Daily NK market price survey CSV
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Charts and data on North Korea
Every chart on this site, with the data behind it. Where a good source already exists (UN, World Bank, Our World in Data) we pull from it. Where the numbers are stuck in PDFs, spreadsheets or news articles, we pull them out and keep a clean copy here. All of it rebuilds every week on GitHub.
Start hereNorth Korea vs South KoreaSame people, split in 1945. Income, life expectancy, food, electricity, height and freedom, side by side.
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Inside North Korea today
Daily NK market price survey CSV
Ministry of Unification (South Korea), 북한이탈주민 주요 현황 CSV
UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service CSV
Health and food
Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024) CSV
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) CSV
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) and other sources CSV
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) CSV
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (2016) CSV
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (2016) CSV
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) CSV
Money and energy
Bolt and van Zanden – Maddison Project Database 2023 CSV
Ember (2026) and other sources CSV
Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) and other sources CSV
Data compiled from multiple sources by the World Bank CSV
Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) CSV
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), via World Bank (2026) CSV
People
HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) CSV
UN, World Population Prospects (2024) CSV
Freedom and weapons
V-Dem (2026) CSV
V-Dem (2026) CSV
CNS North Korea Missile Test Database, via nagix/nk-missile-tests CSV
Federation of American Scientists (2026) CSV
The Military Balance - International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2026) CSV
UN Security Council 1718 Committee consolidated list CSV
Data we keep ourselves
Nobody else publishes these as clean data: market prices from Daily NK’s survey (2009 to now, from a spreadsheet behind their site), defector arrivals from the Ministry of Unification’s PDF, yearly missile counts from the CNS database, and UN sanctions listings by year.