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Media Stats: compare key data on North Korea & United States

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STAT North Korea United States HISTORY
Broadcast media no independent media; radios and TVs are pre-tuned to government stations; 4 government-owned TV stations; the Korean Workers' Party owns and operates the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, and the state-run Voice of Korea operates an external broadcast service; the government prohibits listening to and jams foreign broadcasts 4
Fixed line and mobile phone subscribers > Per 1,000 people 41.36 per 1,000 people
Ranked 148th.
1,227.11 per 1,000 people
Ranked 36th. 30 times more than North Korea

International voice traffic > Out and in > Minutes 6.2 million min.
Ranked 137th.
82.06 billion min.
Ranked 1st. 13238 times more than North Korea

Internet > Fixed broadband Internet subscribers per 1000 0.0
Ranked 194th.
281.99
Ranked 22nd.

Internet > Internet users > Per 100 people 0.0
Ranked 199th.
81.03
Ranked 26th.

News Agencies > List of news agencies <p>Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) - state-run; web pages in several languages</p> </p>Uriminzokkiri (On Our Own) - website carrying official news; pages in several languages</p> <p>Associated Press</p> </p>Bloomberg Business News</p> </p>UPI</p>
Radio broadcast stations AM 17 (including 11 stations of Korean Central Broadcasting Station; North Korea has a "national intercom" cable radio station wired throughout the country that is a significant source of information for the average North Korean citizen; it is wired into most residences and workplaces and carries news and commentary), FM 14, shortwave 14 AM 4,789, FM 8,961, shortwave 19
Telecoms > Mobile cellular subscriptions > Per 100 people 6.92
Ranked 198th.
98.17
Ranked 111th. 14 times more than North Korea

Telecoms > Telephone lines per 1000 47.65
Ranked 144th.
442.8
Ranked 25th. 9 times more than North Korea

Telephones > Main lines in use > Per capita 50.26 per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st.
541.94 per 1,000 people
Ranked 9th. 11 times more than North Korea

Television > List of TV stations <p>Korean Central Broadcasting Station - radio station of Korean Workers&#039; Party</p> </p>Korean Central TV - TV station of Korean Workers&#039; Party</p> </p>Mansudae TV - cultural station</p> <br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15259016">Full Article</a> <p>ABC - major commercial network</p> </p>CBS - major commercial network</p> </p>NBC - major commercial network</p> <br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16757497">Full Article</a>
Television broadcast stations 4
Ranked 6th.
2,218
Ranked 1st. 555 times more than North Korea

Television receivers > Per capita 56.24 per 1,000 people
Ranked 119th.
803.21 per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st. 14 times more than North Korea

Televisions 1.2 million
Ranked 76th.
219 million
Ranked 2nd. 183 times more than North Korea
Televisions per 1000 51.17
Ranked 135th.
754.89
Ranked 3rd. 15 times more than North Korea
Radios per 1000 143.29
Ranked 152nd.
1,982.02
Ranked 1st. 14 times more than North Korea
Internet > Percent using internet 0.0
Ranked 200th.
81.03%
Ranked 24th.

Telephones > Mobile cellular 1,000,000
Ranked 148th.
290.3 million
Ranked 3rd. 290 times more than North Korea

Radio receivers > Per capita 0.157 per capita
Ranked 136th.
2.11 per capita
Ranked 1st. 13 times more than North Korea

Telephones > Main lines in use per 1000 48.67
Ranked 1st.
459.63
Ranked 20th. 9 times more than North Korea

Telephone mainlines per 1000 41.79
Ranked 127th.
607.73
Ranked 8th. 15 times more than North Korea

Newspapers > List of newspapers <p>Rodong Sinmun (Labour Daily) - organ of Korean Workers&#039; Party; web pages in English</p> </p>Joson Inmingun (Korean People&#039;s Army Daily)</p> </p>Minju Choson (Democratic Korea) - government organ</p> <br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15259016">Full Article</a> <p>USA Today - national daily</p> </p>Wall Street Journal - business daily</p> </p>Christian Science Monitor - church-owned daily</p> <br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16757497">Full Article</a>
Telephone system > General assessment adequate system; nationwide fiber-optic network; mobile-cellular service expanding beyond Pyongyang a large, technologically advanced, multipurpose communications system
Television receivers per 1000 53.95
Ranked 118th.
803.21
Ranked 1st. 15 times more than North Korea

Internet > IP addresses per capita 0.04
Ranked 223th.
4,911.96
Ranked 2nd. 122799 times more than North Korea
Telecoms > Mobile cellular subscriptions per 1000 68.65
Ranked 198th.
987.53
Ranked 110th. 14 times more than North Korea

Telecoms > Telephone lines 1.18 million
Ranked 69th.
139 million
Ranked 2nd. 118 times more than North Korea

Telecoms > Mobile cellular subscriptions 1.7 million
Ranked 145th.
310 million
Ranked 3rd. 182 times more than North Korea

Internet > Internet Service Providers 1
Ranked 175th.
7,000
Ranked 1st. 7000 times more than North Korea
Internet > Fixed broadband Internet subscribers 0.0
Ranked 194th.
88.52 million
Ranked 2nd.

Telephones > Main lines in use 1.18 million
Ranked 71st.
146 million
Ranked 2nd. 124 times more than North Korea

Telecommunications > Telephone > Main fixed phone lines per 100 people 4.77
Ranked 144th.
44.41
Ranked 23th. 9 times more than North Korea

Active military personnel 1.11 million
Ranked 2nd.
1.43 million
Ranked 1st. 29% more than North Korea
Radio receivers per 1000 151.07
Ranked 135th.
2,108.88
Ranked 1st. 14 times more than North Korea

Telecommunications > Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions 1.7 million
Ranked 145th.
303.05 million
Ranked 3rd. 178 times more than North Korea

Radio receivers 3.36 million
Ranked 67th.
575 million
Ranked 1st. 171 times more than North Korea

Telecommunications > Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile phones 2 million
Ranked 63th.
327.58 million
Ranked 3rd. 164 times more than North Korea
Television receivers 1.2 million
Ranked 75th.
219 million
Ranked 2nd. 183 times more than North Korea

Television broadcast stations > Per capita 0.18 per 1 million people
Ranked 11th.
7.42 per 1 million people
Ranked 17th. 41 times more than North Korea

Telephone system > International country code - 850; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intelsat - Indian Ocean, 1 Russian - Indian Ocean region); other international connections through Moscow and Beijing country code - 1; multiple ocean cable systems provide international connectivity; satellite earth stations - 61 Intelsat (45 Atlantic Ocean and 16 Pacific Ocean), 5 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 4 Inmarsat (Pacific and Atlantic Ocean regions)
Internet > ISP 1
Ranked 126th.
7,000
Ranked 1st. 7000 times more than North Korea
Radios 3.36 million
Ranked 68th.
575 million
Ranked 1st. 171 times more than North Korea
Newspapers > Daily newspapers > Total average circulation 4.5 million
Ranked 20th.
57.35 million
Ranked 4th. 13 times more than North Korea

Newspapers > Daily newspapers > Number of titles 15
Ranked 53th.
1,486
Ranked 2nd. 99 times more than North Korea

Internet > Top level domain .kp .us
Newspapers > Daily newspapers > Total average circulation per thousand people 204.39
Ranked 33th. 4% more than United States
195.85
Ranked 19th.

Telephone system > Domestic fiber-optic links installed down to the county level; telephone directories unavailable; GSM mobile-cellular service initiated in 2002 but suspended in 2004; Orascom Telecom Holding, an Egyptian company, launched W-CDMA mobile service on 15 December 2008 for the Pyongyang area, has expanded service to several large cities and now has a 1-million-person subscriber base a large system of fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and domestic satellites carries every form of telephone traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone traffic throughout the country
Internet country code .kp .us
Telephone mainlines 980,000
Ranked 68th.
177.95 million
Ranked 2nd. 182 times more than North Korea

International voice traffic > Out and in > Minutes per capita 0.293 min.
Ranked 148th.
280.26 min.
Ranked 9th. 957 times more than North Korea

Internet > Censorship > Political filtering nd No evidence of filtering
International voice traffic > Out and in > Minutes > Per capita 0.303 min. per capita
Ranked 145th.
279.45 min. per capita
Ranked 9th. 922 times more than North Korea

Internet hosts None None
Internet > Internet Service Providers per million 0.0426
Ranked 191st.
24.13
Ranked 23th. 566 times more than North Korea
Internet > IP addresses 1,024
Ranked 224th.
1.54 billion
Ranked 1st. 1505474 times more than North Korea
Television broadcast stations per million 0.171
Ranked 10th.
7.43
Ranked 15th. 44 times more than North Korea

Internet > TLD .kp .us
Internet > Livejournal users 42
Ranked 172nd.
1.29 million
Ranked 1st. 30781 times more than North Korea
Telecommunications > Country calling code 850 1
Telephone subscribers per 1000 39.4
Ranked 151st.
1,230.67
Ranked 35th. 31 times more than North Korea

E-Government rating 36
Ranked 127th.
60.1
Ranked 4th. 67% more than North Korea
Telecommunications > Telephone > Landlines 1.18 million
Ranked 71st.
114 million
Ranked 2nd. 97 times more than North Korea
Internet > Livejournal users per million 1.78
Ranked 182nd.
4,415.29
Ranked 3rd. 2485 times more than North Korea
Telecommunications > Telephone > International calling code 850
Ranked 30th. 850 times more than United States
1
Ranked 32nd.
Phone system > International dialling code +850 +1
Newspapers > Daily newspapers > Number of titles per million people 0.635
Ranked 119th.
5.08
Ranked 42nd. 8 times more than North Korea

Telecommunications > Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per thousand people 68.65
Ranked 196th.
965.4
Ranked 113th. 14 times more than North Korea

Telephone mainlines > Per capita 44 per 1,000 people
Ranked 129th.
605.97 per 1,000 people
Ranked 9th. 14 times more than North Korea

Telephone employees > Total > Per capita 0.734 per 1,000 people
Ranked 119th.
3.55 per 1,000 people
Ranked 5th. 5 times more than North Korea

Television standard > VHF PAL NTSC M
Telephone subscribers > Per capita 41.36 per 1,000 people
Ranked 147th.
1,227.11 per 1,000 people
Ranked 36th. 30 times more than North Korea

Telephone faults > Per 100 mainlines 50 per 100 mainlines
Ranked 61st. 4 times more than United States
13.24 per 100 mainlines
Ranked 26th.

Telephone subscribers 916,000
Ranked 93th.
360.35 million
Ranked 2nd. 393 times more than North Korea

Telephone subscribers per employee 33.33
Ranked 119th.
345.72
Ranked 61st. 10 times more than North Korea

Newspapers > Non-daily newspapers > Number of titles 7
Ranked 77th.
7,607
Ranked 1st. 1087 times more than North Korea

Internet > ISP > Per capita 0.046 per 1 million people
Ranked 123th.
24.27 per 1 million people
Ranked 2nd. 528 times more than North Korea
Internet > Secure Internet servers > Per 1 million people 0.041
Ranked 187th.
1,474.08
Ranked 19th. 35926 times more than North Korea

Internet > Fixed broadband Internet subscribers > Per 100 people 0.0
Ranked 194th.
28.03
Ranked 22nd.

Internet > ISP per million 0.0438
Ranked 129th.
24.34
Ranked 3rd. 556 times more than North Korea
Internet > IP addresses (share) 0.0
Ranked 70th.
35.9
Ranked 1st.
Newspapers > Non-daily newspapers > Number of titles per million people 0.296
Ranked 106th.
25.98
Ranked 42nd. 88 times more than North Korea

Telecoms > Telephone lines > Per 100 people 4.81
Ranked 144th.
44.02
Ranked 25th. 9 times more than North Korea

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; World Development Indicators database; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates.; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, December 2003. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Development Indicators database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; http://www.iana.org/numbers; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.; International Telecommunications Union; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel (The list); International Telecommunications Union. Source tables; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of mobile phones in use; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; OpenNet Initiative (ONI), ONI Data, https://opennet.net/sites/opennet.net/files/ONI_data-20130920.zip; http://www.iana.org/numbers; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; LiveJournal; Wikipedia: List of country calling codes (Alphabetical listing by country or region); report presents the second annual update on global e-government, i.e., the delivery of public sector information and online services through the Internet. This report studies the features that are available online at national government websites. Using a detailed analysis of 1.197 government websites in 198 different nations, it measures the information and services that are online, chart the variations that exist across countries, and discuss how e-government sites vary by region of the world. In order to see how the 198 nations ranked overall, the E-Government Ranking 2002 created a 0 to 100 point index and applied it to each nation's websites based on the availability of contact information, publications, databases, portals, and number of online services. (2002); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of telephone lines in use; LiveJournal. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: Telephone numbers in Asia (States and territories with country calling codes); UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Tenlab May 2002; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/) and World Bank population estimates.; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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