PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Location:
Eastern Asia, northern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and South Korea
Land use:
arable land: 19.08%
permanent crops: 1.7%
other: 79.22% (2011)
Environment - water pollution; inadequate supplies of potable water; waterborne disease; deforestation; soil erosion and degradation
Age structure:
0-14 years: 21.5% (male 2,709,580/female 2,628,456)
15-24 years: 16.3% (male 2,041,861/female 1,997,413)
25-54 years: 44% (male 5,465,889/female 5,456,850)
55-64 years: 8.6% (male 1,007,667/female 1,127,455)
65 years and over: 9.5% (male 826,175/female 1,590,281) (2014 est.)
Literacy:24,851,627 (July 2014 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.53% (2014 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 69.81years
male: 65.96 years
female: 73.86 years (2014 est.)
Population below poverty line:NA%
Unemployment rate:NA%
Agriculture:
Rice,corn,patatoss, soybeans,cattle,pigs,pork, eggs