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Is there a bone marrow registry in North Korea?

For people who live in North Korea. Live somewhere else? Find your country.

As of , we haven’t found a bone marrow donor registry that people who live in North Korea can join. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. No organization based in North Korea appears in any World Marrow Donor Association list, and the World Health Organization’s country website for North Korea covers immunization and mental health but nothing on transplants. 1 6

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North Korea at a glance
PlaceNorth Korea (북한) 7
RegionEastern Asia, Asia 3
PopulationAbout 26.4 million (2023) 4
RegistryNone found as of 1 2
World donor searchNo organization based in North Korea lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 5
Where we looked6 places, in English and Korean
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What we found in North Korea

No North Korean organization lists donors with the World Marrow Donor Association. 1

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, the World Marrow Donor Association’s directory, organization database, certificate list and statistics had no entry for North Korea. 1 5
5 more searches with nothing to add
  • Another page we read Korean and English · 2 searches,
  • Web search English and Korean · 3 searches, to

We couldn’t open one other official page when we tried on Oct 11, 2026. That tells us nothing about whether it offers a way to join.

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Sources

How we check

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Figures and lists

  1. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  2. WMDA. WMDA statistics.
  3. United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
  4. UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
  5. WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.

Other sources

  1. World Health Organization. Democratic People's Republic of Korea country page.
  2. Unicode CLDR. By-Type Chart: Locale Display Names:Territories (Asia). Checked