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==History of reporting demographics== {{Historical populations |title = Historical population of North Korea |align = right |percentages = pagr |footnote = Note: North Korea was [[Victory over Japan|liberated]] in 1945 and formally declared a country in 1948.<ref name="bbc-overview">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-15278612 |title=North Korea Profile |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |date=26 March 2014 |access-date=30 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928094744/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-15278612 |archive-date=28 September 2014 }}</ref> |source = [[Nicholas Eberstadt|Nick Eberstadt]],<ref>{{Cite book | last=Eberstadt | first=Nick | year=2010 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72lpTkNcJQ4C&q=North%20Korea%20population%201963&pg=PA61 | title=Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era: 1945β91 | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | isbn=9780844742748 | page=61}}</ref> [[Central Bureau of Statistics (North Korea)|Central Bureau of Statistics]]<ref>{{cite web| last1 = Adlakha| first1 = Arjun| last2 = West|first2 = Loraine A.|date=October 1997 | title = Analysis of Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1993 Population Census Data and Population Projections |publisher=International Programs Center, Population Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census|oclc=630153397|url=http://www.lib.washington.edu/Msd/norestriction/b64084875.pdf|access-date=2013-12-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224114134/http://www.lib.washington.edu/Msd/norestriction/b64084875.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-24 }}</ref><ref name="unstats.un.org">{{cite web |title=DPR Korea 2008 Population Census: National Report |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/North_Korea/Final%20national%20census%20report.pdf |access-date=2014-10-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514111837/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/North_Korea/Final%20national%20census%20report.pdf |archive-date=2011-05-14 |location=Pyongyang|publisher=Central Bureau of Statistics|date=2009}}</ref> |1940 |8,510,000 |1944 |9,250,000 |1946 |9,260,000 |1949 |9,620,000 |1953 |9,360,000 |1960 |10,790,000 |1963 |11,570,000 |1993 |21,213,478 |2008 |24,052,231 }} [[File:Apartment Blocks, Pyongyang, North Korea.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Pyongyang apartment blocks in September 2008.]] Until the release of official data in 1989, the 1963 edition of the North Korea Central Yearbook was the last official publication to disclose population figures.<ref name=":0">{{Harvnb|Savada|1994|p=55}}.</ref> After 1963, demographers used varying methods to estimate the population.<ref name=":0" /> They either totaled the number of delegates elected to the Supreme People's Assembly (each delegate representing 50,000 people before 1962 and 30,000 people afterward) or relied on official statements that a certain number of persons, or percentage of the population, was engaged in a particular activity.<ref name=":0" /> Thus, on the basis of remarks made by President [[Kim Il Sung]] in 1977 concerning school attendance, the population that year was calculated at 17.2 million persons.<ref name=":1">{{Harvnb|Savada|1994|p=56}}.</ref> During the 1980s, health statistics, including life expectancy and causes of mortality, were gradually made available to the outside world.<ref name=":1" /> In 1989, the [[Central Bureau of Statistics (North Korea)|Central Bureau of Statistics]] released demographic data to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) to secure the UNFPA's assistance in holding North Korea's first nationwide census since the establishment of the DPRK in 1946.<ref name=":1" /> Although the figures given to the United Nations (UN) might have been purposely distorted, it appears that in line with other attempts to open itself to the outside world, the North Korean regime has also opened somewhat in the demographic realm.<ref name=":1" /> Although the country lacks trained demographers, accurate data on household registration, migration, and births and deaths are available to North Korean authorities.<ref name=":1" /> According to the United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister, vital statistics and personal information on residents are kept by agencies on the [[Administrative divisions of North Korea#Third-level divisions|''ri'']], or ''ni'' ({{Korean|hangul=리|hanja=ι}}: village, the local administrative unit) level in rural areas and the ''dong'' ({{Korean|hangul=λ|hanja=ζ΄|labels=no}}: district or block) level in urban areas.<ref name=":1" /> The next census was [[2018 North Korea Census|scheduled for 2018]], but was cancelled.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fensom|first=Anthony|date=2019-11-19|title=Kim Jong-Un Has a Population Problem|url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/kim-jong-un-has-population-problem-97292|access-date=2021-08-03|website=The National Interest|language=en}}</ref>
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