Food in North Korea - OBJECTIVE LISTS

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to North Korea

Rank	Location	Method 1	Method 2	Average
1	South Korea	76.0	77.1	76.5
2	China	71.9	72.3	72.1
3	Japan	70.4	73.5	72.0
4	Cape Verde	69.3	71.4	70.4
5	Taiwan	68.1	70.5	69.3
6	Malaysia	65.6	68.9	67.2
7	Venezuela	64.0	64.2	64.1
8	Thailand	62.5	65.3	63.9
9	Ecuador	62.2	64.5	63.3
10	Botswana	62.4	62.0	62.2
11	Portugal	61.2	63.2	62.2
12	Qatar	62.0	61.6	61.8
13	El Salvador	61.6	61.8	61.7
14	Mauritius	61.0	61.5	61.2
15	Indonesia	60.0	62.3	61.1
16	Uruguay	60.5	61.7	61.1
17	Moldova	60.5	61.7	61.1
18	Nicaragua	60.5	61.5	61.0
19	Barbados	59.5	62.5	61.0
20	Philippines	58.8	63.2	61.0
21	Seychelles	59.3	61.8	60.5
22	Bahrain	60.8	59.9	60.3
23	Costa Rica	58.9	61.8	60.3
24	Peru	59.0	61.4	60.2
25	United States	59.9	60.5	60.2
26	South Africa	60.4	59.9	60.2
27	Namibia	57.8	62.4	60.1
28	Vietnam	58.4	61.5	60.0
29	Honduras	59.7	60.0	59.8
30	Mexico	58.4	61.0	59.7
31	Belize	59.1	60.2	59.6
32	Grenada	58.1	61.1	59.6
33	France	58.0	61.0	59.5
34	Eswatini	59.4	59.5	59.5
35	Kuwait	60.0	58.9	59.5
36	Australia	58.7	60.1	59.4
37	Chile	59.0	59.7	59.4
38	Panama	58.1	60.6	59.3
39	Cuba	58.8	59.9	59.3
40	Colombia	58.8	59.8	59.3
41	East Timor	57.1	61.5	59.3
42	Canada	58.8	59.7	59.3
43	Bhutan	58.5	59.9	59.2
44	Slovenia	58.5	59.8	59.2
45	Romania	58.5	59.8	59.1
46	Malta	58.4	59.8	59.1
47	Saudi Arabia	58.7	59.5	59.1
48	Oman	58.8	58.9	58.8
49	Cyprus	57.5	60.2	58.8
50	Egypt	58.7	58.6	58.6
51	Maldives	57.1	59.7	58.4
52	Jamaica	57.7	59.1	58.4
53	Bangladesh	58.1	58.7	58.4
54	Ukraine	57.3	59.4	58.3
55	Guatemala	58.0	58.7	58.3
56	Israel	58.5	57.7	58.1
57	Kenya	57.9	58.2	58.0
58	Austria	57.5	58.3	57.9
59	Bosnia	57.8	57.7	57.8
60	Lesotho	55.5	59.9	57.7
61	Italy	56.8	58.6	57.7
62	United Arab Emirates	57.2	58.1	57.7
63	Brazil	56.9	58.3	57.6
64	New Zealand	55.9	58.9	57.4
65	Germany	56.9	57.8	57.4
66	Suriname	56.0	58.7	57.4
67	Fiji	56.6	58.1	57.4
68	Dominican Republic	56.1	58.6	57.3
69	India	56.9	57.8	57.3
70	Bahamas	55.9	58.5	57.2
71	Bulgaria	56.5	57.9	57.2
72	Bolivia	56.7	57.5	57.1
73	Luxembourg	55.7	58.3	57.0
74	Iran	57.5	56.4	56.9
75	Paraguay	56.5	57.3	56.9
76	Sri Lanka	55.8	57.8	56.8
77	Trinidad & Tobago	56.2	57.3	56.8
78	Mozambique	56.2	57.1	56.7
79	Senegal	55.6	57.0	56.3
80	Turkey	56.6	55.8	56.2
81	United Kingdom	55.4	56.5	56.0
82	Morocco	55.8	56.1	56.0
83	Netherlands	55.4	56.5	56.0
84	Jordan	56.7	54.9	55.8
85	Lebanon	56.0	55.6	55.8
86	Croatia	54.8	56.7	55.8
87	Albania	55.3	55.9	55.6
88	Greece	55.1	56.1	55.6
89	Spain	54.2	56.7	55.4
90	New Caledonia	53.6	57.3	55.4
91	Russia	54.2	56.6	55.4
92	Estonia	54.7	55.8	55.2
93	Ireland	54.3	55.9	55.1
94	Madagascar	53.1	57.1	55.1
95	Nepal	54.5	55.5	55.0
96	Haiti	53.9	56.1	55.0
97	Switzerland	54.2	55.6	54.9
98	Georgia	53.2	55.9	54.5
99	Serbia	53.5	55.4	54.4
100	Montenegro	53.5	55.3	54.4
101	French Polynesia	52.1	56.6	54.3
102	Belarus	54.2	54.3	54.3
103	Iceland	52.3	55.9	54.1
104	Angola	53.4	54.6	54.0
105	Lithuania	53.0	55.0	54.0
106	Sweden	52.9	55.0	53.9
107	Latvia	53.1	54.7	53.9
108	Argentina	52.9	54.8	53.8
109	Pakistan	54.0	53.5	53.8
110	Mauritania	53.5	54.0	53.8
111	Czechia	53.2	54.2	53.7
112	St. Lucia	51.3	56.1	53.7
113	Yemen	53.7	53.6	53.7
114	Iraq	54.1	52.9	53.5
115	Hungary	52.5	54.4	53.4
116	Kyrgyzstan	53.4	53.3	53.3
117	Tanzania	53.9	52.7	53.3
118	Norway	52.0	54.1	53.1
119	Guyana	51.8	54.2	53.0
120	Antigua & Barbuda	50.2	55.3	52.7
121	Denmark	52.0	53.1	52.6
122	Belgium	51.6	53.3	52.5
123	Cameroon	52.4	52.0	52.2
124	St. Vincent	50.9	53.4	52.1
125	Mali	52.4	51.9	52.1
126	Slovakia	51.5	52.4	51.9
127	Armenia	51.5	52.4	51.9
128	Algeria	51.4	52.1	51.8
129	Tunisia	51.4	51.7	51.5
130	Finland	50.7	52.4	51.5
131	Sao Tome	50.0	52.9	51.5
132	Poland	51.3	51.4	51.4
133	Kazakhstan	51.4	50.7	51.1
134	Libya	50.4	51.6	51.0
135	North Macedonia	50.5	51.3	50.9
136	Syria	51.2	50.6	50.9
137	Azerbaijan	51.2	49.5	50.3
138	Djibouti	49.8	50.7	50.2
139	Myanmar	47.7	52.8	50.2
140	Malawi	49.1	50.5	49.8
141	Laos	48.2	50.2	49.2
142	Afghanistan	49.8	48.6	49.2
143	Rwanda	48.2	49.4	48.8
144	Uganda	48.1	48.9	48.5
145	Cambodia	47.0	49.9	48.4
146	Ivory Coast	48.5	48.0	48.2
147	Guinea-Bissau	46.0	49.4	47.7
148	Benin	48.8	46.5	47.7
149	Zambia	46.7	48.4	47.6
150	Burkina Faso	46.1	48.8	47.4
151	Comoros	46.1	48.6	47.4
152	Guinea	47.2	47.3	47.2
153	Uzbekistan	47.2	47.0	47.1
154	Ethiopia	47.6	46.4	47.0
155	Zimbabwe	46.2	47.6	46.9
156	Nigeria	45.7	47.0	46.3
157	Sierra Leone	44.4	48.0	46.2
158	Liberia	45.1	46.5	45.8
159	Gambia	43.8	47.6	45.7
160	Mongolia	44.5	46.2	45.4
161	Togo	44.2	45.2	44.7
162	Gabon	43.0	46.3	44.6
163	Turkmenistan	44.3	44.9	44.6
164	Rep. of Congo	42.5	46.1	44.3
165	Tajikistan	44.2	44.4	44.3
166	Burundi	42.6	44.8	43.7
167	Ghana	43.0	43.4	43.2
168	Dem. Rep. of Congo	43.4	42.9	43.2
169	Niger	43.4	42.3	42.9
170	Samoa	39.9	45.7	42.8
171	Solomon Islands	40.5	43.9	42.2
172	Kiribati	39.2	44.1	41.6
173	Vanuatu	38.5	44.4	41.5
174	Micronesia	37.4	43.2	40.3
175	Chad	41.5	38.7	40.1
176	Papua New Guinea	37.8	42.2	40.0
177	Sudan	39.6	39.6	39.6
178	South Sudan	39.2	37.9	38.6
179	Central African Rep.	33.6	34.2	33.9