPITAL: Pyongyang POPULATION: 25,381,085 OFFICIAL. Hamgyeongnamdo, especially, has taken the biggest hit, with twice as many people leaving as those moving into the province.Īs for Pyeongyang, 30.2% of its incoming population is from Pyeongannam-do, followed by Hwanghaebuk-do (13.6%) and Pyeonganbuk-do (13%). Besides Pyeongyang, only Pyeongannam-do and Hamgyeongbuk-do have more people moving in than those moving out whereas all of the other regions are experiencing serious population out-migration. The city’s population out-migration accounts for 10.2% of the total. The Direct-administered City of Pyeongyang, in particular, boasts the highest share and number of incoming population which is 28.3% of the total. Exceptions are Pyeongyang and Pyeongannam-do where the largest volume of migrant population ultimately lives. According to UN population census statistics, the migrant population above the age of five in 2008 reflected less than 1% of the total population, which demonstrates that interregional migration is not common. The population density is generally low in the mountainous northern and eastern parts (Jagang-do, Yanggang-do, Hamgyeongbukdo, Hamgyeongnam-do, and Gangwon-do), with the exception of scattered cities, such as Hyesan-si, Cheongjin (Chongjin)-si, Hamheung (Hamhung)-si, and Ganggye-si, and the eastern coastal area. Pyeongyang and its neighboring Pyeongannam-do show the highest population density. Since 1993, North Korea has shown an average annual population growth of 1% and its population finally exceeded 24 million in 2004.Īs shown on the map above, most North Koreans live in the southern and western parts of country where there are many plains and lowlands.
According to North Korea’s central statistics office, however, the country’s population recorded a net loss in 1992 for the first time. By 1958, the population had grown continuously to surpass the ten million mark for the first time in history, and it reached 20 million by the late 1980s. However, when North Korea and South Korea fought the Korean War, the North’s population dropped to its lowest level at 8.49 million. In 1946, a year after Korea’s liberation from Japan, the total population of North Korea reached 9.26 million.
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