Physicians Density per 1,000 people
Population
Percent of children under age 5
underweight
Brazil
1.72
205,716,890
2.20%
China
1.415
1,343,239,923
8.70%
0.01
10,884,958
20.80%
0.599
1,205,073,612
43.50%
Jamaica
0.85
2,889,187
2.20%
Mexico
2.893
114,975,406
3.40%
Nigeria
0.395
170,123,740
26.70%
South Korea
3.29
24,589,122
20.60%
United States
2.672
313,847,465
1.30%
Vietnam
1.244
91,519,289
20.20%
Guinea
India
1,600,000,000
1,400,000,000
Brazil
Population
1,200,000,000
China
Guinea
1,000,000,000
India
Jamaica
800,000,000
Mexico
Nigeria
600,000,000
South Korea
United States
400,000,000
Vietnam
200,000,000
0
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
45.00%
Percent of Children Under Age 5 Underweight
50.00%
1,600,000,000
1,400,000,000
Population
1,200,000,000
Brazil
China
1,000,000,000
Guinea
India
800,000,000
Jamaica
Mexico
600,000,000
Nigeria
South Korea
400,000,000
United States
Vietnam
200,000,000
0
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
Physician Density Per 1000 People
3.0
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Malaria is a common disease in many labor
camps in North Korea. Malaria is spread by
mosquitoes. When they bite an infected
person and then bite another one, the
parasites are spread to that other person.
The malaria parasites can travel to your liver
and stay dormant for a year before
symptoms show up. These symptoms
include: Diarhhea, vomiting, nausea,
sweats, chills, headache.
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. You can’t turn off the government radio installed in your home,
only reduce the volume.
2. Idolatry in North Korea is such that it is second-nature for
ordinary citizens to “rescue” portraits of Kim Il Sung before all else
in the case of a house fire (there are even special bunkers for
statues in case of war)
3. Many people don’t even know that man has walked on the
moon.
4. There is no Internet, cell-phones have been banned.
5. A main cause for all problems are Americans. Mothers teach
their children to sing songs about bad Americans, there are many
postage stamps showing the death of “U.S imperialists”
6. A six-day work week, and another day of enforced “volunteer”
work, ensures that the average citizen has virtually no free time.
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7. The very first thing you do when you visit North Korea’s capital Pyongyang is visit and
give a flower to a big statue of “Dear Leader”.
8. About 0.85% of the population are held in prison or detention camps.
9. Most traffic control is performed by female traffic directors (reportedly handpicked by
Kim Jong-Il for their beauty), as the lights are switched off to save electricity.
10. Dogs are banned in Pyongyang to keep it clean.
11. Avarage wage in 2005 was 6$ (source:
12. Visitors of North Korea are given special guides and can’t go anywhere without
them.
13. North Koreans are used to often disappearing electricity and have many candles
prepared.
14. North Korea has the fourth-largest military in the world, at an estimated 1.21 million
armed personnel