NORTH KOREA
For more data details, go to the Development Research Centre
on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty: Migration Information Source: North Korea's Resources: * The conventional long form: Democratic People's Republic
of Korea.
December 15, 2006
Note: Countries are listed in alphabetical order.
Major countries of destination of migrants
from North Korea are
South Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Source: Composite
Matrix, the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation
and Poverty.
Source: UN
Population Division. 2006. Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision. POP/DB/MIG/Rev.2005
According to UN Population Division
estimates, the international migrant population was reported to be
0.2 percent (36,765) of the total population of North Korea in 2005.**
**There were no data on either the foreign or the foreign-born population for
North Korea. Therefore, the estimate is an inputed value.
http://www.migrationdrc.org/research/typesofmigration/global_migrant_origin_database.html
More information about North Korea: http://migrationinformation.org/
Democratic People's Republic of Korea: http://www.korea-dpr.com/
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