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title: "This season’s fields: North Korea data | Free North Korea"
description: "This season’s fields: Greenness of North Korea’s cropland every 16 days this year, against the average of the 10 years before. Interactive chart, table and CSV download, with source and date."
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# This season’s fields

### This season’s fields

Greenness of North Korea’s cropland every 16 days this year, against the average of the 10 years before.

**Source:** [MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250m (MOD13Q1 v6.1), NASA LP DAAC, over MODIS cropland, in Google Earth Engine](https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod13q1v061/) (NASA open data)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-12, source updated 2026-09-14

**Note:** Mean NDVI over cropland, every 16 days from April. The average is 2016-2025, the same 16 days of each year. The latest composite starts 2026-09-14. 

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## About this data

Latest

This year: 0.67 NDVI (Sep 2026)

License

NASA open data

How to cite

Free North Korea (2026). “This season’s fields”. Data from MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250m (MOD13Q1 v6.1), NASA LP DAAC, over MODIS cropland, in Google Earth Engine. https://liberatenorthkorea.org/data/crop-greenness-season

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## Related charts

### How green the fields are

Greenness of North Korea’s cropland from May to September each year, seen from space. Drought and flood years show as dips.

**Source:** [MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250m (MOD13Q1 v6.1), NASA LP DAAC, over MODIS cropland, in Google Earth Engine](https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod13q1v061/) (NASA open data)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-12, source updated 2026-09-14

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### Life expectancy

How many years a baby born that year would live on average.

**Source:** [Riley (2005); Zijdeman et al. (2015); HMD (2025); UN WPP (2024), via Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy) (CC BY 4.0)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-05, source updated 2025-10-22

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### Children who die before age five

Share of newborns who do not reach their fifth birthday.

**Source:** [United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025), via Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality-igme) (CC BY 4.0)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-05, source updated 2026-06-09

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### Food per person per day

Calories available per person per day. Around 2,100 kcal is the usual minimum.

**Source:** [Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) and other sources, via Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-per-capita-caloric-supply) (CC BY 4.0)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-05, source updated 2026-03-02

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