North Korea Employment Rate and Unemployment Rate

Employment Rate
Growth and changes in the structure and ownership pattern of the economy also have changed
the labor force. By 1958 individual private farmers, who once constituted more than 70% of the
labor force, had been transformed into or replaced by state or collective farmers. Private artisans,
merchants, and entrepreneurs had joined state or cooperative enterprises. In the industrial sector
in 1963, the last year for which such data are available, there were 2,295 state enterprises and
642 cooperative enterprises. The size and importance of the state enterprises can be surmised by
the fact that state enterprises, which constituted 78% of the total number of industrial enterprises,
contributed 91% of total industrial output.

Labor force (12.6 million)—by occupation:

 Agricultural: 35%
 Industry and services: 65% (2008 est.)

Employment Rate
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calendar of releases - was last updated on March of 2019.

Employment Rate in North Korea remained unchanged at 74.20 percent in 2015 from 74.20
percent in 2014. Employment Rate in North Korea averaged 76.64 percent from 1991 until 2015,
reaching an all-time high of 80.40 percent in 1994 and a record low of 74.20 percent in 2013.

Unemployment Rate
Unemployment Rate in North Korea decreased to 4.20 percent in 2017 from 4.30 percent in 2016.
Unemployment Rate in North Korea averaged 4.65 percent from 1991 until 2017, reaching an all-
time high of 6.40 percent in 1992 and a record low of 4.20 percent in 2017.
North Korea Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics,
economic calendar and news. North Korea Unemployment Rate - actual data, historical chart and
calendar of releases - was last updated on March of 2019.

Overview
None of this unemployment rates should be real. The significant difference between CIA
and trade economics. A socialist country, or at least in this case it is working to be
communist, has always employed its population. Everyone in North Korea should
have an employment whether they have an education or not.