This page is the complete Zakat guide for North Korea, and is paid, in practice, in KPW, at local prices, through local channels. Everything that follows is the universal Shariah method expressed entirely in local terms — local thresholds, a local worked example worth KPW 1,134,213 of savings, local payment channels and local Ramadan dates. Everything is free, and the calculators linked from this page run in your browser with live prices, converting the thresholds into KPW on the day you actually calculate.
At the reference prices used for this guide — gold at USD 76.42 per gram and silver at USD 0.98 per gram, converted at 900 KPW per US dollar — the gold Nisab in North Korea is KPW 6,016,699 (87.48g × KPW 68,778 per gram) and the silver Nisab is KPW 540,102 (612.36g × KPW 882 per gram). Read them as the shape of the answer rather than its final digit: on your actual due date the live tool will quote the thresholds afresh in North Korean won. On the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash, a payer in North Korea whose net savings pass KPW 540,102 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
In practice, most Zakat is paid through a few familiar channels: charity platforms and mobile giving apps, payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers and community collection points and food banks during Ramadan. The channel matters less than the conditions: the wealth must reach recipients whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, and it must transfer into their ownership (tamlik). A common pattern in North Korea: settle the calculation at home first — often on a fixed Ramadan date — and then distribute through two or three trusted channels rather than one. Ask any intermediary how they distribute, keep your payment receipt with your calculation report, noting the Hijri date of payment beside the Gregorian one. In North Korea, community life runs in Korean, so instructions left with family should be in the language they actually use.
Ramadan 2027 is expected to open on Monday 8 February 2027 in North Korea, always subject to moon sighting which local announcements confirm. The last ten nights begin with the Maghrib of 27 February 2027, the search for Laylat al-Qadr falling on the odd nights (27 February, 1, 3, 5 and 7 March) with the 27th night opening the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. The last fast is expected on 8 or 9 March 2027, with Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. For daily times in North Korea, use the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and remember Fitrana falls due before the Eid prayer.
A resident of North Korea holding KPW 1,134,213 across cash and savings accounts — some 2.1 times the silver Nisab — with nothing owed. The wealth is above the Nisab and has been held for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × KPW 1,134,213 = KPW 28,355. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in KPW first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
At this page's reference prices, gold stands at KPW 6,016,699 (87.48 grams of gold) and the silver threshold is KPW 540,102 (612.36 grams of silver). They are priced from gold at KPW 68,778 the gram and KPW 882 for silver in North Korea at the 900 KPW reference rate. Since prices shift daily, so the live calculator gives the binding figure on your due date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
Zakat in North Korea is calculated in KPW, the North Korean won. Foreign balances are converted into KPW at your due date's rate and tested once, with the local total . Method is portable; money is local: the same calculation a payer runs in Philippines, settled here in North Korean won.
Add up everything zakatable you own in KPW — balances, metals at today's price, stock, investments and receivables. Deduct debts that are due now, then set the net figure against the Nisab — KPW 540,102 on the silver standard, or KPW 6,016,699 on the gold standard. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, is charged at 2.5% of the whole amount : on savings of KPW 1,134,213, the example on this page, the payment is KPW 28,355.
Fitrana follows the food, not the calculator: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple — some 2–3 kilograms of wheat, rice, flour or dates — for each person. Scholars in North Korea announce the KPW rate each Ramadan, because it tracks the price of staple food in KPW, not any international figure. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, and must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. Enter the announced KPW rate in the Fitrana calculator and it totals the household's duty.
On ZakatSuite, North Korea sits in the Asia region with community languages Korean. The country code is KP, and the short version of this page is at zakatsuite.com/kp. Every one of the 209 tools accepts North Korea with KPW, with PDF reports for the record.