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title: "Population: North Korea data | Save North Korea"
description: "Population: People living in the country. Interactive chart, table and CSV download, with source and date."
url: "https://savenorthkorea.org/data/population"
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  ko: https://savenorthkorea.org/ko/data/population
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# Population

### Population

People living in the country.

**Source:** [HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024), via Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population) (CC BY 4.0)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-05, source updated 2024-07-15

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## About this data

Latest

North Korea: 26,418,196 people (2023)

License

CC BY 4.0

How to cite

Save North Korea (2026). “Population”. Data from HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024), via Our World in Data. https://savenorthkorea.org/data/population

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### Children per woman

Average number of children a woman has over her life, at that year’s rates.

**Source:** [UN, World Population Prospects (2024), via Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un) (CC BY 4.0)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-05, source updated 2024-07-12

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