Guinea vs North Korea: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Guinea
85,438 tonnes
in 2018
North Korea
72,377 tonnes
in 2018
Guinea rank
38th
North Korea rank
41st

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Guinea
  • North Korea
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How they compare

Guinea currently reports 85,438 tonnes against 72,377 tonnes in North Korea, a difference of 13,061 tonnes.

That makes Guinea's figure about 1.2 times North Korea's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was North Korea ahead.

Guinea ranks 38th and North Korea ranks 41st of 111 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Wild fish catch from bottom trawling
Unit
tonnes
Source
Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
111 places, 6,156 data points, 1950–2018
Last refreshed

Bottom trawling is a fishing method in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the seafloor to catch fish and other marine life.