- ISO 3166
KP- Primary locale
ko-KP- Currency
- KPW · North Korean Won
- Region
- not grouped
North Korea
North Korea has 26.3M people. Korean is the most widely spoken language at 88%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Korean is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ko-KP.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
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0%world median 81%100%
0% of 26.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2004 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
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GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
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No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown here.
Languages
1
Korean 88%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
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Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
100%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in North Korea
share of 26.3M people
- Koreanofficial88%23.1M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against ko-KP, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
1
No grammatical plural agreement. The string catalog is simpler.
Script family
Hangul
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
2026년 4월 21일
Short: 26. 4. 21.
Time
PM 6:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
KPW 1,235
1,234.56 in KPW · North Korean Won
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script