World population/North Korea
Asia
Population of North Korea
26,633,693
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#56
world rank
0.32%
of world population
+0.20%
yearly change
+52,811
people this year
328,497
births a year
267,793
deaths a year
How the figure for North Korea is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of North Korea at 26,633,693 on 1 July 2026, and projects 26,686,504 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places North Korea at number 56 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.32 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 328,497 births and 267,793 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.