From 045e9b34e4e66958648aaff99cf2d61d9aa2ae2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yo Robot Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:14:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] auto-update week 50 --- africa/ag.json | 31 +++++++++-------- africa/ao.json | 42 +++++++++++----------- africa/bc.json | 31 ++++++++--------- africa/bn.json | 28 +++++++-------- africa/by.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- africa/cd.json | 28 +++++++-------- africa/cg.json | 34 +++++++++--------- africa/cm.json | 36 +++++++++---------- africa/cn.json | 40 ++++++++++++++------- africa/ct.json | 30 ++++++++-------- africa/cv.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- africa/dj.json | 26 +++++++------- africa/eg.json | 43 +++++++++++++---------- africa/er.json | 24 ++++++------- africa/et.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- africa/ga.json | 30 ++++++++-------- africa/gb.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- africa/gh.json | 29 +++++++++------- africa/gv.json | 34 +++++++++--------- africa/iv.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- africa/ke.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- africa/li.json | 26 +++++++------- africa/lt.json | 36 +++++++++---------- africa/ly.json | 28 +++++++-------- africa/ma.json | 32 ++++++++--------- africa/mi.json | 30 ++++++++-------- africa/ml.json | 32 ++++++++--------- africa/mo.json | 29 ++++++++-------- africa/mp.json | 34 +++++++++--------- africa/mr.json | 30 ++++++++-------- africa/mz.json | 34 +++++++++--------- africa/ng.json | 26 +++++++------- africa/ni.json | 41 ++++++++++++---------- africa/od.json | 26 +++++++------- africa/pu.json | 40 ++++++++++----------- africa/rw.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- africa/se.json | 22 ++++++------ africa/sf.json | 45 +++++++++++++----------- africa/sg.json | 31 +++++++++-------- africa/sl.json | 30 ++++++++-------- africa/so.json | 34 +++++++++--------- africa/su.json | 24 ++++++------- africa/to.json | 26 +++++++------- africa/tp.json | 26 +++++++------- africa/ts.json | 28 +++++++-------- africa/tz.json | 37 ++++++++++---------- africa/ug.json | 26 +++++++------- africa/uv.json | 32 ++++++++--------- africa/wa.json | 39 +++++++++++++-------- africa/wz.json | 29 +++++++++------- africa/za.json | 28 +++++++-------- africa/zi.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- antarctica/fs.json | 2 +- antarctica/hm.json | 2 +- australia-oceania/aq.json | 26 +++++++------- australia-oceania/as.json | 31 +++++++++-------- australia-oceania/bp.json | 29 +++++++--------- australia-oceania/ck.json | 3 -- australia-oceania/cq.json | 26 +++++++------- australia-oceania/cw.json | 27 +++++++-------- australia-oceania/fj.json | 28 +++++++-------- australia-oceania/fp.json | 24 ++++++------- australia-oceania/gq.json | 27 +++++++-------- australia-oceania/kr.json | 30 ++++++++-------- australia-oceania/kt.json | 3 -- australia-oceania/ne.json | 37 +++++++++++++------- australia-oceania/nf.json | 19 +++++----- australia-oceania/nh.json | 28 +++++++-------- australia-oceania/nr.json | 19 +++++----- australia-oceania/nz.json | 31 +++++++++-------- australia-oceania/pc.json | 3 -- australia-oceania/ps.json | 30 ++++++++-------- australia-oceania/rm.json | 35 ++++++++++++------- australia-oceania/tl.json | 26 +++++++++----- australia-oceania/tn.json | 28 +++++++-------- australia-oceania/tv.json | 33 ++++++++++++------ australia-oceania/wf.json | 31 +++++++++++------ australia-oceania/ws.json | 28 +++++++-------- central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json | 25 ++++++------- central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json | 28 +++++++-------- central-america-n-caribbean/av.json | 3 -- central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json | 32 ++++++++--------- central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json | 30 ++++++++-------- central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json | 26 +++++++------- central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json | 34 +++++++++++------- central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json | 28 +++++++-------- central-america-n-caribbean/do.json | 24 ++++++------- central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- central-america-n-caribbean/es.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json | 36 +++++++++---------- central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json | 40 ++++++++++----------- central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json | 35 +++++++++++-------- central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json | 22 ++++++------ central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json | 7 ++-- central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json | 31 +++++++++-------- central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json | 39 ++++++++++++--------- central-america-n-caribbean/st.json | 32 ++++++++--------- central-america-n-caribbean/td.json | 26 +++++++------- central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json | 25 ++++++------- central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json | 7 ++-- central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json | 30 ++++++++-------- central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json | 29 +++++++--------- central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json | 26 +++++++------- central-asia/kg.json | 36 +++++++++---------- central-asia/kz.json | 36 +++++++++---------- central-asia/rs.json | 42 ++++++++++++++-------- central-asia/ti.json | 30 ++++++++-------- central-asia/tx.json | 47 +++++++++++++++---------- central-asia/uz.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json | 34 +++++++++--------- east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json | 30 ++++++++-------- east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json | 23 ++++++------ east-n-southeast-asia/id.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json | 29 +++++++++------- east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json | 31 +++++++++-------- east-n-southeast-asia/la.json | 34 +++++++++--------- east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json | 3 -- east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json | 34 +++++++++--------- east-n-southeast-asia/my.json | 39 +++++++++++---------- east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json | 30 ++++++++-------- east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- east-n-southeast-asia/th.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json | 17 +++++---- east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- europe/al.json | 39 +++++++++++---------- europe/an.json | 26 +++++++------- europe/au.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- europe/be.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- europe/bk.json | 36 +++++++++---------- europe/bo.json | 32 ++++++++--------- europe/bu.json | 34 ++++++++++-------- europe/ee.json | 3 ++ europe/ei.json | 32 ++++++++--------- europe/en.json | 30 ++++++++-------- europe/ez.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- europe/fi.json | 28 +++++++-------- europe/fo.json | 22 ++++++------ europe/fr.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- europe/gi.json | 5 +-- europe/gk.json | 2 +- europe/gm.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- europe/gr.json | 34 ++++++++++-------- europe/hr.json | 30 ++++++++-------- europe/hu.json | 34 +++++++++--------- europe/ic.json | 24 ++++++------- europe/im.json | 22 ++++++------ europe/it.json | 41 ++++++++++++---------- europe/je.json | 2 +- europe/lg.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- europe/lh.json | 32 ++++++++--------- europe/lo.json | 30 ++++++++-------- europe/lu.json | 31 +++++++++-------- europe/md.json | 28 +++++++-------- europe/mj.json | 28 +++++++-------- europe/mk.json | 26 +++++++------- europe/mn.json | 4 +-- europe/mt.json | 27 ++++++++------- europe/nl.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- europe/no.json | 31 +++++++++-------- europe/pl.json | 40 ++++++++++++--------- europe/po.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- europe/ri.json | 36 +++++++++---------- europe/ro.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- europe/si.json | 31 ++++++++--------- europe/sm.json | 30 ++++++++-------- europe/sp.json | 41 ++++++++++++---------- europe/sw.json | 31 +++++++++-------- europe/sz.json | 32 ++++++++--------- europe/uk.json | 34 ++++++++++-------- europe/up.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- europe/vt.json | 3 -- middle-east/ae.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- middle-east/aj.json | 42 ++++++++++++---------- middle-east/am.json | 34 +++++++++--------- middle-east/ba.json | 40 +++++++++++---------- middle-east/gg.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- middle-east/gz.json | 26 +++++++------- middle-east/ir.json | 29 +++++++++------- middle-east/is.json | 31 +++++++++-------- middle-east/iz.json | 41 +++++++++++----------- middle-east/jo.json | 36 +++++++++---------- middle-east/ku.json | 36 +++++++++---------- middle-east/le.json | 36 +++++++++---------- middle-east/mu.json | 38 ++++++++++---------- middle-east/qa.json | 27 ++++++++------- middle-east/sa.json | 42 +++++++++++++--------- middle-east/sy.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- middle-east/tu.json | 41 ++++++++++++---------- middle-east/we.json | 26 +++++++------- middle-east/ym.json | 29 +++++++++------- north-america/bd.json | 18 +++++----- north-america/ca.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- north-america/mx.json | 33 ++++++++++-------- north-america/sb.json | 18 +++++----- north-america/us.json | 39 +++++++++++---------- south-america/ar.json | 48 ++++++++++++++++--------- south-america/bl.json | 49 ++++++++++++++------------ south-america/br.json | 43 ++++++++++++----------- south-america/ci.json | 54 ++++++++++++----------------- south-america/co.json | 39 +++++++++++---------- south-america/ec.json | 39 +++++++++++---------- south-america/fk.json | 15 ++++---- south-america/gy.json | 34 +++++++++--------- south-america/ns.json | 26 +++++++------- south-america/pa.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- south-america/pe.json | 39 +++++++++++---------- south-america/uy.json | 36 +++++++++---------- south-america/ve.json | 41 ++++++++++++---------- south-asia/af.json | 32 ++++++++--------- south-asia/bg.json | 35 ++++++++++--------- south-asia/bt.json | 37 +++++++++++--------- south-asia/ce.json | 30 ++++++++-------- south-asia/in.json | 39 +++++++++++---------- south-asia/mv.json | 28 +++++++-------- south-asia/np.json | 34 +++++++++--------- south-asia/pk.json | 31 +++++++++-------- 221 files changed, 3520 insertions(+), 3209 deletions(-) diff --git a/africa/ag.json b/africa/ag.json index f7140c19..a41d9512 100644 --- a/africa/ag.json +++ b/africa/ag.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "81.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "81.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.7% (2018/19)" + "text": "2.7% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "56% (2023 est.)" @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ "text": "5.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14.4% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "15.5% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -400,22 +400,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "81.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "81.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1193,6 +1193,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space policy and space research program with stated goals of supporting internal development, managing resources, mastering space technology, and reinforcing national sovereignty; builds and operates communications and remote sensing (RS) satellites; researching and developing a range of space-related capabilities, including satellites and satellite payloads, communications, RS, instrumentation, image processing, and geo-spatial information; works with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including Argentina, China, France, Germany, India, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, the UK, and other African countries; member of the African Space Agency and the Arab Space Coordination Group (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2002 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (Alsat-1A) built jointly with the UK and launched by Russia

2006 - announced a national space program

2010 and 2016 - first Algerian-designed and -built RS satellites (Alsat-2A and 2B) launched by India

2017 - first communications satellite (Alcomsat-1) built jointly with and launched by China; announced a 2040 national space plan" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/ao.json b/africa/ao.json index 180eeca5..a6602574 100644 --- a/africa/ao.json +++ b/africa/ao.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "36.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 32.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 32.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "51.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "10.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -338,9 +338,6 @@ "text": "0.08 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)" } }, - "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "19% (2015/16)" - }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.7% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -392,22 +389,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "36.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 32.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 32.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "51.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "10.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1140,26 +1137,26 @@ "text": "1% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2023": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "1.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { - "text": "1.7% of GDP (2020 est.)" + "text": "1.5% of GDP (2020 est.)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "approximately 100,000 active-duty Armed Forces (2025)" + "text": "approximately 100,000 active duty Armed Forces (2025)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "most Angolan military weapons and equipment are of Russian or Soviet-era origin; there are smaller quantities of items originating from such suppliers as China, Brazil, and South Africa (2024)" + "text": "most Angolan military weapons and equipment are of Russian or Soviet-era origin; there are smaller quantities of items originating from such suppliers as China, Brazil, and South Africa (2025)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "20-45 years of age for compulsory and 18-45 years for voluntary military service for men (registration at age 18 is mandatory); 20-45 years of age for voluntary service for women; 24-month conscript service obligation; Angolan citizenship required; the Navy is entirely staffed with volunteers (2023)" + "text": "20-45 years of age for compulsory and 18-45 years for voluntary military service for men (registration at age 18 is mandatory); 20-45 years of age for voluntary service for women; 24-month conscript service obligation; the Navy is entirely staffed with volunteers (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Angolan Armed Forces were created in 1991 under the Bicesse Accords signed between the Angolan Government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA); the current force is responsible for country’s external defense but also has some domestic security responsibilities, such as border protection; it participates in multinational exercises, as well as regional peacekeeping operations, including the deployment of several hundred troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2023; in recent years, the military has placed additional emphasis on maritime security and protecting offshore resources (2025)" @@ -1171,6 +1168,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space strategy with a focus on capacity-building, developing space infrastructure, investing in domestic space sector, supporting socioeconomic growth, and establishing cooperation agreements with foreign technical and scientific institutions in the space industry; contracts with foreign companies to build and launch satellites; operates satellites; cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of France, Portugal, Russia, the US, and other African countries; member of the African Space Agency (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2017 - first communications satellite (AngoSat-1) built, launched, and operated by Russia (satellite failed in 2018)

2022 - second communications satellite (AngoSat-2) with French-built payload, integrated and launched by Russia

2023 - signed US-led Artemis Accords outlining best practices for space exploration

2024 - inaugurated a national maritime coordination and surveillance center and country's first satellite mission control center

2025 - signed financial agreement with France for construction of country’s first high-resolution remote sensing satellite (ANGEO-1)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/bc.json b/africa/bc.json index 8d9cfac0..9cbbfb24 100644 --- a/africa/bc.json +++ b/africa/bc.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 45.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 45.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "26.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "27.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -336,9 +336,6 @@ "text": "5.5% (2025 est.)" } }, - "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "NA" - }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "45% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -379,22 +376,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 45.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 45.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "26.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "27.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1073,7 +1070,7 @@ }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2024": { - "text": "2.9% of GDP (2024 est.)" + "text": "3% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2023": { "text": "2.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" @@ -1095,7 +1092,7 @@ "text": "the BDF has a mix of mostly older weapons and equipment, largely of Western/European origin; in recent years, it has received limited amounts of material from several European countries and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription (2024)" + "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the key responsibilities of the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) are defending the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity on land and in the air, ensuring national security and stability, and aiding civil authorities in support of domestic missions such as disaster relief and anti-poaching; the BDF also participates in regional and international security operations

Bechuanaland/Botswana did not have a permanent military during colonial times, with the British colonial administrators relying instead on small, lightly armed constabularies such as the Bechuanaland Mounted Police, the Bechuanaland Border Police, and by the early 1960s, the Police Mobile Unit (PMU); after independence in 1966, Botswana militarized the PMU and gave it responsibility for the country’s defense rather than create a conventional military force; however, turmoil in neighboring countries and numerous cross-border incursions by Rhodesian and South African security forces in the 1960s and 1970s demonstrated that the PMU was inadequate for defending the country and led to the establishment of the BDF in 1977 (2025)" diff --git a/africa/bn.json b/africa/bn.json index fc0d81e3..8dbc77dd 100644 --- a/africa/bn.json +++ b/africa/bn.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 31.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "26.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "16.8% (2017/18)" + "text": "19.6% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "68.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "18% national budget (2025 est.)" @@ -401,22 +401,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 31.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "26.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/by.json b/africa/by.json index 4c114583..30479706 100644 --- a/africa/by.json +++ b/africa/by.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "82.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "83.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 50.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 51.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "27.6% (2022)" + "text": "28.3% (2024 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "54.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -355,21 +355,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.9% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "20.6% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "68% (2017 est.)" + "text": "71.4% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "76% (2017 est.)" + "text": "78.2% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "61% (2017 est.)" + "text": "66.2% (2020 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -401,22 +401,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "82.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "83.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 50.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 51.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ }, "Military deployments": { "text": "770 Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (2025)", - "note": "note: Burundi has deployed several thousand military troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2022 to assist the DRC Government in combating armed anti-government rebel groups; as of 2025, a contingent remained in the DRC" + "note": "note: Burundi has deployed several thousand military troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2022 to assist the DRC Government in combating armed anti-government rebel groups; a contingent remained in the DRC as of late 2025" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the National Defense Force (FDNB) is responsible for defending Burundi’s territorial integrity and protecting its sovereignty; it has an internal security role, including maintaining and restoring public order if required; the FDNB also participates in providing humanitarian/disaster assistance, countering terrorism, narcotics trafficking, piracy, and illegal arms trade, and protecting the country’s environment; the FDNB conducts limited training with foreign partners such as Russia and participates in regional peacekeeping missions, most recently in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Somalia; in recent years the FDNB has conducted operations against anti-government rebel groups based in the neighboring DRC that have carried out sporadic attacks in Burundi, such as the such as National Forces of Liberation (FNL), the Resistance for the Rule of Law-Tabara (aka RED Tabara), and Popular Forces of Burundi (FPB or FOREBU); Burundi has accused Rwanda of supporting the RED-Tabara

the Arusha Accords that ended the 1993-2005 civil war created a unified military by balancing the predominantly Tutsi ex-Burundi Armed Forces (ex-FAB) and the largely Hutu dominated armed movements and requiring the military to have a 50/50 ethnic mix of Tutsis and Hutus (2025)" diff --git a/africa/cd.json b/africa/cd.json index 204d7183..07c61a25 100644 --- a/africa/cd.json +++ b/africa/cd.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "40% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 35.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "56.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "18.9% (2022)" + "text": "18.2% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "70.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -409,22 +409,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "40% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 35.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "56.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ "text": "12/29/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) (124); Rally of Chadian Nationalists/Awakening (RNDT/ Le Réveil) (12); Others (52)" + "text": "Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) (124); Rally of Chadian Nationalists/Awakening (RNDT/ Le Réveil) (12); Others (27); Other (25)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "33.5%" diff --git a/africa/cg.json b/africa/cg.json index 01c5c487..0bb51968 100644 --- a/africa/cg.json +++ b/africa/cg.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "54.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "23.1% (2017/18)" + "text": "25% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ "text": "2.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "18.4% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.5% national budget (2017 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -404,22 +404,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "54.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -607,10 +607,10 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "12/20/2023" + "text": "4/29/2024 to 5/26/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Union for Democracy and Social Progress/TSHISEKEDI (UDPS/TSHISEKEDI) (69); Action of Allies and Union for the Congolese Nation (A/A-UNC) (35); Alliance of Democratic Forces of Congo and Allies (AFDC-A) (35); Act and Build (AB) (26); Other (312)" + "text": "Union for Democracy and Social Progress/TSHISEKEDI (UDPS/TSHISEKEDI) (69); Action of Allies and Union for the Congolese Nation (A/A-UNC) (35); Alliance of Democratic Forces of Congo and Allies (AFDC-A) (35); Act and Build (AB) (26); Action of Allies/All for the Development of the Congo (2A/TDC) (21); Alliance of Stakeholders for the People (AAAP) (21); Alliance Bloc 50 (A/B50) (20); Congo Liberation Movement (MLC) (19); Other (131)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "12.8%" @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "4/29/2024 to 5/26/2024" + "text": "12/20/2023" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "15.8%" diff --git a/africa/cm.json b/africa/cm.json index 21db8c65..b7dd32c6 100644 --- a/africa/cm.json +++ b/africa/cm.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 13.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "42.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "36.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11% (2018/19)" + "text": "11% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "54.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -371,12 +371,12 @@ "text": "2.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.1% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "13.8% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "72.5% (2018 est.)" + "text": "72.6% (2018 est.)" }, "male": { "text": "79.7% (2018 est.)" @@ -414,22 +414,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 13.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "42.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "36.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "2/9/2020 to 3/22/2020" + "text": "3/12/2023" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC/CPDM) (152); Other (28)" @@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { "chamber name": { - "text": "Senate (Sénat - Senate)" + "text": "Senate (Sénat - Senate)" }, "number of seats": { "text": "100 (70 indirectly elected; 30 appointed)" @@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "3/12/2023" + "text": "2/9/2020 to 3/22/2020" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "33%" diff --git a/africa/cn.json b/africa/cn.json index be8fa7ca..d1cd7361 100644 --- a/africa/cn.json +++ b/africa/cn.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 34.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 28.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 28.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "17.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ "text": "4.7% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "9.1% (2022 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "61.2% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -321,6 +324,17 @@ "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "11.5% national budget (2025 est.)" } + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "75.8% (2021 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "79.9% (2021 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "72.2% (2021 est.)" + } } }, "Environment": { @@ -340,22 +354,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 34.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 28.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 28.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "17.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -522,7 +536,7 @@ "text": "Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros (CRC) (31); Other (2)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "15.2%" + "text": "18.2%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "January 2030" diff --git a/africa/ct.json b/africa/ct.json index fa8c9a3e..9327501c 100644 --- a/africa/ct.json +++ b/africa/ct.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "72.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "55.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "20.5% (2019)" + "text": "18.4% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "64.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -374,22 +374,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "72.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "55.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "legislature name": { - "text": "National Assembly (Assemblée nationale)" + "text": "National Assembly (Assemblée nationale)" }, "legislative structure": { "text": "unicameral" @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ "text": "12/27/2020 to 7/25/2021" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "United Hearts Movement (MCU) (61); National Movement of Independents (MOUNI) (9); Union for Central African Renewal (URCA) (7); Independents (17); Other (39)" + "text": "United Hearts Movement (MCU) (63); National Movement of Independents (MOUNI) (9); Union for Central African Renewal (URCA) (7); Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People (MLPC) (7); Other (34); Independents (20)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "11.4%" diff --git a/africa/cv.json b/africa/cv.json index e8409810..c02bfb78 100644 --- a/africa/cv.json +++ b/africa/cv.json @@ -67,22 +67,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "68.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ "text": "4.5% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "2.2% (2018 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "46.9% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -346,13 +349,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "87% (2015 est.)" + "text": "88.5% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "92% (2015 est.)" + "text": "92.9% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "82% (2015 est.)" + "text": "84.1% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -384,22 +387,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "68.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/dj.json b/africa/dj.json index 0dc24196..428403ca 100644 --- a/africa/dj.json +++ b/africa/dj.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "73.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "73.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 73.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 73.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "26.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "16.2% (2019)" + "text": "17.7% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "50.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -361,22 +361,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "73.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "73.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 73.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 73.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "26.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/eg.json b/africa/eg.json index 75076a90..0e27ac15 100644 --- a/africa/eg.json +++ b/africa/eg.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "4.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "95.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ "text": "0.3% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "3.7% (2021 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "71.1% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -377,13 +380,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "71% (2017 est.)" + "text": "79.5% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "76% (2017 est.)" + "text": "85.3% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "66% (2017 est.)" + "text": "73.3% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -415,22 +418,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "4.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "95.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1221,12 +1224,12 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF): Army (includes Republican Guard), Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force, Air Defense Forces, Border Guard Forces

Interior Ministry: Public Security Sector Police, the Central Security Force, National Security Agency (2024)", - "note": "note: the Public Security Sector Police are responsible for law enforcement nationwide; the Central Security Force protects infrastructure and is responsible for crowd control; the National Security Agency is responsible for internal security threats and counterterrorism along with other security services
" + "text": "Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF): Army (includes Republican Guard), Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force, Air Defense Forces, Border Guard Forces

Interior Ministry: Public Security Sector Police, the Central Security Force, National Security Agency (2025)", + "note": "note: the Public Security Sector Police are responsible for law enforcement nationwide; the Central Security Force protects infrastructure and is responsible for crowd control; the National Security Agency is responsible for internal security threats and counterterrorism along with other security services" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2024": { - "text": "0.8% of GDP (2024 est.)" + "text": "0.7% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2023": { "text": "1% of GDP (2023 est.)" @@ -1248,11 +1251,12 @@ "text": "the EAF's inventory is comprised of a mix of domestically produced, Soviet-era, and more modern, particularly Western, weapons systems; in recent years, the EAF has embarked on an equipment modernization program with significant purchases from foreign suppliers; major suppliers have included China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the US; Egypt has an established defense industry that produces a range of products from small arms to armored vehicles and naval vessels; it also has licensed and co-production agreements with several countries, including Germany and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "voluntary enlistment possible from age 16 for men and 17 for women; 18-30 years of age for conscript service for men; service obligation 14-36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation; active service length depends on education; high school drop-outs serve for the full 36 months, while college graduates serve for lesser periods of time, depending on their education level (2023)", + "text": "voluntary enlistment possible from age 16 for men and 17 for women; 18-30 years of age for conscript service for men; service obligation 14-36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation; active service length depends on education; high school drop-outs serve for the full 36 months, while college graduates serve for lesser periods of time, depending on their education level (2025)", "note": "note: conscripts make up a considerable portion of the military and the Central Security Force" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "1,000 (plus nearly 200 police) Central African Republic (MINUSCA); also has about 350 police deployed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo under MONUSCO; slated to have about 1,100 personnel in Somalia under AUSSOM in 2025 (2024)" + "text": "775 (plus nearly 200 police) Central African Republic (MINUSCA); also has about 200 police deployed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo under MONUSCO (2025)", + "note": "note: Egypt is slated to have about 1,100 military personnel in Somalia under AUSSOM; the first contingent of troops deployed in 2025" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF) are responsible for external defense but also have an internal role assisting police and paramilitary security forces during emergencies and in anti-terrorism operations; the EAF also participates in foreign peacekeeping and other security missions, as well as both bilateral and multinational exercises; the military has considerable political power and independence; it has long had a crucial role in Egypt’s politics and has a large stake in the civilian economy, including running banks, businesses, gas stations, shipping lines, and utilities, and producing consumer and industrial goods, importing commodities, and building and managing infrastructure projects, such as bridges, roads, hospitals, and housing

key areas of concern for the EAF include Islamist militant groups operating out of the Sinai Peninsula, regional challenges such as ongoing conflicts and instability, and maritime security; since 2011, the EAF has been conducting operations alongside other security forces in the North Sinai governorate against several militant groups, particularly the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS); over the past decade, it has deployed additional units along the border with Libya, provided air support to the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen, and most recently boosted its presence on the border with Gaza in response to the HAMAS-Israel conflict; the Navy in recent years has sought to modernize and expand its capabilities and profile in the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea, including the acquisition of helicopter carriers, modern frigates, and attack submarines, as well as the establishment of a joint service military base on the Red Sea

the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) has operated in the Sinai since 1982 as a peacekeeping and monitoring force to supervise the implementation of the security provisions of the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Treaty of Peace; the MFO is an independent international organization, created by agreement between Egypt and Israel; it has about 1,150 troops from 13 countries; Colombia, Fiji, and the US are the leading providers of troops to the MFO (2025)" @@ -1264,6 +1268,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a growing space program and seeks to become a regional space power; operates satellites; builds satellites jointly with foreign partners but developing localized satellite manufacturing and support infrastructure; acquiring other space-related technologies through transfers and domestic development, including in communications, Earth imaging/remote sensing (RS), and satellite payloads and components; works with a variety of foreign governments and commercial space companies, including those of Belarus, Canada, China, the ESA and its member states (particularly France, Germany, Italy), Ghana, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, the UAE, and the US; also a member of the Arab Space Coordination Group; has an active commercial space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1960 - initiated a space program

1998 - first communications satellite (NileSat-101) built in Europe and launched on a European rocket (first African country to have its own communications satellite)

2007 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (Egypsat-1) built and launched by Russia

2019 - first domestically produced RS cube satellites (NARSSCube-1 and 2) released from International Space Station; signed agreement with China for construction of satellite assembly, integrating, and testing facilities

2020 - announced a 10-year national space program, including initiating an astronaut training program and jointly developing with several African countries an RS satellite for monitoring climate changes

2022 - inaugurated a “space city” containing a satellite manufacturing facility, a research center, a space academy, and the headquarters of the African Space Agency (AfSA; inaugurated 2025); latest NileSat-series (NileSat-301) communications satellite acquired from Europe and launched by the US

2023 - three RS satellites (Horus-1, Horus-2, and MisrSat-2) built jointly with and launched by China; joined the China-led International Lunar Research Station project

2024 - experimental RS satellite (Nexsat-1) jointly developed with a European commercial company and launched by China" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/er.json b/africa/er.json index 72e02fd1..4ebfd2dd 100644 --- a/africa/er.json +++ b/africa/er.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "62.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 57% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 56.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -318,22 +318,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "62.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 57% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 56.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/et.json b/africa/et.json index 07d93215..9529423d 100644 --- a/africa/et.json +++ b/africa/et.json @@ -65,22 +65,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "15% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "50.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "21.2% (2019)" + "text": "21.2% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "67.5% (2023 est.)" @@ -375,13 +375,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "47.5% (2016 est.)" + "text": "60.5% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "62.6% (2016 est.)" + "text": "71% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "40.4% (2019 est.)" + "text": "50% (2022 est.)" } } }, @@ -402,22 +402,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "15% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "50.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ "text": "Prosperity Party (448); Other (22)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "29.7%" + "text": "41.9%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "June 2026" @@ -1189,6 +1189,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "focuses on acquiring and operating satellites, as well as conducting research; jointly builds satellites with foreign partners, and operates and exploits remote sensing (RS) satellites; developing the ability to manufacture satellites and their payloads; involved in astronomy and the construction of space observatories; works with a variety of countries, including China, France, India, Russia, and multiple African countries, particularly Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda; shares RS data with neighboring countries (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2015 - established Entoto Observatory and Space Science Research Center

2019 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (Ethiopia RS Satellite or ETRSS-1) built and launched by China

2020 - second RS satellite (ET-SMART-RSS) built with assistance from and launched by China; began construction of satellite manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing facility

2021 - established a multi-mission ground control station for RS satellites

2024 - declared second satellite ground station operational

2025 - announced plans to launch third RS satellite (ETRSS-02) in partnership with China in 2026" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/ga.json b/africa/ga.json index c6639c46..bdda0754 100644 --- a/africa/ga.json +++ b/africa/ga.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "62.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 43.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 43.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11.6% (2020)" + "text": "11.6% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -360,10 +360,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "2.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "2.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "17.5% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "14.2% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -395,22 +395,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "62.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 43.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 43.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/gb.json b/africa/gb.json index 13951504..e7bbb529 100644 --- a/africa/gb.json +++ b/africa/gb.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "91.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "5.4% (2020)" + "text": "5.4% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "49.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -379,22 +379,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "91.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ "text": "21.6%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "September 2025" + "text": "November 2030" } }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/6/2023" + "text": "9/27/2025 to 10/11/2025" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "20.3%" @@ -1164,6 +1164,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small space program focused on using data from remote sensing (RS) satellites for environmental and natural-resource management, mapping, land-use planning, maritime surveillance, and research; member of the African Space Agency; has relationships with Brazil, China, the ESA, individual ESA member states (particularly France), and the US, as well as African countries such as Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, and South Africa; shares RS satellite data with neighboring countries (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1986 - ESA established a ground station in Gabon

2018 - completed mapping Gabon’s forests

2019 - founding member of the Space Climate Observatory

2021 - began acquisition process for first satellite in joint project with Japan, known as BIRDs 

2025 - became member of new African Space Agency" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/gh.json b/africa/gh.json index 55cd6f76..e4578d72 100644 --- a/africa/gh.json +++ b/africa/gh.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 20.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 20.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "35.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "12.6% (2017/18)" + "text": "12% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "54.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -408,22 +408,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 20.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 20.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "35.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1195,6 +1195,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has nascent space program focused on Earth observation, space science education, and telecommunications; seeks to exploit remote sensing (RS) technology for agriculture, natural-resource management, weather forecasting, and national security; relies on foreign imagery for analysis but seeks to develop its own RS satellite capabilities; has established cooperative relationships with China, Japan, and a number of regional states, particularly South Africa; working with Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda on a satellite to monitor climate changes in the African continent; member of the African Space Agency; partner in the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2017 - first satellite (GhanaSat-1), a technology demonstration/remote sensing nanosatellite built by a Gabonese university with assistance from Japan and released from the International Space Station; established Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory

2024 - released a national space policy" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/gv.json b/africa/gv.json index 1d05933d..0a75bcef 100644 --- a/africa/gv.json +++ b/africa/gv.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70% (2022 est.)" + "text": "73.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 20.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 24.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 43.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 43.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "16.3% (2018)" + "text": "15% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "68.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -345,18 +345,18 @@ "text": "1.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.3% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "9.2% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "40% (2018 est.)" + "text": "39.6% (2018 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "54% (2018 est.)" + "text": "54.4% (2018 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "28% (2018 est.)" + "text": "27.7% (2018 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -388,22 +388,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70% (2022 est.)" + "text": "73.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 20.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 24.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 43.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 43.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/iv.json b/africa/iv.json index d788f327..9c6be0c7 100644 --- a/africa/iv.json +++ b/africa/iv.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "84.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "86.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 29.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "14% (2021)" + "text": "13.6% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ "text": "3.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "15.9% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "17.6% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -409,22 +409,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "84.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "86.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 29.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch - lower chamber": { "chamber name": { - "text": "National Assembly (Assemblée nationale)" + "text": "National Assembly (Assemblée nationale)" }, "number of seats": { "text": "255 (all directly elected)" @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ "text": "3/6/2021 to 6/12/2021" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) (139); Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA)-Together for Democracy and Sovereignty (EDS) (49); Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) (23); Independents (26); Other (18)" + "text": "Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) (139); Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA)-Together for Democracy and Sovereignty (EDS) (49); Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) (23); Independents (26); Other (18)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "13.4%" @@ -1202,6 +1202,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small, nascent program focused on satellite technology and geospatial information systems, as well as exploitation for resource management, environmental challenges, agricultural sector support, and national security; member of the African Space Agency and cooperates bilaterally with member states such as Tanzania (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2023 - hosted an Africa-wide space industry conference; announced plans to acquire and launch first small remote sensing satellite (Yam-Sat- CI 01) 

2024 - began joint project with Tanzania to build a technology-demonstrator cube satellite (TanSat-1)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/ke.json b/africa/ke.json index 5eb88e50..11f24d63 100644 --- a/africa/ke.json +++ b/africa/ke.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 37.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 36.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "43.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "10.1% (2022)" + "text": "9.8% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "56.8% (2023 est.)" @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ "text": "4% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "18.4% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "28.5% national budget (2025 est.)" } } }, @@ -395,22 +395,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 37.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 36.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "43.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ "text": "National Assembly" }, "number of seats": { - "text": "350 (337 directly elected; 12 nominated by parties to represent special interests, including youths, people with disabilities, workers; the Speaker as ex-officio member)" + "text": "350 (all directly elected)" }, "electoral system": { "text": "plurality/majority" @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ "text": "8/9/2022" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "United Democratic Alliance (UDA) (145); Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) (86); Jubilee Party (JP) (28); Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K) (26); Others (52); Independents (12)" + "text": "United Democratic Alliance (UDA) (145); Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) (86); Jubilee Party (JP) (28); Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya (WDM-K) (26); Others (19); Other (45)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "23.4%" @@ -1212,6 +1212,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space strategy focused on acquiring and applying space technologies for agriculture, communications, disaster and resource management, security, urban planning, and weather monitoring; jointly develops and builds nanosatellites with foreign partners; operates satellites; researching and developing satellite payloads and imagery data analysis capabilities; has cooperated on space issues with China, Japan, India, Italy, and the US, as well as a variety of African partners; member of the African Space Agency (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1970 - first satellite (US-made Uhura) launched from Kenya 

2008 - established country's first satellite ground station 

2018 - first remote-sensing (RS)/technology-demonstrator cube nanosatellite (1KUNS-PF) produced jointly with Japan and Italy and deployed from the International Space Station

2023 - first domestically designed RS satellite (TAIFA-1) built by Bulgaria and launched by US" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/li.json b/africa/li.json index 0897cc23..7b171dc1 100644 --- a/africa/li.json +++ b/africa/li.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 12.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "78.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "10.9% (2019/20)" + "text": "10.9% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "48.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -377,22 +377,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 12.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "78.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/lt.json b/africa/lt.json index b712153e..63d8cb8d 100644 --- a/africa/lt.json +++ b/africa/lt.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "74.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "77.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 65.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 65.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "10.5% (2018)" + "text": "12.5% (2024 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "53.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -355,13 +355,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "86.2% (2018 est.)" + "text": "90.4% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "80.2% (2018 est.)" + "text": "83.2% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "91.8% (2018 est.)" + "text": "96.6% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -393,22 +393,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "74.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "77.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 65.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 65.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/7/2022" + "text": "11/2/2022" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) (56); Democratic Congress (DC) (29); All Basotho Convention (ABC) (8); Basotho Action Party (BAP) (6); Other (20)" @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/2/2022" + "text": "10/7/2022" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "21.2%" diff --git a/africa/ly.json b/africa/ly.json index 26db63b6..c8aeb130 100644 --- a/africa/ly.json +++ b/africa/ly.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "91.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11.7% (2014)" + "text": "4.3% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -324,22 +324,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "91.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ "text": "16.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "December 2025" + "text": "December 2026" }, "note": "note: 32 seats are reserved for women" }, diff --git a/africa/ma.json b/africa/ma.json index 3aa5b6f1..f5d046f2 100644 --- a/africa/ma.json +++ b/africa/ma.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 64.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 64.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "21.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "22.6% (2021)" + "text": "22.6% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -394,22 +394,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 64.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 64.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "21.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -574,10 +574,10 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "5/29/2024" + "text": "12/11/2020" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Isika Rehetra Miaraka Amin’i Andry Rajoelina (IRMAR) (84); Firaisankina (22); Independents (50); Other (7)" + "text": "Isika Rehetra Miaraka Amin’i Andry Rajoelina (IRMAR) (84); Firaisankina (22); Independents (50); Other (7)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "14.1%" @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "12/11/2020" + "text": "5/29/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "IRMAR (10); MALAGASY MIARA-MIAINGA (2)" diff --git a/africa/mi.json b/africa/mi.json index f82fd4af..248dbab3 100644 --- a/africa/mi.json +++ b/africa/mi.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "64.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 42.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "12.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11.7% (2020)" + "text": "11.6% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.7% (2022 est.)" @@ -359,10 +359,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.3% of GDP (2018 est.)" + "text": "2.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "1.2% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "16% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -405,22 +405,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "64.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 42.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "12.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/ml.json b/africa/ml.json index 32bd9817..01c2d85a 100644 --- a/africa/ml.json +++ b/africa/ml.json @@ -65,22 +65,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "35.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 28.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 28.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "53.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "18.5% (2022)" + "text": "15% (2024 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "77.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -368,13 +368,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "35% (2018 est.)" + "text": "35.5% (2018 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "46% (2018 est.)" + "text": "46.2% (2018 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "26% (2018 est.)" + "text": "25.7% (2018 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -406,22 +406,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "35.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 28.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 28.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "53.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/mo.json b/africa/mo.json index e2dedf6a..a5360d50 100644 --- a/africa/mo.json +++ b/africa/mo.json @@ -77,22 +77,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "67.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 47.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 47.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" }, "note": "note: does not include the area of the former Western Sahara, which is almost exclusively desert" }, @@ -316,8 +316,7 @@ } }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { - "text": "26.1% (2016)", - "note": "note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara" + "text": "26.1% (2016)" }, "Alcohol consumption per capita": { "total": { @@ -348,7 +347,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.8% (2019/20)" + "text": "3% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "58.8% (2023 est.)" @@ -400,22 +399,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "67.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 47.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 47.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" }, "note": "note: does not include the area of the former Western Sahara, which is almost exclusively desert" }, diff --git a/africa/mp.json b/africa/mp.json index b0648655..75282f42 100644 --- a/africa/mp.json +++ b/africa/mp.json @@ -68,22 +68,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 37.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 37.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "19.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "37.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -317,21 +317,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.3% of GDP (2024 est.)" + "text": "4.1% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.8% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "14.2% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "93% (2016 est.)" + "text": "94.3% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "95% (2016 est.)" + "text": "96.3% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "91% (2016 est.)" + "text": "92.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -363,22 +363,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 37.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 37.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "19.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "37.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/mr.json b/africa/mr.json index 64a5712d..0de675e1 100644 --- a/africa/mr.json +++ b/africa/mr.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "61.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "22.4% (2022)" + "text": "22.4% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "66% (2023 est.)" @@ -367,10 +367,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "4.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.2% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "32% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -413,22 +413,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "61.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/mz.json b/africa/mz.json index 02b684f7..86fa7a4a 100644 --- a/africa/mz.json +++ b/africa/mz.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "52.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 45.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 45.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "46.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "14.8% (2019/20)" + "text": "15.4% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "63.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -363,18 +363,18 @@ "text": "6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "18.8% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "20.4% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "60% (2020 est.)" + "text": "61.7% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "72% (2020 est.)" + "text": "74.1% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "49% (2020 est.)" + "text": "50.9% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -406,22 +406,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "52.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 45.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 45.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "46.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/ng.json b/africa/ng.json index fa80023a..07e3e332 100644 --- a/africa/ng.json +++ b/africa/ng.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "36.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "62.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "34.6% (2022)" + "text": "34.6% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "80.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -397,22 +397,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "36.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "62.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/ni.json b/africa/ni.json index 1a815469..8701a008 100644 --- a/africa/ni.json +++ b/africa/ni.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "75.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 40% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 40.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "23.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "18.4% (2019/20)" + "text": "24.4% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "66.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -368,10 +368,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "0.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "4.3% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "3% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -403,22 +403,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "75.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 40% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 40.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "23.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2024": { - "text": "0.7% of GDP (2024)" + "text": "0.6% of GDP (2024)" }, "Military Expenditures 2023": { "text": "0.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ "text": "0.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "0.7% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "0.6% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "0.6% of GDP (2020 est.)" @@ -1190,10 +1190,10 @@ "text": "the military's inventory consists of a wide variety of imported weapons systems of Chinese, European, Middle Eastern, Russian (including Soviet-era), and US origin; the military is undergoing a modernization program, and in recent years has received equipment from a range of suppliers, including Brazil, China, France, Italy, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, and the US; Nigeria is also developing a defense-industry capacity, including small arms, armored personnel vehicles, and small-scale naval production (2025)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18-26 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription (2023)" + "text": "18-25 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription (2025)" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "190 Sudan/South Sudan (UNISFA) (2024)", + "text": "180 Sudan/South Sudan (UNISFA); 200 Gambia (ECOWAS); 150 Guinea-Bissau (ECOWAS) (2025)", "note": "note: Nigeria has committed an Army combat brigade (approximately 3,000 troops) to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional counter-terrorism force comprised of troops from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger; MNJTF conducts operations against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own country territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically" }, "Military - note": { @@ -1207,6 +1207,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space program that focuses on acquiring satellites for agricultural and environmental applications, meteorology, mining and disaster monitoring, security, and socio-economic development; designs, builds (mostly with foreign assistance), and operates satellites; processes overhead imagery data for analysis and sharing; developing additional capabilities in satellite and satellite payload production, including remote sensing technologies; has a sounding rocket program for researching rockets and rocket propulsion, with goal of launching domestically produced satellites into space from a Nigerian spaceport by 2030; works with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Algeria, Bangladesh, Belarus, China, Ghana, India, Japan, Kenya, Mongolia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, the UK, the US, and Vietnam; has a government-owned satellite company and a small commercial aerospace sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2003 - first remote sensing (RS) microsatellite (NigeriaSat-1) built jointly with the UK and launched by Russia

2007 - first communications satellite (NigSatCom-1) built and launched by China (failed in orbit, 2008)

2011 - first domestically built remote sensing (RS) satellite (NigeriaSat-X) launched by Russia

2019 - inaugurated a geospatial data analysis center

2022 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration

2023 - first military reconnaissance RS satellite (DelSat-1) launched by China" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/od.json b/africa/od.json index 094acc74..2ef12a49 100644 --- a/africa/od.json +++ b/africa/od.json @@ -62,22 +62,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 40.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 40.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "44% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2016 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.1% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.3% national budget (2015 est.)" } } }, @@ -326,22 +326,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 40.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 40.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "44% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/pu.json b/africa/pu.json index b039ba2e..f04bcd57 100644 --- a/africa/pu.json +++ b/africa/pu.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "69.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "75% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "18.8% (2019)" + "text": "18.8% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "56.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -373,22 +373,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "69.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "75% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -510,10 +510,10 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President Umaro Sissoco EMBALO (since 27 February 2020)" + "text": "Interim President Gen. Horta Nta Na MAN (since 27 November 2025)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Braima CAMARA (since 7 August 2025)


 " + "text": "Interim Prime Minister Ilídio Vieira TE (since 28 November 2025)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet nominated by the prime minister, appointed by the president" @@ -522,15 +522,15 @@ "text": "president directly elected by absolute-majority popular vote in 2 rounds, if needed, for up to 2 consecutive 5-year terms; prime minister appointed by the president after consultation with party leaders in the National People's Assembly" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "24 November 2019, with a runoff on 29 December 2019" + "text": "23 November 2025" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2019: Umaro Sissoco EMBALO elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Domingos Simoes PEREIRA (PAIGC) 40.1%, Umaro Sissoco EMBALO (Madem G15) 27.7%, Nuno Gomez NABIAM (APU-PDGB) 13.2%, Jose Mario VAZ (independent) 12.4%, other 6.6%; percent of vote in second round - Umaro Sissoco EMBALO 53.6%, Domingos Simoes PEREIRA 46.5%

2014: Jose Mario VAZ elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Jose Mario VAZ (PAIGC) 41%, Nuno Gomez NABIAM (independent) 25.1%, other 33.9%; percent of vote in second round - Jose Mario VAZ 61.9%, Nuno Gomez NABIAM 38.1% (2019)" + "text": "
2025: Umaro Sissoco EMBALO (Madem G15) and Fernando DIAS da Costa (PRS) both claimed victory in first round; a coup prevented the release of election results after ballots were destroyed

2019: Umaro Sissoco EMBALO elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Domingos Simoes PEREIRA (PAIGC) 40.1%, Umaro Sissoco EMBALO (Madem G15) 27.7%, Nuno Gomez NABIAM (APU-PDGB) 13.2%, Jose Mario VAZ (independent) 12.4%, other 6.6%; percent of vote in second round - Umaro Sissoco EMBALO 53.6%, Domingos Simoes PEREIRA 46.5% (2019)" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "2025" }, - "note": "note: President EMBALO was declared winner of the 2019 runoff presidential election by the electoral commission; in 2020, EMBALO inaugurated himself with only military leadership present, even though the Supreme Court of Justice had yet to rule on an electoral litigation appeal" + "note": "note: elections were held on 23 November 2025; a military coup on 26 November suspended the election process, arrested the sitting president, swore in a transitional president, and appointed a cabinet for one year" }, "Legislative branch": { "legislature name": { @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "6/4/2023" + "text": "11/23/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Inclusive Alliance Platform/Terra Coalition (54); Movement for Democratic Alternation (MADEM G.15) (29); Party for Social Renewal (PRS) (12); Bissau-Guinean Workers’ Party (6); Other (1)" @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ "text": "9.8%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "November 2025" + "text": "November 2029" } }, "Judicial branch": { diff --git a/africa/rw.json b/africa/rw.json index 7b9f3396..c6aa5809 100644 --- a/africa/rw.json +++ b/africa/rw.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "81.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 51.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 47% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "7.7% (2019/20)" + "text": "7.7% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "50.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -368,13 +368,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "79% (2022 est.)" + "text": "78.8% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { "text": "81% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "77% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.7% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -406,22 +406,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "81.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 51.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 47% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "9/16/2024 to 9/17/2024" + "text": "9/16/2024 to 9/16/2024" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "53.8%" @@ -1148,6 +1148,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small program focused on developing space technologies, such as satellite communications and imagery for connectivity, disaster management, security, and socioeconomic development; operates communications and remote sensing (RS) satellites; has established ties with the space agencies or industries of several countries, including France, Israel, Japan, Poland, the UAE, and the US, as well as members of the African Space Agency; seeks to establish itself as an African hub for satellite production and has encouraged development of a domestic commercial space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2018 - signed cooperation agreement with Japan for training in designing and producing mini-satellites

2019 - first remote sensing (RS) nanosatellite (RWASAT-1) built with assistance from and launched by Japan; first commercial communications satellite (Icyerekezo) built and launched by France

2022 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration

2025 - joined newly formed African Space Agency" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/se.json b/africa/se.json index 4b3b7086..00fbe2fc 100644 --- a/africa/se.json +++ b/africa/se.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "73.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ "text": "4.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.1% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "10.7% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -340,22 +340,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "73.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/sf.json b/africa/sf.json index 0286b471..59cf39eb 100644 --- a/africa/sf.json +++ b/africa/sf.json @@ -77,22 +77,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "79.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "79.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 69.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 69.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "4.9% (2017)" + "text": "4.9% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -366,21 +366,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "6.7% of GDP (2024 est.)" + "text": "6% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "18.6% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.1% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "90% (2021 est.)" + "text": "91.2% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "91% (2021 est.)" + "text": "91.5% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "89% (2021 est.)" + "text": "90.8% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -412,22 +412,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "79.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "79.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 69.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 69.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -610,10 +610,10 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "5/29/2024" + "text": "6/15/2024" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "44.9%" + "text": "44.7%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "May 2029" @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "6/15/2024" + "text": "5/29/2024" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "44.4%" @@ -1239,6 +1239,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "key areas of emphasis for its national space program include Earth observation/remote sensing (RS) capabilities, weather monitoring, research, engineering, and operations (tracking, telemetry, etc.); produces and operates satellites; has a sounding rocket program for carrying experimental payloads for research; cooperates with a range of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, France, India, Russia, and the US; member of the African Space Agency; participates in international programs such as the Square Kilometer Array Project; has a number of state- and privately-owned aerospace companies, as well as academic and research institutions involved in space-related activities (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1976 - established a satellite remote sensing (RS)/radio astronomy center (originally built by the US in 1961 to receive data from US space missions)

1980s - conducted program to launch reconnaissance satellites on a domestically produced satellite launch vehicle (abandoned in 1994 along with nuclear program)

1999 - first domestically built RS/technology demonstrator microsatellite (Sunsat-1) launched by US

2009 - first government-owned and -operated RS/scientific/technology demonstrator satellite (SumbandilaSat) launched by Russia

2018 - inaugurated a radio space telescope array (Karoo Array Telescope or MeerKAT)

2021 - began construction of the international Square Kilometer Array radio telescope observatory; launched a sounding rocket for research purposes to an altitude of nearly 18,000 km (11,185 mi)

2022 - opened Africa's first regional space weather center

2023 - agreed to participate in China's international lunar research station project" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/sg.json b/africa/sg.json index d7188f62..efdcf210 100644 --- a/africa/sg.json +++ b/africa/sg.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 19.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 19.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 29.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "41.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "14.4% (2019)" + "text": "16.2% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "65.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -410,22 +410,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 19.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 19.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 29.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "41.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1162,7 +1162,10 @@ "text": "Senegalese Space Study Agency (Agence Sénégalaise d'Etudes Spatiales or ASES; launched in 2023 under the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation) (2025)" }, "Space program overview": { - "text": "small, nascent program focused on earth observation capabilities, largely for climate resilience, environmental management, research, and socio-economic development; conducts research in such fields as astronomy and planetary sciences; has cooperated with the European Space Agency, and the space agencies of China, France, Turkey, and the US (2025)" + "text": "small, nascent program focused on earth observation/remote sensing capabilities, largely for climate resilience, environmental management, research, and socio-economic development; conducts research in fields such as astronomy and planetary sciences; has cooperated with space agencies in China, France, Turkey, and the US, as well as the ESA (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2023 - signed cooperation agreement with ESA to leverage space technology for socio-economic growth; established a space control center to provide infrastructure for satellite manufacturing and satellite services

2024 - first Earth observation/remote sensing nanosatellite (GaindeSat-1A) built with French assistance and launched by US; signed agreement with Turkey on space infrastructure advancement; agreed to participate in China's lunar exploration/research station project

2025 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration; signed agreement with France for capacity development in space infrastructure and Earth observation initiatives" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/sl.json b/africa/sl.json index 3461a255..e8eea7c8 100644 --- a/africa/sl.json +++ b/africa/sl.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "54.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "10.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "12% (2021)" + "text": "12% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "58.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -355,10 +355,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "8.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "29.4% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.5% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -390,22 +390,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "54.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "10.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/so.json b/africa/so.json index 0973fff5..6db99ac6 100644 --- a/africa/so.json +++ b/africa/so.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 68.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "9.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "20.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -321,21 +321,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "0.3% of GDP (2019 est.)" + "text": "0% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "4.2% national budget (2019 est.)" + "text": "8.1% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "54% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54.1% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "65% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.5% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "44% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.9% (2022 est.)" } } }, @@ -356,22 +356,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 68.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "9.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "20.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/su.json b/africa/su.json index 9d91623e..778f02aa 100644 --- a/africa/su.json +++ b/africa/su.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 49% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 49% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "9.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -351,22 +351,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 49% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 49% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "9.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/to.json b/africa/to.json index 8b4494ff..c268438a 100644 --- a/africa/to.json +++ b/africa/to.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 48.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 48.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "15.2% (2017)" + "text": "15.2% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "62% (2023 est.)" @@ -400,22 +400,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 48.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 48.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/tp.json b/africa/tp.json index be9c20df..72624118 100644 --- a/africa/tp.json +++ b/africa/tp.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 39.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 39.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "2.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "5.4% (2019)" + "text": "5.4% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "51.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -389,22 +389,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 39.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 39.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "2.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/ts.json b/africa/ts.json index 45031ec6..e8bd787e 100644 --- a/africa/ts.json +++ b/africa/ts.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "62.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 18.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 30.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "4.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.6% (2018)" + "text": "1.6% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "53.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ "text": "6.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "17.8% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "17.3% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -401,22 +401,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "62.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 18.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 30.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "4.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/tz.json b/africa/tz.json index 0333219d..8b9e4ae0 100644 --- a/africa/tz.json +++ b/africa/tz.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "50.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "4.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "12.1% (2022)" + "text": "11.4% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.5% (2023 est.)" @@ -381,13 +381,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "78% (2015 est.)" + "text": "78.2% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "83% (2015 est.)" + "text": "84.2% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "73% (2015 est.)" + "text": "73.1% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -419,22 +419,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "50.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "4.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -626,14 +626,15 @@ "text": "10/29/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Revolutionary Party of Tanzania (CCM) (403); ACT-Wazalendo (2)" + "text": "Revolutionary Party of Tanzania (CCM) (383); ACT-Wazalendo (2)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "39.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "October 2030" - } + }, + "note": "note: the Attorney General fills the \"other\" seat as an ex-officio member" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/ug.json b/africa/ug.json index 680dda05..21caac63 100644 --- a/africa/ug.json +++ b/africa/ug.json @@ -61,22 +61,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 34.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 26.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 26.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "7.6% (2019/20)" + "text": "9.7% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "58.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -395,22 +395,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 34.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 26.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 26.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/uv.json b/africa/uv.json index fec53454..e1bdb12a 100644 --- a/africa/uv.json +++ b/africa/uv.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "53.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 28.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 28.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 21.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 21.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "17.5% (2021)" + "text": "16.9% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "73.5% (2023)" @@ -358,13 +358,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "40.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.4% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "49.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "48.4% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "33.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -396,22 +396,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "53.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 28.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 28.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 21.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 21.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/wa.json b/africa/wa.json index 30bc32e4..17052f8a 100644 --- a/africa/wa.json +++ b/africa/wa.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "47.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "7.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -352,10 +352,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "9.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.1% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "24.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.6% national budget (2025 est.)" + } + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "87.6% (2023 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "87.9% (2023 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "87.4% (2023 est.)" } } }, @@ -376,22 +387,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "47.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "7.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/wz.json b/africa/wz.json index 7dfcbd78..97a00168 100644 --- a/africa/wz.json +++ b/africa/wz.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "69.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 10.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 58.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 58.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -316,6 +316,9 @@ "text": "1.2% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "5% (2021 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "37.1% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -340,7 +343,7 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "90.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "90.8% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { "text": "91.1% (2022 est.)" @@ -367,22 +370,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "69.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 10.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 58.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 58.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/africa/za.json b/africa/za.json index 56b1dea9..24a85e84 100644 --- a/africa/za.json +++ b/africa/za.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "32.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 26.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 26.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "59.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11.8% (2018/19)" + "text": "11.8% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "53.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -394,22 +394,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "32.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 26.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 26.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "59.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "8/12/2021" + "text": "44420" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "United Party for National Development (UPND) (82); Patriotic Front (PF) (60); Independents (13); Other (1)" diff --git a/africa/zi.json b/africa/zi.json index 5a9a1bcf..a84304dd 100644 --- a/africa/zi.json +++ b/africa/zi.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 31.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 31.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "44.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "9.7% (2019)" + "text": "9.6% (2024 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "61.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -389,22 +389,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 31.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 31.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "44.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "8/23/2023" + "text": "45161" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "ZANU-PF (175); Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) (104)" @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "8/23/2023" + "text": "45161" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "ZANU-PF (33); Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) (27)" @@ -1137,6 +1137,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a nascent program with the goal of using space technologies in economic development, including remote sensing capabilities to assist with monitoring or managing agriculture, food security, climate change, disease outbreaks, environmental hazards and disasters, and natural resources, as well as weather forecasting; has cooperated with Japan and Russia (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2020 - began a program (BIRDS-5) sponsored by Japan to promote the development of a domestic space program by designing, building, testing, launching, and operating the first satellites for participating countries 

2021 - established satellite ground communications station and completed national wetlands mapping project

2022 - first nano-sized remote sensing/educational satellite (ZIMSAT-1) built with Japan’s assistance and launched by Japan under the BIRDs-5 program

2024 - second RS satellite (ZIMSAT-2) built with Russian assistance and launched by Russia" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/antarctica/fs.json b/antarctica/fs.json index 1f90b086..ef9182c8 100644 --- a/antarctica/fs.json +++ b/antarctica/fs.json @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ "text": "overseas territory of France since 1955" }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (overseas territory of France); no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but the 5 administrative districts are Iles Crozet, Iles Éparses, Iles Kerguelen, Ile Saint-Paul et Ile Amsterdam, and \"Adelie Land,\" a claim in Antarctica that the US does not recognize" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but the 5 administrative districts are Iles Crozet, Iles Éparses, Iles Kerguelen, Ile Saint-Paul et Ile Amsterdam, and \"Adelie Land,\" a claim in Antarctica that the US does not recognize" }, "Legal system": { "text": "the laws of France apply" diff --git a/antarctica/hm.json b/antarctica/hm.json index c1b0c433..f3466a2c 100644 --- a/antarctica/hm.json +++ b/antarctica/hm.json @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ "text": "none (territory of Australia)" } }, - "Flag description": { + "Flag": { "text": "the flag of Australia is used" }, "National heritage": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/aq.json b/australia-oceania/aq.json index 17b4c0ee..58176def 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/aq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/aq.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 9.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 9.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "85.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "79.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -256,22 +256,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 9.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 9.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "85.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "79.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ "note": "note: pronounced PAHN-go PAHN-go" }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of the US); no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but 3 districts and 2 islands* are considered second-order; Eastern, Manu'a, Rose Island*, Swains Island*, Western" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 3 districts and 2 islands* are considered second-order; Eastern, Manu'a, Rose Island*, Swains Island*, Western" }, "Legal system": { "text": "mixed legal system of US common law and customary law" diff --git a/australia-oceania/as.json b/australia-oceania/as.json index d2e44e50..9c876836 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/as.json +++ b/australia-oceania/as.json @@ -74,22 +74,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "47.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 43.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "17.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "35.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.9% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.7% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -385,22 +385,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "47.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 43.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "17.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "35.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1214,6 +1214,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a history of involvement in space-related activities, including astronomy, rockets, satellites, and space tracking; develops, builds, operates, and tracks satellites, including communications, remote sensing (RS), and navigational, often in partnership with other countries; develops other space technologies, including communications, RS capabilities, and telescopes; encouraging growth in domestic commercial space-industry sector, including satellite launch vehicles; cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, the ESA, individual ESA member states, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the UK, and the US; co-leads the Global Earth Observation System of Systems and hosts one of the telescopes for the international Square Kilometer Array radio telescope  (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1960 - built first space-tracking station outside the US

1967 - first domestically built satellite (WRSEA) launched on a US rocket from Australian test range

1981 - commissioned first national satellite system

1996 - first Australian in space on US Space Shuttle

2021 - announced intent to provide a robotic lunar lander for US Artemis project

2022 - launched a US NASA rocket from a commercial launch site; joint Australia-US space surveillance telescope based in Western Australia became operational

2025 - first attempted launch of Australian-designed and -manufactured orbital launch vehicle failed to reach orbit" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/bp.json b/australia-oceania/bp.json index 5edff803..cd3267bc 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/bp.json +++ b/australia-oceania/bp.json @@ -67,22 +67,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "90.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "89.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -305,9 +305,6 @@ "text": "18.8% (2025 est.)" } }, - "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "16.2% (2015)" - }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "64.1% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -327,7 +324,7 @@ "text": "8.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "25.9% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "25.2% national budget (2024 est.)" } } }, @@ -348,22 +345,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "90.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "89.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/ck.json b/australia-oceania/ck.json index 72fef1f7..43ceeab5 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ck.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ck.json @@ -191,9 +191,6 @@ "text": "UTC+6.5 (11.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of Australia)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "common law based on the Australian model" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/cq.json b/australia-oceania/cq.json index 576ff0bb..36b40fa9 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/cq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/cq.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "53% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -257,22 +257,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "53% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (commonwealth in political union with the US); no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 4 municipalities are considered second-order: Northern Islands, Rota, Saipan, Tinian" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 4 municipalities are considered second-order: Northern Islands, Rota, Saipan, Tinian" }, "Legal system": { "text": "the laws of the US apply, except for customs and some aspects of taxation" diff --git a/australia-oceania/cw.json b/australia-oceania/cw.json index 38cb2b64..1232e725 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/cw.json +++ b/australia-oceania/cw.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "7.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "65% (2022 est.)" + "text": "65% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "27.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -312,10 +312,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.4% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.7% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "9.2% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -347,22 +347,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "7.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "65% (2022 est.)" + "text": "65% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "27.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -420,9 +420,6 @@ "text": "translates as \"two harbors\" in Maori" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "common law similar to New Zealand common law" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/fj.json b/australia-oceania/fj.json index e76ea9b0..23e59363 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fj.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fj.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "63.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "4.6% (2021)" + "text": "4.6% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "58.8% (2023 est.)" @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ "text": "4.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.6% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "13.8% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -374,22 +374,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "63.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/fp.json b/australia-oceania/fp.json index 3b4902b8..6ee85968 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fp.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fp.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "43% (2022 est.)" + "text": "48.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -267,22 +267,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "43.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "43% (2022 est.)" + "text": "48.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/gq.json b/australia-oceania/gq.json index cec6e624..7f27865f 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/gq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/gq.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 14.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 14.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "51.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -259,22 +259,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 14.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 14.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "51.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -343,9 +343,6 @@ "text": "the name Hagatna is derived from the Chamorro word haga, meaning \"life's blood\" and referring to the town's role as the center of government for the island " } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of the US)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "common law modeled on US system; US federal laws apply" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/kr.json b/australia-oceania/kr.json index 1cc49e1d..fdb29b32 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/kr.json +++ b/australia-oceania/kr.json @@ -67,22 +67,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 39.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 39.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "56.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "56.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "6.9% (2018/19)" + "text": "6.9% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "67.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -348,18 +348,18 @@ "text": "16.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.5% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "20.1% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "98% (2018 est.)" + "text": "98.6% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97.3% (2018 est.)" + "text": "98.6% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "98.6% (2018 est.)" + "text": "98.9% (2020 est.)" } } }, @@ -380,22 +380,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 39.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 39.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "56.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "56.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/kt.json b/australia-oceania/kt.json index 7c82d102..80757081 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/kt.json +++ b/australia-oceania/kt.json @@ -187,9 +187,6 @@ "text": "Flying Fish Cove was named after a British explorer's ship in 1886" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of Australia)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "system is under the authority of the governor general of Australia and Australian law" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/ne.json b/australia-oceania/ne.json index 0e2c9569..8af6bda2 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ne.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ne.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "72.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "72.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -209,6 +209,17 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "text": "5.6% national budget (2025 est.)" + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "99.5% (2022 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + } } }, "Environment": { @@ -228,22 +239,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "72.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "72.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -303,7 +314,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none; no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 14 villages are considered second-order" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 14 villages are considered second-order" }, "Legal system": { "text": "English common law" diff --git a/australia-oceania/nf.json b/australia-oceania/nf.json index 88894939..3828501a 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nf.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nf.json @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "25% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 25% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 25% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "62.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "25% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -153,13 +153,13 @@ "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 25% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 25% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "62.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.8% (2023 est.)" } } }, @@ -199,9 +199,6 @@ "text": "the name blends the words \"king's\" and \"town;\" the English king at the time of the town's settlement in the late 18th century was GEORGE III" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of Australia)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "English common law and the laws of Australia" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/nh.json b/australia-oceania/nh.json index fa88abe9..95577d1f 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nh.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nh.json @@ -71,22 +71,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "15.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "36.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "48.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -329,10 +329,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "10.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "7.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "20.9% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "20.1% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -364,22 +364,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "15.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "36.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "48.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/nr.json b/australia-oceania/nr.json index b78fb3a4..c838f0b3 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nr.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nr.json @@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ "text": "0% (2022 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "80% (2022 est.)" + "text": "80% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -287,15 +287,18 @@ "text": "46.1% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "3.8% (2023 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.6% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.6% of GDP (2023 est.) NA" + "text": "5.7% of GDP (2023 est.) NA" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.6% national budget (2018 est.)" + "text": "6.6% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -327,13 +330,13 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -342,7 +345,7 @@ "text": "0% (2022 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "80% (2022 est.)" + "text": "80% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/nz.json b/australia-oceania/nz.json index b9b34749..45937118 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nz.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nz.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "37% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 34.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "37.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -344,10 +344,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.1% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.7% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -379,22 +379,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "37% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 34.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "37.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1153,6 +1153,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space program focused largely on the development of a commercial space sector, particularly in the field of satellites and satellite launch vehicles (SLV); manufactures and launches commercial satellites and SLVs; researches and develops a range of other space-related technologies, including propulsion systems; participates in international programs and partners with a range of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Australia, Canada, the EU, the ESA, individual European countries, South Africa, and the US; has a growing commercial space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2009 - launched a 2-stage suborbital sounding rocket (Atea-1)

2018 - placed satellite in orbit on rocket built by a New Zealand-US commercial company and launched from a privately owned domestic launch site

2019 - began operations of the Kiwi Space Radar, which is designed to track debris in low Earth orbit

2021 - signed the US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2024 - first domestically made science payload sent to International Space Station on US rocket" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/pc.json b/australia-oceania/pc.json index 3f73874f..9d0cee10 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/pc.json +++ b/australia-oceania/pc.json @@ -167,9 +167,6 @@ "text": "named after John ADAMS (1767–1829), the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in 1790" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (overseas territory of the UK)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "local island by-laws" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/ps.json b/australia-oceania/ps.json index cf4a6831..b272efb5 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ps.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ps.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "90.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "90.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -318,13 +318,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "97% (2015 est.)" + "text": "100% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2015 est.)" + "text": "100% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "96% (2015 est.)" + "text": "100% (2020 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -356,22 +356,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "90.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "90.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/rm.json b/australia-oceania/rm.json index 84c494b6..092e7a3c 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/rm.json +++ b/australia-oceania/rm.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 36.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 36.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -312,19 +312,30 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11.9% (2017)" + "text": "11.9% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "68.3% (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "7.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "11.3% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "95.8% (2021 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "95.7% (2021 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "96.4% (2021 est.)" + } + }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { "total": { "text": "14 years (2022 est.)" @@ -354,22 +365,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 36.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 36.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/tl.json b/australia-oceania/tl.json index 18538dda..1d1ab08a 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/tl.json +++ b/australia-oceania/tl.json @@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ "text": "0% (2022 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "40% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -188,6 +188,17 @@ }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "52% (2023 est.)" + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + } } }, "Environment": { @@ -199,13 +210,13 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -214,7 +225,7 @@ "text": "0% (2022 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "40% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -253,9 +264,6 @@ }, "note": "note: there is no designated, official capital for Tokelau; the location of the capital rotates among the three atolls along with the head of government or Ulu o Tokelau" }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of New Zealand)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "common law system of New Zealand" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/tn.json b/australia-oceania/tn.json index a13a04a6..8170446e 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/tn.json +++ b/australia-oceania/tn.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "48.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "48.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 27.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 27.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 15.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 15.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "39% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "0.8% (2019)" + "text": "0.8% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "54.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -388,22 +388,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "48.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "48.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 27.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 27.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 15.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 15.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "39% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ "text": "11/18/2021" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "10%" + "text": "3.8%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "November 2025" diff --git a/australia-oceania/tv.json b/australia-oceania/tv.json index 7c221c34..a54b04f5 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/tv.json +++ b/australia-oceania/tv.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.9% (2019/20)" + "text": "2.9% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "66.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -340,10 +340,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "15.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "12.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "17% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "16.8% national budget (2025 est.)" + } + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "100% (2022 est.)" } } }, @@ -364,22 +375,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 60% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/wf.json b/australia-oceania/wf.json index c5d08f19..f93f1953 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/wf.json +++ b/australia-oceania/wf.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 35.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "41.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -258,6 +258,17 @@ }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "56% (2023)" + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "99.8% (2023 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "99.9% (2023 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "100% (2023 est.)" + } } }, "Environment": { @@ -269,22 +280,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 35.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "41.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/ws.json b/australia-oceania/ws.json index af8457ef..6939c419 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ws.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ws.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.4% (2019)" + "text": "3.4% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "61.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ "text": "5.5% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.9% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "11.7% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -373,22 +373,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json index ce998ebf..7dc1f8e5 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json @@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "86.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "86.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ "text": "3.6% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "19.4% national budget (2019 est.)" + "text": "11% national budget (2021 est.)" } } }, @@ -260,10 +260,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -272,10 +272,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "86.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "86.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ "text": "parliamentary democracy; part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands" }, "Dependency status": { - "text": "constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs obtained in 1986 upon separation from the Netherlands Antilles; Dutch government responsible for defense and foreign affairs" + "text": "one of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs obtained in 1986 upon separation from the Netherlands Antilles; Dutch government responsible for defense and foreign affairs", + "note": "note: the other three constituent countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are the Netherlands, Sint Maarten, and Curacao" }, "Capital": { "name": { @@ -338,10 +339,6 @@ "text": "translates as \"orange city\" in Dutch; in 1824, the city was named after the royal family of the Netherlands, the House of Orange-Nassau" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)", - "note": "note: Aruba is one of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the other three are the Netherlands, Curacao, and Sint Maarten" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system based on the Dutch civil code" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json index a4018f2d..ca24e15d 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "61.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ "text": "3.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "5.9% national budget (2025 est.)" } } }, @@ -344,22 +344,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "20.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "61.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ "text": "1/18/2023" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) (9); United Progressive Party (UPP) (6); Barbuda People's Movement (BPM) (1); Independents (1)" + "text": "Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) (9); United Progressive Party (UPP) (6); Barbuda People's Movement (BPM) (1); Independents (1); (1); Republican Force (1)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "5.6%" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json index 44a59c8e..2b5fbf5d 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json @@ -322,9 +322,6 @@ "text": "name may derive from the capital's location among several hills" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (overseas territory of the UK)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "common law based on the English model" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json index 81f0a393..03ddec3c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "62.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -299,10 +299,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.6% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.5% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "14.2% national budget (2025 est.)" } } }, @@ -323,22 +323,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "62.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President Sandra MASON (since 30 November 2021)" + "text": "President Jeffrey Davidson BOSTIC (since 30 November 2025)" }, "head of government": { "text": "Prime Minister Mia MOTTLEY (since 25 May 2018)" @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ "text": "7 October 2025" }, "election results": { - "text": "Jeffrey Davidson BOSTIC elected as the country's second president; note - BOSTIC will take office 30 November 2025" + "text": "Jeffrey Davidson BOSTIC elected as the country's second president" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "NA" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json index 307eac4e..465f5dd3 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "55% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -359,13 +359,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "90.9% (2015 est.)" + "text": "87.9% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "90.2% (2015 est.)" + "text": "87.9% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "91.6% (2015 est.)" + "text": "87.9% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -397,22 +397,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "55% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json index f8df8af3..8dc08690 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "36.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "15% national budget (2019 est.)" @@ -284,22 +284,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "36.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json index 1dc22ddd..0468b3fd 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "60.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.9% (2018)" + "text": "2.9% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "48.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -355,6 +355,11 @@ "text": "31.2% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, + "Literacy": { + "female": { + "text": "94.1% (2018 est.)" + } + }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { "total": { "text": "16 years (2019 est.)" @@ -384,22 +389,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "60.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1136,6 +1141,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small, recently established program focused on using space to develop the country’s economy and industry, including acquiring and using satellites; has built a remote sensing (RS) cube satellite; has relations with US space agencies and commercial space industries, as well as with the ESA and the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2018 - first domestically produced remote sensing cube satellite (Irazú) for monitoring tropical forests and climate change launched by US and deployed from the International Space Station

2021 - signed protocols for newly established Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency; opened US commercial company’s space radar facility for mapping and space situational awareness

2022 - domestically produced scientific device (Proyecto Musa or Musa Project) launched on European rocket

2024 - participated in first China-Latin America and the Caribbean Space Cooperation Forum" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json index 6dd4a0bc..474ab8af 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "61.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 28% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 28% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "31.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.4% (2019)" + "text": "2.4% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "58% (2023 est.)" @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ "text": "99% (2019 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "96.4% (2019 est.)" + "text": "96.3% (2019 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -403,22 +403,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "61.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 28% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 28% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "31.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json index ef022cdc..33852d09 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "33.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "63.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -302,22 +302,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "33.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "63.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json index 708447fd..88271230 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "50.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 20.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 24.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 23.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "44.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "4.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3% (2019)" + "text": "3% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "52.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -362,21 +362,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "21.9% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "20.9% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "94% (2016 est.)" + "text": "94% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "94% (2016 est.)" + "text": "93.6% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "87.4% (2019 est.)" + "text": "94.4% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -408,22 +408,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "50.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 20.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 24.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 23.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "44.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "4.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ "text": "Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) and its allies (146); People’s Force (FP) and its allies (28); Other (16)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "36.8%" + "text": "37.4%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "May 2028" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json index 2d24af93..dbf96098 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "57.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 34.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "27.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -336,6 +336,9 @@ "text": "1.7% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "5% (2021 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -352,18 +355,18 @@ "text": "3.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.5% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "15.9% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "90% (2023 est.)" + "text": "89.8% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "92% (2023 est.)" + "text": "91.6% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "88% (2023 est.)" + "text": "88.2% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -395,22 +398,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "57.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 34.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "27.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -497,7 +500,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "14 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Ahuachapan, Cabanas, Chalatenango, Cuscatlan, La Libertad, La Paz, La Union, Morazan, San Miguel, San Salvador, San Vicente, Santa Ana, Sonsonate, Usulutan" + "text": "14 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Ahuachapán, Cabanas, Chalatenango, Cuscatlán, La Libertad, La Paz, La Union, Morazán, San Miguel, San Salvador, San Vicente, Santa Ana, Sonsonate, Usulután" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system with minor common law influence; Supreme Court reviews legislative acts" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json index df7a291f..8f62eb78 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "14.4% (2021/22)" + "text": "14.4% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "57.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -361,21 +361,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "18.9% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.3% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "83% (2022 est.)" + "text": "82.1% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "88.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "86.9% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "78.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "78.5% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -407,22 +407,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "22 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, El Progreso, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Peten, Quetzaltenango, Quiche, Retalhuleu, Sacatepequez, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Solola, Suchitepequez, Totonicapan, Zacapa" + "text": "22 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, El Progreso, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Peten, Quetzaltenango, Quiche, Retalhuleu, Sacatepéquez, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Sololá, Suchitepéquez, Totonicapán, Zacapa" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json index 9b520a10..df458287 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "65.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "65.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "9.5% (2016/17)" + "text": "10.7% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "51.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "1.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "1% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "13.2% national budget (2025 est.)" @@ -394,22 +394,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "65.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "65.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "12.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ "text": "
2016: Jovenel MOÏSE elected president in first round; percent of vote - Jovenel MOÏSE (PHTK) 55.6%, Jude CELESTIN (LAPEH) 19.6%, Jean-Charles MOÏSE (PPD) 11%, Maryse NARCISSE (FL) 9%; other 4.8%

2011: Michel MARTELLY elected president in second round; percent of vote in second round - Michel MARTELLY (Peasant's Response) 68%, Mirlande MANIGAT (RDNP) 32%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "elections were delayed in 2022 and 2023 and have not been rescheduled" + "text": "30 August 2026" }, "note": "note: former Prime Minister Ariel HENRY, who had assumed executive responsibilities following the assassination of President MOÏSE on 7 July 2021, resigned on 24 April 2024; a nine-member Presidential Transitional Council, equipped with presidential powers, was sworn in on 25 April 2024 and will remain in place until 7 February 2026" }, @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch - lower chamber": { "chamber name": { - "text": "Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés)" + "text": "Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés)" }, "number of seats": { "text": "119 (all directly elected)" @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ "text": "0%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "December 2025" + "text": "August 2026" } }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ "text": "Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) (9); Truth (Vérité) (3); Konvansyon Inite Demokratik (KID) (2); Bouclier (2); Ayiti an aksyon (AAA) (2); Other (10)" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "December 2025" + "text": "August 2026" } }, "Judicial branch": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json index 416625db..bcbefada 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "32% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "11.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "7.1% (2019)" + "text": "7.1% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "53.5% (2023 est.)" @@ -363,21 +363,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "4.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.3% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "23.2% national budget (2018 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "89% (2019 est.)" + "text": "88.2% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "88% (2019 est.)" + "text": "87.6% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "89% (2019 est.)" + "text": "88.8% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -409,22 +409,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "32% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "11.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/28/2021" + "text": "11/30/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE) (50); National Party (PN) (44); Liberal Party (PL) (22); Salvador de Honduras Party (PSH) (10); Other (2)" @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ "text": "27.3%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "November 2025" + "text": "November 2029" } }, "Judicial branch": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json index d44df3ae..77dbe330 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 21.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 21.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "55.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "56.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -333,17 +333,22 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.5% (2018/19)" + "text": "2.5% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "32.7% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "5.5% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14.5% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "17.9% national budget (2024 est.)" + } + }, + "Literacy": { + "female": { + "text": "90.8% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -375,22 +380,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 6.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 21.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 21.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "55.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "56.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json index b4cf016d..16c3ed77 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "25% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ "text": "7.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "7.7% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "5.7% national budget (2025 est.)" } } }, @@ -264,22 +264,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "30% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 20% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 20% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "25% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json index 2924d626..b9b75367 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json @@ -268,7 +268,8 @@ "text": "

parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy

" }, "Dependency status": { - "text": "

part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs granted in 2010; Dutch government responsible for defense and foreign affairs

" + "text": "one of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs granted in 2010; Dutch government responsible for defense and foreign affairs", + "note": "note: the other three constituent countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are the Netherlands, Aruba, and Curacao" }, "Capital": { "name": { @@ -284,10 +285,6 @@ "text": "founded and named in 1763 by John PHILIPS, a Scottish captain in the Dutch navy" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)", - "note": "note: Sint Maarten is one of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the other three are the Netherlands, Aruba, and Curacao" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "based on Dutch civil law system with some English common law influence" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json index 5759c8ce..f39e2339 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "26.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "31% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ "text": "2.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "17.7% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "11% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -336,22 +336,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "26.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "31% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "15 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 2 autonomous regions* (regiones autonomistas, singular - region autonoma); Boaco, Carazo, Chinandega, Chontales, Costa Caribe Norte*, Costa Caribe Sur*, Esteli, Granada, Jinotega, Leon, Madriz, Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia, Rio San Juan, Rivas" + "text": "15 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 2 autonomous regions* (regiones autonomistas, singular - region autonoma); Boaco, Carazo, Chinandega, Chontales, Costa Caribe Norte*, Costa Caribe Sur*, Estelí, Granada, Jinotega, Leon, Madriz, Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia, Rio San Juan, Rivas" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system; Supreme Court may review administrative acts" @@ -1062,6 +1062,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "stated mission is to promote the development of space activities with the aim of broadening the country’s capacities in education, industry, science, and technology; has cooperated with China and Russia; is a signatory of the convention establishing the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1994 - joined UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

2017 - Russia opened a satellite navigation system monitoring station in Nicaragua

2021 - signed convention establishing the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency

2024 - joined the China-led International Lunar Research Station project, which aims to establish a permanent base on the Moon by the 2030s" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json index 4abcd05f..a946410d 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 20.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -338,28 +338,28 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.9% (2019)" + "text": "2.9% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "58.6% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "2.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.9% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "16.3% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "96% (2019 est.)" + "text": "96.3% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "96% (2019 est.)" + "text": "97.3% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2019 est.)" + "text": "95.9% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -391,22 +391,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 20.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "62.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "10 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) and 4 indigenous regions* (comarcas); Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui, Cocle, Colon, Darien, Embera-Wounaan*, Guna Yala*, Herrera, Los Santos, Naso Tjer Di*, Ngabe-Bugle*, Panama, Panama Oeste, Veraguas" + "text": "10 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) and 4 indigenous regions* (comarcas); Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Coclé, Colon, Darien, Embera-Wounaan*, Guna Yala*, Herrera, Los Santos, Naso Tjer Di*, Ngabe-Bugle*, Panama, Panama Oeste, Veraguas" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system; Supreme Court of Justice reviews legislative acts" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json index 9e17c1f6..e7bcda6c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -265,17 +265,22 @@ "text": "37.4% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { - "text": "3.6% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { + "text": "4.3% of GDP (2024 est.)" + }, + "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { + "text": "16% national budget (2025 est.)" + } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "92% (2017 est.)" + "text": "92.4% (2017 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "92% (2017 est.)" + "text": "92.4% (2017 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "92% (2017 est.)" + "text": "92.4% (2017 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -299,22 +304,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -395,7 +400,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of the US); no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 78 municipalities (municipios, singular - municipio) are considered second-order: Adjuntas, Aguada, Aguadilla, Aguas Buenas, Aibonito, Anasco, Arecibo, Arroyo, Barceloneta, Barranquitas, Bayamon, Cabo Rojo, Caguas, Camuy, Canovanas, Carolina, Catano, Cayey, Ceiba, Ciales, Cidra, Coamo, Comerio, Corozal, Culebra, Dorado, Fajardo, Florida, Guanica, Guayama, Guayanilla, Guaynabo, Gurabo, Hatillo, Hormigueros, Humacao, Isabela, Jayuya, Juana Diaz, Juncos, Lajas, Lares, Las Marias, Las Piedras, Loiza, Luquillo, Manati, Maricao, Maunabo, Mayaguez, Moca, Morovis, Naguabo, Naranjito, Orocovis, Patillas, Penuelas, Ponce, Quebradillas, Rincon, Rio Grande, Sabana Grande, Salinas, San German, San Juan, San Lorenzo, San Sebastian, Santa Isabel, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Trujillo Alto, Utuado, Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Vieques, Villalba, Yabucoa, Yauco" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 78 municipalities (municipios, singular - municipio) are considered second-order: Adjuntas, Aguada, Aguadilla, Aguas Buenas, Aibonito, Anasco, Arecibo, Arroyo, Barceloneta, Barranquitas, Bayamon, Cabo Rojo, Caguas, Camuy, Canovanas, Carolina, Catano, Cayey, Ceiba, Ciales, Cidra, Coamo, Comerio, Corozal, Culebra, Dorado, Fajardo, Florida, Guanica, Guayama, Guayanilla, Guaynabo, Gurabo, Hatillo, Hormigueros, Humacao, Isabela, Jayuya, Juana Diaz, Juncos, Lajas, Lares, Las Marias, Las Piedras, Loiza, Luquillo, Manati, Maricao, Maunabo, Mayaguez, Moca, Morovis, Naguabo, Naranjito, Orocovis, Patillas, Penuelas, Ponce, Quebradillas, Rincon, Rio Grande, Sabana Grande, Salinas, San German, San Juan, San Lorenzo, San Sebastian, Santa Isabel, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Trujillo Alto, Utuado, Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Vieques, Villalba, Yabucoa, Yauco" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system based on the Spanish civil code, within the framework of the US federal system" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json index 895ade8b..384a3fa4 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "16.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "49.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -329,10 +329,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "2.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.8% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.8% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "12.7% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -364,22 +364,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "16.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "49.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ "text": "10.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "July 2026" + "text": "December 2025" } }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ "text": "54.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "August 2026" + "text": "December 2025" } }, "Judicial branch": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json index e641a308..b8d9e4ea 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "10.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "44.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "2.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "12.6% national budget (2025 est.)" @@ -336,22 +336,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "10.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "44.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json index 4de3955a..c39fc358 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json @@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "87.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "87.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "0.4% (2019/20)" + "text": "0.4% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -289,10 +289,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "2.9% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.7% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "9.8% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -319,10 +319,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -331,10 +331,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "87.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "87.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -392,9 +392,6 @@ "text": "named after Sir Francis COCKBURN, who served as governor of the Bahamas from 1837 to 1844" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (overseas territory of the UK)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "mixed system of English common law and civil law" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json index 2552e0bb..1760be38 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json @@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ "text": "parliamentary democracy" }, "Dependency status": { - "text": "constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs granted in 2010; Dutch government responsible for defense and foreign affairs" + "text": "one of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs granted in 2010; Dutch government responsible for defense and foreign affairs", + "note": "note: the other three constituent countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are the Netherlands, Aruba, and Sint Maarten" }, "Capital": { "name": { @@ -308,10 +309,6 @@ "text": "the name means \"William's Town\" in Dutch; named after Prince WILLEM of Orange (1533-84), the first stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands " } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)", - "note": "note: Curaçao is one of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the other three are the Netherlands, Aruba, and Sint Maarten" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "based on Dutch civil law" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json index 694c2619..4708741a 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "73.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "73.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -318,22 +318,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "17.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "73.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "73.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ "text": "King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Governor General Susan DOUGAN (since 1 August 2019)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Ralph Everard GONSALVES (since 29 March 2001)" + "text": "Prime Minister Godwin FRIDAY (since 28 November 2025)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister" @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/5/2020" + "text": "11/27/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "United Labour Party (ULP) (9); New Democratic Party (NDP) (6)" @@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ "text": "21.7%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "November 2025" + "text": "November 2030" } }, "Judicial branch": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json index 3b03682a..92edbe36 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 33.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 33.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "2.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "13.6% national budget (2025 est.)" @@ -271,22 +271,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 33.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 33.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -346,9 +346,6 @@ "text": "name refers to the nautical term \"roadstead\" or \"roads,\" a body of water less sheltered than a harbor but where ships can still lie at anchor" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (overseas territory of the UK)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "English common law" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json index 4f9a9ba1..8fc07a11 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "32.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -252,22 +252,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "32.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territory of the US); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 3 islands are considered second-order: Saint Croix, Saint John, Saint Thomas" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 3 islands are considered second-order: Saint Croix, Saint John, Saint Thomas" }, "Legal system": { "text": "US common law" diff --git a/central-asia/kg.json b/central-asia/kg.json index 96af322e..f67a084a 100644 --- a/central-asia/kg.json +++ b/central-asia/kg.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "54% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "38.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.8% (2018)" + "text": "2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "66.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ "text": "6.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "19.8% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "19.6% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -391,22 +391,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "54% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "38.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ "text": "90 (all directly elected)" }, "electoral system": { - "text": "proportional representation" + "text": "other systems" }, "scope of elections": { "text": "full renewal" @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/28/2021" + "text": "11/30/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Ata-Jurt Kyrgyzstan (Fatherland) (15); Ishenim (Trust) (12); Yntymak (Harmony) (9); Alyans (Alliance) (7); Butun Kyrgyzstan (United) (6); Yiman Nuru (Ray of Faith) (5); Independents (34)" @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ "text": "22.2%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "November 2026" + "text": "November 2030" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Afghan's Party
Alliance
Ata-Jurt Kyrgyzstan (Fatherland) or AJK
Cohesion
Ishenim (Trust)
Light of Faith
Mekenchil or the \"Patriotic\" Political Party
Social Democrats or SDK
United Kyrgyzstan
Yntymak (Unity)" + "text": "Afghan's Party
Alliance
Cohesion
Fatherland Kyrgyzstan
Ishenim
Light of Faith
Mekenchil
Social Democrats or SDK
United Kyrgyzstan" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/central-asia/kz.json b/central-asia/kz.json index c5734f1d..47b8b052 100644 --- a/central-asia/kz.json +++ b/central-asia/kz.json @@ -65,22 +65,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "79.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "79.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 68.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -333,9 +333,6 @@ "text": "6.3% (2025 est.)" } }, - "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2% (2015)" - }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "61.8% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -349,10 +346,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "4.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "19.9% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "22% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -384,22 +381,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "79.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "79.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 68.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -636,7 +633,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Ak Zhol Democratic Party or Ak Zhol
Amanat Party (formerly Nur Otan (Radiant Fatherland))
Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party or Auyl
Baytak (Boundless) Party
National Social Democratic Party or NSDP
People's Democratic (Patriotic) Party or Auyl or AHDPP
People's Party of Kazakhstan or PPK
Respublica" + "text": "Ak Zhol Democratic Party or Ak Zhol
Amanat formerly Nur Otan
Auyl People's Democratic Patriotic Party or Auyl
Green Party of Kazakhstan orBaytaq
Nationwide Social Democratic Party or NSDP
People's Party of Kazakhstan or PPK
Respublica" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1202,6 +1199,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "space program originated with the former Soviet Union; focuses on satellite acquisition and operation; builds (with foreign assistance) and operates communications, remote sensing (RS), and scientific satellites; building space infrastructure, such as launch and testing facilities, ground stations, and rocket manufacturing; has an astronaut (cosmonaut) program; has relations with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE, and the UK; participates in international programs such as the International Space Station; has state-owned and private companies that assist with the country’s space program and work closely with foreign commercial entities (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1991 - first Kazakh in space on the last Soviet Soyuz mission

2006 - first communications satellite (KazSat-1) built jointly with Italy and launched by Russia

2014 - first remote sensing satellite (KazEOSat-1) built by France and launched on European rocket

2024 - joined China-led lunar base project" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/central-asia/rs.json b/central-asia/rs.json index d9c6ec42..f8d27b4a 100644 --- a/central-asia/rs.json +++ b/central-asia/rs.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "13.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "49.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -383,10 +383,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.9% national budget (2020 est.)" + "text": "14.3% national budget (2018 est.)" + } + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "99.9% (2021 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "99.9% (2021 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "99.9% (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -418,22 +429,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "13.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "49.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1294,6 +1305,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has one of the world’s largest space programs and is active across all areas of the space sector; builds, launches, and operates satellite/space launch vehicles, satellites, space stations, interplanetary probes, and manned, robotic, and re-usable spacecraft; has astronaut (cosmonaut) training program and conducts human space flight; researching and developing a broad range of other space-related technologies; participates in international space programs such as the International Space Station; has had relations with dozens of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of China, the ESA, India, Japan, and the US; Roscosmos and its public subsidiaries comprise the majority of the Russian space industry; Roscosmos has eight operating areas, including manned space flights, launch systems, unmanned spacecraft, rocket propulsion, military missiles, space avionics, special military space systems, and flight control systems; private companies are also involved in a range of space systems (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1957 - placed world’s first satellite (Sputnik-1) in orbit

1961-1964 - launched first man, first woman, and first multi-member crew into space

1965 - launched first probe to successfully land on the Moon

1967 - initial launch of Soviet-made Soyuz series space launch vehicle (SLV)

1971 - placed first space station (Salyut) in orbit and successfully landed a probe on Venus

1975 - joint Soviet (Soyuz)-US (Apollo) space mission

1986 - began operation of Mir space station (in orbit until 2001)

1995 - Global Navigation Satellite System (GLObalnaya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema or GLONASS) constellation completed 

2014 - initial launch of Angara SLV series 

2021 - announced agreements with China to send a robotic probe to an asteroid and jointly establish a station on the Moon 

2023 - launch first of a planned series of Moon landers (Luna-25; crashed on Moon's surface); announced intent to place first module of a new space station in orbit by 2027" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/central-asia/ti.json b/central-asia/ti.json index 66c9f165..e1b17d03 100644 --- a/central-asia/ti.json +++ b/central-asia/ti.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "28.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 20.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "68.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "7.6% (2017)" + "text": "5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "72% (2023 est.)" @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ "text": "5.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "19.7% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "19.3% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -381,22 +381,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "28.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 20.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "68.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Agrarian Party of Tajikistan or APT
Communist Party of Tajikistan or CPT
Democratic Party of Tajikistan or DPT
Party of Economic Reform of Tajikistan or PERT
People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT
Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan or SDPT
Socialist Party of Tajikistan or SPT" + "text": "Agrarian Party of Tajikistan or APT
Democratic Party or DPT
Party of Economic Reforms or PERT
People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT
Socialist Party of Tajikistan or SPT" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/central-asia/tx.json b/central-asia/tx.json index fc3cf232..759057e8 100644 --- a/central-asia/tx.json +++ b/central-asia/tx.json @@ -65,22 +65,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "84.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "84.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 80.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 80.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.1% (2019)" + "text": "3.1% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "64.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -360,12 +360,18 @@ "text": "2.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "20.5% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "29.6% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "99.9% (2022 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "99.9% (2022 est.)" + }, "female": { - "text": "99.6% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -397,22 +403,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "84.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "84.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 80.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 80.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -582,7 +588,7 @@ "text": "unicameral" }, "number of seats": { - "text": "125 (all directly elected)" + "text": "56 (48 indirectly elected; 8 appointed)" }, "electoral system": { "text": "plurality/majority" @@ -594,13 +600,13 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "3/26/2023" + "text": "3/28/2021" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (DPT) (65); Groups of citizens of Turkmenistan (28); Agrarian Party (24); Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (8)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "25.6%" + "text": "25.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "March 2028" @@ -618,7 +624,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Agrarian Party of Turkmenistan or APT
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs or PIE", + "text": "Agrarian Party of Turkmenistan or TAP
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan or TSTP
The Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or TDP", "note": "note: all parties support President BERDIMUHAMEDOV; unofficial, small opposition movements exist abroad" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { @@ -1064,6 +1070,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small space program focused on acquiring satellites and developing the infrastructure to build and operate satellites; particularly interested in communications and remote sensing satellites; has cooperated with the space agencies and/or space industries of France, Italy, Russia, South Korea, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2015 - first commercial telecommunications satellite (Turkmen Sat 52E) built by European company and launched by US

2024 - announced beginning of program to develop or acquire a second communications satellite" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/central-asia/uz.json b/central-asia/uz.json index 5503b1e1..d5b7fe73 100644 --- a/central-asia/uz.json +++ b/central-asia/uz.json @@ -62,22 +62,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "58.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 47.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 47.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.8% (2021)" + "text": "1.8% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "68.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ "text": "5.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "21.6% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.1% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -401,22 +401,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "58.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 47.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 47.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "8.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/27/2024" + "text": "11/7/2024 to 11/12/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Movement of Entrepreneurs and Businesspeople - Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP) (64); Milliy Tiklanish Democratic Party (O'zMTDP) (29); Social Democratic Party (\"Adolat\" SDP) (21); People's Democratic Party (XDP) (20); Ecological Party (O'EP) (16)" @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/7/2024 to 11/12/2024" + "text": "10/27/2024" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "24.6%" @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Ecological Party of Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston Ekologik Partivasi)
Justice (Adolat) Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan
Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston Liberal-Demokratik Partiyasi) or LDPU
National Revival Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston Milliy Tiklanish Demokratik Partiyasi)
People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (Xalq Demokratik Partiyas) or PDP (formerly Communist Party)" + "text": "Ecological Party of Uzbekistan or EPU
Justice Social Democratic Party or ASDP
People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan or PDP
Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party or UzLiDep
Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party or UzMTDP" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1190,6 +1190,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small but growing space effort focused on acquiring satellites and developing the country’s space industries and technologies in key sectors, including cartography, data processing, environmental and disaster monitoring, land use, resource management, and telecommunications; recognized for its astronomy program; member of international space organizations; cooperates with foreign space agencies or commercial companies from a variety of countries, including those of Canada, China, France, India, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and the UAE (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2018 - signed space cooperation agreements with France and India

2022 - signed space cooperation agreement with Kazakhstan 

2025 - Uzbek engineers began two-year satellite development training program in Japan with goal of building country's first satellite; signed space cooperation agreement with South Korea; announced development of 10-year national space program" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json index 2592c768..d11ce58a 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "42.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "37.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "19.1% (2018)" + "text": "19.5% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "57.5% (2023 est.)" @@ -375,18 +375,18 @@ "text": "2% of GDP (2019 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.8% national budget (2019 est.)" + "text": "9.7% national budget (2019 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "89% (2019 est.)" + "text": "93.5% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "92% (2019 est.)" + "text": "94.7% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "86% (2019 est.)" + "text": "92.7% (2020 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -418,22 +418,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "42.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "37.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "37.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json index 0b03dbfc..d9b10a12 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 23.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "43.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "16.3% (2022)" + "text": "16.3% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "66.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -371,10 +371,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "2.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.5% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "11.6% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -417,22 +417,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 23.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "43.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json index 30e1f184..5f64a4e1 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "23.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -386,21 +386,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.5% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.9% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "97% (2020 est.)" + "text": "96.7% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "98% (2020 est.)" + "text": "98.4% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2020 est.)" + "text": "95.1% (2020 est.)" } }, "People - note": { @@ -424,22 +424,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "23.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1256,6 +1256,9 @@ "Space program overview": { "text": "considered one of the world’s leading space powers, with a comprehensive and ambitious space program; can manufacture and operate the full spectrum of space launch vehicles (SLVs) and spacecraft, including human-crewed, lunar/inter-planetary/asteroid probes, satellites (communications, remote sensing, navigational, scientific, etc.), space stations, and reusable space transportation; has an astronaut/taikonaut program; researches and develops a range of space-related capabilities, including advanced telecommunications, optics, spacecraft components, and satellite payloads; participates in international space programs and co-leads (with Australia and Japan) the Global Earth Observation System of Systems; has signed agreements with more than 45 national space agencies, including those of Brazil, Canada, France, and Russia, as well several international organizations; has also cooperated with ESA; two state-owned aerospace enterprises dominate space industry, but a substantial commercial space sector includes launch services (2025)", "note": "note: the US NASA is barred by a 2011 law from cooperating with the Chinese bilaterally in space unless approved by the US Congress; the US objected to China’s participation in the International Space Station program" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1960s - began launching rockets and initiated satellite and satellite launch vehicle (SLV) programs

1970 - launched first communications satellite (Dongfanghong I)

2003 - first manned space flight; launched first satellite for global navigational system (Beidou)

2011 - placed temporary space station (Tiangong-1) into Earth orbit

2013 - first unmanned lunar landing mission (Chang'e-3); placed a second temporary space station (Tiangong-2) in Earth orbit

2017 - employed a communications satellite (Micius) to perform the world’s first quantum-encrypted virtual teleconference between Beijing and Vienna

2019 - landed a rover vehicle (Chang’e-4) on the far side of the Moon

2021 - landed a probe and operated a rover vehicle on Mars; signed agreement with Russia to set up an international manned lunar research station; announced intent to send a manned mission to Mars by 2033

2022 - completed construction of a permanent manned space station (Tiangong) in Earth orbit

2024 - successful landing and return of robotic spacecraft/probe (Chang'e-6) from the far side the Moon; first launch of \"Thousand Sails\" commercial communications satellite constellation project

2025 - launched asteroid sample return mission probe (Tianwen-2); launched world's first quantum communications microsatellite (Jinan-1)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json index b16b197e..e01fdc99 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json @@ -63,16 +63,16 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { "text": "0% (2022 est.)" @@ -285,10 +285,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.8% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.7% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -312,16 +312,16 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "3.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { "text": "0% (2022 est.)" @@ -388,9 +388,6 @@ "Dependency status": { "text": "special administrative region of the People's Republic of China" }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "mixed system of common law based on the English model and Chinese customary law (in matters of family and land tenure); China's imposition of National Security Law incorporates elements of Chinese civil law" }, diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json index 0273c2be..b7df494c 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json @@ -71,22 +71,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "48% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "17.7% (2018)" + "text": "15.9% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "70% (2023 est.)" @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.9% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.6% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -370,10 +370,10 @@ "text": "96% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2020 est.)" + "text": "97.4% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2020 est.)" + "text": "94.6% (2020 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -408,22 +408,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "48% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1234,6 +1234,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "focuses largely on rocket development and satellite acquisition/operation; manufactures remote sensing (RS) satellites; has a sounding (research) rocket program to develop an orbital satellite launch vehicle (SLV); researching and developing a range of other space-related technologies related to satellite payloads, communications, RS, and astronomy; has relations with several foreign space agencies and industries, including those of France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the US; national space program includes building up the country's private space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1964 - launched first sounding rocket (Kartika)

1976 - first communications satellite (Palapa A1) built and launched by US

2005 - re-started sounding rocket program with goal of producing a satellite launch vehicle (SLV)

2007 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (LAPAN-A1) built by Germany and launched by India

2015 - first domestically produced RS satellite (LAPAN-A2) launched by India

2023-2024 - two communications satellites (SATRIA-1 and Merah Putih 2) to provide high-speed internet access across the Indonesian archipelago built by European company and launched by US" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json index 2c8c3f4d..10a1bc0a 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json @@ -71,22 +71,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "12.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "68.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.3% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "7.5% national budget (2022 est.)" @@ -357,22 +357,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "12.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "68.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/27/2024" + "text": "7/20/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (191); Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (148); Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) (38); Democratic Party for the People (28); Komeito (24); Other (36)" @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ "text": "6 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "7/20/2025" + "text": "10/27/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (39); Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (22); Democratic Party for the People (17); Sanseito (14); Komeito (8); Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) (7); Independents (8); Other (10)" @@ -1221,6 +1221,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has one of the world’s largest and most advanced space programs, with independent capabilities in all areas except autonomous manned space flight; designs, builds, launches, and operates the full spectrum of satellites; designs, builds, and independently launches satellite/space launch vehicles (SLVs) and other spacecraft; has a wide range of research and development programs; has an astronaut training program; participates in international programs such as the International Space Station and the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope project; leads the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum and co-leads the Global Earth Observation System of Systems; cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Canada, the ESA and its member states, India, Russia, the UAE, the US; has a commercial space industry that develops space-related capabilities and technologies, including satellites, satellite payloads and subcomponents, and SLVs; in recent years, the Japanese Government has supported space startup companies (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1966-1970 - initiated satellite launch vehicle (SLV) program and launched first domestically produced satellite (OHSUMI)

1985 - launched two Halley’s Comet observation satellites (Japan’s first missions beyond Earth’s orbit)

1992 - first astronaut in space on US Space Shuttle

1998 - launched its first Mars orbiter (failed to enter orbit)

2003 - launched world’s first uncrewed spacecraft (Hayabusa 1) to return with a sample from an asteroid (2010)

2007 - launched Lunar orbiter (Kaguya) mission

2010 - launched Venus orbiter (Akatsuki) mission

2014 - launched asteroid probe with lander/rover (Hayabusa 2); first Japanese International Space Station commander

2018 - launched joint Japan-ESA probe to Mercury (BepiColombo); began operation of a navigational/positioning satellite constellation (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, QZSS)

2019 - began participating in US-led lunar orbital station and Moon exploration programs 

2024 - soft-landed unmanned spacecraft (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon or SLIM) on the Moon; conducted first successful test launch of domestically produced H3 medium-lift SLV" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json index 4eff6f87..bb3f7154 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "21.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 19.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 19.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "49.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "9.3% (2017)" + "text": "9.3% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "69.7% (2023 est.)" @@ -369,22 +369,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "21.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 19.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 19.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "49.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -881,6 +881,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "North Korea’s leader has emphasized the development of space capabilities, particularly satellite launch vehicles (SLVs) and remote sensing satellites; manufactures satellites and rockets/SLVs; independently launches rockets/SLVs; SLV program is viewed as closely related to the country's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles; passed a national space law in 2013, and revised it in 2022 to allow for the use of space for national defense; has cooperated with Iran on space-related technologies, and signed a mutual defense treaty with Russia in 2024 that stated the two countries would “develop exchanges and joint research in science and technology, including space” (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1980s - initiated space program 

1998 - failed first attempt to place a satellite in orbit on a 3-stage Paektusan-1 satellite launch vehicle (SLV) 

2012 - successfully placed first satellite (Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 or Bright Star-3) in orbit on Unha-3 SLV (satellite failed to operate)

2016 - second satellite (Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4) placed in orbit on Unha-3 SLV (reportedly a remote sensing (RS) satellite that also failed to operate)

2023 - placed a military RS satellite (Malligyong-1) in orbit on Chollima-1 SLV 

2024 - failed attempt to place a second military RS satellite in orbit on new type SLV" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json index 6e393bd5..3379f7b0 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "16.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "64.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -316,13 +316,13 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "0.3% (2020)" + "text": "0.4% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "52.9% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { - "text": "4.9% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "5.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Literacy": { "total population": { @@ -364,22 +364,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "16.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "64.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1182,6 +1182,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has an ambitious space program focused on developing satellites, satellite launch vehicles (SLVs), and interplanetary probes; has a national space strategy; manufactures and operates satellites, including those with communications, remote sensing (RS), scientific, and multipurpose capabilities; manufactures and launches SLVs; developing interplanetary space vehicles, including orbital probes and landers; participates in international programs and works with an array of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Australia, the ESA, individual ESA member states (particularly France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK), India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Peru, Russia, UAE, and the US; has an active commercial space industry (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1992 - first domestically made technology-demonstrator satellite (KITSAT-1) launched on European rocket

1993-1998 - launched first single-stage sounding rocket (KSR-1) and first two-stage sounding rocket (KSR-2)

1999 - first domestically built multi-purpose satellite (KOMPSAT-1, aka Arirang-1) launched by US

2008 - first South Korean astronaut in space on International Space Station

2013 - first successful satellite launch of two-stage Korean Space Launch Vehicle-I (KSLV-I; aka Naro)

2021 - maiden launch of three-stage KSLV-II (aka Nuri); signed the US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2022 - first successful attempt to place satellites into orbit on the KSLV-II/Nuri; domestically made lunar orbiter (Danuri) reached Moon's orbit; began development of the Korea Positioning System (KPS) satellite navigational network

2024 - third successful launch of Nuri SLV placed eight small satellites in orbit, including a remote sensing satellite (NexSat-2) with radar imaging technology" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json index f5dab3a8..67b8b9b0 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "71.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "56.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "21.1% (2017)" + "text": "24.3% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -355,18 +355,18 @@ "text": "1.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.8% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "8.2% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "85% (2015 est.)" + "text": "75.6% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "90% (2015 est.)" + "text": "85.1% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "79% (2015 est.)" + "text": "66.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -398,22 +398,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "9.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "71.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "56.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json index de292342..f364c60c 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json @@ -318,9 +318,6 @@ "Dependency status": { "text": "special administrative region of the People's Republic of China" }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system based on the Portuguese model" }, diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json index 418e02d2..e467ede0 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 71.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.8% (2018)" + "text": "1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "58.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -361,18 +361,18 @@ "text": "3.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "13.8% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "98.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "98.6% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "98.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "98.3% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "98.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "98.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -404,22 +404,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 71.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "9.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json index df3e28b5..36cf6386 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "26.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -334,28 +334,28 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "14.1% (2019)" + "text": "15.3% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.3% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "17.1% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "14.1% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "96% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.8% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2022 est.)" + "text": "96.8% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2022 est.)" + "text": "94.7% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -387,22 +387,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "26.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1210,6 +1210,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space policy and program focused on the areas of remote sensing (RS), navigational services, and telecommunications to support domestic economic sectors; seeks to promote a domestic space industry; acquires, manufactures, and operates satellites; conducts research in RS capabilities and space sciences such as astronomy, atmospherics, space environment, and weather; has an astronaut training exchange program with Russia and works with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of the ESA, individual ESA member states, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the UK, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1996 - first of a series of domestically produced commercial communications satellites (MEASAT) launched on European rocket

2000 - first multipurpose (remote sensing/RS, communications, scientific) microsatellite (TiungSat-1) produced with technology and training from the UK and launched by Russia

2007 - first Malaysian astronaut (trained in Russia) to space on International Space Station

2009 - first RS satellite (RazakSat) built with assistance from South Korea and launched by US

2011 - completed construction of a satellite assembly, integration, and testing facility

2025 - first commercial high-resolution RS satellite (UzmaSat-1) launched by US; signed US-led Artemis Accords" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json index ffaab020..6990df79 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "79% (2022 est.)" + "text": "75.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -353,10 +353,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "1.4% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "0.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "3.9% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "3.5% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -391,22 +391,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "79% (2022 est.)" + "text": "75.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ "text": "7/4/2022 to 7/22/2022" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Papua & Niugini Union Pati (PANGU) (39); People's National Congress Party (PNC) (15); United Resource Party (URP) (11); Others (40); Independents (10)" + "text": "Papua & Niugini Union Pati (PANGU) (39); People's National Congress Party (PNC) (15); United Resource Party (URP) (11); Others (40); Independents (10)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "2.7%" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json index fe699acd..4d916363 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 18.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 18.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 18.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "19.1% (2015)" + "text": "16.7% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -358,15 +358,15 @@ "text": "3.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "16.7% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "15.2% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "98% (2020 est.)" + "text": "98.5% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "98% (2020 est.)" + "text": "98.4% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { "text": "97% (2022 est.)" @@ -404,22 +404,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 18.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 18.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 18.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1245,6 +1245,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small space program focused on acquiring satellites and related technologies, largely for climate studies, national security, and risk management; also prioritizing development of space expertise and industry; manufactures and operates satellites (mostly micro- and nano-sized), including remote sensing and scientific/experimental; has relations with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, the ESA (and some of its member states), India, Japan, Russia, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1994 - formed a consortium of companies to acquire and operate satellites

1996 - acquired first communications satellite (Agila-1) from Indonesia after it was already in orbit

2014 - initiated a scientific remote sensing (RS) microsatellite development program in collaboration with Japan, resulting in first RS microsatellite (Diwata-1) being deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2016

2018 - first domestically designed and built scientific/technology-demonstrator cube satellite (Maya-1) deployed from ISS; second RS microsatellite (Diwata-2) developed with assistance from and launched by Japan

2023 - signed agreement with the ESA and EU to expand cooperation on Earth observation/RS data sharing

2025 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json index 2fa9d41c..30391958 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 33.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "38.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "7.7% (2019)" + "text": "6.7% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.8% (2023 est.)" @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ "text": "2.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.6% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "12.6% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -418,22 +418,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 33.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "38.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ "text": "estimated 350,000 active-duty Armed Forces (250,000 Army; 70,000 Navy; 30,000 Air Force) (2025)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the RTARF has a diverse array of foreign-supplied weapons and equipment, as well as some domestically produced items; in recent years, Thailand has received arms from a wide variety of countries, including China and the US; Thailand has a domestic defense industry, which produces such items as armored vehicles, artillery systems, naval vessels, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other military technologies (2024)" + "text": "the RTARF has a diverse array of foreign-supplied weapons and equipment, as well as some domestically produced items; in recent years, Thailand has received arms from a variety of countries, including China and the US; Thailand has a domestic defense industry, which produces such items as armored vehicles, artillery systems, naval vessels, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other military technologies (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 21 years of age for compulsory military service for men; men register at 18 years of age; volunteer service obligation may be as short as 6 or 12 months, depending on educational qualifications; conscript service obligation also varies by educational qualifications, but is typically 24 months (2024)", @@ -1262,6 +1262,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has an ambitious national space program focused on the acquisition, production, and operation of satellites, as well as research and development of related infrastructure, sciences, and technologies; operates communications and remote sensing (RS) satellites; manufactures scientific/research/testing cube satellites and is developing the capabilities to produce RS satellites (has historically built satellites with foreign assistance); works with a range of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, France, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, and the US; founding member of the China-led Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO); has a commercial space industry, including Southeast Asia’s first dedicated satellite manufacturing facility, which opened in 2021 (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1982 - established first satellite ground station

1993 - first foreign-built commercial communications satellite (Thaicom-1) launched on European rocket

2008 - first remote sensing satellite (Theos-1; aka Thaichote) co-developed with France and launched by Russia 

2018 - first domestically produced scientific/research satellite (KNACKSAT) launched by US

2024 - signed memorandum of understanding with China for cooperation on Beijing's lunar research station project and space exploration; signed US-led Artemis Accords " } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json index 243685e5..4d29b20e 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "23% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "61.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "31.9% (2020)" + "text": "31.9% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -345,21 +345,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "5.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "7.5% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "4.3% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "65.8% (2016 est.)" + "text": "72.5% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "72.2% (2016 est.)" + "text": "73.1% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "59.6% (2016 est.)" + "text": "71.8% (2022 est.)" } }, "People - note": { @@ -383,22 +383,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "23% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "61.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ } }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, ADB, AOSIS, ARF, ASEAN (observer), CPLP, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PIF (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WMO" + "text": "ACP, ADB, AOSIS, ARF, ASEAN, CPLP, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PIF (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WMO" }, "Independence": { "text": "28 November 1975 (from Portugal); 20 May 2002 (from Indonesia)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json index 977f408d..6ac9cd2e 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json @@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "22% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -254,13 +254,13 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "22% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ }, "Administrative divisions": { "text": "includes main island of Taiwan, plus smaller islands nearby and off coast of China's Fujian Province; Taiwan is divided into 13 counties (xian, singular and plural), 3 cities (shi, singular and plural), and 6 special municipalities directly under the jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan

counties: Changhua, Chiayi, Hsinchu, Hualien, Kinmen, Lienchiang, Miaoli, Nantou, Penghu, Pingtung, Taitung, Yilan, Yunlin

cities: Chiayi, Hsinchu, Keelung

special municipalities: Kaohsiung (city), New Taipei (city), Taichung (city), Tainan (city), Taipei (city), Taoyuan (city)", - "note": "note: Taiwan uses a variety of romanization systems; a modified Wade-Giles system still dominates, but the city of Taipei has adopted a Pinyin romanization for street and place names; other local authorities use different romanization systems" + "note": "note: Taiwan uses a variety of romanization systems for names; a modified Wade-Giles system still dominates, but the city of Taipei has adopted a Pinyin romanization for street and place names; other local authorities use different romanization systems" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system" @@ -937,6 +937,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has had a national space program since the early 1990s, with a focus on acquiring satellites and developing independent space capabilities, such as rocket manufacturing and satellite launch services; manufactures and operates satellites and sounding rockets; researching and developing other space technologies, including remote sensing, telecommunications, small satellites, satellite payloads and ground station components, spacecraft components, navigational control, and rocket propulsion systems; has bilateral relations with the space programs of France, India, Japan, Paraguay, Poland, the UK, and the US; has a commercial space industry that provides components and expertise for the Taiwan Space Agency and is independently developing satellites and a small satellite launch vehicle; the government passed a space promotion act in 2021 to encourage private investment in the space industry (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1997 - launched first sounding rocket

1999 - first scientific satellite (FORMOSAT-1) built and launched by the US

2004 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (FORMOSAT-2) built by France and launched by US

2017 - first domestically built RS satellite (FORMOSAT-5) launched by US 

2021 - initiated development of a commercial 3-stage, hybrid-engine rocket (Hapith-5)

2023 - first domestically made RS/meteorological satellite (FormoSat-7R/Triton) launched on European rocket" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json index e56237b1..139b27c1 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 15.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "47.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11.6% (2020)" + "text": "9.7% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "72.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -372,13 +372,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "96% (2022 est.)" + "text": "96.1% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2022 est.)" + "text": "97.2% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.1% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -410,22 +410,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 15.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "47.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ "text": "31.4%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "May 2026" + "text": "March 2026" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -1214,6 +1214,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a growing national space program focused on acquiring, operating, and exploiting satellites, as well as expanding domestic capabilities in satellites and associated sub-system production, space sciences, and technology applications; builds and operates communications and remote sensing satellites; conducting research and development on space science and applied space technologies, such as advanced optics and space data exploitation; has worked closely with Japan on its space program; has also established relationships with the space agencies or commercial space sectors of some European countries (such as France), India, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1980 - first Vietnamese astronaut/cosmonaut into space on Soviet spacecraft

2008 - first telecommunications satellite (VINASAT-1) built by US company and launched on European rocket

2012 - first educational/scientific cube satellite (F-1) built jointly with and launched by Japan; second telecommunications satellite (VINASAT-2) built by US and launched on European rocket

2013 - first domestically built remote-sensing (RS)/technology-demonstrator cube satellite (PicoDragon) launched by Japan; first RS satellite (VNREDSat-1a or Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment, and Disaster Monitoring Satellite) launched on European rocket

2016 - signed an agreement with India to establish a satellite tracking and imaging center in Ho Chi Minh City in exchange for access to Indian RS imagery

2018 - completed National Space Center in Hanoi

2021 - announced a developmental roadmap for producing “Made in Vietnam” small satellites as part of a larger effort to increase space sciences and technology through 2030; signed an agreement with Japan to increase cooperation on space defense" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/europe/al.json b/europe/al.json index 87032a3d..fec8a7ee 100644 --- a/europe/al.json +++ b/europe/al.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "41.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 16.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "28.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.5% (2017/18)" + "text": "1.5% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "67.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -363,21 +363,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "2.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.1% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "10.9% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "98.8% (2017 est.)" + "text": "97.7% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "98.6% (2017 est.)" + "text": "98.2% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "99% (2017 est.)" + "text": "97.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -409,22 +409,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "41.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 16.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "28.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1166,6 +1166,9 @@ "text": "18-27 (up to 32 in some cases) for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription abolished 2010 (2024)", "note": "note: as of 2024, women comprised about 15% of the military's full-time personnel" }, + "Military deployments": { + "text": "250 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2025)" + }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Albanian Armed Forces (AAF) are responsible for defending the country’s independence, sovereignty, and territory, assisting with internal security, providing disaster and humanitarian relief, and participating in international peacekeeping missions; the AAF is a small, lightly armed force that has been undergoing a modernization effort to improve its ability to fulfill NATO missions; the AAF has contributed small numbers of forces to several NATO missions since Albania joined NATO in 2009, including peacekeeping/stability missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq, and multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria and Latvia; it has also contributed to EU and UN missions (2025)" } diff --git a/europe/an.json b/europe/an.json index 05d72189..c68aec21 100644 --- a/europe/an.json +++ b/europe/an.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 38.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 38.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "26.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "12.1% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -358,22 +358,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 38.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 38.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "26.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/au.json b/europe/au.json index b75b0d19..67872fb2 100644 --- a/europe/au.json +++ b/europe/au.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "31.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 14.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 14.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "47.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -347,10 +347,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.9% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -382,22 +382,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "31.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 14.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 14.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "47.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ "note": "note 1: as of 2023, women made up about 4% of the military's full-time personnel

note 2: in a January 2013 referendum, a majority of Austrians voted in favor of retaining the system of compulsory military service (with the option of alternative/non-military service) instead of switching to a professional army system" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "210 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR stabilization force); 160 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); 160 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2025)" + "text": "210 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR stabilization force); 100 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); 160 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the military’s primary responsibilities are national defense and protecting Austria’s neutrality; it also has some domestic security and disaster response responsibilities; each of the nine federal states has a military command that provides a link between the military and civil authorities; the main tasks of these commands include providing military assistance during disasters and supporting security police operations

the Austrian military contributes to international peacekeeping and humanitarian missions; Austria has been constitutionally militarily non-aligned since 1955 but is an EU member and actively participates in EU peacekeeping and crisis management operations under the EU Common Security and Defense Policy; Austria is not a member of NATO but joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace framework in 1995 and participates in some NATO-led crisis management and peacekeeping operations; more than 100,000 Austrian military and civilian personnel have taken part in more than 50 international peace support and humanitarian missions since 1960 (2025)" @@ -1160,6 +1160,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "established a national space program in 2002; develops, builds, operates, and tracks satellites, including remote sensing and research/scientific satellites; member of the ESA; works closely with ESA and EU member states and the commercial sector to develop a range of space capabilities and technologies, including applications for satellite payloads, space flight, and space research; participates in a range of ESA/EU programs, including Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), Copernicus Earth observation, and Galileo global navigation satellite system; also cooperates with other foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, India, Russia, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1981 - became an associate ESA member (full member in 1987)

1991 - first Austrian in space on Soviet Mir Space Station

2013 - first domestically built science/technology (star observation) satellites (TUGSAT-1 and UniBRITE) launched by India

2017 - worked with China to produce world’s first quantum-encrypted satellite communications teleconference from Beijing to Vienna

2024 - signed US-led Artemis Accords outlining best practices for cooperative space exploration" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/be.json b/europe/be.json index 9ae290f2..a0d267a7 100644 --- a/europe/be.json +++ b/europe/be.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 28.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 28.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "32.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1% (2014/15)" + "text": "0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "43.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -359,10 +359,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "6.4% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "6.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.3% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "12% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -394,22 +394,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 28.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 28.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "32.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "3 regions (French: régions, singular - région; Dutch: gewesten, singular - gewest); Brussels-Capital Region, also known as Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (Dutch), Region de Bruxelles-Capitale (French long form), Bruxelles-Capitale (French short form); Flemish Region (Flanders), also known as Vlaams Gewest (Dutch long form), Vlaanderen (Dutch short form), Région Flamande (French long form), Flandre (French short form); Walloon Region (Wallonia), also known as Région Wallonne (French long form), Wallonie (French short form), Waals Gewest (Dutch long form), Wallonie (Dutch short form)", + "text": "3 regions (French: régions, singular - région; Dutch: gewesten, singular - gewest); Brussels-Capital Region, also known as Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (Dutch), Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (French long form), Bruxelles-Capitale (French short form); Flemish Region (Flanders), also known as Vlaams Gewest (Dutch long form), Vlaanderen (Dutch short form), Région Flamande (French long form), Flandre (French short form); Walloon Region (Wallonia), also known as Région Wallonne (French long form), Wallonie (French short form), Waals Gewest (Dutch long form), Wallonie (Dutch short form)", "note": "note: as a result of the 1993 constitutional revision that furthered devolution into a federal state, there are now three levels of government (federal, regional, and linguistic community) with a complex division of responsibilities; the 2012 sixth state reform transferred additional competencies from the federal state to the regions and linguistic communities" }, "Legal system": { @@ -1210,6 +1210,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "builds satellites, particularly research/science/technology and remote sensing platforms; researches, develops, and produces a wide variety of space technologies, including telecommunications, optics, robotics, scientific instruments, and space launch vehicle components; founding member of the ESA and participates in a variety of ESA and EU projects, such as Space Surveillance and Tracking, Copernicus Earth observation, and Galileo global navigation satellite system; hosts the European Space Security and Education Center (established 1968); participates in international astronomy efforts, particularly through the European Southern Observatory (ESO); has worked with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities outside Europe, including those of Argentina, China, India, Russia, South Africa, UAE, Vietnam, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1986 - joined first European Earth Observation program; founding member of European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

1992 - first Belgian astronaut in space on the US Space Shuttle

2001 - first remote sensing satellite (PROBA-1) launched by India

2024 - signed US-led Artemis Accords outlining best practices for space exploration" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/bk.json b/europe/bk.json index f4f8f373..44893904 100644 --- a/europe/bk.json +++ b/europe/bk.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 19.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "42.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -326,10 +326,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.4% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "10.2% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -361,22 +361,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 19.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "42.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -552,10 +552,10 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/2/2022" + "text": "2/16/2023" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Party of Democratic Action (SDA) (9); Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) (6); Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP) (5); HDZ BiH, HSS, HSP BiH, HKDU, HSPAS, HDU, HSPHB, HRAST (4); Democratic Front (DF) - Civic Alliance (GS) (3); People and Justice (NAROD I PRAVDA) (3); Other (12)" + "text": "Party of Democratic Action (SDA) (9); Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) (6); Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP) (5); HDZ BiH, HSS, HSP BiH, HKDU, HSPAS, HDU, HSPHB, HRAST (4); Democratic Front (DF) - Civic Alliance (GS) (3); People and Justice (NAROD I PRAVDA) (3); (3); Republican Party of the Social Order (PROS) (3); Other (15)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "19%" @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "2/16/2023" + "text": "10/2/2022" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "6.7%" @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Chargé d’Affaires Daniel KOSKI (since February 2025)" + "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Chargé d’Affaires John GINKEL (since September 2025)" }, "embassy": { "text": "1 Robert C. Frasure Street, 71000 Sarajevo" diff --git a/europe/bo.json b/europe/bo.json index 470e39be..f45d41fb 100644 --- a/europe/bo.json +++ b/europe/bo.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 27.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 27.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "43.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -354,18 +354,18 @@ "text": "5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.8% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "13.2% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "100% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2019 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "100% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2019 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "100% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2019 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -397,22 +397,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "39.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 27.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 27.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "43.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/bu.json b/europe/bu.json index cdf8901c..608717cd 100644 --- a/europe/bu.json +++ b/europe/bu.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 31.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 32.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "36.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -352,10 +352,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.4% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "12% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -387,22 +387,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 31.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 32.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "36.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1186,6 +1186,9 @@ "text": "18-40 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription ended in 2007; service obligation 6-9 months (2023)", "note": "note 1: in 2021, women comprised about 17% of the Bulgarian military's full-time personnel

note 2: in 2020, Bulgaria announced a program to allow every citizen up to the age of 40 to join the armed forces for 6 months of military service in the voluntary reserve" }, + "Military deployments": { + "text": "160 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2025)" + }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Bulgarian military is responsible for guaranteeing Bulgaria’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, providing support to international peace and security missions, and contributing to national security in peacetime, including such missions as responding to disasters or assisting with border security; the military trains regularly including in multinational exercises with regional partners and with NATO since Bulgaria joined the organization in 2004; it also participates in overseas peacekeeping and other security missions under the EU, NATO, and the UN; in 2022, Bulgaria established and began leading a NATO multinational battlegroup as part of an effort to boost NATO defenses in Eastern Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; in 2021, Bulgaria approved a 10-year defense development program, which included calls for equipment upgrades and procurements, boosts in manpower, organizational reforms, and greater focus on such areas as cyber defense, communications, logistics support, and research and development

the Bulgarian military has participated in several significant conflicts since its establishment in 1878, including the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885), the First Balkan War (1912-13), the Second Balkan War (1913), World War I (1915-1918), and World War II (1941-45); during the Cold War it was one of the Warsaw Pact’s largest militaries with over 150,000 personnel and more than 200 Soviet-made combat aircraft (2025)" } @@ -1196,6 +1199,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a long history of space-related activities going back to the 1960s; develops, produces, and operates satellites; researches, develops, and produces other space technologies, including those related to astrophysics, remote sensing, data exploitation, optics, and electronics; has specialized in producing scientific instruments for space research; has more than 20 research institutes; Cooperating State of the ESA since 2015; works with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of the ESA, EU, individual ESA and EU member states, India, Japan, Russia, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1960s-1990s - participated in the Soviet Interkosmos program, which included the first Bulgarian in space (1979), first domestically produced scientific satellite launched on a Soviet rocket (1981), and participation in the Soviet VEGA project (1985)

2017 - first communications satellite (BulgariaSat-1) built and launched by US 

2019 - first domestically built data/educational cube satellite (EnduroSat-1) launched by US

2023 - signed the US-led Artemis Accords outlining principles for cooperation in space exploration

2025 - domestically produced, multispectral remote sensing satellite (Balkan-1) launched by US as part of EU's Copernicus Earth observation program" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/ee.json b/europe/ee.json index 2c5ae090..bed9324d 100644 --- a/europe/ee.json +++ b/europe/ee.json @@ -778,6 +778,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "EU member states have a large and advanced commercial space sector that develops and produces a full range of capabilities and technologies; a key focus for both the European Space Agency (ESA) and the EU Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA) is encouraging this sector; Europe is a global leader in satellite-based communications and hosts the headquarters of three of the world’s major satellite communications companies

ESA is comprehensive space agency that is active across the space sector, except for launching humans into space; its activities include producing and operating satellites with a full spectrum of capabilities (communications, multipurpose, navigational, remote sensing, science/technology), satellite launch vehicles (SLVs), space launches, astronaut training, space transportation/automated transfer vehicles, reusable spacecraft, space station modules, spacecraft components, robotic space labs, lunar/planetary surface rovers, interplanetary space probes and exploration, and space telescopes; ESA participates in international programs such as the International Space Station and works closely with Europe’s commercial space industry; it also works with a broad range of space agencies and industries of non-member countries, including China, Japan, Russia, and the US; many of its programs are conducted jointly, particularly with the US space program

the EUSPA is responsible for the operational management of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) and Galileo satellite navigation programs; the EU space strategy encourages investment in and the use of space services and data, fosters competition and innovation, develops space technologies, and reinforces Europe’s autonomy in accessing space (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1979 - first launch of Ariane heavy-lift satellite launch vehicle (SLV)

1980s-2011 - participated in US Space Shuttle program (included more than 20 Spacelab missions, 1983-1998)

1995 - first solar satellite/orbiter (SOHO) launched

1997-2017 - Cassini-Huygens research mission to Saturn 

1998-present - participating in a series of missions with varying start dates, including the International Space Station, International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory mission (INTEGRAL), Mars Express orbiter exploration mission, Rosetta comet probe (included world’s first landing on a comet, 2014), Copernicus Earth observation program, Mars orbiter mission (ExoMars), Mercury planetary orbiter mission (BepiColombo), Solar Orbiter mission, US Gateway Lunar orbital station project

2016 - Galileo satellite-based global navigational positioning system reached initial operational capability

2019 - began development of quantum communications infrastructure (EuroQCI)

2021 - implemented EU government satellite communications (GOVSATCOM) and Space Surveillance and Awareness (SSA) components of EU space program; launched world’s first commercial, fully flexible, reprogrammable quantum satellite; launched US-built James Webb Space Telescope

2023 - launched Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission; launched Euclid space observatory/telescope

2024 - successful test launch of Ariane-6 SLV; launched probe (Hera) to study asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos

2025 - announced EU Space Act, a cooperative framework for space activities across the EU" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/ei.json b/europe/ei.json index 30e31b3c..008a3ab1 100644 --- a/europe/ei.json +++ b/europe/ei.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "63.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 56.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 54.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -332,10 +332,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "2.9% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "12.3% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -367,22 +367,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "63.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 56.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 54.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/29/2024" + "text": "1/29/2025 to 1/30/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Fianna Fáil (48); Sinn Féin (39); Fine Gael (38); Social Democratic Party (11); Labour Party (11); Independents (16); Other (11)" @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "1/29/2025 to 1/30/2025" + "text": "11/29/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Fianna Fail (19); Fine Gael (18); Sinn Fein (6); Independents (12); other (5)" diff --git a/europe/en.json b/europe/en.json index 0bd11a9d..1c6942a6 100644 --- a/europe/en.json +++ b/europe/en.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "23.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -338,10 +338,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14.6% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "13% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -373,22 +373,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "23.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "57.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Conservative People's Party (Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond) or EKRE
Estonia 200 or E200
Estonia Centre Party of (Keskerakond) or KE
Estonian Free Party or VAP
Estonian Greens or EER
Estonian Nationalists and Conservatives or ERK 
Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond) or RE
Estonian United Left Party or EÜVP
Fatherland or I
Pro Patria (Isamaa)
The Right or PP
Social Democratic Party or SDE" + "text": "Conservative People's Party of Estonia (Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond) or EKRE
Estonia 200 or E200
Estonia Centre Party of (Keskerakond) or EK
Estonian Free Party or VAP
Estonian Freedom Party - Farmers' Assembly or V-PK
Estonian Greens or EER
Estonian Nationalists and Conservatives or ERK 
Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond) or RE
Fatherland or I
Left Alliance or VL
Social Democratic Party or SDE
The Right or PP
TOGETHER organization points to sovereignty or KOOS" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/europe/ez.json b/europe/ez.json index 62f2639f..caca01a9 100644 --- a/europe/ez.json +++ b/europe/ez.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 32.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 32.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,10 +342,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.1% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "10% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -377,22 +377,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 32.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 32.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ "text": "President Petr PAVEL (since 9 March 2023)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Petr FIALA (since 17 December 2021)" + "text": "Prime Minister Andrej BABIS (since 9 December 2025)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister" @@ -571,16 +571,16 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/8/2021 to 10/9/2021" + "text": "10/3/2025 to 10/4/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "ANO (72); SPOLU (71); Pirate Party (Pirati) - Mayors and independents (STAN) (37); Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) (20)" + "text": "ANO (80); SPOLU (52); Mayors and independents (STAN) (22); Czech Pirate Party (18); Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) (15); Motoristé sobě (AUTO) (13)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "33.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "October 2025" + "text": "October 2029" } }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Action of Dissatisfied Citizens or ANO (Akce nespokojených občanů)
Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party or KDU-ČSL
Civic Democratic Party or ODS
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia or KSČM
Czech Pirate Party or Piráti
ForMOST or ProMOST
Freedom and Direct Democracy or SPD
Independents or NEZ
Mayors and Independents or STAN
Mayors for the Liberec Region or SLK
Ostravak
Přísaha
Senator 21 or SEN 21
Social Democracy SOCDEM
Svobodni
Tradition Responsibility Prosperity 09 or TOP 09
Tábor 2020 or T2020
United Democrats - Association of Independents or SD-SN" + "text": "Action of Dissatisfied Citizens or ANO (Akce nespokojených občanů)
Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party or KDU-ČSL
Civic Democratic Party or ODS
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia or KSČM
Czech Pirate Party or Piráti
ForMOST or ProMOST
Freedom and Direct Democracy or SPD
Independents or NEZ
Mayors and Independents or STAN
Mayors for the Liberec Region or SLK
Přísaha
Senator 21 or SEN 21
Social Democracy SOCDEM
Svobodni
Tradition Responsibility Prosperity 09 or TOP 09
Tábor 2020 or T2020
United Democrats - Association of Independents or SD-SN" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/europe/fi.json b/europe/fi.json index 202ac19a..d0862a56 100644 --- a/europe/fi.json +++ b/europe/fi.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "73.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -354,10 +354,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "6.5% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "6.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.2% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "12.1% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -389,22 +389,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "7.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "73.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/fo.json b/europe/fo.json index f476a4c3..0568cb8b 100644 --- a/europe/fo.json +++ b/europe/fo.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 70.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 70.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Population distribution": { @@ -271,22 +271,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "70.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 70.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 70.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "part of the Kingdom of Denmark; self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark; there are 29 first-order municipalities (kommunur, singular - kommuna) Eidhi, Eystur, Famjin, Fuglafjordhur, Fugloy, Hov, Husavik, Hvalba, Hvannasund, Klaksvik, Kunoy, Kvivik, Nes, Porkeri, Runavik, Sandur, Sjovar, Skalavik, Skopun, Skuvoy, Sorvagur, Sumba, Sunda, Torshavn, Tvoroyri, Vagar, Vagur, Vestmanna, Vidhareidhi" + "text": "29 first-order municipalities (kommunur, singular - kommuna) Eidhi, Eystur, Famjin, Fuglafjordhur, Fugloy, Hov, Husavik, Hvalba, Hvannasund, Klaksvik, Kunoy, Kvivik, Nes, Porkeri, Runavik, Sandur, Sjovar, Skalavik, Skopun, Skuvoy, Sorvagur, Sumba, Sunda, Torshavn, Tvoroyri, Vagar, Vagur, Vestmanna, Vidhareidhi" }, "Legal system": { "text": "the laws of Denmark apply " diff --git a/europe/fr.json b/europe/fr.json index f26ad3b3..108b8839 100644 --- a/europe/fr.json +++ b/europe/fr.json @@ -85,22 +85,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "51.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "31.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -372,10 +372,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.4% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "5.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.9% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "9.1% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -408,22 +408,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "51.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 34.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "31.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "6/30/2024 to 7/7/2024" + "text": "9/24/2023" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "New Popular Front (NFP)/UG (178); Ensemble (presidential majority) (150); National Rally (RN) (125); The Republicans (LR) (39); Other (85)" @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { "chamber name": { - "text": "Senate (Sénat)" + "text": "Senate (Sénat)" }, "number of seats": { "text": "348 (all indirectly elected)" @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ "text": "6 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "9/24/2023" + "text": "6/30/2024 to 7/7/2024" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "37.1%" @@ -1284,6 +1284,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has one of Europe’s largest space programs and is one of the top contributors to the ESA; has independent capabilities in all areas, except for autonomous manned space flight; can build, launch, and operate a range of space/satellite launch vehicles (SLVs) and spacecraft, including exploratory probes and a full spectrum of satellites; shifted astronaut training to ESA in 2001; hosts the ESA headquarters and its space launch facility; participates in international space programs such as the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope and International Space Station; works with a broad range of space agencies and commercial space companies, including those of China, Egypt, individual ESA and EU member countries, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia, the UAE, the US, and several African countries; has a large commercial space sector involved in satellite construction and payloads, launch capabilities, and a range of other space-related capabilities and technologies (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "early 1960s - began rocket program and launched animals into space

1965 - launched first domestically produced satellite (Asterix) into space on a French Diamant rocket (third country to do so after the Soviet Union and US)

1973 - began development of Ariane heavy-lift satellite launch vehicle (SLV) along with other European states, particularly Germany and the UK; Ariane would become the ESA's SLV

1970s-1990s - development of a space plane/shuttle program (Hermes)

1982 - first French astronaut into space on a Soviet rocket

1986 - launched first joint European Earth observation/remote sensing program (SPOT)

2018 - launched project (Spaceship FR) to lay the groundwork for robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars

2024 - debut launch of Ariane-6 SLV; claimed world's first satellite to ground communications via laser" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/gi.json b/europe/gi.json index f4f79440..408d308f 100644 --- a/europe/gi.json +++ b/europe/gi.json @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ "text": "40.7% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { - "text": "8.8% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "8.6% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Environment": { @@ -329,9 +329,6 @@ "text": "from the Spanish derivation of the Arabic jabal tariq, which means \"Mountain of Tariq\" and refers to the Berber chief who captured the peninsula in A.D. 711" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (overseas territory of the UK)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "the laws of the UK apply" }, diff --git a/europe/gk.json b/europe/gk.json index b22fbf4b..918604ef 100644 --- a/europe/gk.json +++ b/europe/gk.json @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (British Crown dependency); no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 10 parishes: Castel, Forest, Saint Andrew, Saint Martin, Saint Peter Port, Saint Pierre du Bois, Saint Sampson, Saint Saviour, Torteval, Vale", + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 10 parishes: Castel, Forest, Saint Andrew, Saint Martin, Saint Peter Port, Saint Pierre du Bois, Saint Sampson, Saint Saviour, Torteval, Vale", "note": "note: two additional parishes for Guernsey are sometimes listed -- Saint Anne on the island of Alderney and Saint Peter on the island of Sark" }, "Legal system": { diff --git a/europe/gm.json b/europe/gm.json index 21347541..c03e532a 100644 --- a/europe/gm.json +++ b/europe/gm.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "47.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 33.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 33.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -353,17 +353,17 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "0.5% (2014/17)" + "text": "0.6% (2016 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "54.4% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "5.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.3% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "10.7% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -395,22 +395,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "47.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 33.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 33.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1218,8 +1218,8 @@ "note": "note 1: conscription ended in 2011; in 2020, the German Government launched a new voluntary conscript initiative focused on homeland security tasks, with the volunteers serving for 7 months plus 5 months as reservists over a 6-year period

note 2: women have been eligible for voluntary service in all military branches and positions since 2001 and accounted for about 12% of the active-duty German military in 2023" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "100 Estonia; up to 500 Iraq (NATO); Lebanon 170 (UNIFIL); up to 1,700 Lithuania (NATO); 100 Romania (NATO); 280 Slovakia (NATO) (2024)", - "note": "note: the German military has over 2,000 ground forces, plus air and naval contingents deployed on some 18 foreign missions" + "text": "up to 500 Iraq (NATO); 300 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR), Lebanon 170 (UNIFIL); up to 1,700 Lithuania (NATO) (2025)", + "note": "note: the German military also has air and naval contingents deployed to support NATO missions" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Bundeswehr’s core mission is the defense of Germany and its NATO partners; it has a wide range of peacetime duties, including crisis management, cyber security, deterrence, homeland security, humanitarian and disaster relief, and international peacekeeping and stability operations; as a key member of NATO and the EU, the Bundeswehr typically operates in a coalition environment, and its capabilities are largely based on NATO and EU planning goals and needs; it has participated in a range of NATO and EU missions in Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as global maritime operations; the Bundeswehr has close bilateral defense ties with a number of EU countries, including the Czechia, France, the Netherlands, and Romania, as well as the UK and the US; it also contributes forces to UN peacekeeping missions

the Bundeswehr was established in 1955; at the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, it had nearly 600,000 personnel, over 7,000 tanks, and 1,000 combat aircraft; in addition, over 400,000 soldiers from other NATO countries—including about 200,000 US military personnel—were stationed in West Germany; in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the Bundeswehr shrank by more than 60% in size (over 90% in tanks and about 80% in aircraft), while funding fell from nearly 3% of GDP and over 4% of government spending in the mid-1980s to 1.2% and 1.6% respectively; by the 2010s, the Bundeswehr’s ability to fulfill its regional security commitments had deteriorated; the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and full-scale assault on Ukraine in 2022 led to renewed emphasis on Germany’s leadership role in European defense and NATO and efforts to boost funding for the Bundeswehr to improve readiness, modernize, and expand (2025)" @@ -1235,6 +1235,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has one of Europe’s largest space programs and is a top contributor to the ESA; builds and operates satellites, satellite/space launch vehicles (SLVs), probes, and unmanned orbiters; researches and develops a range of capabilities and technologies, including reusable space planes, satellite payloads, rockets, propulsion-assisted landing technologies, and aeronautics; participates in EU and ESA programs, including the Cassini-Huygens research mission to Saturn, Mars and Venus exploration missions, and the Galileo global navigation satellite system; participates in ESA’s astronaut training program and human space flight operations; hosts the European Astronaut Center; participates in international programs such as the International Space Station (ISS) and the James Webb Space Telescope; hosts mission control centers for the ISS, the ESA, and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT); has ties to foreign space programs, including those of China, Japan, Russia, and the US; has a robust commercial space sector  (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1969 - first German scientific satellite (Azur) launched by US

1973 - participated with other European states, particularly France and the UK, in development of Ariane satellite launch vehicle

1978 - first German in space on Soviet Salyut space station

1980s-1990s - participated in US Space Shuttle program, including providing astronauts

1999 - launched a space-based X-ray telescope (ABRAXIS) on Russian rocket

2005 - began development of reusable space plane/shuttle/transporter

2019 - launched first space-based X-ray telescope (eROSITA) capable of imaging the entire sky (joint project with Russia)

2023 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for the exploration of space and the Moon; adopted a new national space strategy" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/gr.json b/europe/gr.json index 3bd8515d..ace36d6d 100644 --- a/europe/gr.json +++ b/europe/gr.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "30.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -339,10 +339,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "7.2% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.4% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -374,22 +374,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 14.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "30.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1162,7 +1162,8 @@ "note": "note 1: compulsory service applies to any individual whom the Greek authorities consider to be Greek, regardless of whether the individual considers himself Greek, has a foreign citizenship and passport, or was born or lives outside of Greece; Greek citizens living permanently outside of Greece have the right to postpone their conscription; they are permanently exempted from their military obligations when they reach the age of 45 years old

note 2: as of 2023, women comprised nearly 17% of the military's full-time personnel" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "approximately 1,000 Cyprus; 110 Kosovo (NATO); 120 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2024)" + "text": "approximately 1,000 Cyprus; 120 Kosovo (NATO); 130 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2025)", + "note": "note: Greece also has air and naval units deployed in support of NATO missions" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Hellenic Armed Forces (HAF) are responsible for protecting Greece’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; the HAF also maintains a presence on Cyprus (the Hellenic Force in Cyprus or ELDYK) to assist and support the Cypriot National Guard; as a member of the EU, NATO, and other international organizations, the HAF participates in multinational peacekeeping and other security missions abroad, taking a particular interest in missions occurring in the near regions, such as the Balkans, the Mediterranean and Aegean seas, the Middle East, and North Africa; areas of focus for the HAF include instability in the Balkans, territorial disputes with Turkey, and support to European security through the EU and NATO

Greece’s NATO membership is a key component of its security; it became a NATO member in 1952 and occupies a strategic location in the Eastern Mediterranean on NATO’s southern flank; Greece is host to several NATO facilities, including the Deployable Corps Greece (NDC-GR) headquarters in Thessaloniki, the Combined Air Operations Center in Larissa, the Multinational Peace Support Operations Training Center in Kilkis, the Multinational Sealift Coordination Center in Athens, and the Naval Base, Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre, and NATO Missile Firing Installation at Souda, Crete (2025)" @@ -1174,6 +1175,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "focuses on building and operating satellites for communications and remote sensing (RS); researches and develops space-related technologies in a variety of sectors, including agriculture, defense, environmental studies, RS, and telecommunications; contributes to and participates in ESA capabilities and programs; also participates in EU space programs and cooperates bilaterally with European and US space agencies and commercial space sectors; has a commercial space sector that researches, develops, and produces a variety of space technologies and capabilities (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1994 - signed first cooperation agreement with the ESA

2005 - first satellite (Hellas-Sat) for a domestic telecommunications satellite network launched by US; joined ESA (became member state in 2011)

2017 - first domestically manufactured communications satellite (UPSat) released from International Space Station

2019 - began participating in ESA’s quantum communications infrastructure (EuroQCI or “fiber in the sky”) and the US Gateway Lunar orbital/landing programs

2021 - launched ESA-assisted national program to develop, manufacture, launch, and operate small satellites 

2024 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and Moon exploration

2025 - launched demonstrator/experimental RS cube satellite (DUTHSat-2) under ESA-assisted national small satellite program" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/hr.json b/europe/hr.json index ce73e05a..686404f4 100644 --- a/europe/hr.json +++ b/europe/hr.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "25.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "39.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -314,10 +314,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.1% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.5% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -349,22 +349,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "25.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "39.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ "text": "4/17/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) (55); Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) (37); Homeland Movement (DP) (11); We Can! – Political Platform (Možemo!) (10); Independent (NZ) (10); Other (28)" + "text": "Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) (55); Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) (37); Homeland Movement (DP) (11); We Can! – Political Platform (Možemo!) (10); Bridge (Most) (7); Other (20)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "33.1%" diff --git a/europe/hu.json b/europe/hu.json index 90b4bbf0..0ef23498 100644 --- a/europe/hu.json +++ b/europe/hu.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 45.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 45.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -344,10 +344,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.4% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.8% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -379,22 +379,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 45.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 45.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "22.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ "text": "Hungarian Civic Union-Christian Democratic People's Party (FIDESZ-KDNP) (135); Democratic Coalition (DK) (15); Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik) (10); Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) (10); Momentum (10); Other (19)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "15.2%" + "text": "15.6%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "April 2026" @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Chargé d’Affaires Robert PALLADINO (since 7 March 2025)" + "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Chargé d’Affaires Caroline SAVAGE (since November 2025)" }, "embassy": { "text": "Szabadsag ter 12, H-1054 Budapest" @@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ "note": "note: as of 2021, women comprised over 20% of Hungary's full-time military personnel" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "250 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR stabilization force); 200 Chad; 365 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2025)" + "text": "250 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR stabilization force); 200 Chad; 470 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Hungarian Defense Forces (HDF) are responsible for ensuring the defense of the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and citizens, and fulfilling Hungary’s commitments to the EU and NATO, as well as contributing to other international peacekeeping efforts under the UN; key areas of concern for the HDF the HDF is also responsible for some aspects of domestic security, crisis management, disaster response, and assisting law enforcement forces in border security

Hungary has been a member of NATO since 1999 and considers the collective defense ensured within the Alliance as a cornerstone of the country’s security; NATO membership is complemented by Hungary’s ties to the EU under its Common Security and Defense Policy; the HDF has participated in multiple NATO-led security missions, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kosovo, as well as EU-led missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mali; it hosts a NATO battlegroup comprised of troops from Croatia, Hungary, Italy, and the US, and NATO’s Multinational Division Center, a headquarters capable of commanding a division-sized force (typically 15-20,000 troops) in a crisis; both organizations were established as a result of Russian aggression against Ukraine; Hungary is a member of the Visegrad Group, a regional platform that brings together Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia to discuss cultural, defense, and political cooperation (2025)" diff --git a/europe/ic.json b/europe/ic.json index c3e1ce75..7ba0fa3a 100644 --- a/europe/ic.json +++ b/europe/ic.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "18.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "80.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "82.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -333,10 +333,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "6.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "7.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14.8% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "15.7% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -368,22 +368,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "18.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 15% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "80.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "82.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/im.json b/europe/im.json index 028e5703..786112c0 100644 --- a/europe/im.json +++ b/europe/im.json @@ -63,22 +63,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 42.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 41.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 28% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -263,22 +263,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "69.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 42.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 41.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 29.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 28% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none; no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 24 local authorities each hold elections" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 24 local authorities each hold elections" }, "Legal system": { "text": "UK laws apply, as well as Manx statutes" diff --git a/europe/it.json b/europe/it.json index 3f652164..423efd94 100644 --- a/europe/it.json +++ b/europe/it.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 24% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -331,21 +331,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "7.2% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.4% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "99% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.3% (2019 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.5% (2019 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "99% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.2% (2019 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -377,22 +377,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 24% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1223,8 +1223,8 @@ "note": "note: women serve in all military branches; as of 2023, women made up about 8% of the military's full-time personnel" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "120 Djibouti; approximately 750 Bulgaria (NATO); approximately 650 Middle East (NATO, European Assistance Mission Iraq); 250 Hungary (NATO; up to 1,500 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); 250 Latvia (NATO); 1,325 Lebanon (UNIFIL); 200 Libya; 350 Niger; 250 Romania (NATO); 150 Somalia (EUTM) (2024)", - "note": "note 1: Italy has about 11,500 total air, ground, and naval forces deployed on foreign missions

note 2: since 1960, Italy has committed more than 60,000 troops to UN missions, and it hosts a training center in Vicenza for police personnel destined for peacekeeping missions" + "text": "Italy has on average about 8,000 military personnel deployed in support of NATO, UN, and other foreign missions; significant ground troop deployments include Bulgaria (750), Hungary (250), Kosovo (870), Latvia (300), and Lebanon (875); in addition, air and naval units are deployed in support of NATO missions (2025)", + "note": "note: since 1960, Italy has committed more than 60,000 troops to UN missions, and it hosts a training center in Vicenza for police personnel destined for peacekeeping missions" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Italian military is responsible for Italy’s national defense and security and fulfilling the country’s commitments to the EU, NATO, the UN, and other multinational military, security, and humanitarian operations; it also has some domestic security duties; key areas of emphasis for Italy’s security policy and multinational cooperation are Europe’s eastern and southern flanks, including the Mediterranean Sea, East and North Africa, and the Middle East and its adjacent waters

Italy has been an active member of NATO since its founding in 1948, and the Alliance is a cornerstone of Rome’s national security strategy; it is one of NATO’s leading contributors of military forces and participates in such Alliance missions as Air Policing in the Baltics, the Enhanced Forward Presence in Eastern Europe, and maritime patrols in the Mediterranean and beyond; it hosts NATO’s Joint Force Command in Naples and a NATO Rapid Deployable Corps headquarters in Milan 

Italy is also active in European/EU defense cooperation and integration, including hosting the headquarters for the EU’s Mediterranean naval operations force in Rome; in addition, Italy has close defense ties with the US and hosts several US military air, army, and naval bases and facilities (2025)" @@ -1239,6 +1239,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "one of the top contributors to the ESA; designs, builds, launches, and operates communications, remote sensing (RS), and scientific satellites; designs and manufactures probes, rockets, and orbital satellite launch vehicles (SLVs); researches, develops, and builds a range of other space-related technologies and participates in a wide array of international programs; hosts the ESA Center for Earth Observation; has astronaut cadre in the ESA astronaut corps; has cooperated with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, the UAE, and the US; participates in international projects such as the International Space Station; has considerable commercial space industries encompassing a wide range of capabilities (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1964 - first domestically manufactured science satellite (San Marco-1) launched by the US

1977 - first domestically built telecommunications/research satellite (Sirio) launched by the US

1990s-2011 - participated in US Space Shuttle program, resulting in first Italian astronaut in space (1992)

1998-present - participated in International Space Station, including the first European astronaut on the station (2001), first Italian to command it (2019-2020), and first woman to command the station (2022)

2012 - first launch of Italian-designed VEGA 3-stage satellite launch vehicle (SLV) for ESA

2020 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration 

2023 - first Italian all-electric satellite (MicroHETSat) built for the ESA and launched by the US; began developing a habitat for the US-led Artemis Lunar Gateway project

2025 - passed a national space law to govern Italian space operations" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/je.json b/europe/je.json index 2884c244..8b8ea478 100644 --- a/europe/je.json +++ b/europe/je.json @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (British crown dependency); no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 12 parishes; Grouville, Saint Brelade, Saint Clement, Saint Helier, Saint John, Saint Lawrence, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, Saint Ouen, Saint Peter, Saint Saviour, Trinity" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 12 parishes; Grouville, Saint Brelade, Saint Clement, Saint Helier, Saint John, Saint Lawrence, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, Saint Ouen, Saint Peter, Saint Saviour, Trinity" }, "Legal system": { "text": "the laws of the UK apply, as well as local statutes" diff --git a/europe/lg.json b/europe/lg.json index 4835e944..13e0db39 100644 --- a/europe/lg.json +++ b/europe/lg.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "31.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "54.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -317,15 +317,18 @@ "text": "16.4% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "0.3% (2021 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "49.1% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "13.1% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.9% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -357,22 +360,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "31.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 21.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 21.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "54.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -565,7 +568,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Development/For! or AP!
For Stability or S!
For Latvia's Development LA
Harmony or S
Honor to Serve Riga! or GKR
Latvia First LPV
Latvian Green Party or LZP
National Alliance or NA
New Unity or JV
People, Land, Statehood TZV
Social Democratic Party \"Harmony\" or S
The Progressives or PRO
Union of Greens and Farmers or ZZS
United List or AS
We for Talsi and Municipality or MTuN" + "text": "For Stability or S!
For Latvia's Development or LA
Harmony or S
Honor to Serve Riga! or GKR
Latvia First or LPV
National Alliance or NA
New Unity or JV
People. Land. Statehood. or TZV
The Progressives or PRO
Union of Greens and Farmers or ZZS
United List or AS
We for Talsi and Municipality or MTuN" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1104,7 +1107,7 @@ "note": "note 1: conscription was reintroduced in 2024

note 2: as of 2024, women comprised about 16.5% of the military's full-time personnel" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "135 Kosovo (KFOR/NATO) (2024)" + "text": "140 Kosovo (KFOR/NATO) (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the National Armed Forces are responsible for the defense of the country’s sovereignty and territory; they also have some domestic security responsibilities, including coast guard functions, search and rescue, humanitarian assistance, and providing support to other internal security services; the Military Police provides protection to the president and other government officials, foreign dignitaries, and key facilities; Latvia’s primary external security focus is Russia

in 2004, Latvia joined NATO and the EU, both of which it depends on to play a decisive role in Latvia’s security policy; the Latvian military has participated in EU and NATO missions abroad and regularly conducts training and exercises with EU and NATO partner forces; Latvia also hosts NATO partner forces; since 2017, it has hosted a Canadian-led multinational NATO ground force battlegroup as part of the Alliance’s Enhanced Forward Presence initiative; in addition, NATO has provided air protection for Latvia since 2004 through its Baltics Air Policing mission

Latvia is a member of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a pool of high-readiness military forces from 10 Baltic and Scandinavian countries designed to respond to a wide range of contingencies in the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, and High North regions (2025)" diff --git a/europe/lh.json b/europe/lh.json index 29a86cf6..4eb29e5e 100644 --- a/europe/lh.json +++ b/europe/lh.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 36.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "35.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.5% (2021)" + "text": "1.1% (2021 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "53.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.3% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "4.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.7% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "11.8% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -385,22 +385,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 36.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "35.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Dawn of Nemunas or NA
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania or LLRA–KŠS
Freedom and Justice Party or LT (formerly Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals))
Freedom Party or LP
Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats or TS-LKD
Labour Party or DP
Lithuanian Center Party or LCP
Lithuanian Christian Democracy Party or LKDP
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union or LVZS
Lithuanian Green Party or LZP
Liberals' Movement or LRLS
Lithuanian List or LL
Lithuanian Regions Party or LRP
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania or LSDP
Union of Democrats for Lithuania or DSVL" + "text": "Center-Right Union or CDS
Dawn of Nemunas or PPNA
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania - Christian Families Alliance or LLRA–KŠS
Homeland Union or TS-LKD
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union or LVŽS
Liberals' Movement or LRLS
National Alliance or NS
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania or LSDP
Union of Democrats for Lithuania or DSVL" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/europe/lo.json b/europe/lo.json index 3d7e1db2..5d30b955 100644 --- a/europe/lo.json +++ b/europe/lo.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 27.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 27.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "40.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -341,10 +341,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "11% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -376,22 +376,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 27.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 27.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "40.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Alliance-Szovetseg or A-S
Christian Union or KÚ
Civic Conservative Party or OKS
Democrats
Direction-Social Democracy or Smer-SSD
For the People or Za Ludi
Freedom and Solidarity or SaS
Life National Party or Život–NS (formerly Christian Democracy - Life and Prosperity - Alliance for Slovkia)
New Majority or NOVA
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities - New Majority or OLaNO-NOVA
People's Party Our Slovakia or LSNS
Progressive Slovakia or PS
Republic
Slovak National Party or SNS
Voice - Social Democracy or Hlas-SD
We Are Family or Sme-Rodina (formerly Party of Citizens of Slovakia)" + "text": "Direction - Social Democracy or SMER-SD
Freedom and Solidarity or SaS
Progressive Slovakia or PS
Republic
Slovakia
The Slovak National Party or SNS
The Christian Democratic Movement or KDH
Voice - Social Democracy or HLAS-SD" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/europe/lu.json b/europe/lu.json index a07ebd8d..44e8453c 100644 --- a/europe/lu.json +++ b/europe/lu.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "51.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "51.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 23.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 26.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -333,10 +333,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.5% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -368,22 +368,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "51.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "51.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 23.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 26.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1091,6 +1091,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "Luxembourg Space Agency was established in 2018 to develop space policy, encourage and coordinate commercial space ventures, support space education, and promote the country’s space-related capabilities internationally; has a national space strategy; has set up policy and funding initiatives (such as LuxIMPULSE) to encourage research, development, innovation, and entrepreneurship and attract space-based industries; focuses on developing commercial satellites and infrastructure, as well as other capabilities and technologies; hosts some of the largest commercial satellite companies in the world; member of the ESA since 2005 and participates in a variety of ESA programs; cooperates bilaterally with individual ESA and EU member states; also works with other foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Canada, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the UAE, and the US (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1980s - began creating a satellite telecommunications infrastructure for Europe

2014 - first privately built probe to successfully fly by the Moon (launched by China)

2018 - developed communications satellite (GOVSAT-1) to support the EU’s secure communications and space situational awareness program (GOVSATCOM)

2020 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration and agreed to join the Moon exploration mission

2021 - launched Luxembourg’s Quantum Communications Infrastructure project (LuxQCI) in support of the EU’s Quantum Communications Infrastructure (EuroQCI)

2025 - launched the Luxembourg Earth Observation System (LUXEOSys) satellite, part of a national space-based remote sensing program" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/europe/md.json b/europe/md.json index 4cc47b31..1d91c3c3 100644 --- a/europe/md.json +++ b/europe/md.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "69.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 52.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 56.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ "text": "6.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "15.9% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "16% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -376,22 +376,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "69.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 52.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 56.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 8.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ "note": "note: the Constitutional Court is autonomous; it interprets the Constitution and reviews the constitutionality of parliamentary laws and decisions, decrees of the president, and acts of the government" }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Bloc of Communists and Socialists or BCS
Party of Action and Solidarity or PAS" + "text": "Common Action Party - Civil Congress or PAC-CC
Democracy at Home Party or PPDA
Future of Moldova Party or PVM
National Alternative Movement or MAN
Our Party or PN
Party of Action and Solidarity or PAS
Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova or PCRM
Party of Development and Consolidation of Moldova or PDCM
Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova or PSRM

" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/europe/mj.json b/europe/mj.json index 74eb7526..4a07e95a 100644 --- a/europe/mj.json +++ b/europe/mj.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "61.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.7% (2018/19)" + "text": "3.7% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "57.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ "text": "98.5% (2018 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99.1% (2018 est.)" + "text": "99.2% (2018 est.)" }, "female": { "text": "97.9% (2018 est.)" @@ -399,22 +399,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "61.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/mk.json b/europe/mk.json index e3218ebc..3e349f45 100644 --- a/europe/mk.json +++ b/europe/mk.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 31.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 31.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "39.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "10.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "0.9% (2018/19)" + "text": "0.9% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "66.5% (2023 est.)" @@ -371,22 +371,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 31.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 31.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "39.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "10.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/mn.json b/europe/mn.json index a1e1e88c..943d5411 100644 --- a/europe/mn.json +++ b/europe/mn.json @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "7.7% national budget (2023 est.)" @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none; no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 4 quarters (quartiers, singular - quartier); Fontvieille, La Condamine, Monaco-Ville, Monte-Carlo", + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 4 quarters (quartiers, singular - quartier); Fontvieille, La Condamine, Monaco-Ville, Monte-Carlo", "note": "note: Moneghetti, part of La Condamine, is sometimes called the fifth quarter of Monaco" }, "Legal system": { diff --git a/europe/mt.json b/europe/mt.json index 67da1997..5f09c721 100644 --- a/europe/mt.json +++ b/europe/mt.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "27.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 22.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "71.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -328,15 +328,18 @@ "text": "20.2% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "0.7% (2022 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "63.2% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.5% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -368,22 +371,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "27.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "25.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 22.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "71.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "66.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/nl.json b/europe/nl.json index d0c24bf3..b0c3bd99 100644 --- a/europe/nl.json +++ b/europe/nl.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "53.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 30% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "35.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.6% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "12% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -385,22 +385,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "53.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 30% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 22.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 22.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "35.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -593,16 +593,16 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/22/2023" + "text": "10/29/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Party for Freedom (PVV) (37); Labour Party (PvdA) (25); People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) (24); New Social Contract (NSC) (20); Democrats 66 (D66) (9); Other (35)" + "text": "Democrats 66 (D66) (26); Party for Freedom (PVV) (26); People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) (22); Green Left - Labour Party (PvdA) (20); Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) (18); JA21 (9); Other (29)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "42.7%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "October 2025" + "text": "October 2029" } }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { @@ -1237,6 +1237,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space program focused on developing advanced space technologies and services based on satellite data; builds and operates a range of satellites, including communications and remote sensing (RS); researches and develops technologies related to astrophysics, atmospheric measuring instruments, planetary/exoplanetary research, propulsion systems, RS, robotics, and telecommunications; founding member of the ESA and active in the EU space community; hosts the ESA's main research and technology center; participates in building European satellite launch vehicles and a range of other European space programs, such as Copernicus Earth observation and the Galileo global navigation satellite system; participates in international programs, including the International Space Station and the Square Kilometer Array project; works with other foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Japan and the US; has a robust commercial space sector  (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1960s - established space program

1974-1983 - developed advanced astronomical observatory satellites jointly with US, including the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite 

1985 - first Dutch citizen in space on the US Space Shuttle

2023 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2025 - launched the first of four planned synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing satellites" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/no.json b/europe/no.json index ef954e90..ea8862e8 100644 --- a/europe/no.json +++ b/europe/no.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "63.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -356,10 +356,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.1% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.5% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -391,22 +391,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "63.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1192,6 +1192,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "jointly designs and builds satellites with foreign partners, including communications, remote sensing (RS), scientific, and navigational/positional satellites; develops and launches sounding rockets; researches and produces a range of other space-related technologies, including satellite/space launch vehicle (SLV) and space station components, telescopes, and robotics; conducts solar and telecommunications research; member of the ESA; participates in international programs such as the International Space Station; hosts training on the island of Svalbard for Mars landing missions; cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Canada, ESA/EU member states, Japan, Russia, and the US; has an active and advanced private-sector space industry that works with domestic and foreign space programs  (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1962 - launched first research rocket

1992 - began operating first communications satellite (THOR-1)

2010 - built first satellite (AISSat-1) to monitor from polar orbit Automatic Identification Signals from ships (launched by India)

2017 - launched two microsatellites (NorSat-1 and -2) to track commercial sea vessels

2025 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/europe/pl.json b/europe/pl.json index 267a70ac..5f5415fd 100644 --- a/europe/pl.json +++ b/europe/pl.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "31.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -347,15 +347,18 @@ "text": "17.8% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "0.7% (2019 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "56.6% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.5% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "10% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -387,22 +390,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "47.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "31.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "31% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "22.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -649,7 +652,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "AGROunion or AU
Center for Poland or CdP
Civic Platform or PO
Confederation of the Polish Crown or KKP
Kukiz' 15 or K'15
Labor Union or UP
Law and Justice or PiS
Left Together or LR
Modern or .N
National Movement or NN
New Hope or RN
New Left or NL
Poland 2050 or PL2050
Polish Initiative or iPL
Polish People's Party or PSL
Polish Socialist Party or PPS
Renewal of the Republic of Poland or ON RP
Sovereign Poland or SP
The Greens or Zieloni
Union of European Democrats or UED
Yes! For Poland or T!DPL" + "text": "Civic Coalition
Confederation
Free Republicans
Polish Coalition or PSL
The Left
United Right or PiS" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1213,8 +1216,8 @@ "note": "note 1: as of 2024, women made up about 16.5% of the military's full-time personnel

note 2: in 2022, Poland announced a new 12-month voluntary military service program with recruits going through a one-month basic training period with a military unit, followed by 11 months of specialized training; upon completion of service, the volunteers would be allowed to join the Territorial Defense Forces or the active reserve, and have priority to join the professional army and be given preference for employment in the public sector; the program is part of an effort to increase the size of the Polish military" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "210 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); up to 180 Latvia (NATO); 190 Lebanon (UNIFIL); approximately 230 Romania (NATO) (2024)", - "note": "note 1: Poland has obligated about 2,500 troops to the Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine joint military brigade (LITPOLUKRBRIG), which was established in 2014; the brigade is headquartered in Poland and is comprised of an international staff, three battalions, and specialized units; units affiliated with the multinational brigade remain within the structures of the armed forces of their respective countries until the brigade is activated for participation in an international operation" + "text": "250 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); up to 300 Latvia (NATO); 190 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2025)", + "note": "note: Poland has obligated about 2,500 troops to the Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine joint military brigade (LITPOLUKRBRIG), which was established in 2014; the brigade is headquartered in Poland and is comprised of an international staff, three battalions, and specialized units; units affiliated with the multinational brigade remain within the structures of the armed forces of their respective countries until the brigade is activated for participation in an international operation" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Polish Armed Forces are responsible for defense of the country's sovereignty and territory, deterring potential threats, and fulfilling Poland's commitments to NATO, EU, and European security; Poland’s geographic location on NATO’s eastern flank and its history of foreign invasion underpin the Polish military’s focus on territorial and border defense; in peacetime, the Armed Forces provide support to the Border Guard; other security concerns include hybrid threats from Russia and Belarus, such as cyberattacks, sabotage, and weaponized migration; since the 2010s, Poland has taken steps to enhance the security of its borders with Russia and Belarus

since 2014, Poland has hosted several NATO military formations designed to enhance the defense of Poland and NATO’s eastern flank, including a US-led multinational NATO ground force battlegroup as part of the Alliance’s Enhanced Forward Presence initiative, NATO fighter detachments at Malbork Air Base, a NATO-led divisional headquarters (Multinational Division Northeast), which coordinates training and preparation activities of its respective subordinate battlegroups in Poland and Lithuania, and a corps-level NATO field headquarters (Multinational Corps Northeast); Poland also has increased the the US military presence in the country; Poland participates in a variety of EU and NATO military deployments in Africa, the Baltic States, Southern Europe, and the Middle East; Poland also provided support to the NATO mission in Afghanistan (2025)" @@ -1226,6 +1229,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "builds satellites, including nano/cube remote sensing (RS) and scientific/technology satellites; researches and develops communications, RS, navigational, and other scientific applications for satellite payloads; creating infrastructure for data from meteorological and environmental satellites; researches and develops other space-related technologies, including sensors and robotic probes for interplanetary landers, and launcher systems; space program is integrated with the ESA and the EU; participates in a variety of ESA/EU and international programs; cooperates with a variety of other foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Brazil, Canada, China, ESA/EU member states (particularly France, Germany, Italy), India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, UK, and the US; has a commercial space sector with more than 300 active enterprises (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1978 - first Polish astronaut in space on Soviet spacecraft

1991 - began cooperating with the ESA

1994 - began participating in Russia's Koronas solar research missions 

2012 - joined ESA; first domestically built scientific nanosatellite (PW-Sat) launched on European rocket

2021 - joined US-led Artemis Accords for lunar and space exploration

2024 - successfully launched domestically developed experimental suborbital rocket (ILR-33 Amber 2K) to altitude of 101 kms

2025 - first Polish astronaut and scientific mission on International Space Station" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/po.json b/europe/po.json index 7ea50cb4..c637c580 100644 --- a/europe/po.json +++ b/europe/po.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 10.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 9.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 23.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 23.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "36.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -336,17 +336,17 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "0.4% (2015/16)" + "text": "0.9% (2016 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "52.6% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.8% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.4% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -378,22 +378,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 10.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 9.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 23.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 23.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "36.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1165,6 +1165,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "largely focuses on the acquisition and operation of satellites; researches and develops a range of space-related technologies with an emphasis on small satellites for remote sensing (RS), navigational, science/technology, and telecommunications, as well as satellite launch services; space program is integrated with the ESA and involved in a variety of ESA and EU space programs; works with the space agencies and industries of a range of countries, including Algeria, Angola, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Morocco, South Korea, and the US; also cooperates with international organizations and projects such as the Europe South Observatory and the Square Kilometer Array; one of the objectives of the country's national space strategy is to expand its commercial space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1993 - first technology demonstrator microsatellite (PoSat-1) launched on a European rocket

2000 - joined the ESA

2020 - launched strategic plan for space development (Portugal Space 2030), which included building a spaceport, developing a reusable rocket/satellite launch vehicle, growing the country's domestic commercial space sector, and establishing an Earth observation/remote sensing satellite constellation

2024 - first Portuguese communications satellite (PoSat-2) launched by US as part of a planned constellation of 12 ocean-monitoring/maritime communication satellites" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/ri.json b/europe/ri.json index 33ee99b2..772a47f0 100644 --- a/europe/ri.json +++ b/europe/ri.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "41.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 30.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "26.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1% (2019)" + "text": "1% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.8% (2023 est.)" @@ -356,21 +356,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "7.4% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.4% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "99% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.3% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "100% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.6% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "99% (2019 est.)" + "text": "99.1% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -402,22 +402,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "41.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 30.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 31% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "26.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/ro.json b/europe/ro.json index b45e3a42..78a48541 100644 --- a/europe/ro.json +++ b/europe/ro.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "30.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -362,21 +362,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.3% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "3.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.1% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "8.8% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "99% (2021 est.)" + "text": "99.2% (2021 est.)" }, "male": { "text": "99% (2021 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "99% (2021 est.)" + "text": "99.3% (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -408,22 +408,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "55.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "55.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 35.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 36.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 17.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 17% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "30.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1257,6 +1257,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "develops and produces a range of capabilities and technologies, including satellites, satellite launch vehicles, remote sensing, human space flight, navigation, and telecommunications; program is integrated into the ESA; participates in EU and international space programs; works with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial space entities, including those of Azerbaijan, China, Japan, Russia, and the US; also works bilaterally with ESA member states, particularly Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy; has an active space-industry sector with over 50 entities (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1967-1968 - began participating in Soviet Intercosmos program and established the Romanian Commission for Space Activities to coordinate national space activities

1981 - first Romanian in space on Soviet spacecraft

2010 - domestically developed commercial rocket launched to an altitude of 40,000 m (24.9 mi)

2012 - first domestically produced scientific/experimental microsatellite (Goliat) launched (failed to operate)

2022 - joined US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration 

2023 - digital amateur-radio-repeater microsatellite (ROM-2) launched on US commercial rocket" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/si.json b/europe/si.json index f323508d..bde81485 100644 --- a/europe/si.json +++ b/europe/si.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "30.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 8.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "61.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -315,10 +315,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.1% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -350,22 +350,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "30.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "30.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 8.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "61.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1169,8 +1169,7 @@ "note": "note: as of 2023, women comprised about 16% of the military's full-time personnel" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "100 Kosovo (NATO); 100 Slovakia (NATO) (2024)", - "note": "note: in response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, some NATO countries, including Slovenia, have sent additional troops and equipment to the battlegroups deployed in NATO territory in eastern Europe" + "text": "110 Kosovo (NATO); up to 200 Slovakia (NATO) (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Slovenian Armed Forces (Slovenska Vojska or SV) are responsible for the defense of the country’s sovereignty and territory, deterring external threats, and contributing to European security and other international peacekeeping missions; the SV is also active in civil-military cooperation, such as the maintenance of local infrastructure; Slovenia has been a member of the EU and NATO since 2004, and one of the SV’s key missions is fulfilling the country’s commitments to NATO, including equipment modernization, participating in training exercises, and contributing to NATO operations; the SV provides troops to NATO’s efforts to enhance its presence in the Baltics (Latvia) and Eastern Europe (Slovakia); it has also participated in other international security missions with small numbers of personnel in such places as Africa, southern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Middle East; NATO allies Hungary and Italy provide air policing for Slovenia

the SV was formally established in 1993 as a reorganization of the Slovenia Defense Force; the Defense Force, along with the Slovenian police, comprised the majority of the forces that engaged with the Yugoslav People’s Army during the 10-Day War after Slovenia declared its independence in 1991 (2025)" diff --git a/europe/sm.json b/europe/sm.json index f467fb31..ab8d7666 100644 --- a/europe/sm.json +++ b/europe/sm.json @@ -61,22 +61,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 33.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 33.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "16.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -265,21 +265,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "7.5% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "13% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "100% (2022 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -311,22 +311,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "38.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 33.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 33.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "16.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "45% (2022 est.)" + "text": "45% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/europe/sp.json b/europe/sp.json index 6e41f125..fbf06293 100644 --- a/europe/sp.json +++ b/europe/sp.json @@ -74,22 +74,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "53.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 23.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 23% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "37.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -348,21 +348,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.2% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.9% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "100% (2021 est.)" + "text": "99.7% (2021 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "100% (2021 est.)" + "text": "99.8% (2021 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "100% (2021 est.)" + "text": "99.6% (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -394,22 +394,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "53.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 23.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 23% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 10.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 10.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "37.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "38.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ }, "Administrative divisions": { "text": "17 autonomous communities (comunidades autonomas, singular - comunidad autonoma) and 2 autonomous cities* (ciudades autonomas, singular - ciudad autonoma); Andalucia; Aragon; Asturias; Canarias (Canary Islands); Cantabria; Castilla-La Mancha; Castilla-Leon; Cataluña (Castilian), Catalunya (Catalan), Catalonha (Aranese) [Catalonia]; Ceuta*; Comunidad Valenciana (Castilian), Comunitat Valenciana (Valencian) [Valencian Community]; Extremadura; Galicia; Illes Baleares (Balearic Islands); La Rioja; Madrid; Melilla*; Murcia; Navarra (Castilian), Nafarroa (Basque) [Navarre]; Pais Vasco (Castilian), Euskadi (Basque) [Basque Country]", - "note": "note: Spain administers the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and the three small islands of Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, which are all located along the coast of Morocco; they are collectively referred to as Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania)" + "note": "note: Spain administers the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and the three small islands of Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Velez de la Gomera, which are all located along the coast of Morocco; they are collectively referred to as Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania)" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system with regional variations" @@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ "note": "note 1: as of 2024, women comprised about 13% of the military's full-time personnel

note 2: the military recruits foreign nationals with residency in Spain from countries of its former empire, including Argentina, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "Spain has up to 3,000 military personnel deployed on 17 missions supporting the EU, NATO, and the UN on four continents, as well as naval missions in the Mediterranean and the seas off the Horn of Africa; its largest deployments are up to 700 troops in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and about 1,700 personnel in Eastern Europe supporting NATO missions in Latvia, Romania, and Slovakia (2024)", + "text": "Spain has up to 3,000 military personnel deployed on 17 missions supporting the EU, NATO, and the UN on four continents, as well as naval missions in the Mediterranean and the seas off the Horn of Africa; its largest deployments are up to 700 troops in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and about 1,700 personnel in Eastern Europe supporting NATO missions in Latvia, Romania, and Slovakia (2025)", "note": " " }, "Military - note": { @@ -1248,6 +1248,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "space program dates back to the 1940s; manufactures and operates communications, remote sensing (RS), and scientific/technology satellites; has developed sounding rockets; conducts research and development in a broad range of space-related capabilities, including astrobiology, astronomy, imaging/RS, meteorology, optics, propulsion, robotics, satellites (particularly micro- and nano-satellites), and satellite launch vehicles; program is integrated into the ESA; also participates in EU space programs; hosts the European Space Astronomy Center (ESOC) and the ESA’s Space Surveillance and Tracking Data Centre (ESAC); cooperates with foreign space agencies and industries, including the US; has an active commercial space industry (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1960s - began working with the US/NASA and the European Space Research Organization (ESRO), the forerunner of the ESA; sounding rocket program (ended in the 1990s)

1974 - first satellite (IntaSat) launched by US

1990s - satellite launch vehicle (SLV) development program (canceled in 2000)

1992 - first communications satellite (Hispasat 1A) launched on European rocket

1998 - first astronaut in space on US Space Shuttle

2018 - first synthetic-aperture-radar, remote-sensing/reconnaissance satellite (Paz) launched by US

2023 - Spanish built Miuri-1 becomes first European private rocket to reach space; joined US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2025 - communications satellite (SpainSat NG 1) with advanced security technology launched by US" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/sw.json b/europe/sw.json index 233ce09d..3948b6b4 100644 --- a/europe/sw.json +++ b/europe/sw.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "7.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "68.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -348,10 +348,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "7.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14.6% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.3% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -383,22 +383,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "7.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 1.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "68.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1187,6 +1187,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "aims to have one of Europe's leading space programs; produces and operates satellites; builds and launches sounding rockets; involved in the research, development, production, and operations of a variety of other space-related areas, including astronomy, atmospheric monitoring, geographic information systems, infrared imaging, meteorology, propulsion systems, remote sensing, satellite subsystems, spacecraft systems and structures, research, and telecommunications; member of the ESA and program is integrated into its framework; works extensively with foreign space agencies, in particular through the ESA and EU and their member states, as well as with the US; participates in programs such as Europe's Copernicus Earth observation and the Galileo global navigation satellite system, France's Pleiades project, and the Square Kilometer Array Project; has a large commercial space industry, including state-owned enterprises (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1950s - space program initiated with the establishment of a space observatory and the Swedish Space Research Committee

1961 - launched first sounding rocket

1986 - first scientific satellite (Viking) launched on European rocket

1989 - first communications satellite (Tele-X) launched on European rocket

2006 - first astronaut into space on US Space Shuttle

2019 - established a space data lab for artificial intelligence-based analysis of imagery data

2024 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration; launched first military communications satellite (GNA-3); adopted its first defense and security space strategy" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/sz.json b/europe/sz.json index 217d0a39..1dd01ee7 100644 --- a/europe/sz.json +++ b/europe/sz.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "37.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "37.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 10% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -347,10 +347,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "4.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "15.9% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "15.4% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -382,22 +382,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "37.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "37.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 10% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "32.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ "text": "Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) (62); Socialist Party (SP/PS) (41); Centre Party (29); FDP/The Liberals (FDP/PLR) (28); Green Party (GPS/PES) (23); Liberal Green Party (GLP/PVL) (10); Other (7)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "39%" + "text": "39.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "October 2027" @@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ "note": "note: conscientious objectors can choose 390 days of community service instead of military service; as of 2023, women comprised about 1% of the active Swiss military" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "175 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2024)" + "text": "200 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Swiss military is responsible for territorial defense, limited support to international disaster response and peacekeeping, and providing support to civil authorities when their resources are not sufficient to ward off threats to internal security or provide sufficient relief during disasters; Switzerland has long maintained a policy of military neutrality but does periodically participate in EU, NATO, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and UN military and peacekeeping operations; however, Swiss units will only participate in operations under the mandate of the UN or OSCE; Switzerland joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace program in 1996; it has contributed to the NATO-led force in Kosovo (KFOR) since 1999 (2025)" diff --git a/europe/uk.json b/europe/uk.json index 528ae102..4d0bb965 100644 --- a/europe/uk.json +++ b/europe/uk.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "69.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 25% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 44.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 45.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "13.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ "text": "9.8% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "0.6% (2019 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "50.7% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -343,10 +346,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.9% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.6% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.8% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -378,22 +381,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "69.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 24.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 25% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 44.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 45.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "13.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1232,6 +1235,9 @@ "Space program overview": { "text": "has a long-standing, comprehensive national space program; is active across all areas of the space sector except human space flight, including satellite launch vehicles (SLVs)/rockets, probes, satellites, and spaceports; is a founding member of the ESA and is deeply involved in ESA programs; has bilateral relations with many ESA members and is a close partner of the US NASA; since 2016 has forged over 350 relationships with international organizations across nearly 50 countries; participates in international programs such as the International Space Station and the James Webb Space Telescope; has a large commercial space sector; the UK has a space industrial plan, and the UK Space Agency has provided funding for commercial space projects (2025)", "note": "note: the UK was part of several EU-sponsored space programs until departing the EU in 2020, including the Galileo global positioning system and the Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) project; it remained part of the Copernicus Earth observation and Horizon Europe research and innovation programs after 2020; the UK has participated or continues to participate in multiple ESA programs, including Cassini-Huygens research mission to Saturn, the Mars Express space exploration missions, the Rosetta comet probe, and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission
" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1957 - first suborbital sounding rocket (Skylark) launched

1960s - first satellite (Ariel) launched by US; development of Black Arrow satellite launch vehicle (SLV); launched first of Skynet family of communications satellites

1971 - first successful placement of satellite (Prospero) in orbit on a 3-stage Black Arrow SLV (Black Arrow SLV program ended in early 1970s)

1973 - began participating in development of Ariane SLV along with other European states, particularly France and Germany

1991 - first British astronaut into space to Russian Mir space station

2015 - first British astronaut on International Space Station

2019-2020 - began participating in US Gateway lunar orbital station program and signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2024 - first military remote sensing satellite (Tyche) launched by US" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/up.json b/europe/up.json index a519e2ce..15636738 100644 --- a/europe/up.json +++ b/europe/up.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 56.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 56.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "16.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "12% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -353,10 +353,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.1% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.5% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.7% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -399,22 +399,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "71.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "71.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 56.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 56.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 13% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "16.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "12% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Batkivshchyna (Fatherland)
European Solidarity or YeS
Holos (Voice or Vote)
Opposition Bloc (formerly known as Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development, successor of the Industrial Party of Ukraine, and resulted from a schism in the original Opposition Bloc in 2019; banned in court June 2022; ceased to exist in July 2022)
Opposition Bloc or OB (divided into Opposition Bloc - Party for Peace and Development and Opposition Platform - For Life in 2019; ceased to exist in July 2022)
Opposition Platform - For Life (resulted from a schism in the original Opposition Bloc in 2019; activities suspended by the National Security and Defense Council in March 2022; dissolved in April 2022)
Platform for Life and Peace
Radical Party or RPOL
Samopomich (Self Reliance)
Servant of the People
Svoboda (Freedom)" + "text": "European Solidarity or YeS
Fatherland or VOB
Holos
Servant of the People or SN" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1232,6 +1232,9 @@ "Space program overview": { "text": "the country inherited a large, well-developed space program when it gained independence in 1991, taking over all the former Soviet defense/space industry that was located on its territory; the modern program includes the production of satellite/space launch vehicles (SLVs)/rocket carriers, satellites, and related components; prior to the Russian invasion in 2022, the country was producing more than 100 SLVs, SLV stages, or SLV engines annually; has worked with numerous foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia (curtailed after 2014), Turkey, and the US, as well as the ESA, the EU, and their member states (particularly Italy and Poland); has about 20 state-run space industries; in 2019, the Ukrainian Parliament began allowing private companies to engage in space activities (2025)", "note": "note: Dnipro, known as Ukraine's “Rocket City,” was one of the Soviet Union’s main centers for space, nuclear, and military industries and played a crucial role in the development and manufacture of both civilian and military rockets
" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1995 - first domestically produced remote sensing (RS) satellite (Sich-1) launched on Ukrainian Tsyklon-3 rocket

1997 - first Ukrainian astronaut in space on US Space Shuttle

1999 - first launch of Dnipro-1, a domestically produced satellite launch vehicle (SLV)

2008 - first launch of Zenit-3SLB, a domestically produced SLV 

2014 - launched first domestically produced microsatellite (PolyITAN-1)

2020 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2021 - first successful launch of joint Ukrainian-US commercial light SLV (Alpha)

2022 - domestically produced RS microsatellite (Sich 2-30) launched by US

2024 - first Ukrainian woman to suborbital space on US commercial spacecraft" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/europe/vt.json b/europe/vt.json index 1df91de3..551f4291 100644 --- a/europe/vt.json +++ b/europe/vt.json @@ -193,9 +193,6 @@ "text": "the name derives from the hill called Mons Vaticanus, on which the Vatican is located and which comes from the Latin vates (prophet), referring to the fortune tellers and soothsayers who frequented the area in Roman times" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "religious system based on canon (religious) law" }, diff --git a/middle-east/ae.json b/middle-east/ae.json index c26df57d..30a880b4 100644 --- a/middle-east/ae.json +++ b/middle-east/ae.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "5.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "4.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "90% (2022 est.)" + "text": "89.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -350,13 +350,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "98% (2023 est.)" + "text": "98.8% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99% (2023 est.)" + "text": "99% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "97% (2023 est.)" + "text": "98.4% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -388,22 +388,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "5.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "4.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "90% (2022 est.)" + "text": "89.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1150,6 +1150,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has an ambitious and growing national space program; focused on satellite development, including communications, remote sensing, and navigation, as well as deep space exploration; is building expertise, infrastructure, technology, and research and development capabilities; has elected to use foreign partners to launch payloads from spaceports abroad; has looked to invest in foreign commercial space companies and develop global partnerships; has a foreign-assisted astronaut training program; seeking to establish UAE as an international hub for space education; founding member of the Arab Space Cooperation Group; works with major global and regional players, including China, Egypt, the ESA, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, the UK, and the US; sees its commercial space industry as a key to diversifying and developing the country’s non-oil economy; dozens of space companies operate in the UAE, including international and start-ups, plus several space-science research centers (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1997 - initiated a national space sector

2009 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (DubaiSat-1) developed jointly with South Korea and launched by Russia

2017 - announced Mars 2117 project, which included building a “Mars Science City” as the first step to establishing a human settlement on Mars within 100 years

2018 - first domestically produced RS satellite (KhalifaSat or DubaiSat-3) launched by Japan

2019 - first UAE astronaut (trained by Russia and US) in space on the International Space Station

2020 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2021 - became first Arab country to successfully place a probe (al Amal or Hope) in Mars orbit; announced plans to launch a probe in 2028 to land on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter

2025 - domestically produced advanced RS/Earth imaging satellite (MBZ-SAT) launched by US" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/middle-east/aj.json b/middle-east/aj.json index b1576c47..49f958cc 100644 --- a/middle-east/aj.json +++ b/middle-east/aj.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "57.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 25.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 25.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 29.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 29.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -326,26 +326,29 @@ "text": "0.1% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "3% (2023 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "62.9% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.4% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.9% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "100% (2023 est.)" + "text": "99.8% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "100% (2023 est.)" + "text": "99.8% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "100% (2023 est.)" + "text": "99.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -377,22 +380,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "57.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "57.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 25.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 25.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 29.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 29.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -601,7 +604,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Civic Solidarity Party or VHP
Democratic Reforms Party DiP
Great Order Party or BQP
Motherland Party or AVP
Party for Democratic Reforms or DIP
Republican Alternative Party or REAL
Unity Party or VƏHDƏT
Whole Azerbaijan Popular Front Party or BAXCP
New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyasi) or YAP" + "text": "Azerbaijan Hope Party or ÜMİD
Azerbaijan Democratic Enlightenment Party or ADMP
Azerbaijan National Independence Party or AMİP
Civic Solidarity Party or VHP
Democratic Reforms Party or DiP
Great Order Party or BAP
Justice, Law, Democracy Party or ƏHD
Great Order Party or BQP
Motherland Party or AVP
National Front Party or MCP
National Revival Movement Party or MDHP
New Azerbaijan Party or YAP
Republican Alternative Party or REAL
Unity Party or VƏHDƏT" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1126,6 +1129,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "largely focused on the acquisition and operation of satellites; operates foreign-built communications and remote sensing (RS) satellites; cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of China, the ESA (bilaterally with individual member states such as France), Israel, Russia, Turkey, and the US; Azercosmos is the largest satellite operator in the Caucasus region (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2013 - first communications satellite (Azerspace-1) built by US company and launched on European rocket

2014 - took operational control over remote sensing (RS) satellite (SPOT-7, now Azersky) from a French company (satellite ceased operations in 2023)

2017 - second communications satellite (Azerspace-2) built by US company and launched on European rocket

2023 - agreed to participate in China's International Lunar Research Station Cooperation project, which aims to establish a base on the Moon in the 2030s; signed agreement with Israel to jointly develop two multi-spectral RS satellites (Azersky-2 program) for scheduled launches in 2026 and 2028 (2025)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/am.json b/middle-east/am.json index 1e6febdb..2fba316d 100644 --- a/middle-east/am.json +++ b/middle-east/am.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "58.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.6% (2015/16)" + "text": "2.6% (2016 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "64.8% (2023 est.)" @@ -354,18 +354,18 @@ "text": "2.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "8.7% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "99.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "99.8% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "99.8% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "99.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "99.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -397,22 +397,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "58.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 15.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "29.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/middle-east/ba.json b/middle-east/ba.json index e7a28206..0556aba6 100644 --- a/middle-east/ba.json +++ b/middle-east/ba.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "10.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "88.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "84.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -310,21 +310,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "7.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.3% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "98% (2023 est.)" + "text": "97.8% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99% (2023 est.)" + "text": "98.7% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "96% (2023 est.)" + "text": "96.3% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -356,22 +356,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "10.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "10.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "88.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "84.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -475,8 +475,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "4 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Asimah (Capital), Janubiyah (Southern), Muharraq, Shamaliyah (Northern)", - "note": "note: each governorate administered by an appointed governor" + "text": "4 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Asimah (Capital), Janubiyah (Southern), Muharraq, Shamaliyah (Northern)" }, "Legal system": { "text": "mixed legal system of Islamic (sharia) law, English common law, Egyptian civil, criminal, and commercial codes; customary law" @@ -1116,6 +1115,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "focuses on promoting space research and science, applying space-related technologies, and building capacity in the fields of satellite manufacturing, tracking, control, data processing and analysis, and remote sensing; cooperates with a variety of foreign agencies and commercial entities, including those of India, Italy, Japan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UK, the UAE, and the US; also a member of the Arab Space Coordination Group (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2022 - first scientific nanosatellite (Light-1 CubeSat) built with assistance from the UAE and launched by Japan; joined US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration

2023 - first domestically built technology-demonstrator nanosatellite (Kuwait Sat-1) launched by US

2025 - first domestically built remote-sensing nanosatellite (Al Munther) launched by US" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/gg.json b/middle-east/gg.json index dbb82855..21321099 100644 --- a/middle-east/gg.json +++ b/middle-east/gg.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "40.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.1% (2018)" + "text": "2.1% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "67.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -354,21 +354,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "4% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14.1% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "12.2% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "99.6% (2023 est.)" + "text": "99.7% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99.5% (2023 est.)" + "text": "99.8% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "99.6% (2023 est.)" + "text": "99.6% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -400,22 +400,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "34.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.9% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "40.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "25.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ "note": "note: the Abkhazian and Ajarian Autonomous republics each have a supreme court and a hierarchy of lower courts" }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Citizens
European Socialists
For Georgia
Georgian Dream
Girchi
Law and Justice
Lelo for Georgia
National Democratic Party
People's Power
Progress and Freedom
Republican Party
State for the People
Strategy Aghmashenebeli
United National Movement or UNM
Victorious Georgia" + "text": "Ahali
Citizens
Conservative Party
Droa
European Georgia - Movement for Liberty
For Georgia
For the People
Freedom Square
Georgian Dream
Girchi - More Freedom
Law and Justice
Lelo for Georgia
National Democratic Party
People's Power
Progress and Freedom
Republican Party
State for the People
Strategy Aghmashenebeli
United National Movement or UNM" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { diff --git a/middle-east/gz.json b/middle-east/gz.json index af07d6f8..7f153166 100644 --- a/middle-east/gz.json +++ b/middle-east/gz.json @@ -61,22 +61,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "64.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ "note": "note: includes Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.1% (2019/20)", + "text": "2.1% (2020 est.)", "note": "note: estimate is for Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { @@ -326,22 +326,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "64.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/middle-east/ir.json b/middle-east/ir.json index 36666466..ab89666b 100644 --- a/middle-east/ir.json +++ b/middle-east/ir.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "64.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "4.3% (2017)" + "text": "4.3% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -403,22 +403,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 9.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 18.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 18.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "64.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1166,6 +1166,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has an ambitious civil and military space program focused on satellites and satellite launch vehicles (SLV); designs, builds, and operates satellites, including communications, remote sensing (RS), and scientific; manufactures and operates SLVs; researching and developing other space-related capabilities and technologies in areas such as telecommunications, RS, navigation, and space situational awareness; international sanctions against Iran’s weapons of mass destruction program have severely limited Iran’s cooperation with foreign space agencies and commercial space industries; in recent years, however, it has worked with North Korea and Russia, as well as regional and international space organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization; Iran was a founding member of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in 1958; has an active private space industry (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1998 - began development of 2-stage satellite/space launch vehicle (SLV) (Safir)

2006 - first successful launch of a small, domestically produced communications and research satellite (Omid) on the Safir SLV

2010 - began developing a more capable 2-stage orbital SLV (Simorgh; aka Safir-2)

2011 - launched first domestically produced remote sensing (RS) satellite (Rasad) on Safir SLV

2020 - placed RS microsatellite (Noor) in orbit on 3-stage SLV (Qased or Messenger)

2021 - first launch of road-mobile 3-stage SLV (Zuljanah)

2022 - completed suborbital test of new small-lift SLV (Quam-100)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/is.json b/middle-east/is.json index 93f5ed9b..b028e99b 100644 --- a/middle-east/is.json +++ b/middle-east/is.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 17.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "64% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -343,10 +343,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "6.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "17.5% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.1% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -378,22 +378,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "29.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 17.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "64% (2022 est.)" + "text": "68.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1165,6 +1165,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has an ambitious space program that is one of the most advanced in the region; designs, builds, operates, and launches communications, remote sensing (RS), and scientific satellites; designs, builds, and operates orbital satellite/space launch vehicles (SLVs); researches and develops a range of other space-related capabilities, with a focus on lightweight and miniaturized technologies; has relations with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Canada, the ESA, individual ESA member states (such as France, Germany, and Italy), India, Japan, Mexico, and the US; has a substantial commercial space sector, as well as state-owned enterprises (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1961 - first sounding rocket launched

1988 - first operational launch of small-lift satellite launch vehicle (SLV) (Shavit) placed first domestically produced technology-demonstrator satellite (Ofeq-1) in orbit 

1995 - launched first fully operational remote sensing satellite (Ofeq-3) on Shavit SLV

2007 - unveiled Shavit-2 small-lift 3-stage SLV

2014 - joined ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) project; domestically built lunar probe (Beresheet) launched by US (crashed on Moon’s surface)

2022 - joined US Artemis Moon exploration project" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/iz.json b/middle-east/iz.json index e0ed37b2..86bf5098 100644 --- a/middle-east/iz.json +++ b/middle-east/iz.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "21.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "76.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.9% (2018)" + "text": "3.9% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "65.5% (2023 est.)" @@ -366,13 +366,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "86% (2017 est.)" + "text": "84.1% (2021 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "91% (2017 est.)" + "text": "90.3% (2021 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "76.3% (2018 est.)" + "text": "77.8% (2021 est.)" } } }, @@ -393,22 +393,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "21.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 9.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 9.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "76.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -586,18 +586,17 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/10/2021" + "text": "11/11/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Sadrist Bloc (73); National Progress Alliance / Taqadum (37); State of Law Coalition (33); Kurdistan Democratic Party (31); Fatah Alliance (17); Kurdistan Alliance (17); Independents (43); Other (78)" + "text": "Reconstruction & Development Coalition, The Progress (Taqaddum) Party, State of Law Coalition, Sadiqoun Movement, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Badr Organization, National State Forces Alliance, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Azm Alliance, National Sovereignty, Ishraqat Kanun, Asas (Iraqi Foundation) Coalition, Tasmeem Alliance, Huquq Movement, National Resolve (Hasm) " }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "28.9%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "November 2025" - }, - "note": "note: seat counts reflect updated numbers following the 12 June 2022 Sadrist Trend withdrawal from government formation; its 73 seats were reallocated to other parties" + "text": "November 2029" + } }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/jo.json b/middle-east/jo.json index aa99422b..5125d64f 100644 --- a/middle-east/jo.json +++ b/middle-east/jo.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "11.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "87.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "87.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.7% (2019)" + "text": "2.5% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -363,21 +363,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.7% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "95% (2023 est.)" + "text": "94.8% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2023 est.)" + "text": "97.5% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "92% (2023 est.)" + "text": "92.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -409,22 +409,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "11.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 8.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "87.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "87.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/middle-east/ku.json b/middle-east/ku.json index 9920a3cd..b2e83c4a 100644 --- a/middle-east/ku.json +++ b/middle-east/ku.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "91.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -324,28 +324,28 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.5% (2020)" + "text": "2.8% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.6% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "6.4% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.6% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "13.8% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "96% (2020 est.)" + "text": "96.5% (2020 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2020 est.)" + "text": "97.1% (2020 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2020 est.)" + "text": "95.3% (2020 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -377,22 +377,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "91.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/middle-east/le.json b/middle-east/le.json index bee57818..0b4b487a 100644 --- a/middle-east/le.json +++ b/middle-east/le.json @@ -66,22 +66,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "66.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "65.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 13.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 39.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 39.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.4% (2021)" + "text": "5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "51.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -320,21 +320,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "2.4% of GDP (2020 est.)" + "text": "1.2% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.9% national budget (2020 est.)" + "text": "8.6% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "93% (2018 est.)" + "text": "92% (2019 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "95% (2018 est.)" + "text": "94.8% (2019 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "90% (2018 est.)" + "text": "89.5% (2019 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -366,22 +366,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "66.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "65.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 13.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 13.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 13.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 39.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 39.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "19.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/middle-east/mu.json b/middle-east/mu.json index f0cc7c30..50c6b0d1 100644 --- a/middle-east/mu.json +++ b/middle-east/mu.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "95.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -337,14 +337,14 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "11.2% (2016/17)" + "text": "11.2% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "56.4% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { "text": "14.2% national budget (2022 est.)" @@ -352,13 +352,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "97% (2022 est.)" + "text": "97.3% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99% (2022 est.)" + "text": "98.6% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2022 est.)" + "text": "94.9% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -390,22 +390,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "95.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/29/2023" + "text": "11/1/2023" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "0%" @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ "text": "4 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/1/2023" + "text": "10/29/2023" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "20.9%" diff --git a/middle-east/qa.json b/middle-east/qa.json index fd15f2d6..b0fe3a8b 100644 --- a/middle-east/qa.json +++ b/middle-east/qa.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "93.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "93.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -311,6 +311,9 @@ "text": "2.3% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "2.3% (2023 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "65.8% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -351,22 +354,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "6.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "93.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "93.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/middle-east/sa.json b/middle-east/sa.json index 28c9deab..148c8d8b 100644 --- a/middle-east/sa.json +++ b/middle-east/sa.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "80.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "80.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 79.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 79.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,23 +342,28 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.5% (2020)" + "text": "3.5% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "63.2% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { - "text": "5.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { + "text": "5.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, + "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { + "text": "14.8% national budget (2024 est.)" + } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "98% (2020 est.)" + "text": "97.9% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99% (2020 est.)" + "text": "98.6% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "96% (2020 est.)" + "text": "96.7% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -390,22 +395,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "80.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "80.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 79.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 79.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "0.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1140,6 +1145,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space strategy (Vision 2030) that seeks to grow its domestic space industry and use the space sector to accelerate economic diversification, enhance scientific research and development, and raise private-sector participation in the global space industry; manufactures and operates communications, remote sensing (RS), and scientific satellites; develops a range of satellite subsystems and payload technologies; is the main founder and financier of the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat, launched in 1976 and headquartered in Riyadh); cooperates with the space agencies and industries of a wide range of countries, including those of Belarus, China, Egypt, the ESA and its member states (particularly France, Germany, Greece, and Hungary), India, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Ukraine, the UAE, the UK, and the US; member of the Arab Space Cooperation Group (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1985 - first communications satellite (Arabsat-1A) built and launched by European commercial companies; first Saudi astronaut in space on US Space Shuttle

2004 - first domestically built, experimental remote sensing (RS) satellite (SaudiSat-2) launched by Russia

2017-2019 - contributed to China’s robotic spacecraft mission (Chang’e-4) to the far side of the Moon

2021 - domestically built maritime-tracking satellite (Shaheen Sat) launched by Russia; began participating in Russia's astronaut training program

2022 - signed US-led Artemis Accords on space and lunar exploration

2023 - sent two astronauts, including first Saudi woman, to the International Space Station on a US commercial spacecraft" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/sy.json b/middle-east/sy.json index 09058031..87400f62 100644 --- a/middle-east/sy.json +++ b/middle-east/sy.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "73.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 23.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 24% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 44.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 44.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -330,13 +330,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "94% (2021 est.)" + "text": "94.4% (2021 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2021 est.)" + "text": "97.2% (2021 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "92% (2021 est.)" + "text": "91.8% (2021 est.)" } } }, @@ -357,22 +357,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "73.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "74.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 23.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 24% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 44.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 44.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "2.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "23% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1064,6 +1064,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "status unclear; has been handicapped by the impact of the civil war, including the loss of students and scientists who fled the country; had previously focused on satellite development and related space technologies, as well as scientific research; has relations with the space agency and space industries of Russia (2024)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1987 - first and only Syrian astronaut into space as part of a Soviet-crewed mission to the Mir Space Station under the Intercosmos program

2016 - signed a scientific cooperation agreement in the field of space technology and remote sensing with Russia

2018 - announced that developing a satellite would be a primary goal of the space program" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/tu.json b/middle-east/tu.json index 8f6ec237..75eaab34 100644 --- a/middle-east/tu.json +++ b/middle-east/tu.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "50% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 26.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 26.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "29.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "20.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.5% (2018/19)" + "text": "1.5% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "65.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -365,21 +365,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.6% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "11.3% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "97% (2021 est.)" + "text": "97.3% (2021 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99% (2021 est.)" + "text": "99.3% (2021 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "95% (2021 est.)" + "text": "95.3% (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -411,22 +411,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "50% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 26.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 26.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 19% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "29.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "29.3% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "20.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "20.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ "note": "note 1: after completing six months of service, if a conscripted soldier wants to and is suitable for extending his military service, he may do so for an additional six months in return for a monthly salary; all male Turkish citizens over the age of 20 are required to undergo a one month military training period, but they can obtain an exemption from the remaining 5 months of their mandatory service by paying a fee 

note 2: as of 2021, women made up about 0.4% of the military's full-time personnel" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "approximately 200 Azerbaijan; approximately 250 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR); approximately 30,000 Cyprus; 325 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); estimated 500 Libya; estimated 3,000 Qatar; estimated 1,000 Somalia (2025)", + "text": "approximately 200 Azerbaijan; approximately 250 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR); approximately 30,000 Cyprus; 730 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); estimated 500 Libya; estimated 3,000 Qatar; estimated 1,000 Somalia (2025)", "note": "note: Turkey estimated to maintain several thousand military forces in both Iraq and Syria" }, "Military - note": { @@ -1221,6 +1221,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has an ambitious national space program with a focus on satellites, satellite components, satellite launch capabilities, software development, ground station technologies, and building up the country’s space industries; manufactures and operates remote sensing and telecommunications satellites; in recent years has initiated a satellite/space launch vehicle (SLV) program with the goal of independently placing satellites into orbit and a probe on the Moon; works with more than 25 foreign space agencies and corporations, including those of Azerbaijan, China, France, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, and the US, as well as the ESA; has state-owned rocket and satellite development companies, including some under the Ministry of Defense; has a growing private space-industry sector, and the Turkish Government has pledged to increase the country's share of the global space market (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1994 - first commercial communications satellite built jointly with and launched by France

2003 - first domestically built experimental remote sensing (RS) satellite (BILSAT) launched by Russia

2018 - launched first domestically produced solid-fuel sounding rocket to an altitude of 135 km (84 mi)
 
2024 - first Turkish astronaut in space on the International Space Station; first domestically produced communications satellite launched by US

2025 - successfully launched 2-stage hybrid rocket more than 200 km (124 mi) in altitude" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/we.json b/middle-east/we.json index bde62330..5a2b3090 100644 --- a/middle-east/we.json +++ b/middle-east/we.json @@ -62,22 +62,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "64.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.1% (2023 est.)" }, "note": "note: includes Gaza Strip" }, @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ "note": "note: includes Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.1% (2019/20)", + "text": "2.1% (2020 est.)", "note": "note: estimate is for Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { @@ -339,22 +339,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "64.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "64.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "33.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "32.1% (2023 est.)" }, "note": "note: includes Gaza Strip" }, diff --git a/middle-east/ym.json b/middle-east/ym.json index e7f9b8c8..cd30b5eb 100644 --- a/middle-east/ym.json +++ b/middle-east/ym.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "54.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ "text": "7.3% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "40.7% (2022 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "60.4% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -372,22 +375,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "44.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "44.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 41.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "54.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1067,7 +1070,7 @@ "note": "note: as late as 2022, all parties to the ongoing conflict were implicated in child soldier recruitment and use; during the beginning of the truce in April 2022, the Houthis signed a plan with the UN to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers; Houthi leaders previously pledged to end the use of child soldiers in 2012, as did the Government of Yemen in 2014 " }, "Military - note": { - "text": "government forces under the Yemeni Ministry of Defense are responsible for both external and internal defense; their priorities are the Houthi separatists (aka Ansarallah, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the US), the terrorist groups al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in Yemen (ISIS-Yemen), and maritime security, particularly against arms smuggling; in 2022, the Yemeni Government and the Houthis signed a truce, halting most fighting and establishing humanitarian measures; the former front lines of conflict, in some areas mirroring Yemen’s pre-unification borders, remain static; AQAP and ISIS-Yemen continue to be active in remote areas   (2025)" + "text": "government forces under the Yemeni Ministry of Defense are responsible for both external and internal defense; their priorities are the Houthi separatists (aka Ansarallah), the terrorist groups al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in Yemen (ISIS-Yemen), and maritime security, particularly against arms smuggling; in 2022, the Yemeni Government and the Houthis signed a truce, halting most fighting and establishing humanitarian measures; the former front lines of conflict, in some areas mirroring Yemen’s pre-unification borders, remain static; AQAP and ISIS-Yemen continue to be active in remote areas (2025)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/north-america/bd.json b/north-america/bd.json index 7f391778..2fcf5925 100644 --- a/north-america/bd.json +++ b/north-america/bd.json @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "75.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "80% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.6% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "7.8% national budget (2017 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -293,10 +293,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -305,10 +305,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "18.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "75.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "80% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/north-america/ca.json b/north-america/ca.json index 71748280..703c69f4 100644 --- a/north-america/ca.json +++ b/north-america/ca.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "39.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "54% (2022 est.)" + "text": "51.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -368,10 +368,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "4.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.2% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "10.7% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -403,22 +403,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "39.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "54% (2022 est.)" + "text": "51.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ "text": "4/28/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Liberal Party (169); Conservative Party (144); Bloc Québécois (BQ) (22); Other (8)" + "text": "Liberal Party (169); Conservative Party (144); Bloc Québécois (BQ) (22); Other (30)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "30.3%" @@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ "note": "note: in 1999, the Nunavut Court -- a circuit court with the power of a provincial superior court, as well as a territorial court -- was established to serve isolated settlements" }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Bloc Quebecois
Conservative Party of Canada or CPC
Green Party
Liberal Party
New Democratic Party or NDP
People's Party of Canada" + "text": "Bloc Québécois
Conservative Party of Canada or CPC
Green Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
New Democratic Party" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1240,6 +1240,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space strategy and a long history of developing space-related technologies; designs, builds, operates, and tracks communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, and scientific/testing satellites; has an astronaut program; involved in the development and production of advanced communications systems, lunar rovers, planetary probes, robotics, sensors, and space telescopes; participates in international space programs, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope; Cooperating State of the ESA since 1979 and participates in a variety of ESA programs, such as the Copernicus Earth observation project; works with numerous foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Brazil, individual ESA and EU member states, Japan, India, and particularly the US; has an active commercial space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1959-1962 - launched first domestically built sounding rocket (Black Brant 1); first domestically designed and built satellite (Alouette) launched by US

1972-1973 - first domestic communications satellites (Anik A-1 and Anik A-2) launched by US, making Canada first country to employ satellites for domestic communications

1970s - began participating in US Space Shuttle (first Canadian in space on Shuttle in 1984) and US Mars probe/exploration programs

1995 - first Canadian-built, radar-capable remote sensing satellite (Radarsat-1) launched by US

2019 - began participating in US/NASA Lunar Gateway orbital station program; launched constellation of remote sensing satellites (RADARSAT Constellation Mission)

2020 - signed the US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration (active participant in planned Moon missions under the Artemis program)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/north-america/mx.json b/north-america/mx.json index f975da6e..25cea1f9 100644 --- a/north-america/mx.json +++ b/north-america/mx.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "4.2% (2021)" + "text": "4.2% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "56.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -377,10 +377,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.2% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "4.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "15.9% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "14.2% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -424,22 +424,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "49.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 9.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 10.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "16.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1304,6 +1304,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space policy with a focus on expanding Mexico's commercial space sector, including acquiring satellites and developing specialists, technologies, and infrastructure; manufactures and operates communications and scientific satellites; conducts research on a range of space-related capabilities and technologies, including astronomy, astrophysics, Earth and weather sciences, remote sensing, robotics, satellite payloads, and telecommunications; works with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial space industries, including those of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the ESA, individual ESA member states (particularly France, Germany, and the UK), India, Japan, Peru, Russia, Ukraine, and the US; led effort to establish the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency and hosts its headquarters (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1962-1977 - sounding rocket program

1985 - first Mexican in space on US Space Shuttle; first communications satellite (Morelos-1) built by US and released from the US Space Shuttle

2015 - first successful launch of MEXSAT series of communications satellites by the US

2021 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration

2024 - contributed five autonomous micro-robots (Colmena project) on failed US commercial Moon lander mission" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/north-america/sb.json b/north-america/sb.json index cb212501..8514504a 100644 --- a/north-america/sb.json +++ b/north-america/sb.json @@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "86.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "86.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 8.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 8.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -269,10 +269,10 @@ "text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "86.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "86.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (territorial overseas collectivity of France); no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 2 communes are considered second-order: Saint Pierre, Miquelon" + "text": "no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US government, but 2 communes are considered second-order: Saint Pierre, Miquelon" }, "Legal system": { "text": "French civil law" diff --git a/north-america/us.json b/north-america/us.json index 7c675789..ec9d9f9e 100644 --- a/north-america/us.json +++ b/north-america/us.json @@ -80,22 +80,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 28.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 29.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -364,17 +364,17 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "0.4% (2017/18)" + "text": "0.4% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "51.9% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.4% of GDP (2021 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.3% national budget (2021 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -407,22 +407,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 16.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 28.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 29.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "33.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "33.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "21% (2022 est.)" + "text": "18.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ "text": "Republican Party (220); Democratic Party (215)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "29.1%" + "text": "28.9%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "November 2026" @@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ "note": "note: the US court system consists of the federal court system and the state court systems; each court system is responsible for hearing certain types of cases, but neither is completely independent of the other, and the systems often interact" }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Democratic Party
Green Party
Libertarian Party
Republican Party" + "text": "Alliance Party
Constitution Party
Democratic Party
Green Party
Libertarian Party
Republican Party
Vermont Progressive Party" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), ANZUS, APEC, Arctic Council, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS (observer), CD, CE (observer), CERN (observer), CICA (observer), CP, EAPC, EAS, EBRD, EITI (implementing country), FAO, FATF, G-5, G-7, G-8, G-10, G-20, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NAFTA, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS, OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), Quad, SAARC (observer), SELEC (observer), SICA (observer), SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOOSA, UN Security Council (permanent), UNTSO, UPU, USMCA, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ "note": "note 1: the US military has been all-volunteer since 1973, but an act of Congress can reinstate the draft in case of a national emergency; males aged 18-25 must register with Selective Service

note 2: all military occupations and positions open to women; in 2022, women comprised 17.5% of the total US regular military personnel

note 3: non-citizens living permanently and legally in the US may join as enlisted personnel; they must have permission to work in the US, a high school diploma, and speak, read, and write English fluently; under the Compact of Free Association, citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands may volunteer" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "the US has more than 200,000 air, ground, and naval personnel deployed overseas on a permanent or a long-term rotational (typically 3-9 months) basis; key areas of deployment include approximately 5,000 in Africa, approximately 80,000 in Europe, approximately 10-15,000 in Southwest Asia, and more than 80,000 in East Asia (2024)" + "text": "the US has approximately 200,000 military personnel deployed overseas on a permanent or a long-term rotational (typically 3-9 months) basis (2025)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the US military's primary missions are to deter potential enemies, provide for the defense of the US, its Territories, Commonwealths and possessions, and any areas occupied by the US, and to protect US national interests; its responsibilities are worldwide and include providing humanitarian assistance, participating in international military exercises and operations, conducting military diplomacy, and fulfilling the US's alliance and treaty commitments; the US has been a leading member of NATO since the Alliance's formation in 1949

the US military has a global presence; the separate services operate jointly under 11 regional or functionally based joint service \"combatant\" commands: Africa Command; Central Command, Cyber Command, European Command, Indo-Pacific Command, Northern Command, Southern Command, Space Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, and Transportation Command

Congress officially created the US military in September 1789; the US Army was established in June 1775 as the Continental Army; after the declaration of independence in July 1776, the Continental Army and the militia in the service of Congress became known collectively as the Army of the United States; when Congress ordered the Continental Army to disband in 1784, it retained a small number of personnel that would form the nucleus of the 1st American Regiment for national service formed later that year; both the US Navy and the US Marines were also established in 1775, but the Navy fell into disuse after the Revolutionary War, and was reestablished by Congress in 1794; the first US military unit devoted exclusively to aviation began operations in 1913 as part of the US Army; the Army Air Corps (AAC) was the US military service dedicated to aerial warfare between 1926 and 1941; the AAC became the US Army Air Forces in 1941 and remained as a combat arm of the Army until the establishment of the US Air Force in 1947 (2025)" @@ -1206,6 +1206,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a large, comprehensive space program and is one of the world’s top space powers; builds, launches, and operates space launch vehicles (SLVs)/rockets and the full spectrum of spacecraft, including interplanetary probes, manned craft, reusable rockets, satellites, space stations, and space planes/shuttles; has an astronaut program and a corps of astronauts; researching and developing a broad range of other space-related technologies, including advanced telecommunications and optics, navigational aids, propulsion, and robotics; has launched orbital or lander probes to the Sun and all the planets in the solar system, as well as to asteroids and beyond the solar system; has dozens of international missions and projects, including with Canada, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the ESA; as of October 2025, nearly 60 countries had signed onto the US-led Artemis Accords to enhance the governance of civil exploration and use of outer space; the US commercial space industry is one of the world’s largest and is active across the spectrum of US government space programs; US commercial companies conduct the majority of NASA and US military space launches (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1958-1963 - Project Mercury first manned space flights, Project Gemini longer-duration manned flights in preparation for Moon landings (1961-63)

1963-1971 - Project Apollo Moon landings (world's first manned landing on the Moon, 1969)

1964 - launched first successful Mars probe (Mariner)

1965-1979 - operated Skylab space station  

1977 - began launching Voyager probes to Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond the solar system

1980s-2011 - operated Space Shuttle program (world’s first re-usable space orbiters)

1990 - launched Hubble Space Telescope

1993 - began participating in International Space Station project

2003 - launched surface rover vehicles (Spirit and Opportunity) to Mars 

2011 - launched orbital probe (Juno) to Jupiter 

2016 - launched OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve asteroid sample (landed on asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returned with sample in 2023)

2017 - initiated Artemis lunar landing project

2019 - initiated Gateway lunar orbital station project

2021 - launched James Webb Space Telescope (ESA contributed launch vehicle and launch site); surface rover vehicle (Perseverance) with robot helicopter (Ingenuity) successfully landed on surface of Mars

2024 - successfully placed a commercial lander on the Moon and launched probe (Europa Clipper) to study Jupiter's Europa moon" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/ar.json b/south-america/ar.json index 397b2564..e5df0320 100644 --- a/south-america/ar.json +++ b/south-america/ar.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "10.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "46.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2% (2018/19)" + "text": "2% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "48.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -349,10 +349,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "5.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.7% national budget (2022 est.)" + "text": "14% national budget (2023 est.)" + } + }, + "Literacy": { + "total population": { + "text": "99.1% (2020 est.)" + }, + "male": { + "text": "99.1% (2020 est.)" + }, + "female": { + "text": "99.2% (2020 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -384,22 +395,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "43.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 15.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 14.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 27.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 27.3% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "10.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "17.2% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "46.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "40.4% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -500,7 +511,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 autonomous city*; Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires*, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego - Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (Tierra del Fuego - Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands), Tucuman", + "text": "23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 autonomous city*; Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires*, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego - Antartida e Islas del Atlántico Sur (Tierra del Fuego - Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands), Tucuman", "note": "note: the US does not recognize any claims to Antarctica" }, "Legal system": { @@ -586,7 +597,7 @@ "text": "10/22/2023" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Union for the Homeland (UP) (48); Freedom Advances (LLA) (28); Together for Change (JxC/Juntos) (27); Other (27)" + "text": "Union for the Homeland (UP) (48); Freedom Advances (LLA) (28); Together for Change (JxC/Juntos) (27); Other (25)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "42.4%" @@ -1233,6 +1244,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a national space program and a history in the development of space-related capabilities, including rockets and satellites; develops, builds, and operates communications, remote sensing (RS), and scientific satellites, often in partnership with other countries; developing additional satellites with more advanced payloads; contracts with commercial and other government space agencies for launches, but has a domestic rocket program and is developing space launch vehicle (SLV) capabilities; cooperates with a broad range of space agencies and industries, including those of Brazil, China, the European Space Agency and its member states (particularly France, Italy), and the US; also has a commercial space industry (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1961-1967 - launched first rocket (Alfa Centauro) and was first country in Latin America to send an animal into space

1997 - first domestically built communications satellite (Nahuel-1A) launched on European satellite launch vehicle (SLV)

2007 - launch of first sub-orbital test rocket for domestic SLV (Tronador) project 

2018 - first domestically built, synthetic-aperture-radar remote sensing satellite (SAOCOM 1A) launched by US

2020-2021 - worked with Mexico to create the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE) 

2023 - signed US-led Artemis Accords outlining best practices for space exploration

2025 - continued development of two-stage Tronador SLV" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/bl.json b/south-america/bl.json index 0287cd9a..61f6617b 100644 --- a/south-america/bl.json +++ b/south-america/bl.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "35.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "46.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.4% (2016)" + "text": "3.4% (2016 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "57.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -367,18 +367,18 @@ "text": "8.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "23.1% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "10.8% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "94% (2020 est.)" + "text": "95.6% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2020 est.)" + "text": "97.8% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "91% (2020 est.)" + "text": "93.5% (2023 est.)" } } }, @@ -399,22 +399,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "35.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "35.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 5.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 30.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "46.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "50.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "17.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -601,16 +601,16 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/18/2020" + "text": "8/17/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) (75); Civic Community (C.C) (39); Creemos (16)" + "text": "Christian Democratic Party (PDC) (49); LIBRE (39); Unity (26); Popular Alliance (8); Other (8)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "50.8%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "August 2025" + "text": "August 2030" } }, "Legislative branch - upper chamber": { @@ -630,16 +630,16 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "10/18/2020" + "text": "8/17/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) (21); Civic Community (C.C) (11); Creemos (4)" + "text": "Christian Democratic Party (PDC) (16); LIBRE (12); Unity (7); Other (1)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "58.3%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "August 2025" + "text": "August 2030" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -1197,6 +1197,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small space program focused on acquiring and operating satellites; operates a telecommunications satellite and ground stations; has cooperated with China and India and member states of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2013 - first communications satellite (Túpac Katari, TKSAT-1) built and launched by China

2016 - began independently operating the TKSAT-1 satellite

2021 - signed protocols for establishment of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/br.json b/south-america/br.json index ae3464fa..e4916da1 100644 --- a/south-america/br.json +++ b/south-america/br.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "26.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "59.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -356,28 +356,28 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.1% (2019)" + "text": "3.5% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.9% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5.5% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "5.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.8% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "12.9% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "93% (2022 est.)" + "text": "94.8% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "92.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "94.5% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "93.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.1% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -409,22 +409,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "26.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 6.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 19.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.7% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "59.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "26 states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distrito federal); Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Distrito Federal*, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins" + "text": "26 states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distrito federal); Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Distrito Federal*, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law", @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ "text": "10/2/2022" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Liberal Party (PL) (99); Workers' Party (PT) (69); Brazil Union (União) (59); Progressive Party (PP) (47); Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) (42); Social Democratic Party (PSD) (42); Republicans (Republicanos) (40); Other (115)" + "text": "Liberal Party (PL) (99); Workers' Party (PT) (69); Brazil Union (União) (59); Progressive Party (PP) (47); Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) (42); Social Democratic Party (PSD) (42); Republicans (Republicanos) (40); Other (106)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "18.1%" @@ -1292,6 +1292,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "develops, builds, operates, and tracks satellites, including communications, remote sensing (RS), multi-mission, navigational, and scientific/testing/research; satellites are launched by foreign partners, but Brazil has a long-standing sounding (research) rocket and satellite launch vehicle (SLV) program and rocket launch facilities; cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of Argentina, Canada, the ESA, individual ESA member states (particularly France and Germany), India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Ukraine, and the US; has a state-controlled communications company that operates Brazil’s communications satellites and a growing commercial space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1960s - established a national space program under the Air Force

1984 - began satellite launch vehicle (SLV) program (Veículo Lançador de Satélites or VLS-1) 

1985 - first communications satellite jointly produced with Canada and launched on European SLV

1993 - first domestically built experimental communications satellite (Satélite de Coleta de Dados, SCD-1) launched by US

2004 - launched a sounding rocket into sub-orbital space, but the subsequent catastrophic failure of a VLS-1 during a test launch led to scaling back the program

2006 - first Brazilian astronaut to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket

2008 - began work on a 3-stage microsatellite launch vehicle (Veículo Lançador de Microssatélite or VLM-1) in partnership with Germany

2021 - first independently produced remote sensing (RS) satellite (Amazonia-1) launched by India; signed US-led Artemis Accords on space exploration cooperation and signed cooperation agreements with the space agencies of China, India, Russia, and South Africa for the joint development of an RS satellite constellation

2022 - successfully launched suborbital rocket more than 225 km (140 miles) in height" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/ci.json b/south-america/ci.json index a90afb8c..2bebc4f1 100644 --- a/south-america/ci.json +++ b/south-america/ci.json @@ -76,22 +76,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "14.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "60.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -347,21 +347,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "5% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "4.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "14.9% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "18.4% national budget (2022 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "96% (2017 est.)" + "text": "96.4% (2017 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "96% (2017 est.)" + "text": "96.5% (2017 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "96% (2017 est.)" + "text": "96.3% (2017 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -393,22 +393,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "14.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "60.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "61.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -557,13 +557,13 @@ "text": "president directly elected by absolute-majority popular vote in 2 rounds, if needed, for a single 4-year term" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "21 November 2021, with a runoff held on 19 December 2021" + "text": "16 December 2025, with a runoff to be held on 14 December 2025" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2021: Gabriel BORIC elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Jose Antonio KAST (FSC) 27.9%; Gabriel BORIC (AD) 25.8%; Franco PARISI (PDG) 12.8%; Sebastian SICHEL (ChP+) 12.8%; Yasna PROVOSTE (New Social Pact) 11.6%; other 9.1%; percent of vote in second round - Gabriel BORIC 55.9%; Jose Antonio KAST 44.1%

2017: Sebastian PINERA Echenique elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique (independent) 36.6%; Alejandro GUILLIER (independent) 22.7%; Beatriz SANCHEZ (independent) 20.3%; Jose Antonio KAST (independent) 7.9%; Carolina GOIC (PDC) 5.9%; Marco ENRIQUEZ-OMINAMI (PRO) 5.7%; other 0.9%; percent of vote in second round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique 54.6%, Alejandro GUILLIER 45.4%" + "text": "2025: percent of vote in first round - Jeannette Alejandra JARA Román (PCCh) 26.8%, José Antonio KAST (PLR) 23.9%, Franco Aldo PARISI Fernández (PDG) 19.7%, Johannes KAISER (PNL) 13.9%, Evelyn Rose MATTHEI Fornet (PL) 12.5%; other 3.2%; note - JARA and KAST will participate in a runoff election to be held 14 December 2025  

2021: Gabriel BORIC elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - José Antonio KAST (FSC) 27.9%; Gabriel BORIC (AD) 25.8%; Franco PARISI (PDG) 12.8%; Sebastian SICHEL (ChP+) 12.8%; Yasna PROVOSTE (New Social Pact) 11.6%; other 9.1%; percent of vote in second round - Gabriel BORIC 55.9%; Jose Antonio KAST 44.1%

2017: Sebastian PINERA Echenique elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique (independent) 36.6%; Alejandro GUILLIER (independent) 22.7%; Beatriz SANCHEZ (independent) 20.3%; Jose Antonio KAST (independent) 7.9%; Carolina GOIC (PDC) 5.9%; Marco ENRIQUEZ-OMINAMI (PRO) 5.7%; other 0.9%; percent of vote in second round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique 54.6%, Alejandro GUILLIER 45.4%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "23 November 2025 (a runoff, if needed, will take place on 20 December 2025)" + "text": "18 November 2029 (a runoff, if needed, will take place in December 2029)" }, "note": "note: the president is both chief of state and head of government" }, @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ "text": "Chile Podemos (Empowering Chile\", CP +) (53); New Social Pact (NPS) (37); Approving Dignity (AD) (37); Christian Social Front (FSC) (15); Other (13)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "35.1%" + "text": "33.5%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "November 2025" @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ "text": "Chile Podemos (Empowering Chile\", CP +) (12); New Social Pact (NPS) (8); Approving Dignity (AD) (4); Independents (2); Other (1)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "26%" + "text": "32%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "November 2025" @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Approve Dignity (Apruebo Dignidad) coalition or AD (included PC, FA, and FREVS); note - dissolved 2023
Broad Front Coalition (Frente Amplio) or FA (includes RD, CS, and Comunes)
Chile We Can Do More (Chile Podemos Más) or ChP+ (coalition includes EVOPOLI, PRI, RN, UDI)
Christian Democratic Party or PDC
Common Sense Party or SC
Commons (Comunes)
Communist Party of Chile or PCCh
Democratic Revolution or RD
Democrats or PD
Equality Party or PI
Green Ecological Party or PEV (dissolved 7 February 2022)
Green Popular Alliance or AVP
Humanist Action Party or PAH
Humanist Party or PH
Independent Democratic Union or UDI
Liberal Party (Partido Liberal de Chile) or PL
National Renewal or RN
New Social Pact or NPS (includes PDC, PL, PPD, PRSD, PS)
Party for Democracy or PPD
Party of the People or PDG
Political Evolution or EVOPOLI
Popular Party or PP
Progressive Homeland Party or PRO
Radical Party or PR
Republican Party or PLR
Social Christian Party or PSC
Social Convergence or CS
Social Green Regionalist Federation or FREVS
Socialist Party or PS
Yellow Movement for Chile or AMAR" + "text": "Approve Dignity (Apruebo Dignidad) coalition or AD (included PC, FA, and FREVS); note - dissolved 2023
Broad Front Coalition (Frente Amplio) or FA (includes RD, CS, and Comunes)
Chile We Can Do More (Chile Podemos Más) or ChP+ (coalition includes EVOPOLI, PRI, RN, UDI)
Christian Democratic Party or PDC
Common Sense Party or SC
Commons (Comunes)
Communist Party of Chile or PCCh
Democratic Revolution or RD
Democrats or PD
Equality Party or PI
Green Ecological Party or PEV (dissolved 7 February 2022)
Green Popular Alliance or AVP
Humanist Action Party or PAH
Humanist Party or PH
Independent Democratic Union or UDI
Liberal Party (Partido Liberal de Chile) or PL
National Libertarian Party or PNL
National Renewal or RN
New Social Pact or NPS (includes PDC, PL, PPD, PRSD, PS)
Party for Democracy or PPD
Party of the People or PDG
Political Evolution or EVOPOLI
Popular Party or PP
Progressive Homeland Party or PRO
Radical Party or PR
Republican Party or PLR
Social Christian Party or PSC
Social Convergence or CS
Social Green Regionalist Federation or FREVS
Socialist Party or PS
Yellow Movement for Chile or AMAR" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1210,14 +1210,6 @@ "text": "the Chilean military's responsibilities are territorial defense, ensuring the country’s sovereignty, assisting with disaster and humanitarian relief, and providing some internal security duties such as border security or maintaining public order if required; a key focus in recent years has been assisting with securing the border area with Bolivia and Peru; it trains regularly and participates in bilateral and multinational training exercises, as well as international peacekeeping operations 

Chile and Argentina have a joint peacekeeping force known as the Combined Southern Cross Peacekeeping Force (FPC), designed to be made available to the UN; the FPC is made up of air, ground, and naval components, as well as a combined logistics support unit

the Chilean Army was founded in 1810, but traces its origins back to the Army of the Kingdom of Chile, which was established by the Spanish Crown in the early 1600s; Chile's military aviation was inaugurated in 1913 with the creation of a military aviation school; the Navy traces its origins to 1817; it was first led by a British officer and the first ships were largely crewed by American, British, and Irish sailors; by the 1880s, the Chilean Navy was one of the most powerful in the Americas, and included the world’s first protected cruiser (a ship with an armored deck to protect vital machine spaces) (2025)" } }, - "Space": { - "Space agency/agencies": { - "text": "the Chilean Space Agency was established in 2001 and dissolved in 2014, at which time the space program became part of the Ministry of Defense; the Ministry of Science also participates in Chile’s space program (2025)" - }, - "Space program overview": { - "text": "focuses on acquiring and operating satellites; is building small remote sensing satellites; developing additional capabilities and technologies for producing satellites and satellite sub-systems; is a world leader in astronomy and astrophysics; has several astronomy institutes, and the Atacama Desert is home to more than a dozen astronomical observatories, including the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, the Las Campanas Observatory, and the European Southern Observatory; works with space agencies and industries in Canada, China, France, India, Israel, Mexico, Russia, the UK, and the US (2025)" - } - }, "Terrorism": { "Terrorist group(s)": { "text": "Tren de Aragua (TdA)", diff --git a/south-america/co.json b/south-america/co.json index c8bd5422..b0c0e567 100644 --- a/south-america/co.json +++ b/south-america/co.json @@ -73,22 +73,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "37.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 33.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 32% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "3.7% (2015/16)" + "text": "3.7% (2016 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -370,13 +370,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "96% (2020 est.)" + "text": "95.3% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "95% (2020 est.)" + "text": "95% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "96% (2020 est.)" + "text": "95.7% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -408,22 +408,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "37.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 2.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 2.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 33.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 32% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "9.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "32 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 1 capital district* (distrito capital); Amazonas, Antioquia, Arauca, Atlántico, Bogota*, Bolivar, Boyacá, Caldas, Caqueta, Casanare, Cauca, Cesar, Choco, Cordoba, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Guaviare, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Risaralda, Archipielago de San Andres, Providencia y Santa Catalina (colloquially San Andres y Providencia), Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle del Cauca, Vaupes, Vichada" + "text": "32 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 1 capital district* (distrito capital); Amazonas, Antioquia, Arauca, Atlántico, Bogota*, Bolivar, Boyacá, Caldas, Caquetá, Casanare, Cauca, Cesar, Choco, Cordoba, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Guaviare, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Risaralda, Archipiélago de San Andres, Providencia y Santa Catalina (colloquially San Andres y Providencia), Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle del Cauca, Vaupes, Vichada" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law system influenced by the Spanish and French civil codes" @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ "text": "3/13/2022" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Liberal Party (PL) (32); Historic Pact (27); Conservative Party (CP) (25); Democratic Centre (CD) (16); Radical Change (CR) (16); Union Party for the People “Partido de la U” (15); Green Alliance - Hope Centre coalition (11); Seats reserved for victims of the armed conflict (Citrep) (16); Other (28)" + "text": "Liberal Party (PL) (32); Historic Pact (27); Conservative Party (CP) (25); Democratic Centre (CD) (16); Radical Change (CR) (16); Union Party for the People “Partido de la U” (15); Green Alliance - Hope Centre coalition (11); Other (14)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "29.4%" @@ -1245,6 +1245,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small program focused on acquiring satellites, particularly remote sensing (RS) satellites; operates satellites and produces nanosatellites; researches other space technologies, including astronautics, satellite navigation, and telecommunications; works with a variety of foreign space agencies or commercial space industries, including those of Denmark, India, Russia, Sweden, the US, and some members of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2007 - first domestically produced technology-demonstration/remote-sensing (RS) nanosatellite (Libertad I) launched by Russia

2014 - second experimental RS nanosatellite (UAPSAT) launched by US

2018 - first RS satellite (FACSAT-1) for military use purchased from Denmark and launched by India

2022 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration

2023 - second RS satellite (FACSAT-2 or Chibiriquete) launched by US" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/ec.json b/south-america/ec.json index f29ce5fc..337c5987 100644 --- a/south-america/ec.json +++ b/south-america/ec.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "21.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 12.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "49.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "5.2% (2018/19)" + "text": "4.9% (2024 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -360,18 +360,18 @@ "text": "3.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "9.7% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "15.5% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "94% (2022 est.)" + "text": "96.3% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "95% (2022 est.)" + "text": "96.8% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "93% (2022 est.)" + "text": "95.7% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -403,22 +403,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "21.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "21.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 5.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 5.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 12.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 11.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "49.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.8% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "28.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "24 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia); Azuay, Bolivar, Canar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galapagos, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los Rios, Manabi, Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Pichincha, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Sucumbios, Tungurahua, Zamora Chinchipe" + "text": "24 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia); Azuay, Bolivar, Cañar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galapagos, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los Rios, Manabí, Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Pichincha, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Sucumbios, Tungurahua, Zamora Chinchipe" }, "Legal system": { "text": "civil law based on the Chilean civil code with modifications; traditional law in ethnic communities" @@ -1188,6 +1188,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small program focused on acquiring and manufacturing satellites; builds scientific satellites; conducts research and develops some space-related technologies; has relationships with China and Russia's space agencies and industries, as well as the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency and its member states (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2007 - an Ecuadorian completed a suborbital astronaut training program provided by Russia

2013 - first two domestically designed and built scientific/technology demonstrator satellites (NEE-01/Pegasus, NEE-02/Krysaor) launched by China and Russia 

2021 - signed accords for the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency

2023 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/fk.json b/south-america/fk.json index 1cd3c47d..70a64034 100644 --- a/south-america/fk.json +++ b/south-america/fk.json @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "93.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "93.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 93.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 93.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { "text": "0% (2022 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "93.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "93.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { "text": "arable land: 0% (2022 est.)" @@ -235,13 +235,13 @@ "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 93.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 93.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { "text": "0% (2022 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "6.8% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -293,9 +293,6 @@ "text": "named in 1844 after Edward SMITH-STANLEY, the 14th Earl of Derby" } }, - "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "none (administered by the UK; claimed by Argentina)" - }, "Legal system": { "text": "English common law and local statutes" }, diff --git a/south-america/gy.json b/south-america/gy.json index 3830674a..2fb99b67 100644 --- a/south-america/gy.json +++ b/south-america/gy.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "93.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "87.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "9.4% (2019)" + "text": "9.4% (2019 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "62.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ "text": "4.5% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "16.2% national budget (2018 est.)" + "text": "7.2% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -390,22 +390,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "5.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 2.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "93.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "87.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "1.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "9.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -580,16 +580,16 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "3/2/2020" + "text": "9/1/2025" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) (33); A Partnership for National Unity - Alliance for Change (APNU-AFC) (31); Other (1)" + "text": "People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) (36); We Invest in Nationhood (W.I.N.) (16); A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) (12); Other (1)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "36.1%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "September 2025" + "text": "August 2030" } }, "Judicial branch": { diff --git a/south-america/ns.json b/south-america/ns.json index 1089a6dc..72696e1e 100644 --- a/south-america/ns.json +++ b/south-america/ns.json @@ -69,22 +69,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "94.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "6.7% (2018)" + "text": "6.7% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "52.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -377,22 +377,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "0.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 0.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 0.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 0.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "94.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "91.7% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/south-america/pa.json b/south-america/pa.json index 3fd766fd..7d127e1d 100644 --- a/south-america/pa.json +++ b/south-america/pa.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "39.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.3% (2016)" + "text": "1.3% (2016 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "59.4% (2023 est.)" @@ -359,18 +359,18 @@ "text": "3.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "22% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "11.7% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "95% (2020 est.)" + "text": "94.9% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "95% (2020 est.)" + "text": "95.4% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "94% (2020 est.)" + "text": "94.3% (2024 est.)" } } }, @@ -391,22 +391,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "42% (2022 est.)" + "text": "54.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 11.5% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 30.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 42.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "39.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "36.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "18.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1178,6 +1178,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small, recently established space program focused on the acquisition of satellites, satellite data, and the technologies and capabilities to manufacture satellites, as well as promoting domestic expertise and industry; a priority is acquiring remote sensing capabilities to support socio-economic development, including resource mapping, weather, and crop monitoring; has built a cube satellite with foreign assistance; operates satellites; cooperates with foreign space agencies and industries, including those of India, Japan, Taiwan, the US, and member states of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2017 - organized country’s first international conference on space issues

2021 - first research/technology-demonstrator cube satellite (Guaranisat-1) built jointly with Japan, launched by US, and deployed from International Space Station; signed protocols for the establishment of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency

2025 - developing Guarani-Sat-2, which will be Paraguay's second satellite and the first designed and built domestically" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/pe.json b/south-america/pe.json index acb25bc7..fdd2df94 100644 --- a/south-america/pe.json +++ b/south-america/pe.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 14.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "2.1% (2021)" + "text": "2.7% (2023 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "51.2% (2023 est.)" @@ -371,18 +371,18 @@ "text": "4.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "19.2% national budget (2025 est.)" + "text": "19.2% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "94% (2020 est.)" + "text": "93.7% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2020 est.)" + "text": "97% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "92% (2020 est.)" + "text": "90.7% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -414,22 +414,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 3.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 14.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 14.2% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "56.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "52.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "24.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "28% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1220,10 +1220,13 @@ "text": "National Aerospace Research and Development Commission (Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacia, CONIDA; established 1974) (2025)" }, "Space launch site(s)": { - "text": "in 2024, Peru and the US signed an agreement to construct a spaceport in the Talara Desert in the Piura region" + "text": "in 2024, Peru announced an initiative to develop a future spaceport in Talara (Piura department)" }, "Space program overview": { "text": "focuses on acquiring satellites, applying space applications such as data satellite imagery, and building small rockets; has built a small science/technology satellite; operates satellites and processes satellite imagery data; builds and launches sounding rockets with goal of developing a satellite/space launch vehicle (SLV); researching, developing, and acquiring technologies for manufacturing satellites and satellite payloads, including remote sensing (RS) capabilities; member of Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE) since its formation in 2021; cooperates with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of Brazil, China, the ESA, individual ESA member states (particularly France and Germany), India, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, and the US, as well as other ALCE signatories (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2006 - launched first sounding rocket/space probe (Paulet-1)

2013 - first domestically built scientific/research satellite (PUCP-SAT-1) launched by Russia; launched first domestically built rocket (Paulet 1-B) capable of reaching the stratosphere

2016 - first remote sensing satellite (PeruSat-1) acquired from France and launched on European rocket

2024 - signed US-led Artemis Accords on space and lunar exploration" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/uy.json b/south-america/uy.json index 30d3fcc7..9e8ac005 100644 --- a/south-america/uy.json +++ b/south-america/uy.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "80.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "81.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 68.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -348,28 +348,28 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "1.8% (2018)" + "text": "1.8% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "55.4% (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "3.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "4.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "15.4% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "15.6% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "99% (2022 est.)" + "text": "98.9% (2024 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "99% (2022 est.)" + "text": "98.6% (2024 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "99% (2022 est.)" + "text": "99.2% (2024 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -401,22 +401,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "80.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "81.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 68.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 68.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "11.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "11.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "7.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "7.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/south-america/ve.json b/south-america/ve.json index 02cb4932..c2aaed04 100644 --- a/south-america/ve.json +++ b/south-america/ve.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 20.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -318,21 +318,21 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2017 est.)" + "text": "0% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "0% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "10.3% national budget (2024 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "97% (2016 est.)" + "text": "97.2% (2017 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "97% (2016 est.)" + "text": "97.2% (2017 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "97% (2016 est.)" + "text": "97.3% (2017 est.)" } } }, @@ -353,22 +353,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 20.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 20.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "52.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "53.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "23.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "22.1% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -550,13 +550,13 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "5/25/2025" + "text": "12/6/2020" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { "text": "32.1%" }, "expected date of next election": { - "text": "May 2030" + "text": "May 2025" }, "note": "note: in 2020, the National Electoral Council increased the number of seats in the National Assembly from 167 to 277 for the December 2020 election" }, @@ -1031,6 +1031,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a small national program primarily focused on acquiring satellites and expanding the country’s science and technological capabilities; operates satellites and maintains two satellite ground control stations; participates in multinational space organizations such as the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency; closest bilateral partners are China and Russia; also has bilateral framework agreements for space cooperation with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2005 - signed space cooperation partnership with China

2008- first communications satellite (Venesat-1 or Bolivar) financed, built, and launched by China

2012 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (VRSS-1 or Miranda) built and launched by China

2017 - second RS satellite (VRSS-2 or Sucre) built and launched by China

2021 - signed agreement to establish the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (formally established in 2022)

2023 - joined China-Russia project to construct a permanent base on the Moon by the 2030s

2025 - announced intent to participate in planned Mars sample-return mission (Tianwen-3) led by China" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-asia/af.json b/south-asia/af.json index 0bf157cf..4c6b6294 100644 --- a/south-asia/af.json +++ b/south-asia/af.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "58.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "39.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "19.1% (2018)" + "text": "18.4% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "70.3% (2023 est.)" @@ -367,15 +367,15 @@ "text": "4.3% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.2% national budget (2017 est.)" + "text": "15.7% national budget (2017 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "37% (2021 est.)" + "text": "37.3% (2021 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "52% (2021 est.)" + "text": "52.1% (2021 est.)" }, "female": { "text": "26.6% (2022 est.)" @@ -410,22 +410,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "58.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "58.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 46.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 46% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "1.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.9% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "39.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "39.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/south-asia/bg.json b/south-asia/bg.json index 38fbb30c..5ece7014 100644 --- a/south-asia/bg.json +++ b/south-asia/bg.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "72.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "72.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 60.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 60.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "22.6% (2019)" + "text": "21.7% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "80.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ "text": "2% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "11.6% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "11.9% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -372,10 +372,10 @@ "text": "79% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "81% (2022 est.)" + "text": "81.4% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "77% (2022 est.)" + "text": "76.5% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -407,22 +407,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "72.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "72.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 60.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 60.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 7.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 7.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 4.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 4.6% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "14.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "14.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "13.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.3% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1182,6 +1182,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has a modest space program focused on designing, building, and operating satellites, particularly those with remote sensing (RS) capabilities; SPARSSO's mandate is to use space and RS technology in areas such as agriculture, education, environmental studies, fisheries, forestry, geology, land use, mapping, meteorology, and oceanography; has a government-owned company for acquiring and operating satellites (Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited, established in 2017); works with several foreign space agencies and commercial entities, including those of France, Japan, Russia, and the US; member of several international space organizations, such as the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "2017 - first educational/scientific nanosatellite (BRAC-Onnesha) acquired from Japan and launched by US

2018 - first communications satellite (Bangabandhu-1) built by a French company and launched by US

2025 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for the safe and responsible exploration of space" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-asia/bt.json b/south-asia/bt.json index 30b909fd..bb007236 100644 --- a/south-asia/bt.json +++ b/south-asia/bt.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "12.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "71.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ "text": "9.8% (2025 est.)" } }, + "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { + "text": "8.7% (2023 est.)" + }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "62.8% (2023 est.)" }, @@ -321,18 +324,18 @@ "text": "5.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "17.2% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "22.2% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "67% (2017 est.)" + "text": "64.9% (2022 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "75% (2017 est.)" + "text": "73.4% (2022 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "57% (2017 est.)" + "text": "57% (2022 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -364,22 +367,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "12.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "13.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 1.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 2.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 10.8% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 10.8% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "71.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "70.6% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.6% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -561,7 +564,7 @@ "text": "full renewal" }, "term in office": { - "text": "5 years" + "text": "0 years" }, "most recent election date": { "text": "4/20/2023" diff --git a/south-asia/ce.json b/south-asia/ce.json index 77048e4f..23de2e9c 100644 --- a/south-asia/ce.json +++ b/south-asia/ce.json @@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "48.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 22.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 22.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 16.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 19.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "20.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "20.5% (2016)" + "text": "17.1% (2024 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "65.1% (2023 est.)" @@ -356,10 +356,10 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "93% (2023 est.)" + "text": "92.7% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "93% (2023 est.)" + "text": "93.4% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { "text": "92% (2023 est.)" @@ -394,22 +394,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "45.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "48.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 22.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 22.2% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 16.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 19.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 7.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 7.1% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "34.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "34.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "20.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "16.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/south-asia/in.json b/south-asia/in.json index 1d5ca7b4..18c1ad90 100644 --- a/south-asia/in.json +++ b/south-asia/in.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 51.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 51.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "31.5% (2019/21)" + "text": "31.5% (2020 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "72.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -383,13 +383,13 @@ }, "Literacy": { "total population": { - "text": "82% (2023 est.)" + "text": "81.7% (2023 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "88% (2023 est.)" + "text": "88.3% (2023 est.)" }, "female": { - "text": "75% (2023 est.)" + "text": "74.9% (2023 est.)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -421,22 +421,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "60% (2022 est.)" + "text": "60.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 51.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 51.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 4.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 4.9% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "24.4% (2022 est.)" + "text": "24.4% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "15.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "15.5% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -623,10 +623,10 @@ "text": "4/19/2024 to 6/1/2024" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { - "text": "Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (240); Indian National Congress (INC) (99); Samajwadi Party (SP) (37); All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) (29); Independents (7); Other (131)" + "text": "Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (240); Indian National Congress (INC) (99); Samajwadi Party (SP) (37); All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) (29); Other (138)" }, "percentage of women in chamber": { - "text": "13.7%" + "text": "13.8%" }, "expected date of next election": { "text": "April 2029" @@ -1281,6 +1281,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "has one of the world’s largest space programs; designs, builds, launches, operates, and tracks the full spectrum of satellites, including communications, navigation, remote sensing (RS), and scientific/technology; designs, builds, and launches rockets, space/satellite launch vehicles (SLVs), and lunar/interplanetary probes; launches satellites for foreign partners; researching and developing additional technologies and capabilities; developing astronaut program and human flight capabilities (with assistance from Russia and the US); has space-related agreements with the ESA and more than 50 countries, including China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the US; participates in international projects such as the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope; the Department of Space administers two government-controlled space industry corporations; has a growing private space sector (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1963 - first sounding (research) rocket launched

1975 - first domestically made scientific satellite (Aryabhata) launched by Soviet Union

1979 - first experimental remote sensing (RS) satellite (Bhaskara-I) launched by Soviet Union

1980 - first successful launch of satellite (Rohini) on Indian satellite launch vehicle (SLV)

1984 - first Indian in space on a Soviet rocket

1988 - first operational RS satellite (IRS-1A) launched by Soviet Union

1994 - first successful launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), India’s premier SLV

2008 - first lunar orbiter/probe (Chandrayaan-1) launched, reached lunar orbit, and sent a probe to the surface of the Moon

2014 - first interplanetary probe (Mangalyaan) reached orbit around Mars

2018 - Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (INRSS) became operational

2019 - launched lunar orbiter/probe (Chandrayaan-2) with lander and rover (lander lost when it crash-landed on Moon’s surface)

2023 - successfully landed uncrewed lander/rover mission (Chandrayaan-3) on Moon's surface

2024 - launched satellite (XPoSat) to study black holes and placed solar observatory spacecraft (Aditya-L1) in orbital position to study the Sun

2025 - first docking of two orbiting satellites and sent its first astronaut to the International Space Station" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-asia/mv.json b/south-asia/mv.json index 8b2ce565..1eda2480 100644 --- a/south-asia/mv.json +++ b/south-asia/mv.json @@ -70,22 +70,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "77.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "67.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "14.8% (2016/17)" + "text": "14.8% (2017 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "71.9% (2023 est.)" @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ "text": "5.2% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "10.7% national budget (2024 est.)" + "text": "9.6% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -394,22 +394,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "19.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "19.8% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 13% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 13.4% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 3.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 3.4% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "2.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "77.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "67.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { diff --git a/south-asia/np.json b/south-asia/np.json index 06499c39..f3800951 100644 --- a/south-asia/np.json +++ b/south-asia/np.json @@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "26.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 12.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "41.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "32.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "18.7% (2022)" + "text": "18.3% (2022 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "74.6% (2023 est.)" @@ -357,10 +357,10 @@ }, "Education expenditure": { "Education expenditure (% GDP)": { - "text": "4% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.7% of GDP (2024 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "12.8% national budget (2021 est.)" + "text": "10.8% national budget (2025 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ "text": "68.7% (2019 est.)" }, "male": { - "text": "79.7% (2019 est.)" + "text": "79.8% (2019 est.)" }, "female": { "text": "59.4% (2019 est.)" @@ -403,22 +403,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "26.1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "26.1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 12.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 12.6% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 12.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 12.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "41.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "43.5% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "32.3% (2022 est.)" + "text": "27.7% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ "text": "5 years" }, "most recent election date": { - "text": "11/19/2013" + "text": "11/20/2022" }, "parties elected and seats per party": { "text": "Nepali Congress (NC) (89); Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist, UML) (78); Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-MC) (32); Rastriya Swatantra Party (20); Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPP) (14); People's Socialist Party, Nepal (12); Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) (10); Janamat Party (6); Democratic Socialist Party, Nepal (4); People's Freedom Party (3); Nepal Workers Peasants Party (1); Rastriya Janamorcha (1); Independents (5)" diff --git a/south-asia/pk.json b/south-asia/pk.json index f72d3bdc..d6aa95e0 100644 --- a/south-asia/pk.json +++ b/south-asia/pk.json @@ -75,22 +75,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 39.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 39.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "48.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ } }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { - "text": "23.1% (2018)" + "text": "23.1% (2018 est.)" }, "Currently married women (ages 15-49)": { "text": "63.5% (2023 est.)" @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Education expenditure (% national budget)": { - "text": "8.3% national budget (2023 est.)" + "text": "9.8% national budget (2023 est.)" } }, "Literacy": { @@ -419,22 +419,22 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "46.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "46.7% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 39.2% (2022 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 39.3% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.9% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 1% (2023 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 6.5% (2022 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 6.5% (2023 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "4.7% (2022 est.)" + "text": "4.1% (2023 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "48.6% (2022 est.)" + "text": "49.2% (2023 est.)" } }, "Urbanization": { @@ -1273,6 +1273,9 @@ }, "Space program overview": { "text": "space program dates back to the early 1960s, but funding shortfalls and shifts in priority toward ballistic missile development in the 1980s and 1990s hampered the program’s development; now has a strengthened focus on acquiring satellites and reaching agreements with other space powers for additional capabilities; manufactures and operates satellites; researching and developing other space-related capabilities and technologies, such as satellite payloads; also conducts research in areas such as astronomy, astrophysics, environmental monitoring, and space sciences; works with China, Russia, and Turkey (cooperated with the UK and US prior to the 1990s) (2025)" + }, + "Key space-program milestones": { + "text": "1962-1972 - launched about 200 sounding rockets with some US assistance 

1990 - first domestically built experimental satellite (Badr-1) launched by China

2001 - first remote sensing (RS) satellite (Badr-2) built jointly with the UK and launched by Russia

2011 - first digital communications satellite (PakSat-1R) launched by China

2017 - successfully test-launched ballistic missile system (Shaheed-III)

2023 - joined China’s International Lunar Research Station program

2024 - first lunar orbiter/satellite (iCube Qamar) launched by China and deployed from China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft

2025 - first fully domestic RS satellite (PRSC-EO1) launched by China; selected country's first astronauts to be trained by China for mission to China's space station" } }, "Terrorism": {