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Religion

% of population
⚛︎ Unaffiliated ✝︎ Christian ☸︎ Buddhist ☯︎ Folk ❖ Other
North Korea
⚛︎
68%
☯︎
16%
❖
14%
☸︎
2%
✝︎
1%
South Korea
⚛︎
56%
✝︎
28%
☸︎
16%
❖
1%

Age

life stages · median
Children 0–14 Adults 15–59 Elderly 60+
South Korea 44.9 median age
12%
63%
25%
North Korea 34.6 median age
20%
68%
12%

Gender

population split
North Korea
Men 49.5% 50.5% Women
South Korea
Men 49.9% 50.1% Women

Working Women

workforce %
North Korea
78%
South Korea
57%
The verdict
median age South Korea
share of women North Korea
women in work North Korea
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North Korea vs South Korea — Demographics

One of these leads on women in work by 21 points. Every figure here comes from the same public datasets behind the full comparison — World Bank, IMF, UN and national statistics offices.

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