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"text": "5.6% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "5.6% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: arable land": {
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"text": "arable land: 5.6% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "arable land: 5.6% (2023 est.)"
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"text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)"
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"forest": {
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"text": "18.5% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "14.4% (2023 est.)"
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"other": {
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"text": "75.9% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "80% (2023 est.)"
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"Irrigated land": {
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"text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)"
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"Education expenditure (% national budget)": {
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"text": "11.6% national budget (2024 est.)"
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"text": "7.8% national budget (2017 est.)"
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"School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": {
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"Land use": {
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"agricultural land": {
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"text": "5.6% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "5.6% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: arable land": {
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"text": "arable land: 5.6% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "arable land: 5.6% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: permanent crops": {
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"text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.)"
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"forest": {
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"text": "18.5% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "14.4% (2023 est.)"
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"other": {
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"text": "75.9% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "80% (2023 est.)"
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"Urbanization": {
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"Land use": {
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"agricultural land": {
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"text": "6.5% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "6.5% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: arable land": {
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"text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "arable land: 4.3% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: permanent crops": {
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"text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: permanent pasture": {
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"text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2023 est.)"
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"forest": {
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"text": "39.5% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "42% (2023 est.)"
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"other": {
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"text": "54% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "51.4% (2023 est.)"
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"Irrigated land": {
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"Education expenditure": {
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"Education expenditure (% GDP)": {
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"text": "4.5% of GDP (2023 est.)"
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"text": "4.9% of GDP (2022 est.)"
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"Education expenditure (% national budget)": {
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"text": "11.2% national budget (2023 est.)"
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"text": "10.7% national budget (2022 est.)"
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"School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": {
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"Land use": {
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"agricultural land": {
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"text": "6.5% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "6.5% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: arable land": {
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"text": "arable land: 4.4% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "arable land: 4.3% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: permanent crops": {
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"text": "permanent crops: 0% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent crops: 0% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: permanent pasture": {
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"text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent pasture: 2.1% (2023 est.)"
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"forest": {
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"text": "39.5% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "42% (2023 est.)"
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"other": {
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"text": "54% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "51.4% (2023 est.)"
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"Urbanization": {
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"text": "4/28/2025"
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"parties elected and seats per party": {
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"text": "Liberal Party (169); Conservative Party (144); Bloc Québécois (BQ) (22); Other (8)"
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"text": "Liberal Party (169); Conservative Party (144); Bloc Québécois (BQ) (22); Other (30)"
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"percentage of women in chamber": {
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"text": "30.3%"
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> 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"
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"Political parties": {
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"text": "Bloc Quebecois<br>Conservative Party of Canada or CPC<br>Green Party<br>Liberal Party<br>New Democratic Party or NDP<br>People's Party of Canada"
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"text": "Bloc Québécois<br>Conservative Party of Canada or CPC<br>Green Party of Canada<br>Liberal Party of Canada<br>New Democratic Party"
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"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
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"chief of mission": {
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"Space program overview": {
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"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)"
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"Key space-program milestones": {
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"text": "1959-1962 - launched first domestically built sounding rocket (Black Brant 1); first domestically designed and built satellite (Alouette) launched by US<br><br>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<br><br>1970s - began participating in US Space Shuttle (first Canadian in space on Shuttle in 1984) and US Mars probe/exploration programs<br><br>1995 - first Canadian-built, radar-capable remote sensing satellite (Radarsat-1) launched by US<br><br>2019 - began participating in US/NASA Lunar Gateway orbital station program; launched constellation of remote sensing satellites (RADARSAT Constellation Mission)<br><br>2020 - signed the US-led Artemis Accords for space exploration (active participant in planned Moon missions under the Artemis program)"
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"Terrorism": {
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"Land use": {
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"agricultural land": {
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"text": "49.4% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "50.7% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: arable land": {
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"text": "arable land: 9.8% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "arable land: 10.3% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: permanent crops": {
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"text": "permanent crops: 1.5% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent crops: 2.3% (2023 est.)"
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"agricultural land: permanent pasture": {
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"text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "permanent pasture: 38.1% (2023 est.)"
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"forest": {
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"text": "33.7% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "34.2% (2023 est.)"
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"other": {
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"text": "16.9% (2022 est.)"
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"text": "15.1% (2023 est.)"
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"Children under the age of 5 years underweight": {
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"text": "4.2% (2021)"
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"text": "4.2% (2022 est.)"
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"Currently married women (ages 15-49)": {
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"text": "56.6% (2023 est.)"
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"Education expenditure": {
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"Education expenditure (% GDP)": {
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"text": "4.2% of GDP (2021 est.)"
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"text": "4.1% of GDP (2022 est.)"
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"Education expenditure (% national budget)": {
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"text": "15.9% national budget (2021 est.)"
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"text": "14.2% national budget (2022 est.)"
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"text": "50.7% (2023 est.)"
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"text": "arable land: 9.8% (2022 est.)"
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"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)"
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"text": "1962-1977 - sounding rocket program<br><br>1985 - first Mexican in space on US Space Shuttle; first communications satellite (Morelos-1) built by US and released from the US Space Shuttle<br><br>2015 - first successful launch of MEXSAT series of communications satellites by the US<br><br>2021 - signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration<br><br>2024 - contributed five autonomous micro-robots (Colmena project) on failed US commercial Moon lander mission"
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> 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"
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"Political parties": {
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"text": "Democratic Party<br>Green Party<br>Libertarian Party<br>Republican Party"
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"text": "Alliance Party<br>Constitution Party<br>Democratic Party<br>Green Party<br>Libertarian Party<br>Republican Party<br>Vermont Progressive Party"
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},
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"International organization participation": {
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"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"
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"note": "<strong>note 1: </strong>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<br><strong><br>note 2:</strong> all military occupations and positions open to women; in 2022, women comprised 17.5% of the total US regular military personnel<br><br><strong>note 3:</strong> 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"
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},
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"Military deployments": {
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"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)"
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"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)"
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},
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"Military - note": {
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"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<br><br>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<br><br>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)"
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"Space program overview": {
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"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)"
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},
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"Key space-program milestones": {
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"text": "1958-1963 - Project Mercury first manned space flights, Project Gemini longer-duration manned flights in preparation for Moon landings (1961-63)<br><br>1963-1971 - Project Apollo Moon landings (world's first manned landing on the Moon, 1969)<br><br>1964 - launched first successful Mars probe (Mariner)<br><br>1965-1979 - operated Skylab space station <br><br>1977 - began launching Voyager probes to Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond the solar system<br><br>1980s-2011 - operated Space Shuttle program (world’s first re-usable space orbiters)<br><br>1990 - launched Hubble Space Telescope<br><br>1993 - began participating in International Space Station project<br><br>2003 - launched surface rover vehicles (Spirit and Opportunity) to Mars <br><br>2011 - launched orbital probe (Juno) to Jupiter <br><br>2016 - launched OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve asteroid sample (landed on asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returned with sample in 2023)<br><br>2017 - initiated Artemis lunar landing project<br><br>2019 - initiated Gateway lunar orbital station project<br><br>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<br><br>2024 - successfully placed a commercial lander on the Moon and launched probe (Europa Clipper) to study Jupiter's Europa moon"
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