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Put up to five countries side by side across every indicator. The leader in each row is marked — direction-aware, so “best” always means best.
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IndicatorPRKKorea, Dem. People's Rep.East Asia & Pacific
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.02rank #151
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile16.3rank #195
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.01rank #156
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.09rank #145
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.01rank #153
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile26.6rank #188
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.02rank #151
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.04rank #145
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile71.4rank #84
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile25.3rank #198
Rule of Law0-100 percentile30.7rank #192
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.03rank #156
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.08rank #147
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.01rank #154
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile22.1rank #200
Women in parliament% seats17.6%rank #126
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.29rank #143
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment54.1%rank #19
Employment-to-population ratio%79.2%rank #8
Labour force participation rate%82.1%rank #7
Unemployment% labor force3.5%rank #59
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%3.6%rank #59
Vulnerable employment% employment56.8%rank #137
Youth unemployment% ages 15-247.9%rank #49
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-248%rank #53
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop93.9%rank #101
Basic sanitation access% pop84.8%rank #115
Child mortalityper 1001.7rank #74
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal1,981.1rank #176
DTP3 immunization coverage%99%rank #1
Infant mortalityper 1k births13.3rank #66
Life expectancyyears73.7rank #119
Maternal mortalityper 100k67rank #47
Measles immunization% children99%rank #1
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%99%rank #1
Physiciansper 1k3.6rank #25
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m321.8rank #126
Road traffic deathsper 100k24.2rank #100
Smoking prevalence% adults15.6%rank #48
Suicide mortality rateper 100k9.3rank #117
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births16.7rank #108
Undernourishment% pop47%rank #87
Education
Adult literacy%100%rank #1
Expected years of schoolingyears12.2rank #135
Primary completion rate% relevant age97.1%rank #55
Primary enrollment% gross92.1%rank #144
Secondary enrollment% gross94.3%rank #75
Tertiary enrollment% gross26.7%rank #95
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00012.9rank #111
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.8rank #120
Median age of populationyears36rank #75
Net migration rateper 1,000-0.08rank #98
Populationpeople26.57Mrank #56
Population growth%0.27%rank #155
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years77.1rank #129
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands25,787.1rank #66
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age44.9rank #177
Urban population%64.2%rank #98
Climate
CO₂ emissionst62.55Mrank #52
CO₂ per capitat2.4rank #116
Electricity access% pop61.4%rank #52
Electricity from coal% generation34.1%rank #56
Electricity from hydro% generation62.7%rank #27
Electricity from solar% generation0.63%rank #135
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita788.6rank #114
Forest area% land49.6%rank #54
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita2.9rank #53
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh340.6rank #73
Renewable electricity%63.4%rank #44
Renewable energy share%14.7%rank #113
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e75.4rank #122
Society
Asylum seekerspeople45rank #17
Female labor participation%77.7%rank #6
Internet users% pop0%rank #197
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #120
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #89
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.09rank #118
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.39rank #136
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people263rank #46
Youth NEET rate%9.1%rank #30
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-104.4rank #38
Human hazard & exposure0-104.1rank #34
INFORM risk score0-103.7rank #26
Lack of coping capacity0-106.6rank #56
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-103.9rank #35
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-108.3rank #61
Natural hazard & exposure0-104.6rank #33
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100rank #1
Vulnerability0-101.7rank #8
Vulnerable groups0-103.1rank #26
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