Health in North Korea 960 indicators covering health for North Korea. IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank Share of men vs. women who smoke or use other tobacco 31.1% 2024 down 22.1% 73rd Share of women who smoke or use other tobacco 0.0% 2024 — 167th Share of adults who smoke or use other tobacco in 2000 vs. 2022 15.6% 2024 down 21.6% 103rd Mumps - number of reported cases 0 2022 down 100.0% 110th Share of one-year-olds vaccinated against Haemophilus influenzae type B 99.0% 2024 up 6.5% 1st Congenital Rubella Syndrome - number of reported cases 0 2025 — 16th Dentists 7,954 2024 up 72.4% 46th Nursing and midwifery personnel 117,830 2024 up 4.1% 42nd Nursing personnel 113,553 2024 up 8.0% 39th People using safely managed drinking water services, rural 48.8% 2023 down 4.6% 37th Hypertension: diagnosis coverage among adults aged 30-79 with 54.3% 2019 up 14.6% 96th Hypertension among adults aged 30-79 years, prevalence, crude 28.2 2019 up 6.0% 173rd Raised blood pressure (SBP>=140 OR DBP>=90) 20.55 2019 down 8.0% 175th Raised blood pressure (SBP>=140 OR DBP>=90) 21.75 2019 down 1.6% 172nd Hypertension: diagnosis coverage among adults aged 30-79 with 53.5% 2019 up 12.2% 103rd Hypertension among adults aged 30-79 years, prevalence 26.5 2019 down 1.5% 186th Hypertension effective treatment coverage (controlled hypertension) 22.5% 2019 up 33.1% 68th Hypertension: effective treatment coverage (controlled hypertension) 22.9% 2019 up 36.3% 66th Hypertension treatment coverage among adults aged 30-79 with 43.7% 2019 up 14.1% 86th Hypertension treatment coverage among adults aged 30-79 with 43.0% 2019 up 11.4% 94th Pneumococcal conjugate second or third-dose vaccines (PCVc) 0.0% 2025 — 167th Estimated number of malaria cases 5,233 Cases 2024 down 50.3% 63rd Treatment success rate: previously treated TB cases 76 2023 down 8.4% 67th Medical doctors 30.99 2024 down 10.2% 56th Prevalence of insufficient physical activity among adults aged 18+ 28.1% 2022 up 20.4% 84th Prevalence of insufficient physical activity among adults aged 18+ 27.0% 2022 up 15.2% 88th 3.b.1 Proportion of surviving infants receiving 3 doses of 0 2022 down 100.0% 195th Nursing and midwifery personnel 44.46 2024 up 1.5% 84th Vaccination against measles vs. share who think vaccines are unsafe 99.0% 2024 up 30.3% 1st Share of children fully vaccinated against measles 99.0% 2024 up 30.3% 1st Reported cases of paralytic polio from vaccine-derived viruses 0 cases 2023 — 24th Reported cases of paralytic polio from wild vs. vaccine-derived polioviruses 0 cases 2023 — 24th Dentists 3 2024 up 63.9% 80th Confirmed cases of RR-/MDR-TB 282 2024 up 43.1% 44th Number of one-year-olds who are not vaccinated against Haemophilus influenzae type B 3,420 one-year-olds 2023 down 85.1% 124th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 12.6% 2021 down 16.2% 167th Cause of death, by injury 7.5% 2021 down 2.1% 73rd Cause of death, by non-communicable diseases 79.1% 2021 up 2.3% 32nd Cause of death, by other COVID-19 pandemic-related outcomes 0.8% 2021 — 109th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 57.2% 2021 down 15.9% 119th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 57.1% 2021 down 16.4% 120th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 15.8% 2021 down 14.8% 142nd Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 16.0% 2021 down 24.9% 111th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 13.9% 2021 down 23.8% 116th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 19.4% 2021 down 25.5% 106th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 57.2% 2021 down 16.2% 119th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 16.0% 2021 down 8.4% 133rd Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 8.5% 2021 down 8.0% 171st Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 15.9% 2021 down 10.8% 138th Cause of death, by injury, ages 0-4, female 9.0% 2021 up 15.6% 10th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 10.8% 2021 down 17.8% 171st Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 10.1% 2021 down 5.3% 169th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 12.0% 2021 down 5.2% 164th Cause of death, by injury, ages 5-14, female 44.1% 2021 up 11.6% 14th Cause of death, by injury, ages 0-4 9.3% 2021 up 16.2% 12th Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and 14.3% 2021 down 16.0% 157th Cause of death, by injury, ages 0-4, male 9.5% 2021 up 16.7% 14th Cause of death, by injury, ages 5-14 52.5% 2021 up 6.2% 13th Cause of death, by injury, ages 5-14, male 57.9% 2021 up 3.2% 11th Cause of death, by injury, ages 15-59, female 13.0% 2021 down 4.2% 22nd ← Previous Page 11 of 16 Next →