Cost of Living inChongjin, North Korea
Purchasing Power
We do not show a purchasing-power multiplier here yet because we do not have defensible PPP data for this country.
Income Category
City Population
Child Education
Public-schooling rules and international-school pricing are not sourced for North Korea yet. Quality, expat-access, instruction language, and tuition will appear here once verified.
Childcare & Domestic Help
Nanny, housekeeper, and driver pricing is not yet sourced for Chongjin. We publish this section only when we can tie it to local job-board, agency, or country fallback evidence.
Getting Around
Neighborhood mobility profiles are rolling out city by city.Chongjin is still missing a verified walkability, transit, airport, and rideshare profile.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in North Korea.
Method: country metrics come from public system indicators, facility coverage reflects mapped providers we can inventory, direct pricing only reflects observed self-pay pages, and relative care cost can fall back to broad cost-of-living healthcare indices. Sparse pricing does not imply sparse healthcare availability.
Hospital and clinic listings for Chongjin are still being verified. The country-level health-system summary for North Korea applies; named facilities and direct self-pay prices appear here only after they are source-backed.
Healthcare system
StrongGood national coverage, strong doctor availability, and solid hospital-bed capacity support this rating.
Public care
MixedRelatively low patient cost-sharing help, but public funding looks lighter.
Private care
LimitedThis is an inferred read based on facility depth, private ownership signals, and available self-pay pricing.
UHC coverage
77/100
2023
Physicians
3.63/1k
2017
Hospital beds
12.8/1k
2018
Out of pocket
0%
2025
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
73.7 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
67/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
8.9/1k
2024
International patient readiness
LimitedPrice transparency is still sparse weigh on this rating.
Pricing transparency
LimitedPublished self-pay prices are scarce weigh on this rating.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in North Korea yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
System metrics: World Bank WDI · Updated 2026-06-01
Safety & Governance
Street Safety
Source: Numbeo where a city row is matched; otherwise World Bank WGI and country-level safety context.
Political Stability
World Bank WGI scale: -2.5 to +2.5.
Wages by Sector
| Sector | Median |
|---|---|
| Administrative & Support Services | — |
| Agriculture & Farming | — |
| Arts, Entertainment & Recreation | — |
| Construction | — |
| Education | — |
| Finance & Insurance | — |
| Healthcare & Social Work | — |
| Hospitality & Food Service | — |
| Information & Technology | — |
| Manufacturing | — |
| Mining & Quarrying | — |
| Other Services | — |
| Professional & Scientific Services | — |
| Real Estate | — |
| Retail & Wholesale Trade | — |
| Transport & Logistics | — |
| Utilities | — |
2024 annual wages in Chongjin, North Korea · Source: GDP-derived estimate (national)
Price Comparison vs. US
Visa Information (US passport)
Short-stay entry
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About Chongjin
Chongjin is a port city on the northeastern coast of North Korea, sitting on the Sea of Japan in North Hamgyong province with about 327,000 residents. It is one of the country's major heavy-industrial centers, anchored by the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, shipyards, and chemicals, alongside an ice-free port. Korean is the working language. The climate is humid continental and one of the coldest in the country, with long bitter winters and short warm summers. The city is geographically remote from Pyongyang and historically among the regions hardest hit by the 1990s famine. It is not realistically open to foreign relocation under DPRK policy; any discussion here is contextual rather than a practical destination assessment.
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