North Korea’s per capita income last year was only a 20th of that of South Korea's.
 
Statistics Korea released Tuesday data that it had compiled about the North, which said the per-capita gross national income (GNI) for the communist country last year was one-point-38 million won. In comparison, South Korea’s per-capita GNI was 28-point-seven million won, or 20-point-eight times of North Korea’s.
 
The North’s nominal national income last year stood at 33-trillion-844-billion won, while South Korea’s was 42-point-six times the North’s figure.
 
North Korea’s population was 24-million-545-thousand, about half of that of South Korea. The population of the two Koreas combined stood at 74-million-765-thousand.
 
South Korea also outweighed North Korea in trade, with its total trade volume amounting to some one-point-75 trillion dollars. It was 146 times that of the North’s at seven-point-three billion dollars.