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North Korea

Overview

Health indicators, mortality rates, disease burden, and healthcare infrastructure data for North Korea.

Healthcare Quality

Oyster healthcare score
68
Oyster List · lineage unverified
Stored score on a 0–100 scale. Oyster List uses several healthcare proxy methods; this row does not record its input sources, observation year, or formula version. It cannot be identified as a direct WHO or World Bank score. Scoring limitations.

WHO Health Indicators

Browse the latest available value for each stored sex, age, other dimension and unit combination across these pages. Different scopes are separate series. Periods can be old; a recent import does not make an old period current. Future-dated periods are listed separately because the stored data does not identify observation versus projection status.

51 scoped series entries across 27 indicators. Up to 50 entries per page; category counts below refer to this page.

Wasting in children (under 5)
2.600000
Unit: % of children · Period: 2017
Sex: Not specified · Age: Not specified
WHO data portal · Indicator: FC5231F · Imported: 21/11/2025
Source file: FC5231F_2.2.2 - Malnutrition/408_FC5231F_Dataset_2025-05-13.csv

World Bank Health Indicators

Total alcohol consumption per capita, female (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, female 15+ years of age)
1.55
2020 · World Bank
Total alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, 15+ years of age)
3.87
2020 · World Bank
Total alcohol consumption per capita, male (liters of pure alcohol, projected estimates, male 15+ years of age)
6.29
2020 · World Bank
Prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (% of women ages 15-49)
27.50
2023 · World Bank
Prevalence of anemia among children (% of children ages 6-59 months)
31.60
2019 · World Bank
Prevalence of anemia among non-pregnant women (% of women ages 15-49)
27.40
2023 · World Bank
Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions (% of total)
12.79
2019 · World Bank
Number of infant deaths
4989.00
2023 · World Bank
Number of infant deaths, female
2152.00
2023 · World Bank
Number of infant deaths, male
2837.00
2023 · World Bank
Cause of death, by injury (% of total)
6.81
2019 · World Bank
Number of under-five deaths
6196.00
2023 · World Bank
Number of under-five deaths, female
2682.00
2023 · World Bank
Number of under-five deaths, male
3514.00
2023 · World Bank
Cause of death, by non-communicable diseases (% of total)
80.40
2019 · World Bank
Number of neonatal deaths
3295.00
2023 · World Bank
Number of stillbirths
2828.00
2023 · World Bank
Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%)
48.10
2024 · World Bank
Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births)
18.00
2023 · World Bank
Mortality rate, under-5, female (per 1,000 live births)
16.10
2023 · World Bank
Sources: WHO World Bank

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