South Korea is the 26th most populated country in the world, while its territory ranks 116th largest, and it comes in 7th in terms of oil imports and 8th in military spending, according to the updated World Factbook published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Updated on Sept. 7, the factbook says North Korea's population ranks 49th while its territorial area ranks 116th. The country has a higher birthrate (15.54 per 1,000), ranking 143rd, than South Korea (10 per 1,000), which comes in 202nd.
North Korea's military expenditure is placed 22nd.
Countries whose information were not available were not included in the rankings list, so the total number of nations listed differ category by category.
In purchasing power parity, South Korea comes in 16th with US$965 billion, North Korea in 88th with $40 billion.
The death rate in South Korea is 5.85 per 1,000, or 171st. It's 7.13 per 1,000 in North Korea, or 132nd.
South Korea is the 13th largest electricity production country, with 342 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). North Korea was not included in this category.
In electricity consumption, South Korea ranks 13th at 321 billion kWh, while North Korea comes in 68th at 17.4 billion kWh.
Neither of the Koreas are oil producing nations, but the South is 7th in consumption with 2.26 million barrels per day, and North Korea 42nd with 22,000 barrels.
South Korea ranks 8th in military spending ($21 billion) based on year 2005 and North Korea 22nd ($5 billion) based on year 2002.
Washington, Sept. 11 (Yonhap News)
S. Korea ranks 8th, N. Korea 22nd in military spending size: CIA factbook |
