North Korea Employment Rate
North Korea employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 79.24%.
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North Korea · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
North Korea recorded 79.24% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.02 percentage points, from 79.26% to 79.24%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (78.96%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 77.70% in 2020 and the high was 79.38% in 2018.