North Korea(Washington Insider Magazine) – North Korean statistics are peculiar and it is hard to define this country. It can be categorized as a third-world country indeed. It is a poor nation in the Third World. However, if you look at the social indicators, they look so advanced.
CIA analysts have estimated that North Korea’s per capita is at $1800. At any rate, this level is low and puts North Korea in the same range as Haiti and Sierra Leone. According to some researchers, North Korea is even poorer than Myanmar, a country considered to be the poorest on earth.
A Great Emphasis On Education In The Country
There is a lot of emphasis on education in North Korea. Surprisingly primary and secondary education, in North Korea, is benefitted from the authoritarian. The police in the country make sure that every child of the right age is sent to school by their parents because this is a government requirement.
Parents don’t want to get in trouble over this issue and don’t dare to challenge the demand for the schooling of their children. The head of the family doesn’t consider any demand for child labor as they know that it is compulsory to send their children to school. Any kind of religious disagreement or belief spoiling the girls’ virtues doe sending them to school is prohibited.
There is a lot of impact secondary education has on girls and they are reluctant to have large families. The fertility rate is also low due to this thinking of girls. The high education level of North Korean women is high and this has resulted in women not being willing to have many children. North Korea has a fast declining fertility rate.
Secondary school and education are not that expensive. The schools have big buildings and qualified teachers. Children coming to school just need textbooks and the class is equipped with a blackboard. When it comes to college-level education, there is no spirit of free discussion.
Questionable Health Care System
North Korea, health care system is questionable and a lot of unacceptable things happen in the country in this sector. Most countries in the world follow the western system where the doctors are well trained and well paid as well.
This profession is considered to be one of the most prestigious in most countries. In North Korea, it is the opposite. The doctors are merely holders of another white-collar job. They get average pay and limited prestige similar to a junior bank manager or just a secondary school teacher.
This attitude can seem somewhat humiliating. The emphasis is on quantity, not quality. North Korea has 32.9 physicians and is ranked between Sweden and the Netherlands. These two countries have some of the world’s best healthcare systems.
North Korean doctor, is poorly trained and poorly equipped and will be a no match to the Swedish colleague. North Korean doctors are not capable of conducting brain surgery, but they are capable of administering antibiotics. These doctors also fix the broken bones of construction workers.
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High Life Expectancy In North Korea
North Korea has a high life expectancy rate. There is a huge reason behind this. If the government believes that certain vaccinations must be made obligatory and administered to people of a certain age there are not many people who would dare to argue that.
If citizens are ordered to get a chest X-ray or get a medical check they would do it without raising any questions. They don’t have any say if their employers or authorities tell them to do something. The higher authorities keep people under control and they don’t have any control over their lives.
North Korea has a high level of vaccination. This factor has a lot of influence on the general health of the people living in North Korea. There is a lot of abundance of doctors who are not paid well but still work under unfavorable conditions.
The country has been dealing with aging people despite being a poor country. However, this model is not sufficient to deal with complicated diseases as the doctors in the country are not skilled and experienced enough to treat people with rare diseases.
The North Korean population is suffering a lot when it comes to getting the proper medical facilities. People suffering from complicated diseases are only treated if they are high-positioned people. Common people are left untreated because there are no doctors that can provide a solution to their complicated and undetected diseases.