
Trade Finance In Wartime
The huge drop-off in trade involving Russia and Ukraine has hit trade finance hard.
Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about North Korea economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. Rankings of North Korea best banks and safest banks are also available.
South Korea’s new overtures to Kim Jong II are part of a broader regional diplomatic initiative. Moon visited China, a North Korean ally and key trading partner, in December 2017, and called for better South Korea-China relations.
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Minerals, metallurgical products, manufactures (including armaments), textiles, agricultural and fishery products
Petroleum, coking coal, machinery and equipment, textiles, grain
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 89 million | USD -13 million | USD 52 million |
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: N/A
Subcategories:
Starting a business: N/A
Enforcing Contracts: N/A
Registering Property: N/A
Getting credit: N/A
Protecting investors: N/A
Trading across border: N/A
Paying Taxes: N/A
Dealing with Construction Permits: N/A
Getting Electricity: N/A
Resolving Insolvency: N/A
Ranking: 180 / Score: 5.9 (Repressed)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Dictatorship, single-party state; official state ideology of "Juche" or "national self-reliance"
Traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christian and syncretic Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way)
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1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
40.2% | 56.9% | 59.4% | 61.9% |
Total population: 100%
Male: 100%
Female: 100%
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
Not Free
Political Rights: 7
Civil Liberties: 7 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 50.6% Mobile: 129.7% (2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)