We prove that a compact stratified space satisfies the Riemannian curvature-dimension condition RCD(K, N) if and only if its Ricci tensor is bounded below by K ∈ R on the regular set, the cone angle along the stratum of codimension two is smaller than or equal to 2π and its dimension is at most equal to N. This gives a new wide class of geometric examples of metric measure spaces satisfying the RCD(K, N) curvature-dimension condition, including for instance spherical suspensions, orbifolds, Kähler-Einstein manifolds with a divisor, Einstein manifolds with conical singularities along a curve. We also obtain new analytic and geometric results on stratified spaces, such as Bishop-Gromov volume inequality, Laplacian comparison, Lévy-Gromov isoperimetric inequality. Our result also implies a similar characterization of compact stratified spaces carrying a lower curvature bound in the sense of Alexandrov.