From 2dc8ed5bc6135ac3d32243d906f1fe867c35d65a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yo Robot Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:22:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] auto-update week 47 --- africa/ag.json | 4 ++-- africa/ao.json | 19 +----------------- africa/bc.json | 2 +- africa/bn.json | 2 +- africa/by.json | 2 +- africa/cd.json | 4 ++-- africa/cm.json | 2 +- africa/cn.json | 6 +++--- africa/ct.json | 6 +++--- africa/dj.json | 4 ++-- africa/eg.json | 8 -------- africa/er.json | 2 +- africa/et.json | 2 +- africa/ga.json | 20 ------------------- africa/gb.json | 17 ---------------- africa/gh.json | 21 ------------------- africa/gv.json | 28 ++++---------------------- africa/li.json | 4 ++-- africa/lt.json | 8 -------- africa/ly.json | 5 +++-- africa/ma.json | 18 ----------------- africa/mi.json | 18 ----------------- africa/ml.json | 31 ++++------------------------- africa/mr.json | 17 ---------------- africa/mz.json | 18 ----------------- africa/ng.json | 21 ------------------- africa/ni.json | 24 ---------------------- africa/od.json | 22 +------------------- africa/pu.json | 17 ---------------- africa/rw.json | 14 ------------- africa/sf.json | 14 ------------- africa/sg.json | 20 ------------------- africa/sl.json | 25 +++-------------------- africa/so.json | 22 ++------------------ africa/su.json | 8 +++----- africa/to.json | 5 +++-- africa/tp.json | 14 ------------- africa/ts.json | 4 ++-- africa/ug.json | 19 +----------------- africa/uv.json | 2 +- africa/wa.json | 16 +-------------- africa/wz.json | 2 +- africa/za.json | 20 +------------------ africa/zi.json | 19 +----------------- australia-oceania/aq.json | 2 +- australia-oceania/as.json | 4 ++-- australia-oceania/cq.json | 7 ++++--- australia-oceania/cw.json | 2 +- australia-oceania/fp.json | 5 +++-- australia-oceania/gq.json | 5 +++-- australia-oceania/nc.json | 5 +++-- australia-oceania/nh.json | 2 +- australia-oceania/pc.json | 5 +++-- australia-oceania/wf.json | 7 ++++--- central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json | 2 +- central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json | 4 ++-- central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json | 11 ---------- central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json | 19 ++++-------------- central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json | 5 +++-- central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json | 11 ---------- central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json | 11 ---------- central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json | 5 +++-- central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json | 7 ++++--- central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json | 5 +++-- central-asia/uz.json | 2 +- east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json | 2 +- east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json | 2 +- east-n-southeast-asia/id.json | 12 ----------- east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json | 2 +- east-n-southeast-asia/my.json | 14 ------------- east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json | 11 ---------- east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json | 14 ------------- east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json | 15 ++------------ europe/al.json | 4 ++-- europe/an.json | 7 +++---- europe/au.json | 2 +- europe/be.json | 4 ++-- europe/bk.json | 2 +- europe/bu.json | 2 +- europe/cy.json | 2 +- europe/da.json | 2 +- europe/ee.json | 5 +++-- europe/ez.json | 4 ++-- europe/fo.json | 5 +++-- europe/fr.json | 2 +- europe/gk.json | 5 +++-- europe/gm.json | 2 +- europe/gr.json | 5 +++-- europe/hr.json | 6 +++--- europe/hu.json | 8 -------- europe/im.json | 5 +++-- europe/je.json | 5 +++-- europe/kv.json | 9 +++++---- europe/lg.json | 8 -------- europe/lh.json | 8 -------- europe/lu.json | 5 +++-- europe/mj.json | 11 ---------- europe/mk.json | 2 +- europe/pl.json | 11 ++-------- europe/sv.json | 5 +++-- europe/uk.json | 7 ++----- europe/up.json | 11 +++++----- middle-east/ae.json | 2 +- middle-east/am.json | 4 ++-- middle-east/gz.json | 3 --- middle-east/ir.json | 16 +++------------ middle-east/is.json | 10 ++++------ middle-east/iz.json | 13 +++--------- middle-east/jo.json | 3 +-- middle-east/ku.json | 2 +- middle-east/le.json | 6 +++--- middle-east/mu.json | 2 +- middle-east/qa.json | 4 ++-- middle-east/sa.json | 2 +- middle-east/we.json | 5 +---- middle-east/ym.json | 17 +--------------- north-america/ca.json | 2 +- north-america/gl.json | 5 +++-- north-america/sb.json | 5 +++-- north-america/us.json | 8 ++++---- south-america/ec.json | 4 ++-- south-america/gy.json | 11 ---------- south-america/pa.json | 11 ---------- south-america/pe.json | 11 ---------- south-america/uy.json | 2 +- south-america/ve.json | 18 ++++------------- south-asia/af.json | 6 +++--- south-asia/bg.json | 4 ++-- south-asia/bt.json | 2 +- south-asia/ce.json | 14 ------------- south-asia/in.json | 19 +----------------- south-asia/np.json | 11 ---------- south-asia/pk.json | 2 +- world/xx.json | 2 +- 134 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 921 deletions(-) diff --git a/africa/ag.json b/africa/ag.json index bbee45dc..21841530 100644 --- a/africa/ag.json +++ b/africa/ag.json @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:
Council of the Nation or Majlis al-Umma (174 seats, statutory; 170 currently); two-thirds of members indirectly elected by simple majority vote by an electoral college composed of local assemblies within each wilaya, and one-third of members appointed by the president; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)
National People's Assembly or al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani (407 seats, including 8 seats for Algerian diaspora); members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by open-list proportional representation vote using the Hare quota method; members serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:
Council of the Nation or Majlis al-Umma (174 seats, statutory; 170 currently; two-thirds of members indirectly elected by simple majority vote by an electoral college composed of local assemblies within each wilaya, and one-third of members appointed by the president; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)
National People's Assembly or al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani (407 seats, including 8 seats for Algerian diaspora; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by open-list proportional representation vote using the Hare quota method; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Council of the Nation - last held on 5 February 2022 (next expected in 2025)
National People's Assembly - snap election held on 12 June 2021 (next to be held on 12 June 2026)" @@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ "text": "approximately 225,000 armed forces personnel (100,000 Army; 15,000 Air Force/Air Defense; 10,000 Navy; 1,000 Republican Guard; 100,000 Gendarmerie) (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the ANP is one of the better-equipped militaries in North Africa; over the past decade, it has made large investments in more modern equipment, including armored vehicles, air defense systems, fighter aircraft, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and warships, largely from Russia, its traditional supplier, but also China and Western European suppliers such as Germany (2023)" + "text": "the Algerian military has traditionally been armed mostly with Russian and Soviet-era weapons systems and equipment; over the past decade, it has made large investments in acquiring more modern armored vehicles, air defense systems, fighter aircraft, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and warships, largely from Russia, its traditional supplier, but also China and Western European suppliers such as Germany (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service for men and women; 19-30 years of age for mandatory national service for men (all Algerian men must register at age 17); service obligation reduced from 18 to 12 months in 2014 (2024)", diff --git a/africa/ao.json b/africa/ao.json index c44f170a..861af47d 100644 --- a/africa/ao.json +++ b/africa/ao.json @@ -305,23 +305,6 @@ "text": "total: 27.3% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, malaria" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "8.2% (2016)" }, @@ -1181,7 +1164,7 @@ "text": "approximately 100,000 active troops (mostly Army; 5-6,000 Air Force and Navy) (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "most Angolan military weapons and equipment are of Russian or of Soviet-era origin; in recent years, Russia has been the principal supplier of military hardware to Angola (2023)" + "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)" }, "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)" diff --git a/africa/bc.json b/africa/bc.json index 3153af05..c8187f5e 100644 --- a/africa/bc.json +++ b/africa/bc.json @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - BDP 52.7%, UDC 35.9%, BPF 4.4%, AP 5.1%, other 1.7%; seats by party - BDP 38, UDC 15, BPF 3, AP 1; composition- men 56, women 7, percentage women 11.1%" }, - "note": "note:  the House of Chiefs (Ntlo ya Dikgosi), an advisory body to the National Assembly, consists of 35 members -- 8 hereditary chiefs from Botswana's principal tribes, 22 indirectly elected by the chiefs, and 5 appointed by the president; the House of Chiefs consults on issues including powers of chiefs, customary courts, customary law, tribal property, and constitutional amendments" + "note": "note: the House of Chiefs (Ntlo ya Dikgosi), an advisory body to the National Assembly, consists of 35 members -- 8 hereditary chiefs from Botswana's principal tribes, 22 indirectly elected by the chiefs, and 5 appointed by the president; the House of Chiefs consults on issues including powers of chiefs, customary courts, customary law, tribal property, and constitutional amendments" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/bn.json b/africa/bn.json index 9a53ecee..f743ba6b 100644 --- a/africa/bn.json +++ b/africa/bn.json @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - Progressive Union for Renewal 37.6%, Bloc Republicain 29.2%, The Democrats 24%; seats by party - Progressive Union for Renewal 53, Bloc Republicain 28, The Democrats 28; composition- men 80, women 29, percentage women 26.6%" }, - "note": "note:  seat total includes 24 seats reserved for women" + "note": "note: seat total includes 24 seats reserved for women" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/by.json b/africa/by.json index 872b47cc..4440c0d5 100644 --- a/africa/by.json +++ b/africa/by.json @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:
Senate or Inama Nkenguzamateka (39 seats in the July 2020 election); 36 members indirectly elected by an electoral college of provincial councils using a three-round voting system, which requires a two-thirds majority vote in the first two rounds and simple majority vote for the two leading candidates in the final round; 3 seats reserved for Twas, and 30% of all votes reserved for women; members serve 5-year terms)
National Assembly or Inama Nshingamateka (123 seats in the May 2020 election; 100 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 23 co-opted members; 60% of seats allocated to Hutus and 40% to Tutsis; 3 seats reserved for Twas; 30% of total seats reserved for women; members serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:
Senate or Inama Nkenguzamateka (39 seats in the July 2020 election); 36 members indirectly elected by an electoral college of provincial councils using a three-round voting system, which requires a two-thirds majority vote in the first two rounds and simple majority vote for the two leading candidates in the final round; members serve 5-year terms)
National Assembly or Inama Nshingamateka (123 seats in the May 2020 election; 100 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 23 co-opted members; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Senate - last held on 20 July 2020 (next to be held in 2025)
National Assembly - last held on 20 May 2020 (next to be held in 2025)" diff --git a/africa/cd.json b/africa/cd.json index eae21b63..8df90184 100644 --- a/africa/cd.json +++ b/africa/cd.json @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "6 May 2011:  percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 64, women 29, percent of women 31.2%" }, - "note": "note:  the Transitional Military Council dissolved the National Assembly in September 2021 and replaced it with the National Transitional Council (CNT) in October 2022; the CNT serves as an interim parliament for the country and is tasked with preparations for elections in late 2024" + "note": "note: the Transitional Military Council dissolved the National Assembly in September 2021 and replaced it with the National Transitional Council (CNT) in October 2022; the CNT serves as an interim parliament for the country and is tasked with preparations for elections in late 2024" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ "text": "limited and varied information; estimated to have up to 40,000 active ANT personnel (approximately 30-35,000 Ground Forces, 5,000 GDSSIE, and a few hundred Air Force); approximately 5,000 National Gendarmerie; approximately 3,000 Nomadic Guard (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the ANT is mostly armed with older or secondhand equipment from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Switzerland; in recent years it has received equipment, including donations, from other countries including China, Turkey, and the US (2023)" + "text": "the ANT is armed with a mix of older, secondhand, and some more modern weapons and equipment from a wide variety of suppliers, including Brazil, China, France, Russia/former Soviet Union, Turkey, Ukraine, and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "20 is the legal minimum age for compulsory military service for men with an 18-36 month service obligation (information varies); women are subject to 12 months of compulsory military or civic service at age 21; 18-35 for voluntary service (18-25 for officer recruits); soldiers released from active duty are in the reserves until the age of 50 (2023)" diff --git a/africa/cm.json b/africa/cm.json index 0a3eb1df..530af71a 100644 --- a/africa/cm.json +++ b/africa/cm.json @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ "note": "note: the BIR has approximately 10,000 personnel" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the FAC inventory is comprised of mostly older or second-hand equipment, with a smaller mix of more modern weapons systems; suppliers have included China, Israel, Russia, South Africa, the US, and several Western European countries (2023)" + "text": "the FAC inventory is comprised of weapons and equipment from a variety of countries, including China, Israel, Russia/former Soviet Union, South Africa, the US, and some Western European countries, particularly France (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-23 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription; high school graduation required; service obligation 4 years (2023)" diff --git a/africa/cn.json b/africa/cn.json index 6ff7c7d9..8fe50975 100644 --- a/africa/cn.json +++ b/africa/cn.json @@ -538,9 +538,9 @@ "text": "last held on 19 January 2020 with a runoff on 23 February 2020 (next to be held in 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party in first round - CRC 60.9%, Orange Party 4.3%, independent 30.8%, other 4%; seats by party in the first round -  CRC 16, Orange Party 1, independent 2; percent of vote by party in the second round - CRC 54.1%, Orange Party 18.9%, independent 26.1%, other 1%; seats by party in the second round - CRC 4, Orange Party 1; composition - men 20, women 4, percentage women 16.7%; note - main opposition parties boycotted election; 

 

" + "text": "percent of vote by party in first round - CRC 60.9%, Orange Party 4.3%, independent 30.8%, other 4%; seats by party in the first round -  CRC 16, Orange Party 1, independent 2; percent of vote by party in the second round - CRC 54.1%, Orange Party 18.9%, independent 26.1%, other 1%; seats by party in the second round - CRC 4, Orange Party 1; composition - men 20, women 4, percentage women 16.7%

 

" }, - "note": "note:  opposition parties, which had demanded \"transparent, free, and democratic\" elections, boycotted the 2020 elections" + "note": "note: opposition parties, which had demanded \"transparent, free, and democratic\" elections, boycotted the 2020 elections" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ "text": "estimated 600 Defense Force personnel; estimated 500 Federal Police (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the defense forces are lightly armed with a mix of mostly older equipment originating from several countries, including France, Italy, Russia, and the US (2023)" + "text": "the AND is lightly armed and equipped with small arms and a few light aircraft (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for 2-year voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription (2021)" diff --git a/africa/ct.json b/africa/ct.json index cd20db05..4aa8658b 100644 --- a/africa/ct.json +++ b/africa/ct.json @@ -562,12 +562,12 @@ "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (140 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote with a second round if needed; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held in December 2020 through July 2021 (next to be held 31 December 2025); note - on 27 December 2020, the day of first round elections, voting in many electoral areas was disrupted by armed groups; on 13 February 2021, President TOUADERA announced that new first round elections would be held on 27 February 2021 for those areas controlled by armed groups and the second round on 14 March 2021; ultimately, two additional rounds were held on 23 May and 25 July 2021 in areas that continued to suffer from election security problems" + "text": "last held in December 2020 through July 2021 (next to be held 31 December 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MCU 63, MOUNI 9, URCA 7, MLPC 7, RDC 5, KNK 3, PATRIE 3, CDE 2, RDD 2, MDD 2, PGD 2, PAD 2, CANE 2, other 11, independent 20; composition - men 124, women 16, percentage women 11.4%; note - several members of other parties and independent candidates joined the MCU following the opening session of the National Assembly; as of 21 September 2021, the MCU held 86 seats" + "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MCU 63, MOUNI 9, URCA 7, MLPC 7, RDC 5, KNK 3, PATRIE 3, CDE 2, RDD 2, MDD 2, PGD 2, PAD 2, CANE 2, other 11, independent 20; composition - men 124, women 16, percentage women 11.4%" }, - "note": "note:  in accordance with article 98 of the constitution published in August 2023, the parliamentary term has increased from five to seven years and will be first applied to the legislature due to be elected in late 2025" + "note": "note 1: on 27 December 2020, the day of first round elections, voting in many electoral areas was disrupted by armed groups; on 13 February 2021, President TOUADERA announced that new first round elections would be held on 27 February 2021 for those areas controlled by armed groups and the second round on 14 March 2021; ultimately, two additional rounds were held on 23 May and 25 July 2021 in areas that continued to suffer from election security problems

note 2: in accordance with article 98 of the constitution published in August 2023, the parliamentary term has increased from five to seven years and will be first applied to the legislature due to be elected in late 2025" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/dj.json b/africa/dj.json index 94950bd3..95dc48b9 100644 --- a/africa/dj.json +++ b/africa/dj.json @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - UMP 93.6%, UDJ 6.3%; seats by party - UMP 58, UDJ 7; composition - men 48, women 17, percentage women 26.2%" }, - "note": "note:  most opposition parties boycotted the 2023 polls, stating the elections were \"not free, not transparent, and not democratic\"" + "note": "note: most opposition parties boycotted the 2023 polls, stating the elections were \"not free, not transparent, and not democratic\"" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ "text": "approximately 10,000 active-duty military personnel; approximately 2,000 Gendarmerie (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the FAD's inventory includes mostly older French and Soviet-era weapons systems, although in recent years it has received limited amounts of more modern, but largely secondhand equipment from a variety of other countries, including China, the Netherlands, and the US (2023)" + "text": "the FAD's inventory is a mix of mostly older or secondhand equipment from a wide variety of suppliers, including China, France, Italy, Russia/former Soviet Union, South Africa, Turkey, and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 16-25 years of age for voluntary military training; no conscription (2023)" diff --git a/africa/eg.json b/africa/eg.json index 38fb2621..f9825d3f 100644 --- a/africa/eg.json +++ b/africa/eg.json @@ -324,14 +324,6 @@ "text": "total: 1.1% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "32% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/er.json b/africa/er.json index 65670bdf..7694878e 100644 --- a/africa/er.json +++ b/africa/er.json @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "NA" }, - "note": "note: in 1997, after the new constitution was adopted, the government formed a Transitional National Assembly to serve as the country's legislative body until countrywide elections to form a National Assembly could be held; the constitution stipulates that once past the transition stage, all National Assembly members will be elected by secret ballot of all eligible voters; National Assembly elections scheduled for December 2001 were postponed indefinitely due to the war with Ethiopia; as of 2024, no sitting legislative body exists" + "note": "note: in 1997, after the new constitution was adopted, the government formed a Transitional National Assembly to serve as the country's legislative body until countrywide elections to form a National Assembly could be held; the constitution stipulates that once past the transition stage, all National Assembly members will be elected by secret ballot of all eligible voters; National Assembly elections scheduled for December 2001 were postponed indefinitely due to the war with Ethiopia; as of 2024, no sitting legislative body exists" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/et.json b/africa/et.json index 4c2c0f98..05fdebb5 100644 --- a/africa/et.json +++ b/africa/et.json @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "House of Federation - percent of vote by party/coalition - NA; seats by party/coalition - NA; composition - men 102, women 43, percentage women 29.7%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party/coalition - NA; seats by party/coalition - Prosperity Party 454, NAMA 5, EZEMA 4, Gedeo People's Democratic organization 2, Kucha People Democratic Party 1, independent 4; composition - men 275, women 195, percentage women 41.3%; note - total Parliament percentage women 38.9%" }, - "note": "note:  the House of Federation is responsible for interpreting the constitution and federal-regional issues, and the House of People's Representatives is responsible for passing legislation" + "note": "note: the House of Federation is responsible for interpreting the constitution and federal-regional issues, and the House of People's Representatives is responsible for passing legislation" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/ga.json b/africa/ga.json index 72f7b8ad..7120a886 100644 --- a/africa/ga.json +++ b/africa/ga.json @@ -311,26 +311,6 @@ "text": "total: 40% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "10.3% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/gb.json b/africa/gb.json index 75929634..a664080e 100644 --- a/africa/gb.json +++ b/africa/gb.json @@ -307,23 +307,6 @@ "text": "total: 21.3% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "15% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/gh.json b/africa/gh.json index 656b003f..3c20e351 100644 --- a/africa/gh.json +++ b/africa/gh.json @@ -311,27 +311,6 @@ "text": "total: 28.9% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Ghana is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "10.9% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/gv.json b/africa/gv.json index 3d27bf16..0e4843d5 100644 --- a/africa/gv.json +++ b/africa/gv.json @@ -305,27 +305,6 @@ "text": "total: 42% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "aerosolized dust or soil contact diseases": { - "text": "Lassa fever" - }, - "note": "note:  on 20 September 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated a Travel Health Alert for a diphtheria outbreak in several states in Guinea; vaccination against diphtheria is essential to protect against disease; if you are traveling to an affected area, you should be up to date with your diphtheria vaccines; before travel, discuss the need for a booster dose with your healthcare professional; diphtheria is a serious infection caused by strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria that make a toxin from which people get very sick; diphtheria bacteria spread from person to person through respiratory droplets like from coughing or sneezing; people can also get sick from touching open sores or ulcers of people sick with diphtheria (see attached map)" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "7.7% (2016)" }, @@ -586,14 +565,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "formerly the People's National Assembly; note - on 5 September 2021, Col. Mamady DOUMBOUYA led a military coup in which President CONDE was arrested and detained, the constitution suspended, and the government and People's National Assembly dissolved; on 22 January 2022, an 81-member Transitional National Council was installed; on 19 February 2024 Guinea's military leaders dissolved the government" + "text": "formerly the People's National Assembly" }, "elections": { - "text": "81 members to the Transitional National Council were appointed by the transitional president Col. Mamady DOUMBOUYA on 22 January 2022; elections for a permanent legislature had not been announced as of late January 2022; on 19 February 2024 Guinea's military leaders dissolved the government" + "text": "81 members to the Transitional National Council were appointed by the transitional president Col. Mamady DOUMBOUYA on 22 January 2022; elections for a permanent legislature had not been announced as of late January 2022" }, "election results": { "text": "81 members of the National Transitional Council appointed on 22 January 2022 by the transitional president; the members represent all of the country's socio-professional organizations and political parties" - } + }, + "note": "note: on 5 September 2021, Col. Mamady DOUMBOUYA led a military coup in which President CONDE was arrested and detained, the constitution suspended, and the government and People's National Assembly dissolved; in January 2022, an 81-member Transitional National Council was installed; in February 2024, Guinea's military leaders dissolved the government" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/li.json b/africa/li.json index fa2baf7c..fd177635 100644 --- a/africa/li.json +++ b/africa/li.json @@ -1105,10 +1105,10 @@ "text": "approximately 2,000 active personnel (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military has a limited inventory; in recent years, it has received small quantities of equipment, including donations, from countries such as China and the US (2023)" + "text": "the military has a limited inventory; in recent years, it has received small quantities of equipment, including donations, from countries such as China and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18-35 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; no conscription (2023)" + "text": "18-35 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; no conscription (2024)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the AFL is responsible for external defense and also has some domestic security responsibilities if called upon, such as humanitarian assistance during natural disasters and support to law enforcement; it is a small, lightly equipped force comprised of two combat infantry battalions and supporting units; the infantry battalions were rebuilt with US assistance in 2007-2008 from the restructured AFL following the end of the second civil war in 2003 when military and police forces were disbanded and approximately 100,000 military, police, and rebel combatants were disarmed

the first militia unit established for defense of the Liberia colony was raised in 1832; the AFL traces its origins to the 1908 establishment of the Liberia Frontier Force, which became the Liberian National Guard in 1965; the AFL was established in 1970

the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) was established in 2003 as a peacekeeping force; at its height, UNMIL was comprised of about 15,000 personnel, including more than 3,000 troops absorbed from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) peacekeeping mission; Liberian forces reassumed full control of the country’s security in June of 2016, and the UNMIL mission was ended in 2018 (2024)" diff --git a/africa/lt.json b/africa/lt.json index 01c9ac68..1eae7d5d 100644 --- a/africa/lt.json +++ b/africa/lt.json @@ -296,14 +296,6 @@ "text": "total: 28.6% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "16.6% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/ly.json b/africa/ly.json index 36d10ac0..efbe7cab 100644 --- a/africa/ly.json +++ b/africa/ly.json @@ -531,14 +531,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral House of Representatives (Majlis Al Nuwab) or HoR (200 seats including 32 reserved for women; members directly elected by majority vote; member term NA); note - the High State Council serves as an advisory group for the HoR" + "text": "unicameral House of Representatives (Majlis Al Nuwab) or HoR (200 seats; members directly elected by majority vote; member term NA)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 25 June 2014" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; note - only 188 of the 200 seats were filled in the June 2014 election because of boycotts and lack of security at some polling stations; some elected members of the House of Representatives also boycotted the election" - } + }, + "note": "note: 32 seats are reserved for women" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/ma.json b/africa/ma.json index e58f6cb9..45228c42 100644 --- a/africa/ma.json +++ b/africa/ma.json @@ -302,24 +302,6 @@ "text": "total: 67.4% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria and dengue fever" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Madagascar is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "5.3% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/mi.json b/africa/mi.json index b9d9d38d..f86b3632 100644 --- a/africa/mi.json +++ b/africa/mi.json @@ -308,24 +308,6 @@ "text": "total: 60% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: HIV/AIDS (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Malawi is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "5.8% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/ml.json b/africa/ml.json index 79bad0bf..bfd62d8c 100644 --- a/africa/ml.json +++ b/africa/ml.json @@ -309,30 +309,6 @@ "text": "total: 37.3% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - }, - "aerosolized dust or soil contact diseases": { - "text": "Lassa fever" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Mali is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "8.6% (2016)" }, @@ -607,14 +583,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (147 seats; members directly elected in single and multi-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed; 13 seats reserved for citizens living abroad; members serve 5-year terms)

note 1 - the National Assembly was dissolved on 18 August 2020 following a military coup and the resignation of President KEITA; the transition government created a National Transition Council (CNT) whose 121 members were selected by then transition Vice President Assimi GOITA; the CNT acts as the transitional government's legislative body, with Malick DIAW serving as the president; in February 2022, the CNT increased the number of seats to 147, but some of the additional seats have not yet been filled

note 2 - passage of a constitutional referendum held on 18 June 2023 calls for the creation of a \"Senate\"" + "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (147 seats; members directly elected in single and multi-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed; 13 seats reserved for citizens living abroad; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 30 March and 19 April 2020; note - following the dissolution of the National Assembly in August 2020 and the ratification of a new constitution in July 2023 expanding the powers of the military junta, no plans for legislative elections have been announced" + "text": "last held on 30 March and 19 April 2020" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - NA" - } + }, + "note": "note 1: the National Assembly was dissolved on 18 August 2020 after a military coup; the transitional government created a Transitional National Council (CNT) that acts as the transitional government's legislative body; a new constitution was ratified in July 2023 that expanded the military junta's powers, and no plans for legislative elections have been announced
note 2: coup leaders appointed a president and vice president; the president then apportioned CNT seats to various groups and political parties" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/mr.json b/africa/mr.json index 7b6ad901..cfd5ce68 100644 --- a/africa/mr.json +++ b/africa/mr.json @@ -316,23 +316,6 @@ "text": "total: 42.5% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "12.7% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/mz.json b/africa/mz.json index 1be5dd9c..5d6f82b5 100644 --- a/africa/mz.json +++ b/africa/mz.json @@ -309,24 +309,6 @@ "text": "total: 57.8% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: HIV/AIDS (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Mozambique is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "7.2% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/ng.json b/africa/ng.json index 77e5e477..ffc32d2a 100644 --- a/africa/ng.json +++ b/africa/ng.json @@ -308,27 +308,6 @@ "text": "total: 75.2% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Niger is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "5.5% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/ni.json b/africa/ni.json index c1105d01..60706bc1 100644 --- a/africa/ni.json +++ b/africa/ni.json @@ -313,30 +313,6 @@ "text": "total: 37.7% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - }, - "aerosolized dust or soil contact diseases": { - "text": "Lassa fever" - }, - "note": "note 1: on 4 May 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Travel Health Notice for a Yellow Fever outbreak in Nigeria; a large, ongoing outbreak of yellow fever in Nigeria began in September 2017; the outbreak is now spread throughout the country with the Nigerian Ministry of Health reporting cases of the disease in multiple states (Bauchi, Benue, Delta, Ebonyi, and Enugu); the CDC recommends travelers going to Nigeria should receive vaccination against yellow fever at least 10 days before travel and should take steps to prevent mosquito bites while there; those never vaccinated against yellow fever should avoid travel to Nigeria during the outbreak (see attached map)

note 2: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Nigeria is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

note 3: on 20 September 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated a Travel Health Alert for a diphtheria outbreak in several states in Nigeria; vaccination against diphtheria is essential to protect against disease; if you are traveling to an affected area, you should be up to date with your diphtheria vaccines; before travel, discuss the need for a booster dose with your healthcare professional; diphtheria is a serious infection caused by strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria that make a toxin from which people get very sick; diphtheria bacteria spread from person to person through respiratory droplets like from coughing or sneezing; people can also get sick from touching open sores or ulcers of people sick with diphtheria (see attached map)" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "8.9% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/od.json b/africa/od.json index 26d5c34e..00ffab2d 100644 --- a/africa/od.json +++ b/africa/od.json @@ -287,26 +287,6 @@ "text": "total: 75.4% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, Trypanosomiasis-Gambiense (African sleeping sickness)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "6.6% (2014)" }, @@ -531,7 +511,7 @@ }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador SANTINO Fardol Watoo Dicken (since 18 September 2024)" + "text": "Ambassador Santino Fardol Watod DICKEN (since 18 September 2024)" }, "chancery": { "text": "1015 31st Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20007" diff --git a/africa/pu.json b/africa/pu.json index 9fa938ea..7c154cf2 100644 --- a/africa/pu.json +++ b/africa/pu.json @@ -294,23 +294,6 @@ "text": "total: 68.2% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "9.5% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/rw.json b/africa/rw.json index 3e45af22..d830f823 100644 --- a/africa/rw.json +++ b/africa/rw.json @@ -306,20 +306,6 @@ "text": "total: 15.8% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: HIV/AIDS (2024)" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "5.8% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/sf.json b/africa/sf.json index 9b077987..a8b516cd 100644 --- a/africa/sf.json +++ b/africa/sf.json @@ -315,20 +315,6 @@ "text": "total: 6.8% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "sexually transmitted diseases:  HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "28.3% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/sg.json b/africa/sg.json index e21445e0..a50292d8 100644 --- a/africa/sg.json +++ b/africa/sg.json @@ -310,26 +310,6 @@ "text": "total: 25.9% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "respiratory diseases": { - "text": "meningococcal meningitis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "8.8% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/sl.json b/africa/sl.json index 3fc21852..d87ff0a9 100644 --- a/africa/sl.json +++ b/africa/sl.json @@ -304,26 +304,6 @@ "text": "total: 45.6% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue feve, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis Br (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "aerosolized dust or soil contact diseases": { - "text": "Lassa fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "8.7% (2016)" }, @@ -572,14 +552,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Parliament (149 seats; 135 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by a district block proportional representation vote and 14 seats for \"paramount chiefs\" indirectly elected to represent the 14 provincial districts; members serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "unicameral Parliament (149 seats; 135 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by a district block proportional representation vote and 14 seats for \"paramount chiefs\" indirectly elected; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 24 June 2023 (next to be held in 2028)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - SLPP 81, APC 54; composition - men 105, women 44, percentage women 29.5%" - } + }, + "note": "note: 14 seats are reserved for \"paramount chiefs,\" who are indirectly elected to represent the 14 provincial districts" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/so.json b/africa/so.json index 524d695a..211550e1 100644 --- a/africa/so.json +++ b/africa/so.json @@ -302,24 +302,6 @@ "text": "total: 43.8% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, malaria, Rift Valley fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Somalia is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "8.3% (2016)" }, @@ -556,7 +538,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 40, women 14, percentage women 25.9%

House of the People - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 221, women 54, percentage women 19.6%; total Federal Parliament percentage women 20.7%" }, - "note": "note: despite the formation of political parties in 2020, the 2021 parliamentary elections maintained a primarily clan-based system of appointments; seats in the legislature were apportioned to Somali member states and not by party representation




" + "note": "note: despite the formation of political parties in 2020, the 2021 parliamentary elections maintained a primarily clan-based system of appointments; seats in the legislature were apportioned to Somali member states and not by party representation




" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1021,7 +1003,7 @@ "note": "note: tens of thousands of militia forces are also active in Somalia" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the SNA's inventory includes mostly a variety of older, secondhand equipment largely from Italy, Russia, South Africa, and the UK; in recent years, it has received limited quantities of more modern equipment as aid/donations from a variety of countries, including the US (2024)" + "text": "the SNA's inventory includes a variety of mostly older, secondhand equipment largely from Italy, Russia, South Africa, and the UK; in recent years, it has received limited quantities of more modern equipment as aid/donations from a variety of countries, including the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription of men aged 18-40 and women aged 18-30 is authorized, but not currently utilized (2023)" diff --git a/africa/su.json b/africa/su.json index 12f7f298..aa6151f1 100644 --- a/africa/su.json +++ b/africa/su.json @@ -559,15 +559,13 @@ "note": "note 1: the 2019 Constitutional Declaration established a collective chief of state of the \"Sovereign Council,\" which was chaired by al-BURHAN; on 25 October 2021, al-BURHAN dissolved the Sovereign Council but reinstated it on 11 November 2021, replacing its civilian members (previously selected by the umbrella civilian coalition the Forces for Freedom and Change) with civilians of the military’s choosing but then relieved the newly appointed civilian members of their duties on 6 July 2022

note 2: Sovereign Council currently consists of only the 5 generals

note 3: former Prime Minister Abdallah HAMDOUK resigned on 2 January 2022; HAMDOUK served as prime minister from August 2019 to October 2019 before he was kidnapped; he was later freed and reinstated as prime minister on 21 November 2021" }, "Legislative branch": { - "description": { - "text": "according to the August 2019 Constitutional Declaration, which established Sudan's transitional government, the Transitional Legislative Council (TLC) was to have served as the national legislature during the transitional period until elections could be held; as of June 2023, the TLC had not been established" - }, "elections": { - "text": "Council of State - last held 1 June 2015; dissolved in April 2019
National Assembly - last held on 13-15 April 2015; dissolved in April 2019

note: according to the 2019 Constitutional Declaration, elections for a new legislature are to be held in 2023" + "text": "Council of State - last held 1 June 2015; dissolved in April 2019
National Assembly - last held on 13-15 April 2015; dissolved in April 2019" }, "election results": { "text": "Council of State - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 35, women 19, percentage women 35.2%

National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; former seats by party - NCP 323, DUP 25, Democratic Unionist Party 15, other 44, independent 19; composition - men 296 women 130, percentage women 30.5%; total National Legislature percentage women 31%" - } + }, + "note": "note:  the Parliament of Sudan was dissolved after a coup in April 2019; the August 2019 Constitutional Declaration established Sudan's transitional government; a Transitional Legislative Council (TLC) was to have served as the national legislature during the transitional period until elections could be held, but the TLC has not been created" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/to.json b/africa/to.json index 4115a43b..987f3eaa 100644 --- a/africa/to.json +++ b/africa/to.json @@ -565,14 +565,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (113 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed, party-list proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms); party lists are required to contain equal numbers of men and women" + "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (113 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed, party-list proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 29 April 2024 (next election April 2029)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UNIR 108, ADDI 2, ANC 1, DMP 1, FDR 1 composition - men 92, women 21, percentage of women elected 18.6%" - } + }, + "note": "note: party lists are required to contain equal numbers of men and women" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/tp.json b/africa/tp.json index 8b91f695..b775e233 100644 --- a/africa/tp.json +++ b/africa/tp.json @@ -294,20 +294,6 @@ "text": "total: 46.6% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "12.4% (2016)" }, diff --git a/africa/ts.json b/africa/ts.json index d136b537..4f9db4d4 100644 --- a/africa/ts.json +++ b/africa/ts.json @@ -567,9 +567,9 @@ "text": "National Council of Regions and Districts - last held on 18 April 2024 for 279 local councils, which indirectly elect the National Council (next to be held in 2029)
Assembly of Representatives of the People - last held on 17 December 2022 with a runoff on 29 January 2023 (next to be held in late 2027)" }, "election results": { - "text": "National Council of Regions and Districts - percent of vote by party NA; seats by party NA
Assembly of Representatives of the People - percent of vote by party NA; seats by party NA



" + "text": "National Council of Regions and Districts - percent of vote by party NA; seats by party NA
Assembly of Representatives of the People - percent of vote by party NA; seats by party NA
" }, - "note": "Note: in 2022, President SAIED issued a new electoral law, which requires all legislative candidates to run as independents" + "note": "note: in 2022, President SAIED issued a new electoral law that requires all legislative candidates to run as independents" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/ug.json b/africa/ug.json index 0d2f24d9..aa59c284 100644 --- a/africa/ug.json +++ b/africa/ug.json @@ -301,23 +301,6 @@ "text": "total: 62.6% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and Trypanosomiasis-Gambiense (African sleeping sickness), and sexually transmitted diseases: HIV/AIDS (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "5.3% (2016)" }, @@ -1149,7 +1132,7 @@ "text": "approximately 45-50,000 active-duty troops (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the UPDF's inventory is mostly Russian/Soviet-era equipment with a limited mix of Western-origin arms; in recent years, Belarus and Russia have been the leading supplier of arms to the UPDF; Uganda has a small defense industry that can manufacture light armored vehicles and perform maintenance on some military equipment, including its Russian-made helicopters (2023)" + "text": "the UPDF's inventory is mix of older and some more modern weapons and equipment; it is comprised mostly of Russian/Soviet-era arms with smaller quantities of Chinese, Israeli, North Korean, South African, UK, US, and domestically-produced items; Uganda has a small defense industry that assembles or manufactures light armored vehicles and performs maintenance on some military equipment, including its Russian-made helicopters (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-25 years of age for voluntary military duty for men and women; 18-30 for those with degrees/diplomas in specialized fields such as medicine, engineering, chemistry, and education, or possess qualifications in some vocational skills; 9-year service obligation (2024)" diff --git a/africa/uv.json b/africa/uv.json index e548ec2e..19fb9226 100644 --- a/africa/uv.json +++ b/africa/uv.json @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition as of March 2024 - men 59, women 12, percentage women 16.9%" }, - "note": "note:  a series of coups in 2022 led to the ad hoc suspension of laws and constitutional provisions, including the unicameral National Assembly; a military junta in 2022 appointed the 71-member Transnational Legislative Assembly (ALT); a Transitional Charter, adopted in October 2022, provided for a transitional period that was extended in May 2024 until July 2029" + "note": "note: a series of coups in 2022 led to the ad hoc suspension of laws and constitutional provisions, including the unicameral National Assembly; a military junta in 2022 appointed the 71-member Transnational Legislative Assembly (ALT); a Transitional Charter, adopted in October 2022, provided for a transitional period that was extended in May 2024 until July 2029" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/africa/wa.json b/africa/wa.json index cffdb5c7..925f6d6e 100644 --- a/africa/wa.json +++ b/africa/wa.json @@ -312,20 +312,6 @@ "text": "total: 51.9% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, and sexually transmitted diseases: HIV/AIDS (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "17.2% (2016)" }, @@ -581,7 +567,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:
National Council (42 seats); members indirectly elected 3 each by the 14 regional councils to serve 5-year terms); note - the Council primarily reviews legislation passed and referred by the National Assembly
National Assembly (104 seats; 96 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed list, proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms and 8 nonvoting members appointed by the president)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:
National Council (42 seats); members indirectly elected 3 each by the 14 regional councils to serve 5-year terms)
National Assembly (104 seats; 96 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed list, proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms and 8 nonvoting members appointed by the president)" }, "elections": { "text": "National Council - elections for regional councils to determine members of the National Council held on 25 November 2020 (next to be held on 25 November 2025)
National Assembly - last held on 27 November 2019 (next to be held in November 2024)" diff --git a/africa/wz.json b/africa/wz.json index 5d2d367f..5e504d97 100644 --- a/africa/wz.json +++ b/africa/wz.json @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament or Libandla consists of:
Senate (30 seats; 20 members appointed by the monarch and 10 indirectly elected by simple majority vote by the House of Assembly; members serve 5-year terms)
House of Assembly (70 seats statutory, current 69; 59 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies or tinkhundla by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed, 10 members appointed by the monarch, 4 women, one each representing each region, elected by the members if representation of elected women is less than 30%, and 1 ex-officio member - the attorney general; members serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament or Libandla consists of:
Senate (30 seats; 20 members appointed by the monarch and 10 indirectly elected by simple majority vote by the House of Assembly; members serve 5-year terms)
House of Assembly (70 seats statutory, current 69; 59 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies or tinkhundla by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed, 10 members appointed by the monarch, and 1 ex-officio member - the attorney general; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Senate - last election held on 12 October 2023 , senate fully constituted on November 5 when monarch appointed remaining 20 senators; (next to be held in 2028)
House of Assembly - last held on 29 September 2023 (next to be held in 2028)

 

" diff --git a/africa/za.json b/africa/za.json index 55650ef1..9eb65aa8 100644 --- a/africa/za.json +++ b/africa/za.json @@ -308,24 +308,6 @@ "text": "total: 48.3% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: HIV/AIDS (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Zambia is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "8.1% (2016)" }, @@ -1162,7 +1144,7 @@ "text": "approximately 17,000 active troops (15,000 Army; 2,000 Air) (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the ZDF's inventory is largely comprised of Chinese, Russian, and Soviet-era armaments with small quantities of Western-origin equipment (2024)" + "text": "the ZDF's inventory is largely comprised of Chinese, Russian, and Soviet-era weapons and equipment along with smaller quantities of items--particularly aircraft--from such suppliers as Israel and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-25 years of age (17 with parental consent) for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription; 12-year enlistment period (7 years active, 5 in the Reserves) (2023)", diff --git a/africa/zi.json b/africa/zi.json index 902881e0..4f917d5d 100644 --- a/africa/zi.json +++ b/africa/zi.json @@ -303,23 +303,6 @@ "text": "total: 35.8% of population (2017 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "malaria, dengue fever, and sexually transmitted diseases: HIV/AIDS (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "15.5% (2016)" }, @@ -1148,7 +1131,7 @@ "text": "information varies; approximately 30,000 active-duty troops, including about 4,000 Air Force personnel (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the ZDF inventory is comprised mostly of Soviet-era and older Chinese armaments; since the early 2000s, Zimbabwe has been under an arms embargo from the EU, as well as targeted sanctions from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US (2024)" + "text": "the ZDF inventory is comprised mostly of Russian/Soviet-era and Chinese armaments with smaller quantities of older or obsolescent material from countries such as Brazil, France, Italy, South Africa, the UK, and the US; since the early 2010s, Zimbabwe has been under an arms embargo from the EU, as well as targeted sanctions from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-22 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women (18-24 for officer cadets; 18-30 for technical/specialist personnel); no conscription (2023)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/aq.json b/australia-oceania/aq.json index 8158b12a..0e5ef057 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/aq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/aq.json @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - independent 18; composition - men 17, women 1; percentage women 5.6%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 20, women 1; percentage women 4.8%; total Legislature percentage women 5.1%" }, - "note": "note:  American Samoa elects 1 member by simple majority popular vote to serve a 2-year term as a delegate to the US House of Representatives; the delegate can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the Committee of the Whole House, but not when legislation is submitted for a “full floor” House vote" + "note": "note: American Samoa elects 1 member by simple majority popular vote to serve a 2-year term as a delegate to the US House of Representatives; the delegate can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the Committee of the Whole House, but not when legislation is submitted for a “full floor” House vote" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/as.json b/australia-oceania/as.json index 18551df4..a4f92d66 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/as.json +++ b/australia-oceania/as.json @@ -1207,10 +1207,10 @@ "text": "2% of GDP (2022)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2.1% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "2% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { - "text": "2.1% of GDP (2020)" + "text": "2% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "2% of GDP (2019)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/cq.json b/australia-oceania/cq.json index e48646fd..eb1f6e90 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/cq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/cq.json @@ -431,14 +431,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature consists of:
Senate (9 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 4-year terms)
House of Representatives (20 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 2-year terms)

the Northern Mariana Islands directly elects 1 delegate to the US House of Representatives by simple majority vote to serve a 2-year term" + "text": "bicameral Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature consists of:
Senate (9 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 4-year terms)

House of Representatives (20 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 2-year terms)

the Northern Mariana Islands directly elects 1 delegate to the US House of Representatives by simple majority vote to serve a 2-year term" }, "elections": { - "text": "CNMI Senate - last held on 8 November 2020 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)
CNMI House of Representatives - last held on 8 November 2022 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands delegate to the US House of Representatives - last held on 8 November 2022 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)" + "text": "CNMI Senate - last held on 8 November 2020 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)

CNMI House of Representatives - last held on 8 November 2022 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)

Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands delegate to the US House of Representatives - last held on 8 November 2022 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)" }, "election results": { "text": "CNMI Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Republican Party 6, independent 3; composition - men 6, women 3, percentage women 33.3%

CNMI House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Republican Party 9, Democrat Party 8, independent 3; composition - men 17, women 3, percentage women 15%; total Commonwealth Legislature percentage women 20.7%

Northern Mariana Islands delegate to US House of Representatives - seat won by independent; composition - 1 man" - } + }, + "note": "note: the Northern Mariana Islands delegate to the US House of Representatives can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the \"Committee of the Whole House,\" but not when legislation is submitted for a “full floor” House vote" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/cw.json b/australia-oceania/cw.json index 7e21b1b2..b2187780 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/cw.json +++ b/australia-oceania/cw.json @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - CIP 44%, Demo 26.9%, Cook Islands United Party 26.9%, OCI 2.7%, other 0.2% independent 7.3%; seats by party - CIP 12, Demo 5, Cook Islands United Party 3, OCI 1, independent 3; composition - men 18, women 6, percentage women 25%" }, - "note": "note:  the House of Ariki, a 24-member parliamentary body of traditional leaders appointed by the King's representative, serves as a consultative body to the Parliament" + "note": "note: the House of Ariki, a 24-member parliamentary body of traditional leaders appointed by the King's representative, serves as a consultative body to the Parliament" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/fp.json b/australia-oceania/fp.json index 4e0a2e30..df29d484 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fp.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fp.json @@ -440,14 +440,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Assembly of French Polynesia or Assemblée de la Polynésie française (57 seats; elections held in 2 rounds; in the second round, 38 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by a closed-list proportional representation vote; the party receiving the most votes gets an additional 19 seats; members serve 5-year terms; French Polynesia indirectly elects 2 senators to the French Senate via an electoral college by absolute majority vote for 6-year terms with one-half the membership renewed every 3 years and directly elects 3 deputies to the French National Assembly by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for 5-year terms" + "text": "unicameral Assembly of French Polynesia or Assemblée de la Polynésie française (57 seats; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Assembly of French Polynesia - last held on 16 and 30 April 2023 (next to be held in 2028)

French Senate - last held on 24 September 2023 (next to be held on 30 September 2026)

French National Assembly - last held in 2 rounds on 12 and 19 June 2022 (next to be held in 2027)" }, "election results": { "text": "Assembly of French Polynesia - percent of vote by party - People's Servant Party 66.7%; List of the People 26.3%, I Love Polynesia 5.3%, Rally of Mahoi People 1.8%; seats by party - People's Servant People 38; List of the People 15, I Love Polynesia 3, Rally of the Mahoi People 1, composition - men 29, women 28, percentage women 49.1%

French Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Popular Rally 1, People's Servant Party 1; composition - NA

French National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - People's Servant Party 3; composition - NA" - } + }, + "note": "note 1: elections held in two rounds; in the second round, 38 members are directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by a closed-list proportional representation vote; the party receiving the most votes gets an additional 19 seats

note 2: French Polynesia indirectly elects 2 senators to the French Senate for 6-year terms with one-half the membership renewed every 3 years and directly elects 3 deputies to the French National Assembly for 5-year terms" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/gq.json b/australia-oceania/gq.json index 70998fcf..8535cff7 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/gq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/gq.json @@ -436,14 +436,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Legislature of Guam or Liheslaturan Guahan (15 seats; members elected in a single countrywide constituency by simple majority vote to serve 2-year terms)
Guam directly elects 1 member by simple majority vote to serve a 2-year term as the delegate to the US House of Representatives; note - the delegate can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the Committee of the Whole House, but not when legislation is submitted for a “full floor” House vote" + "text": "unicameral Legislature of Guam or Liheslaturan Guahan (15 seats; members elected in a single countrywide constituency by simple majority vote to serve 2-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Guam Legislature - last held on 8 November 2022 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)
delegate to the US House of Representatives - last held on 8 November 2022 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)" }, "election results": { "text": "Guam Legislature - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Democratic Party 9, Republican Party 6; composition - men 9, women 6, percent of women 40%

Guam delegate to the US House of Representatives - Democratic Party 1 (man)" - } + }, + "note": "note: Guam directly elects 1 member by simple majority vote to serve a 2-year term as delegate to the US House of Representatives; the delegate can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the Committee of the Whole House, but not when legislation is submitted for a “full floor” House vote" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/nc.json b/australia-oceania/nc.json index bb67d4a6..74651990 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nc.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nc.json @@ -437,14 +437,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Territorial Congress or Congrès du Territoire (54 seats; members indirectly selected proportionally by the partisan makeup of the 3 Provincial Assemblies or Assemblés Provinciales; members of the 3 Provincial Assemblies directly elected by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms); note - the Customary Senate is the assembly of the various traditional councils of the Kanaks, the indigenous population, which rules on laws affecting the indigenous population
New Caledonia indirectly elects 2 members to the French Senate by an electoral colleges for a 6-year term with one seat renewed every 3 years and directly elects 2 members to the French National Assembly by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term" + "text": "unicameral Territorial Congress or Congrès du Territoire (54 seats; members indirectly selected proportionally by the partisan makeup of the 3 Provincial Assemblies or Assemblés Provinciales; members of the 3 Provincial Assemblies directly elected by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Territorial Congress - last held on 12 May 2019 (next to be held by 15 December 2024)
French Senate - election last held on 24 September 2023 (next to be held on 30 September 2026)
French National Assembly - election last held on 12 and 19 June 2022 (next to be held by June 2027)" }, "election results": { "text": "Territorial Congress - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Future With Confidence 18, UNI 9, UC 9, CE 7, FLNKS 6, Oceanic Awakening 3, PT 1, LKS 1 (Anti-Independence 28, Pro-Independence 26)

French Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP 2

French National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - CE 2" - } + }, + "note": "note 1: the Customary Senate is the assembly of the various traditional councils of the Kanaks, the indigenous population; it rules on laws affecting Kanaks 

note 2: New Caledonia indirectly elects 2 members to the French Senate and directly elects 2 members to the French National Assembly (see France entry for electoral details)" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/nh.json b/australia-oceania/nh.json index 85c112e6..25dcb202 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nh.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nh.json @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ "text": "president indirectly elected by an electoral college consisting of Parliament and presidents of the 6 provinces; Vanuatu president serves a 5-year term; election last held on 23 July 2022 (next to be held in 2027); following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or majority coalition usually elected prime minister by Parliament from among its members; election for prime minister last held on 20 April 2020 (next to be held following general elections in 2024)" }, "election results": { - "text": "2022: Nikenike VUROBARAVU elected president in eighth round; electoral college vote - Nikenike VUROBARAVU (VP) 48 votes, Solas MOLISA (VP) 4 votes; note - Charlot SALWAI (RMC) elected prime minister on 6 October 2023, 29 votes for, 0 against; Prime Minister Sato KILMAN lost no-confidence vote on 6 October 2023, requiring a new election

2017: Bob LOUGHMAN elected prime minister on 20 April 2020; Bob LOUGHMAN 31 votes, Ralph REGENVANU 21 votes" + "text": "2022: Nikenike VUROBARAVU elected president in eighth round; electoral college vote - Nikenike VUROBARAVU (VP) 48 votes, Solas MOLISA (VP) 4 votes; note - Charlot SALWAI (RMC) elected prime minister on 6 October 2023, 29 votes for, 0 against; Prime Minister Sato KILMAN lost no-confidence vote on 6 October 2023, requiring a new election" }, "note": "note: the National Council of Chiefs (Malvatu Mauri) is a formal advisory body of chiefs recognized by the country's constitution; it advises the government on matters of culture and language" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/pc.json b/australia-oceania/pc.json index abb9e234..d92c0be3 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/pc.json +++ b/australia-oceania/pc.json @@ -209,14 +209,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "direcunicameral Island Council: 10 seats; (7 members - 5 councilors, the mayor, and the deputy mayor - elected by popular vote, and 3 ex officio non-voting members - the administrator, who serves as both the head of government and the representative of the governor of Pitcairn Islands, the governor, and the deputy governor; the councilors and the deputy mayor serve 2-year terms, the mayor serves a 3-year term, and the administrator is appointed by the governor for an indefinite term)" + "text": "direcunicameral Island Council: 10 seats; (7 members -- 5 councilors, the mayor, and the deputy mayor elected by popular vote -- and 3 ex officio non-voting members; the councilors and the deputy mayor serve 2-year terms, the mayor serves a 3-year term, and the administrator is appointed by the governor for an indefinite term)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 6 November 2019 (next to be held in - NA)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 5; composition - men 4, women 6, percent of women 60%" - } + }, + "note": "note: the Council includes 5 councilors, the mayor, and the deputy mayor (who are elected by popular vote) and 3 ex officio non-voting members -- the administrator, who serves as both the head of government and the representative of the governor of Pitcairn Islands, the governor, and the deputy governor" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/wf.json b/australia-oceania/wf.json index e439f801..da7a9b83 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/wf.json +++ b/australia-oceania/wf.json @@ -412,14 +412,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Territorial Assembly or Assemblee Territoriale (20 seats - Wallis 13, Futuna 7; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party-list proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms)
Wallis and Futuna indirectly elects 1 senator to the French Senate by an electoral college by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 6-year term, and directly elects 1 deputy to the French National Assembly by absolute majority vote for a 5-year term" + "text": "unicameral Territorial Assembly or Assemblee Territoriale (20 seats - Wallis 13, Futuna 7; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party-list proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "
Territorial Assembly - last held on 20 March 2022 (next to be held in March 2027)
French Senate - last held on 24 September 2023 (next to be held on 30 September 2026)
French National Assembly - last held on 12 and 19 June 2022 (next to be held in June 2027)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
Territorial Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - 2 members are elected from the list Ofa mo'oni ki tou fenua and 2 members are elected from list Mauli fetokoniaki, 1 seat each from 16 other lists; composition - men NA, women NA, percent of women NA

French Senate representative - LR 1

French National Assembly representative - independent 1" - } + "text": "Territorial Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - 2 members are elected from the list Ofa mo'oni ki tou fenua and 2 members are elected from list Mauli fetokoniaki, 1 seat each from 16 other lists; composition - men NA, women NA, percent of women NA

French Senate representative - LR 1

French National Assembly representative - independent 1" + }, + "note": "note: 1 senator is indirectly elected to the French Senate by an electoral college for a 6-year term, and 1 deputy is directly elected to the French National Assembly for a 5-year term" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json index bfc9bce4..adea4d43 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json @@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ "text": "approximately 1,700 active RBDF personnel (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "most of the RBDF's major equipment inventory has been acquired from the Netherlands (2023)" + "text": "most of the RBDF's major equipment inventory has been acquired from the Netherlands or the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-30 years of age for voluntary service for men and women (18-60 for Reserves); no conscription (2024)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json index d417b7a4..085bdc33 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral National Assembly of People's Power or Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (474 seats; (470 seats filled in 2023); members directly elected by absolute majority vote; members serve 5-year terms); note 1 - the National Candidature Commission submits a slate of approved candidates; to be elected, candidates must receive more than 50% of valid votes otherwise the seat remains vacant or the Council of State can declare another election" + "text": "unicameral National Assembly of People's Power or Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (474 seats; (470 seats filled in 2023); members directly elected by absolute majority vote; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 26 March 2023 (next to be held in early 2028)" @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "Cuba's Communist Party is the only legal party, and officially sanctioned candidates run unopposed; composition- men 208, women 262, percent of women 55.7%" }, - "note": "note:  the National Candidature Commission submits a slate of approved candidates; to be elected, candidates must receive more than 50% of valid votes, otherwise the seat remains vacant or the Council of State can declare another election" + "note": "note: the National Candidature Commission submits a slate of approved candidates; to be elected, candidates must receive more than 50% of valid votes, otherwise the seat remains vacant or the Council of State can declare another election" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json index 26bb05ca..44f3b62d 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json @@ -312,17 +312,6 @@ "text": "total: 21.2% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever and malaria" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "21.2% (2016)" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json index 32cba1eb..212047da 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json @@ -307,17 +307,6 @@ "text": "total: 34.4% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever and malaria" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "22.7% (2016)" }, @@ -549,10 +538,10 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President (vacant) " + "text": "President (vacant)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Garry CONILLE (since 3 June 2024)" + "text": "Prime Minister Alix Didier FILS-AIMÉ (since 10 November 2024)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet chosen by the prime minister in consultation with the president; parliament must ratify the Cabinet and Prime Minister's governing policy" @@ -567,7 +556,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral National Assembly or the Assemblée nationale consists of:
Senate or le Sénat de la République (30 seats; 0 filled as of January 2023); members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed; members serve 6-year terms (2-term limit) with one-third of the membership renewed every 2 years)
Chamber of Deputies or Chambre des députés (119 seats; 0 filled as of January 2023; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed; members serve 4-year terms; no term limits); note - when the 2 chambers meet collectively it is known as the National Assembly or L'Assemblée nationale and is convened for specific purposes spelled out in the constitution" + "text": "bicameral National Assembly or the Assemblée nationale consists of:
Senate or le Sénat de la République (30 seats; 0 filled as of January 2023); members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed; members serve 6-year terms (2-term limit) with one-third of the membership renewed every 2 years)
Chamber of Deputies or Chambre des députés (119 seats; 0 filled as of January 2023; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed; members serve 4-year terms; no term limits)" }, "elections": { "text": "Senate - last held on 20 November 2016 with a runoff on 29 January 2017 (next originally scheduled for 27 October 2019 but postponed until political and civil society actors agree to a consensual process)
Chamber of Deputies - last held on 9 August 2015 with runoff on 25 October 2015 and 20 November 2016 (next originally scheduled for 27 October 2019 but postponed until political and civil society actors agree to a consensual process)" @@ -575,7 +564,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - NA
Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - NA" }, - "note": "note: the Senate and Chamber of Deputies as of January 2023 were not functional" + "note": "note 1: when the two chambers meet collectively, it is known as the National Assembly (or L'Assemblée nationale) and is convened for specific purposes spelled out in the constitution

note 2: as of October 2024, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies were not functional" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json index 0391b2c5..a18eacf5 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json @@ -420,14 +420,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Legislative Assembly (12 seats; 9 members directly elected in a single constituency by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds to serve 5-year terms; the speaker, normally elected from the outside by the Assembly for a 5-year term, and 2 ex-officio members - the attorney general and financial secretary)" + "text": "unicameral Legislative Assembly (12 seats; 9 members directly elected in a single constituency by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds to serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 18 November 2019 (next to be held in 2024)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - MCAP 42.7%, PDM 29.9%, other 17.1%; seats by party - MCAP 5, PDM 3, independent 1; composition - men 8, women 4, percentage women 33.3%" - } + }, + "note": "note: the Assembly elects the speaker from the outside for a 5-year term; the Assembly includes 2 ex-officio members, the attorney general and the financial secretary" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json index 3a006bed..2cd0032b 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json @@ -312,17 +312,6 @@ "text": "total: 19.7% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever and malaria" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "23.7% (2016)" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json index 2bda0f2a..10b88a1d 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json @@ -307,17 +307,6 @@ "text": "total: 12.8% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "22.7% (2016)" }, diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json index 698456c9..50dcdd32 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json @@ -346,14 +346,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Territorial Council (23 seats; members directly elected by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms); Saint Martin elects 1 member to the French Senate and 1 member (shared with Saint Barthelemy) to the French National Assembly" + "text": "unicameral Territorial Council (23 seats; members directly elected by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Territorial Council - first round held on 20 March and second round held on 27 March 2022 (next to be held in March 2027)

French Senate - last held on 27 September 2020 (next to be held not later than September 2023)

French National Assembly - last held on 12 and 19 June 2022 (next to be held by June 2027)" }, "election results": { "text": "Territorial Council - percent of vote by party in first round - RSM 25.4%, UD 24.7%, HOPE 17.5%, Saint Martin with You 13.8%, Alternative 11.2%, Future Saint Martin 7.5%; percent of vote by party in second round - RSM and Alternative 49.1%; UD 33.3%; HOPE, Saint Martin with You, and Future Saint Martin 17.6%; seats by party - RSM and Alternative 16; UD 5, HOPE, Saint Martin with You, and Future Saint Martin 2; composition - men 13, women 10, percentage women 43.5%

French Senate - 1 seat - UMP 1

French National Assembly - 1 seat - UMP 1" - } + }, + "note": "note: 1 senator is indirectly elected to the French Senate by an electoral college for a 6-year term, and 1 deputy (shared with Saint Barthelemy) is directly elected to the French National Assembly for a 5-year term" }, "Political parties": { "text": "Alternative
Future Saint Martin (Avenir Saint Martin)
Generation Hope or HOPE
Rassemblement Saint-Martinois or RSM (formerly Movement for Justice and Prosperity or MJP)
Saint Martin with You
Union for Democracy or UD" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json index 200712fb..de674ada 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ "text": "president and vice president indirectly elected on the same ballot by an Electoral College of 'electors' chosen from each state; president and vice president serve a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); under the US Constitution, residents of Puerto Rico do not vote in elections for US president and vice president; however, they may vote in Democratic and Republican party presidential primary elections; governor directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 4-year term (no term limits); election last held on 3 November 2020 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2020: Pedro PIERLUISI elected governor; percent of vote - Pedro PIERLUISI (PNP) 32.9%, Carlos DELGADO (PPD) 31.6%, Alexandra LUGARO (independent) 14.2%, Juan DALMAU (PIP) 13.7%, other 7.6%

2016: Ricardo ROSSELLO elected governor; percent of vote - Ricardo ROSSELLO (PNP) 41.8%, David BERNIER (PPD) 38.9%, Alexandra LUGARO (independent) 11.1%, Manuel CIDRE (independent) 5.7%" + "text": "

2024: Jenniffer GONZÁLEZ-COLÓN elected governor; percent of vote - Jenniffer GONZÁLEZ-COLÓN (PNP) 39.4%, Juan DALMAU Ramírez (PIP) 32.7%, Jesús Manuel ORTIZ (PPD) 21.1%, Javier JIMÉNEZ (PD) 6.7%, other 0.1%; note - GONZÁLEZ-COLÓN will take office 2 January 2025

2020: Pedro PIERLUISI elected governor; percent of vote - Pedro PIERLUISI (PNP) 32.9%, Carlos DELGADO (PPD) 31.6%, Alexandra LUGARO (independent) 14.2%, Juan DALMAU (PIP) 13.7%, other 7.6%

2016: Ricardo ROSSELLO elected governor; percent of vote - Ricardo ROSSELLO (PNP) 41.8%, David BERNIER (PPD) 38.9%, Alexandra LUGARO (independent) 11.1%, Manuel CIDRE (independent) 5.7%

" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -479,8 +479,9 @@ "text": "Senate - last held on 3 November 2020 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)
House of Representatives - last held on 3 November 2020 (next to be held on 5 November 2024)" }, "election results": { - "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPD 12, NP 10, MVC 2, PD 1, PIP 1, independent 1; composition - men 14, women 13, percentage women 48.1%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPD 26, PNP 21, MVC 2, PIP 1, PD 1; composition - men 41, women 10, percentage women 19.6%; total Legislative Assembly percentage women 29.5%

note: Puerto Rico directly elects 1 member by simple majority vote to serve a 4-year term as a commissioner to the US House of Representatives; the commissioner can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the Committee of the Whole House but not when legislation is submitted for a 'full floor' House vote; election of commissioner last held on 6 November 2018 (next to be held in November 2022)

" - } + "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPD 12, NP 10, MVC 2, PD 1, PIP 1, independent 1; composition - men 14, women 13, percentage women 48.1%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPD 26, PNP 21, MVC 2, PIP 1, PD 1; composition - men 41, women 10, percentage women 19.6%; total Legislative Assembly percentage women 29.5%" + }, + "note": "note: Puerto Rico directly elects 1 member by simple majority vote to serve a 4-year term as a commissioner to the US House of Representatives; the commissioner can vote when serving on a committee and when the House meets as the Committee of the Whole House but not when legislation is submitted for a 'full floor' House vote; election of commissioner last held on 6 November 2018 (next to be held in November 2022)" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json index aa4db855..663b81a0 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json @@ -337,14 +337,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Territorial Council (19 seats; members elected by absolute majority vote in the first-round vote and proportional representation vote in the second round; members serve 5-year terms); Saint Barthelemy indirectly elects 1 senator to the French Senate by an electoral college for a 6-year term and directly elects 1 deputy (shared with Saint Martin) to the French National Assembly" + "text": "unicameral Territorial Council (19 seats; members elected by absolute majority vote in the first-round vote and proportional representation vote in the second round; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Territorial Council - first round held on 20 March 2022 and second round held on 27 March 2022 (next to be held in 2027)

French Senate - election last held on 24 September 2023 (next to be held on 30 September 2026)

French National Assembly - election last held on 12 and 19 June 2022 (next to be held by June 2027)" }, "election results": { "text": "Territorial Council - percent of vote by party in first round - SBA 46.2%, Saint Barth Action Equilibre 27.1%, Unis pour Saint Barthelemy 26.8%; percent of vote by party in second round - Saint Barth Action Equilibre and Unis pour Saint Barthelemy 50.9%, SBA 49.2%, seats by party - Saint Barth Action Equilibre and Unis pour Saint Barthelemy 13, SBA 6; composition - men NA, women NA, percentage women NA%

French Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP 1

French National Assembly - percent of vote by party NA; seats by party - UMP 1" - } + }, + "note": "note: 1 senator is indirectly elected to the French Senate by an electoral college for a 6-year term, and 1 deputy (shared with Saint Martin) is directly elected to the French National Assembly for a five-year term" }, "Political parties": { "text": "All for Saint Barth (Tous pour Saint-Barth)
Saint Barth Action Equilibre
Saint Barth First! (Saint-Barth d'Abord!) or SBA (affiliated with France's Republican party, Les Republicans)
Saint Barth United (Unis pour Saint-Barthelemy)" diff --git a/central-asia/uz.json b/central-asia/uz.json index 01077116..48d88462 100644 --- a/central-asia/uz.json +++ b/central-asia/uz.json @@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ "text": "information varies; approximately 50-60,000 active-duty troops, including 10-15,000 Air Force (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the Uzbek Armed Forces use mainly Soviet-era equipment; in recent years, Russia has been the leading supplier of arms, followed by China (2023)" + "text": "the Uzbek Armed Forces use mainly Russian or Soviet-era weapons and equipment with smaller quantities of items from suppliers such as China, Turkey, and the US; Uzbekistan has a small defense industry, which is involved in repairing and maintaining aircraft and armored vehicles, as well as producing light armored vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles/drones, and other military items (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory military service; 12-month conscript service obligation for men (those conscripted have the option of paying for a shorter service of 1 month while remaining in the reserves until the age of 27) (2023)", diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json index 59e29228..bf823c84 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "House of Nationalities - percent of vote by party - NLD 61.6%, USDP 3.1%, ANP 1.8%, MUP 1.3%, KySPD 1.3%, other 5.9%, military appointees 25%; seats by party - NLD 138, USDP 7, ANP 4, MUP 3, KySPD 3, SNLD 2, TNP 2, other 2, vacant 7 (canceled due to insurgency), military appointees 56

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NLD 58.6%, USDP 5.9%, SNLD 3.0%, other 7.5%, military 25%; seats by party - NLD 258, USDP 26, SNLD 13, ANP 4, PNO 3, TNP 3, MUP 2, KySPD 2, other 4, vacant 15 (canceled due to insurgency), military appointees 110" }, - "note": "note 1:  the Assembly of the Union was dissolved on 1 February 2021 after a military coup led by Sr. General MIN AUNG HLAING; it was replaced by the State Administration Council

note 2:  the military junta overturned the results of the 8 November legislative elections" + "note": "note 1: the Assembly of the Union was dissolved on 1 February 2021 after a military coup led by Sr. General MIN AUNG HLAING; it was replaced by the State Administration Council

note 2: the military junta overturned the results of the 8 November legislative elections" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json index 6d0ead06..80d58a5b 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats by party - NA; the 14th NPC consists of 2,977 delegates; 2,187 men, 790 women, percentage women 26.5%" }, - "note": "note:  in practice, only members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its 8 allied independent parties, and CCP-approved independent candidates are elected" + "note": "note: in practice, only members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its 8 allied independent parties, and CCP-approved independent candidates are elected" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json index e0f0be7d..22d56d24 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json @@ -313,18 +313,6 @@ "text": "total: 7.5% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, malaria, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Southeast Asia; Indonesia is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "6.9% (2016)" }, diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json index 42b8e854..ac7ae7f1 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - KWP 607, KSDP 50, Chondoist Chongu Party 22, General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) 5, religious associations 3; ruling party approves a list of candidates who are elected without opposition; composition as of February 2024 - men 566, women 121, percentage women 17.6%" }, - "note": "note: the SPA functions as a rubberstamp legislature; the Korean Workers' Party selects all candidates" + "note": "note: the SPA functions as a rubberstamp legislature; the Korean Workers' Party selects all candidates" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json index 3c0d10c4..d17175a1 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json @@ -303,20 +303,6 @@ "text": "total: (2020 est.) NA" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "leptospirosis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "15.6% (2016)" }, diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json index 57ede87a..76ecb555 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json @@ -301,17 +301,6 @@ "text": "total: 76.5% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, malaria, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "21.3% (2016)" }, diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json index 5ea689e0..e697114e 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json @@ -309,20 +309,6 @@ "text": "total: 6.6% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever and malaria" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "leptospirosis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "6.4% (2016)" }, diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json index e2cd43ad..2601e274 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json @@ -313,18 +313,6 @@ "text": "total: 6.7% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, malaria, Japanese encephalitis, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "note": "note: On 20 September 2023, the CDC issued a travel notice for an outbreak of diphtheria in several provinces in Vietnam (see attached map); vaccination against diphtheria is essential to protect against disease; if you are traveling to an affected area, you should be up to date with your diphtheria vaccines; Diphtheria is a serious infection caused by strains of bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheriae that make a toxin; Diphtheria bacteria spread from person to person, usually through respiratory droplets, like from coughing or sneezing" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "2.1% (2016)" }, @@ -1228,7 +1216,8 @@ "text": "information is limited and varied; estimated 450,000 active-duty troops; estimated 40,000 Border Defense Force and Coast Guard (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the PAVN is armed largely with weapons and equipment from Russia and the former Soviet Union; in recent years, Russia has remained the leading supplier of newer PAVN military equipment, but Vietnam has diversified arms purchases to include more than a dozen other countries including Belarus, Israel, the Netherlands, South Korea, and the US; Vietnam has a limited domestic defense industry (2023)" + "text": "the PAVN is armed largely with weapons and equipment from Russia and the former Soviet Union; in recent years, Vietnam has moved to diversify arms its arms suppliers and has acquired items from countries such as India, South Korea, and the US; Vietnam has a small defense industry involved in the production of small arms, ground combat vehicles, and naval systems (2024)", + "note": "note: the US lifted an embargo on arms sales to Vietnam in 2016" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service for men and women (in practice only men are drafted); service obligation is between 24 (Army, Air Defense) and 36 (Navy and Air Force) months (2023)" diff --git a/europe/al.json b/europe/al.json index 600784cd..395b0dca 100644 --- a/europe/al.json +++ b/europe/al.json @@ -1177,10 +1177,10 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "approximately 7,000 total active-duty personnel (5,000 Army; 1,500 Navy; 500 Air Force) (2024)" + "text": "approximately 7,000 total active-duty personnel (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "since joining NATO, the military has been in the process of modernizing by retiring its inventory of Soviet-era weapons and replacing them with Western equipment, including donated and secondhand purchases  (2023)" + "text": "since joining NATO, the military has been in the process of modernizing by retiring its inventory of Soviet-era weapons and replacing them with Western equipment, including donated and secondhand deliveries (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-27 (up to 32 in some cases) for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription abolished 2010 (2024)", diff --git a/europe/an.json b/europe/an.json index 0d28fdbf..816d82bc 100644 --- a/europe/an.json +++ b/europe/an.json @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral General Council of the Valleys or Consell General de les Valls (28 seats; 14 members directly elected in two-seat constituencies (7 parishes) by simple majority vote and 14 directly elected in a single national constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms); note - voters cast two separate ballots - one for national election and one for their parish" + "text": "unicameral General Council of the Valleys or Consell General de les Valls (28 seats; 14 members directly elected in two-seat constituencies (7 parishes) by simple majority vote and 14 directly elected in a single national constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 2 April 2023 (next to be held in April 2027)" @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party/coalition - DA, CC, L'A & ACCIO alliance 43.6%, C 21.4%, AE 16%, PS & SDP alliance 21.1%; seats by party/coalition - DA, CC, L'A & ACCIO alliance 17, C 5, AE 3, PS & SDP alliance 3; composition - men 14, women 14, percentage women 50%" }, - "note": "note:  voters cast two separate ballots -- one for the national election and one for their parish" + "note": "note: voters cast two separate ballots -- one for the national election and one for their parish" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -525,8 +525,7 @@ } }, "Political parties": { - "text": "Action for Andorra or ACCIO 
Committed Citizens or CC 
Concord 
Democrats for Andorra or DA 
Forward Andorra or AE 
Liberals of Andorra or L'A 
Social Democratic Party or PS 
Social Democracy and Progress or SDP ", - "note": "note: Andorra has several smaller parties at the parish level (one is Lauredian Union)" + "text": "Action for Andorra or ACCIO 
Committed Citizens or CC 
Concord or C
Democrats for Andorra or DA 
Forward Andorra or AE 
Liberals of Andorra or L'A 
Social Democratic Party or PS 
Social Democracy and Progress or SDP" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "CE, FAO, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IFRCS, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ITU, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, Union Latina, UNWTO, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WTO (observer)" diff --git a/europe/au.json b/europe/au.json index 581c4820..6914c735 100644 --- a/europe/au.json +++ b/europe/au.json @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ } }, "Communications - note": { - "text": "note 1: the Austrian National Library contains important collections of the Imperial Library of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Empire, as well as of the Austrian Republic; among its more than 12 million items are outstanding holdings of rare books, maps, globes, papyrus, and music; its Globe Museum is the only one in the world

note 2: on 1 October 1869, Austria-Hungary introduced the world's first postal card - postal stationery with an imprinted stamp indicating the prepayment of postage; simple and cheap (sent for a fraction of the cost of a regular letter), postal cards became an instant success, widely produced in the millions worldwide

note 3: Austria followed up with the creation of the world's first commercial picture postcards - cards bearing a picture or photo to which postage is affixed - in May 1871; sent from Vienna, the image served as a souvenir of the city; together, postal cards and post cards served as the world's e-mails of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

note 4: Austria was also an airmail pioneer; from March to October of 1918, it conducted the world's first regular (daily) airmail service - between the imperial cities of Vienna, Krakow, and Lemberg - a combined distance of some 650 km (400 mi) (earlier airmail services had been set up in a few parts of the world but only for short stretches, and none lasted beyond a few days or weeks); an expansion of the route in June of 1918 allowed private mail to be flown to Kyiv, in newly independent Ukraine, which made the route the world's first regular international airmail service (covering a distance of some 1,200 km; 750 mi)" + "text": "note 1: the Austrian National Library contains important collections of the Imperial Library of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Empire, as well as of the Austrian Republic; among its more than 12 million items are outstanding holdings of rare books, maps, globes, papyrus, and music; its Globe Museum is the only one in the world

note 2: on 1 October 1869, Austria-Hungary introduced the world's first postal card - postal stationery with an imprinted stamp indicating the prepayment of postage; simple and cheap (sent for a fraction of the cost of a regular letter), postal cards became an instant success, widely produced in the millions worldwide

note 3: Austria followed up with the creation of the world's first commercial picture postcards - cards bearing a picture or photo to which postage is affixed - in May 1871; sent from Vienna, the image served as a souvenir of the city; together, postal cards and post cards served as the world's e-mails of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

note 4: Austria was also an airmail pioneer; from March to October of 1918, it conducted the world's first regular (daily) airmail service - between the imperial cities of Vienna, Krakow, and Lemberg - a combined distance of some 650 km (400 mi) (earlier airmail services had been set up in a few parts of the world but only for short stretches, and none lasted beyond a few days or weeks); an expansion of the route in June of 1918 allowed private mail to be flown to Kyiv, in newly independent Ukraine, which made the route the world's first regular international airmail service (covering a distance of some 1,200 km; 750 mi)" } }, "Transportation": { diff --git a/europe/be.json b/europe/be.json index c795cd5c..d972d66f 100644 --- a/europe/be.json +++ b/europe/be.json @@ -567,12 +567,12 @@ "text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:
Senate or Senaat (in Dutch), Senat (in French) (60 seats; 50 members indirectly elected by the community and regional parliaments based on their election results, and 10 elected by the 50 other senators; members serve 5-year terms)
Chamber of Representatives or Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers (in Dutch), Chambre des Representants (in French) (150 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "Senate - last held 18 July 2024 (next to be held on 31 July 2029)
Chamber of Representatives - last held on 9 June 2024 (next to be held on 30 June 2029); note - elections coincided with the EU parliamentary elections" + "text": "Senate - last held 18 July 2024 (next to be held on 31 July 2029)
Chamber of Representatives - last held on 9 June 2024 (next to be held on 30 June 2029)" }, "election results": { "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - N/A; seats by party - N-VA 10, MR 10, VB 8, PS 6, PVDA-PTB 6, CD&V 5, Les Engages 5, Open VLD 3, Ecolo 3, Vooruit 4; composition - men 32, women 28, percent percentage women 46.7%

Chamber of Representatives - percent of vote by party - N-VA 16.7%, VB 13.5%, MR 10.3%, PVDA-PTB 9.9%, Vooruit 8.1%, PS 8%, CD&V 8%, Les Engages 6.8%, Open VLD 5.5%, Green 4.7%, Ecolo 3%, Defi 1%; seats by party - N-VA 24, VB 20, MR 20, PS 16, PVDA+PTB 15, Les Engages 14, Vooruit 13, CD&V 11, Open VLD 7,Green 6, Ecolo 3, Defi 1; composition - men 86, women 64, percentage women 42.7%; total Parliament percentage women 42.9%" }, - "note": "note:  the 1993 constitutional revision that further devolved Belgium into a federal state created three levels of government (federal, regional, and linguistic community) with a complex division of responsibilities; this results in six governments, each with its own legislative assembly" + "note": "note: the 1993 constitutional revision that further devolved Belgium into a federal state created three levels of government (federal, regional, and linguistic community) with a complex division of responsibilities; this results in six governments, each with its own legislative assembly" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/bk.json b/europe/bk.json index 2f3dd5c5..65592170 100644 --- a/europe/bk.json +++ b/europe/bk.json @@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ "text": "approximately 10,000 active-duty personnel (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory is largely Soviet-era material with a smaller mix of mostly secondhand from other countries, particularly the US (2023)" + "text": "the military's inventory of weapons and equipment is a combination of material originating from the former Soviet Union/former Yugoslavia and secondhand deliveries from Western suppliers such as the UK and especially the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2005 (2024)", diff --git a/europe/bu.json b/europe/bu.json index b66719f9..a628c908 100644 --- a/europe/bu.json +++ b/europe/bu.json @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ "text": "[359] (2) 937-5100" }, "FAX": { - "text": "[359] (2) 937-5320" + "text": "[359] (2) 937-5209" }, "email address and website": { "text": "
acs_sofia@state.gov

https://bg.usembassy.gov/" diff --git a/europe/cy.json b/europe/cy.json index 518e7235..0a3b3971 100644 --- a/europe/cy.json +++ b/europe/cy.json @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "
area under government control: House of Representatives - percent of vote by party/coalition - DISY 27.8%, AKEL 22.3%, DIKO 11.3%, ELAM 6.8%, EDEK-SP 6.7%, DIPA 6.1%, Movement of Ecologists - Citizens' Cooperation 4.4%, other 14.6%; seats by party/coalition - DISY 17, AKEL 15, DIKO 9, ELAM 4, EDEK-SP 4, DIPA 4, Movement of Ecologists - Citizens' Cooperation 3; composition - men 48, women 8, percent of women 14.3%

area administered by Turkish Cypriots - \"Assembly of the Republic\" - percent of vote by party - UBP 39.5%, CTP 32%, DP 7.4%, HP 6.7%, YDP 6.4%, other 8%; seats by party - UBP 24, CTP 18, DP 3, HP 3, YDP 2; composition NA" }, - "note": "note:  the area of Cyprus that Turkish Cypriots administer has a separate unicameral Assembly of the Republic, or Cumhuriyet Meclisi (50 seats); members are directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote " + "note": "note: the area of Cyprus that Turkish Cypriots administer has a separate unicameral Assembly of the Republic, or Cumhuriyet Meclisi (50 seats); members are directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/da.json b/europe/da.json index 4e6ea988..d76ac1ea 100644 --- a/europe/da.json +++ b/europe/da.json @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ "text": "approximately 17,000 active-duty personnel (10,000 Army; 3,500 Navy; 3,500 Air Force) (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the Danish military inventory is comprised of a mix of modern European, US, and domestically produced equipment; the US has been the largest supplier of military equipment to Denmark in recent years; the Danish defense industry is active in the production of naval vessels, defense electronics, and subcomponents of larger weapons systems, such as the US F-35 fighter aircraft (2023)" + "text": "the Danish military inventory is comprised of modern European, US, and domestically produced weapons and equipment; the Danish defense industry is active in the production of naval vessels, defense electronics, and subcomponents of larger weapons systems, such as the US F-35 fighter aircraft; the major warships of the Royal Danish Navy were all produced domestically (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscripts serve an initial training period that varies from 4 to 12 months depending on specialization; former conscripts are assigned to mobilization units; women eligible to volunteer for military service; in addition to full time employment, the Danish military offers reserve contracts in all three branches (2023)", diff --git a/europe/ee.json b/europe/ee.json index 62981cc0..8a76ff84 100644 --- a/europe/ee.json +++ b/europe/ee.json @@ -322,14 +322,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "two legislative bodies consisting of the Council of the European Union (27 seats; ministers representing the 27 member states) and the European Parliament (720 seats; seats allocated among member states roughly in proportion to population size; members elected by proportional representation to serve 5-year terms); note - the European Parliament President, Roberta METSOLA, was elected in January 2022 and reelected in July 2024 by a majority of fellow members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally; the Council of the EU and the MEPs share responsibilities for adopting the bulk of EU legislation; the two bodies must come to agreement for a commission proposal to become law, after negotiations in which they reconcile differences in each body's text of the proposal, except in the area of Common Foreign and Security Policy, which is governed by consensus of the EU member-state governments)" + "text": "two legislative bodies consisting of the Council of the European Union (27 seats; ministers representing the 27 member states) and the European Parliament (720 seats; seats allocated among member states roughly in proportion to population size; members elected by proportional representation to serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 6-9 June 2024 (next to be held in June 2029)" }, "election results": { "text": "European Parliament percent of vote - NA; seats by party - EPP 188, S&D 136, PfE 84, ECR 78, Renew 77, Greens/EFA 53, GUE-NGL 46, ESN 25, non-attached 12, other 21; composition - men 424, women 281, percentage women 39.8%" - } + }, + "note": "note 1: the European Parliament (EP) President, Roberta METSOLA, was elected in January 2022 and reelected in July 2024 by a majority of EP members (MEPs) and represents the EP in the EU and internationally 

note 2: the EP and the Council of the EU share responsibilities for adopting the bulk of EU legislation; the European Commission proposes legislation, and the two other bodies have to agree for the proposal to become law -- except in the area of Common Foreign and Security Policy, which is governed by consensus of the EU member-state governments" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/ez.json b/europe/ez.json index 1e9f1701..06b97b51 100644 --- a/europe/ez.json +++ b/europe/ez.json @@ -1171,8 +1171,8 @@ "text": "approximately 29,000 active personnel (23,000 Army; 6,000 Air Force) (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the Czech military has a mix of Soviet-era and more modern equipment, mostly of Western European origin from such suppliers as Austria, Germany, and Spain; Czechia has a considerable domestic defense industry; during the Cold War, Czechoslovakia was a major producer of tanks, armored personnel carriers, military trucks, and trainer aircraft (2024)", - "note": "note: in 2019, Czechia announced a modernization plan to acquire more Western equipment that was compliant with NATO standards, including aircraft and armored vehicles" + "text": "the Czech military has a mix of domestically produced, Soviet-era, and more recently acquired modern weapons and equipment from such suppliers as Austria, Germany, Sweden, and the US; its domestic defense industry has produced such items as armored combat vehicles and light attack aircraft; during the Cold War, Czechoslovakia was a major producer of tanks, armored personnel carriers, military trucks, and trainer aircraft (2024)", + "note": "note: in 2019, Czechia announced a modernization plan to acquire more Western equipment that was compliant with NATO standards, including armored vehicles, fighter aircraft, and helicopters" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-28 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription abolished 2004 (2024)", diff --git a/europe/fo.json b/europe/fo.json index c1d43479..91c17b9c 100644 --- a/europe/fo.json +++ b/europe/fo.json @@ -446,14 +446,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Faroese Parliament or Logting (33 seats; members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)
the Faroe Islands elect 2 members to the Danish Parliament to serve 4-year terms" + "text": "unicameral Faroese Parliament or Logting (33 seats; members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Faroese Parliament - last held on 8 December 2022 (next to be held in 2026)

Faroese seats in the Danish Parliament last held on 31 October 2022 (next to be held no later than 31 October 2026)" }, "election results": { "text": "Faroese Parliament percent of vote by party - JF 26.6%, B 20%, A 18.9%, E 17.7%, F 7.5%, H 6.6%, seats by party - JF 9, B 7, A 6, E 6, F 3, H 2; composition - men 24, women 9; percentage women 27.3%

Faroese seats in Danish Parliament - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - JF 1, B 1; composition - men 2, women 0; percentage women 0%" - } + }, + "note": "note: the Faroe Islands elect 2 members to the Danish Parliament to serve 4-year terms" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/fr.json b/europe/fr.json index b6787d92..05e9c901 100644 --- a/europe/fr.json +++ b/europe/fr.json @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:
Senate or Sénat (348 seats - 328 for metropolitan France and overseas departments and regions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Reunion, and Mayotte, 2 for New Caledonia, 2 for French Polynesia, 1 for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, 1 for Saint-Barthelemy, 1 for Saint-Martin, 1 for Wallis and Futuna, and 12 for French nationals abroad; members indirectly elected by departmental electoral colleges using absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for departments with 1-3 members, and proportional representation vote in departments with 4 or more members; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)
National Assembly or Assemblée Nationale (577 seats - 556 for metropolitan France, 10 for overseas departments, and 11 for citizens abroad; members directly elected by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:
Senate or Sénat (348 seats; members indirectly elected; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)
National Assembly or Assemblée Nationale (577 seats - 556 for metropolitan France, 10 for overseas departments, and 11 for citizens abroad; members directly elected by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Senate - last held on 24 September 2023 (next to be held by 30 September 2026)
National Assembly - last held on 30 June and 7 July 2024 (next to be held on 30 June 2029)" diff --git a/europe/gk.json b/europe/gk.json index 5f07eb3d..160f1bc8 100644 --- a/europe/gk.json +++ b/europe/gk.json @@ -376,14 +376,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral States of Deliberation (40 seats; 38 People's Deputies and 2 representatives of the States of Alderney; members directly elected by majority vote to serve 4-year terms); note - non-voting members include the bailiff (presiding officer), attorney-general, and solicitor-general" + "text": "unicameral States of Deliberation (40 seats; 38 People's Deputies and 2 representatives of the States of Alderney; members directly elected by majority vote to serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 7 October 2020 (next to be held in June 2025)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote - GPI 24.0%, GP 10%, APG 3.4%, independent 62.6%; seats - GPI 10, GP 6, independent 22, States of Alderney 2; composition - men 32, women 8, percentage women 20%" - } + }, + "note": "note: non-voting members include the bailiff (presiding officer), attorney-general, and solicitor-general" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/gm.json b/europe/gm.json index 899c1b38..182a1c24 100644 --- a/europe/gm.json +++ b/europe/gm.json @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlament consists of:
Federal Council or Bundesrat (69 seats statutory, 71 current; members appointed by each of the 16 state governments)
Federal Diet or Bundestag (736 seats statutory, 736 for the 2021-25 term - total seats can vary each electoral term; currently includes 4 seats for independent members; approximately one-half of members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and approximately one-half directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote; members' terms depend upon the states they represent)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlament consists of:
Federal Council or Bundesrat (69 seats statutory, 71 current; members appointed by each of the 16 state governments)
Federal Diet or Bundestag (736 seats statutory, 736 for the 2021-25 term; approximately one-half of members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and approximately one-half directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote; members' terms depend upon the states they represent)" }, "elections": { "text": "Bundesrat - none; determined by the composition of the state-level governments; the composition of the Bundesrat has the potential to change any time one of the 16 states holds an election
Bundestag - last held on 26 September 2021 (next to be held by September 2025); almost all postwar German governments have been coalitions" diff --git a/europe/gr.json b/europe/gr.json index c23a0049..25936c1d 100644 --- a/europe/gr.json +++ b/europe/gr.json @@ -561,14 +561,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Hellenic Parliament or Vouli ton Ellinon (300 seats; 280 members in multi-seat and single-seat constituencies and 15 members - including 3 seats for Greek diaspora - in a single nationwide constituency directly elected by open party-list proportional representation vote; members serve up to 4 years);  note - only parties surpassing a 3% threshold are entitled to parliamentary seats; parties need 10 seats to become formal parliamentary groups but can retain that status if the party participated in the last election and received the minimum 3% threshold" + "text": "unicameral Hellenic Parliament or Vouli ton Ellinon (300 seats; 280 members in multi-seat and single-seat constituencies and 15 members - including 3 seats for Greek diaspora - in a single nationwide constituency directly elected by open party-list proportional representation vote; members serve up to 4 years)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 25 June 2023 (next to be held in 2027)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - ND 40.6%, SYRIZA-PS 17.8%, PASOK-KINAL 11.9%, KKE 7.7%, Spartans 4.6%, Greek Solution 4.4%, NIKI 3.7%, Course of Freedom 3.2%, other 6.1%; seats by party - ND 158, SYRIZA-PS 48, PASOK-KINAL 32, KKE 20, Spartans 12, Greek Solution 12, NIKI 10, Course of Freedom 8; composition - men 231, women 69, percentage women 23%" - } + }, + "note": "note: only parties surpassing a 3% vote threshold are entitled to parliamentary seats; parties need 10 seats to become formal parliamentary groups but can retain that status if the party participated in the last election and received the minimum 3% threshold" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/hr.json b/europe/hr.json index 95e5f06d..eb191e4b 100644 --- a/europe/hr.json +++ b/europe/hr.json @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Assembly or Hrvatski Sabor (151 seats; 140 members in 10 multi-seat constituencies and 3 members in a single constituency for Croatian diaspora directly elected by proportional representation vote using the D'Hondt method with a 5% threshold; an additional 8 members elected from a nationwide constituency by simple majority by voters belonging to minorities recognized by Croatia; the Serb minority elects 3 Assembly members, the Hungarian and Italian minorities elect 1 each, the Czech and Slovak minorities elect 1 jointly, and all other minorities elect 2; all members serve 4-year terms" + "text": "unicameral Assembly or Hrvatski Sabor (151 seats; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last election held on 17 April 2024 (next to be held by April 2028)" @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party/coalition - HDZ-led coalition 40.4%, SDP 27.8%, DP 9.3%, MOST 7.3%, We Can! 6.6%, SDSS 2.0%, Independents 1.3%, NPS 1.3%, IDS 1.3%, Bosniaks Together 0.7%, DZMH 0.7%, Focus 0.7%, SRRH 0.7%; seats by party/coalition - HDZ-led coalition 61, SDP 42, DP 14, MOST 11, We Can! 10, SDSS 3, Independents 2, NPS 2, IDS 2, Bosniaks Together 1, DZMH 1, Focus 1, SRRH 1; composition - men 101, women 50, percent of women 33%" }, - "note": "note:  of the 151 seats, 140 members come from 10 multi-seat constituencies, with 3 members in a constituency for Croatian diaspora; voters belonging to recognized minorities elect an additional 8 members from a nationwide constituency: the Serb minority elects 3 members, the Hungarian and Italian minorities elect 1 each, the Czech and Slovak minorities elect 1 jointly, and all other minorities elect 2" + "note": "note: of the 151 seats, 140 members come from 10 multi-seat constituencies, with 3 members in a constituency for Croatian diaspora; voters belonging to recognized minorities elect an additional 8 members from a nationwide constituency: the Serb minority elects 3 members, the Hungarian and Italian minorities elect 1 each, the Czech and Slovak minorities elect 1 jointly, and all other minorities elect 2" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ "text": "approximately 14,000 active-duty personnel (10,000 Army; 1,500 Navy; 1,500 Air force; 1,000 joint/other) (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era equipment and a growing amount of more modern, NATO-compatible weapon systems from Western suppliers, including France, Germany, and the US (2024)" + "text": "the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era (largely from the former Yugoslavia) equipment and a growing amount of more modern, NATO-compatible weapon systems from suppliers such as France, Germany, Turkey, and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-27 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2008 but slated to be reinstated in January 2025 (2024)", diff --git a/europe/hu.json b/europe/hu.json index 710fd51c..b496fcfa 100644 --- a/europe/hu.json +++ b/europe/hu.json @@ -304,14 +304,6 @@ "text": "total: 0% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2016)" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "tickborne encephalitis (2016)" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "26.4% (2016)" }, diff --git a/europe/im.json b/europe/im.json index 5325b887..950de236 100644 --- a/europe/im.json +++ b/europe/im.json @@ -431,14 +431,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Tynwald or the High Court of Tynwald consists of:
Legislative Council (11 seats; includes the President of Tynwald, 2 ex-officio (non-voting) members - the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man and the attorney general - and 8 members indirectly elected by the House of Keys with renewal of 4 members every 2 years; elected members serve 4-year terms)
House of Keys (24 seats; 2 members each from 12 constituencies directly elected by simple majority vote to serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral Tynwald or the High Court of Tynwald consists of:
Legislative Council (11 seats; renewal of 4 members every 2 years; elected members serve 4-year terms)
House of Keys (24 seats; 2 members each from 12 constituencies directly elected by simple majority vote to serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Legislative Council - last held 14 March 2023 (next to be held by March 2028)
House of Keys - last held on 23 September 2021 (next to be held on 24 September 2026)" }, "election results": { "text": "

Legislative Council - composition - men 6, women 4, vacant 1; percentage women 36.4%

House of Keys - percent of vote by party - Liberal Vannin 5.3%, Manx Labour Party 5.1%, Green Party 3.3% independent 86.3%; seats by party - independent 21; Manx Labour Party 2, Liberal Vannin 1; composition – men 14, women 10, percentage women 41.7%; total Tynwald percentage women 40%

" - } + }, + "note": "note: Legislative Council includes the President of Tynwald, 2 non-voting members (the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man and the attorney general), and 8 members indirectly elected by the House of Keys" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/je.json b/europe/je.json index b09d6cd7..7b4e5264 100644 --- a/europe/je.json +++ b/europe/je.json @@ -418,14 +418,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Assembly of the States of Jersey (49 elected members; 8 senators to serve 4-year terms, and 29 deputies and 12 connetables, or heads of parishes, to serve 4-year terms; 5 non-voting members appointed by the monarch include the bailiff, lieutenant governor, dean of Jersey, attorney general, and the solicitor general)" + "text": "unicameral Assembly of the States of Jersey (49 elected members; 8 senators to serve 4-year terms, and 29 deputies and 12 connetables, or heads of parishes, to serve 4-year terms" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 22 June 2022 (next to be held in 2026)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - BW 66.8%, RJ 12.3%, JA 2.0%, PP 2%, JLC 4.1%; seats by party - BW 35, RJ 10, JLC 2, JA 1, PP 1; composition - men 28, women 21, percentage women 42.9%" - } + }, + "note": "note: 5 non-voting members appointed by the monarch include the bailiff, lieutenant governor, dean of Jersey, attorney general, and the solicitor general" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/kv.json b/europe/kv.json index a11add43..b292d893 100644 --- a/europe/kv.json +++ b/europe/kv.json @@ -435,14 +435,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Assembly or Kuvendi i Kosoves/Skupstina Kosova (120 seats; 100 members directly elected by open-list proportional representation vote with 20 seats reserved for ethnic minorities - 10 for Serbs and 10 for other ethnic minorities; members serve 4-year terms)" + "text": "unicameral Assembly or Kuvendi i Kosoves/Skupstina Kosova (120 seats; 100 members directly elected by open-list proportional representation vote with 20 seats reserved for ethnic minorities; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 14 February 2021 (next to be held in 2025)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - LVV 50%, PDK 16.9%, LDK 12.7%, AAK 7.1%, Serb List 5.1%, other 8.2%; seats by party - LVV 58, PDK 19, LDK 15, Serb List 10, AAK 8, other 10; composition - men 79, women 41, percentage women 34.2%" - } + }, + "note": "note: 20 seats reserved for ethnic minorities -- 10 for Serbs and 10 for other minorities" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -943,10 +944,10 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "approximately 3,300 KSF personnel, including about 800 reserves (2023)" + "text": "approximately 3,300 KSF personnel, including about 800 reserves (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the KSF is equipped with small arms and light vehicles and has relied on limited amounts of donated equipment from several countries, particularly Turkey and the US (2023)" + "text": "the KSF is equipped with small arms and light vehicles and has relied on limited amounts of donated equipment from several countries, particularly Turkey and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "any citizen of Kosovo over the age of 18 is eligible to serve in the Kosovo Security Force; upper age for enlisting is 30 for officers, 25 for other ranks, although these may be waived for recruits with key skills considered essential for the KSF
(2024)" diff --git a/europe/lg.json b/europe/lg.json index 9699608c..d46e81f4 100644 --- a/europe/lg.json +++ b/europe/lg.json @@ -304,14 +304,6 @@ "text": "total: 5.4% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "tickborne encephalitis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "23.6% (2016)" }, diff --git a/europe/lh.json b/europe/lh.json index fd15d9e9..180f5e3a 100644 --- a/europe/lh.json +++ b/europe/lh.json @@ -301,14 +301,6 @@ "text": "total: 4% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "tickborne encephalitis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "26.3% (2016)" }, diff --git a/europe/lu.json b/europe/lu.json index ebe14560..1a33bce1 100644 --- a/europe/lu.json +++ b/europe/lu.json @@ -547,14 +547,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Chamber of Deputies or Chambre des Deputes (60 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms); note - a 21-member Council of State appointed by the Grand Duke on the advice of the prime minister serves as an advisory body to the Chamber of Deputies" + "text": "unicameral Chamber of Deputies or Chambre des Deputes (60 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 8 October 2023 (next to be held by 31 October 2028)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - CSV 29.2%, LSAP 18.9%, DP 18.7%, ADR 9.3%, Green Party 8.6%, Pirate Party 6.7%, The Left 3.9%; seats by party - CSV 21, DP 14, LSAP 11, ADR 5, Green Party 4, Pirate Party 3, The Left 2; composition - men 40, women 20, percentage women 33.3%" - } + }, + "note": "note: a 21-member Council of State is appointed by the Grand Duke on the advice of the prime minister and serves as an advisory body to the Chamber of Deputies" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/mj.json b/europe/mj.json index 8c3e16fe..b6a5254f 100644 --- a/europe/mj.json +++ b/europe/mj.json @@ -307,17 +307,6 @@ "text": "total: 2% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "23.3% (2016)" }, diff --git a/europe/mk.json b/europe/mk.json index 600c1526..c0711c6c 100644 --- a/europe/mk.json +++ b/europe/mk.json @@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ "text": "approximately 6,000 active-duty personnel (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era and increasing amounts of more modern Western-origin equipment from countries such as France, Turkey, and the US (2023)" + "text": "the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era and increasing amounts of modern equipment from countries such as Turkey, the UK, and the US, with more on order (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2007 (2024)", diff --git a/europe/pl.json b/europe/pl.json index 15cad441..6cf7d9e2 100644 --- a/europe/pl.json +++ b/europe/pl.json @@ -312,14 +312,6 @@ "text": "total: 0% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "tickborne encephalitis" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "23.1% (2016)" }, @@ -595,7 +587,8 @@ }, "election results": { "text": "Senate - percent of vote by coalition/party - United Right 34.8%, Civic Coalition 28.9%, Third Way 11.5%, The Left 5.3%, Senate Pact Independents 2.7%, independent 3%; seats by coalition/party - Civic Coalition 41, United Right 34, Third Way 11, The Left 9, Senate Pact Independents 4, independent 1

Sejm - percent of vote by coalition/party - PiS 35.4%, KO 30.7%, TD 14.4%, Lewica 8.6%, Konf 7.2%; seats by coalition/party - United Way 194, Civic Coalition 157, Third Way 65, The Left 26, Confederation 18" - } + }, + "note": "note: the designation \"National Assembly\" (or Zgromadzenie Narodowe) is only used on those rare occasions when the two houses meet jointly" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/sv.json b/europe/sv.json index 4eebbefb..7e78be37 100644 --- a/europe/sv.json +++ b/europe/sv.json @@ -187,14 +187,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Longyearbyen Community Council (15 seats; members directly elected by majority vote to serve 4-year-terms); note - the Council acts very much like a Norwegian municipality, responsible for infrastructure and utilities, including power, land-use and community planning, education, and child welfare; however, healthcare services are provided by the state" + "text": "unicameral Longyearbyen Community Council (15 seats; members directly elected by majority vote to serve 4-year-terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 9 October 2023 (next to be held in October 2027)" }, "election results": { "text": "seats by party - Liberal 7, Labor 3, Social Liberal 3, Conservative 2" - } + }, + "note": "note: the Council acts much like a Norwegian municipality, with responsibility for infrastructure and utilities (including power, land-use and community planning, education, and child welfare); however, the state provides healthcare services" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/europe/uk.json b/europe/uk.json index 9c990f17..96ff4553 100644 --- a/europe/uk.json +++ b/europe/uk.json @@ -301,9 +301,6 @@ "text": "total: 0.2% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "text": "note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Travel Alert for polio in Europe; the United Kingdom is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "27.8% (2016)" }, @@ -1122,7 +1119,7 @@ } }, "Communications - note": { - "text": "note 1: the British Library claims to be the largest library in the world with well over 150 million items and in most known languages; it receives copies of all books produced in the UK or Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the UK; in addition to books (print and digital), holdings include: journals, manuscripts, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, maps, prints, patents, and drawings

note 2: on 1 May 1840, the United Kingdom led the world with the introduction of postage stamps; the Austrian Empire had examined the idea of an \"adhesive tax postmark\" for the prepayment of postage in 1835; while the suggestion was reviewed in detail, it was rejected for the time being; other countries (including Austria) soon followed the UK's example with their own postage stamps; by the 1860s, most countries were issuing stamps; originally, stamps had to be cut from sheets; the UK issued the first postage stamps with perforations in 1854" + "text": "

note 1: the British Library claims to be the largest library in the world with well over 150 million items and in most known languages; it receives copies of all books produced in the UK or Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the UK; in addition to books (print and digital), holdings include: journals, manuscripts, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, maps, prints, patents, and drawings

note 2: on 1 May 1840, the United Kingdom led the world with the introduction of postage stamps; the Austrian Empire had examined the idea of an \"adhesive tax postmark\" for the prepayment of postage in 1835; while the suggestion was reviewed in detail, it was rejected for the time being; other countries (including Austria) soon followed the UK's example with their own postage stamps; by the 1860s, most countries were issuing stamps; originally, stamps had to be cut from sheets; the UK issued the first postage stamps with perforations in 1854

" } }, "Transportation": { @@ -1230,7 +1227,7 @@ "note": "note: the military also has approximately 40-45,000 reserves and other personnel on active duty" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the inventory of the British military is comprised of a mix of domestically produced and some imported Western weapons systems; in recent years, the US has been the leading supplier of armaments to the UK; the UK defense industry is capable of producing a wide variety of air, land, and sea weapons systems and is one of the world's top weapons suppliers; it also cooperates with other European countries and the US (2024)" + "text": "the inventory of the British military is comprised mostly of domestically produced weapons and equipment, with a smaller mix of some imported Western weapons systems, particularly from the US; the UK defense industry is capable of producing a wide variety of air, land, and sea weapons systems and is one of the world's top weapons suppliers; it also cooperates with other European countries and the US in the research and development of weapons systems (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "some variations by service, but generally 16-36 years of age for enlisted (with parental consent under 18) and 18-29 for officers; minimum length of service 4 years; women serve in all military services including combat roles; conscription abolished in 1963 (2024)", diff --git a/europe/up.json b/europe/up.json index 373a5480..801610cc 100644 --- a/europe/up.json +++ b/europe/up.json @@ -580,11 +580,12 @@ "text": "unicameral Supreme Council or Verkhovna Rada (450 seats; 225 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 225 directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by closed, party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 21 July 2019 (the next parliamentary election will take place after the end of the Russo-Ukrainian War)" + "text": "last held on 21 July 2019" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - Servant of the People 43.2%, Opposition Platform-For Life 13.1%, Batkivshchyna 8.2%, European Solidarity 8.1%, Voice 5.8%, other 21.6%; Servant of the People 254, Opposition Platform for Life 43, Batkivshchyna 26, European Solidarity 25, Voice 20, Opposition Bloc 6, Svoboda 1, Self Reliance 1, United Centre 1, Bila Tserkva Together 1, independent 46; note - voting not held in Crimea and parts of two Russian-occupied eastern oblasts leaving 26 seats vacant; although this brings the total to 424 elected members (of 450 potential), article 83 of the constitution mandates that a parliamentary majority consists of 226 seats" - } + }, + "note": "note: the next legislative election is expected to take place after the Russian-Ukrainian War ends" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1243,17 +1244,17 @@ "note": "note 1: following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, President ZELENSKY announced a general mobilization of the country; prior to the invasion, approximately 200,000 active Armed Forces troops (125,000 Army; 25,000 Airborne/Air Assault Forces; 2,000 Special Operations Forces; 10,000 Navy; 40,000 Air Force); approximately 50,000 National Guard; approximately 40,000 State Border Guard" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "prior to the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, the Ukrainian military was equipped largely with Russian-origin and Soviet-era weapons systems; since the invasion, it has received considerable quantities of weapons, including Soviet-era and more modern Western systems, from European countries and the US; Ukraine has a broad defense industry capable of building, maintaining, and upgrading a variety of weapons systems (2024)" + "text": "prior to the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, the Ukrainian military was equipped largely with Russian-origin and Soviet-era weapons systems; since the invasion, it has received considerable quantities of weapons, including Soviet-era and more modern Western systems, from European countries and the US; Ukraine also has a growing inventory of domestically-produced weapons and equipment (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary service; conscription abolished in 2012, but reintroduced for men in 2014; 25 years of age for conscription; prior to the Russian invasion of February 2022, conscript service obligation was 12-18 months, depending on the service (2024)", - "note": "note 1: following the Russian invasion in 2022, all nonexempt men ages 18 to 60 were required to register with their local recruitment offices and undergo medical screening for possible service; the Territorial Defense Forces (TDF) accepts volunteers, 18-60 years of age; since the invasion, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have volunteered for the regular armed forces, the TDF, or to work in civilian defense activities 

note 2: women have been able to volunteer for military service since 1993; as of 2024, nearly 70,000 women were serving in the armed forces in both uniformed and civilian positions 

note 3: since 2015, the Ukrainian military has allowed foreigners and stateless persons, 18-45 (in special cases up to 60), to join on 3-5-year contracts, based on qualifications; following the Russian invasion in 2022, the military began accepting medically fit foreign volunteers on a larger scale, with an emphasis on persons with combat experience; wartime volunteers typically serve for 6 months" + "note": "note 1: following the Russian invasion in 2022, all nonexempt men ages 18-60 were required to register with their local recruitment offices and undergo medical screening for possible service; the Territorial Defense Forces (TDF) accepts volunteers, 18-60 years of age; since the invasion, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have volunteered for the regular armed forces, the TDF, or to work in civilian defense activities 

note 2: women have been able to volunteer for military service since 1993; as of 2024, nearly 70,000 women were serving in the armed forces in both uniformed and civilian positions 

note 3: since 2015, the Ukrainian military has allowed foreigners and stateless persons, 18-45 (in special cases up to 60), to join on 3-5-year contracts, based on qualifications; following the Russian invasion in 2022, the military began accepting medically fit foreign volunteers on a larger scale, with an emphasis on persons with combat experience; wartime volunteers typically serve for 6 months" }, "Military deployments": { "text": "note: prior to the Russian invasion in 2022, Ukraine had committed about 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 primary focus of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) is defense against Russian aggression; in February 2022, Russia launched an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in what is the largest conflict in Europe since the end of World War II in 1945; as of 2024, the front line of the fighting stretched about 1,000 kilometers (some 600 miles) north and south in eastern and southern Ukraine; Russia’s forces have also launched missile and armed drone strikes throughout Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure, including power, water, and heating facilities, as well as other civilian targets; Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, occupying Ukraine’s province of Crimea and backing separatist forces in the Donbas region with arms, equipment, and training, as well as special operations forces and regular troops, although Moscow denied their presence prior to 2022; the UAF has received considerable outside military assistance since the Russian invasion, including equipment and training, chiefly from Europe and the US 

Ukraine has a relationship with NATO dating back to the early 1990s, when Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (1991) and the Partnership for Peace program (1994); the relationship intensified in the wake of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict and Russian seizure of Crimea to include NATO support for Ukrainian military capabilities development and capacity-building; NATO further increased its support to the Ukrainian military following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 (2024)" + "text": "the primary focus of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) is defense against Russian aggression; in February 2022, Russia launched an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in what is the largest conflict in Europe since the end of World War II in 1945; as of 2024, the front line of the fighting stretched about 1,000 kilometers (some 600 miles) north and south in eastern and southern Ukraine; Russia’s forces have also launched missile and armed drone strikes throughout Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure, including power, water, and heating facilities, as well as other civilian targets; Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, occupying Ukraine’s province of Crimea and backing separatist forces in the Donbas region with arms, equipment, and training, as well as special operations forces and regular troops, although Moscow denied their presence prior to 2022; the UAF has received considerable outside military assistance since the Russian invasion, including equipment and training, chiefly from Europe and the US 

Ukraine has a relationship with NATO dating back to the early 1990s, when Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (1991) and the Partnership for Peace program (1994); the relationship intensified in the wake of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict and Russian seizure of Crimea to include NATO support for Ukrainian military capabilities development and capacity-building; NATO and individual NATO countries further increased support to the Ukrainian military following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 (2024)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/middle-east/ae.json b/middle-east/ae.json index e218ca09..5224263e 100644 --- a/middle-east/ae.json +++ b/middle-east/ae.json @@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ "text": "approximately 65,000 active personnel (45,000 Land Forces; 3,000 Navy; 5,000 Air Force; 12,000 Presidential Guard) (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory is comprised of a wide variety of mostly modern imported equipment; over the past decade, the UAE has acquired military equipment from more than 20 countries with the US as the leading supplier; in recent years, the UAE has tried to boost its domestic defense industry (2023)" + "text": "the military's inventory is comprised of a wide variety of mostly modern imported weapons and equipment, and a small, but expanding amount of domestically-produced items; major foreign suppliers have included China, France, Italy, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the US; the UAE has a  growing domestic defense industry which produces or co-produces such items as armored vehicles, naval vessels, precision munitions, and unmanned aerial vehicles/drones (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-30 years of age for compulsory military service for men (compulsory service initiated in 2014); 18-40 for voluntary service; 36-month service obligation for men without a secondary education and 11 months for secondary school graduates; women may volunteer (11-month service obligation regardless of education) (2023)", diff --git a/middle-east/am.json b/middle-east/am.json index 3099c2df..7c5a5b6f 100644 --- a/middle-east/am.json +++ b/middle-east/am.json @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral National Assembly (Parliament) or Azgayin Zhoghov (minimum 101 seats, with additional seats allocated as necessary and generally changing with each parliamentary convocation; current - 107 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by closed party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms; four mandates are reserved for national minorities; no more than 70% of the top membership of a party list can belong to the same sex; political parties must meet a 5% threshold and alliances a 7% threshold to win seats; at least three parties must be seated in the Parliament)" + "text": "unicameral National Assembly (Parliament) or Azgayin Zhoghov (minimum 101 seats; current - 107 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by closed party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms; four mandates are reserved for national minorities)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held early on 20 June 2021 (next to be held in June 2026)" @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party/coalition - Civil Contract 53.9%, Armenia Alliance 21%, I Have Honour Alliance 5.2%, other 19.9%; seats by party/coalition - Civil Contract 71, Armenia Alliance 29, I Have Honour Alliance 7; composition - men 68, women 39, percentage women 36.5%" }, - "note": "note 1:  additional seats allocated as necessary; the numbers usually change with each parliamentary convocation

note 2:  four mandates are reserved for national minorities; no more than 70% of the top membership of a party list can belong to the same sex; political parties must meet a 5% threshold and alliances a 7% threshold to win seats; at least three parties must be seated in the Parliament" + "note": "note 1: additional seats allocated as necessary; the numbers usually change with each parliamentary convocation

note 2: four mandates are reserved for national minorities; no more than 70% of the top membership of a party list can belong to the same sex; political parties must meet a 5% threshold and alliances a 7% threshold to win seats; at least three parties must be seated in the Parliament" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/gz.json b/middle-east/gz.json index a34ab3d2..540ccefb 100644 --- a/middle-east/gz.json +++ b/middle-east/gz.json @@ -275,9 +275,6 @@ }, "note": "note: note includes Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "text": "

note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Asia; the Gaza Strip is currently considered a high risk to travelers for polio; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

" - }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { "text": "2.1% (2019/20)", "note": "note: estimate is for Gaza Strip and the West Bank" diff --git a/middle-east/ir.json b/middle-east/ir.json index f401eb0b..b2f4aee6 100644 --- a/middle-east/ir.json +++ b/middle-east/ir.json @@ -313,17 +313,6 @@ "text": "total: 0% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "25.8% (2016)" }, @@ -596,14 +585,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly or Majles-e Shura-ye Eslami or Majles (290 seats; 285 members directly elected in single- and multi-seat constituencies by multiple non-transferable vote in 2 rounds, 1 seat each for Zoroastrians, Jews, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, Armenians in the north of the country and Armenians in the south; members serve 4-year terms); note - all candidates to the Majles must be approved by the Council of Guardians, a 12-member group of which 6 are appointed by the supreme leader and 6 are jurists nominated by the judiciary and elected by the Majles" + "text": "unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly or Majles-e Shura-ye Eslami or Majles (290 seats; 285 members directly elected in single- and multi-seat constituencies by multiple non-transferable vote in 2 rounds, 1 seat each for Zoroastrians, Jews, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, Armenians in the north of the country and Armenians in the south; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "first round held on 1 March 2024 for 245 seats; second round for 45 remaining seats to be held on 10 May 2024 (next full Majles election to be held in 2028)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by coalition in first round - NA; seats by coalition in first round - conservatives and hardliners 200, other 45; composition - NA" - } + }, + "note": "note: all candidates to the Majles must be approved by the Council of Guardians, a 12-member group of which 6 are appointed by the supreme leader and 6 are jurists nominated by the judiciary and elected by the Majles" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/is.json b/middle-east/is.json index a8de4785..dbe07d79 100644 --- a/middle-east/is.json +++ b/middle-east/is.json @@ -305,9 +305,6 @@ "text": "total: 0.1% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "text": "

note: on 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Asia; Israel is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "26.1% (2016)" }, @@ -566,14 +563,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Knesset (120 seats; members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by closed party-list proportional representation vote, with a 3.25% vote threshold to gain representation; members serve 4-year terms)" + "text": "unicameral Knesset (120 seats; members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by closed party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 1 November 2022 (next to be held in November 2026)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent by party - Likud 23.4%, Yesh Atid 17.8%, Religious Zionism (electoral alliance of Religious Zionist Party, Jewish Power, and Noam) 10.8%, National Unity 9.1%, Shas 8.2%, UTJ 5.9%, Yisrael Beiteinu 4.5%, United Arab List 4.1%, Hadash-Ta'al 3.8%, Labor 3.7%, Meretz 3.2%, other 1.6%; seats by party - Likud 32, Yesh Atid 24, Religious Zionism (electoral alliance of Religious Zionist Party, Jewish Power, and Noam) 14, National Unity 12, Shas 11, UTJ 7, Yisrael Beiteinu 6, Hadash-Ta'al 5, United Arab List 5, Labor 4; composition - men 90, women 30, percentage women 25%; note - following the 1 November 2022 election, the Religious Zionism Alliance split into its three constituent parties in the Knesset:  Religious Zionism 7 seats, Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) 6, and Noam 1" - } + "text": "percent by party - Likud 23.4%, Yesh Atid 17.8%, Religious Zionism (electoral alliance of Religious Zionist Party, Jewish Power, and Noam) 10.8%, National Unity 9.1%, Shas 8.2%, UTJ 5.9%, Yisrael Beiteinu 4.5%, United Arab List 4.1%, Hadash-Ta'al 3.8%, Labor 3.7%, Meretz 3.2%, other 1.6%; seats by party - Likud 32, Yesh Atid 24, Religious Zionism (electoral alliance of Religious Zionist Party, Jewish Power, and Noam) 14, National Unity 12, Shas 11, UTJ 7, Yisrael Beiteinu 6, Hadash-Ta'al 5, United Arab List 5, Labor 4; composition - men 90, women 30, percentage women 25%" + }, + "note": "note 1: a 3.25% vote threshold is required to gain representation

note 2: following the 1 November 2022 election, the Religious Zionism Alliance split into its three constituent parties in the Knesset:  Religious Zionism 7 seats, Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) 6, and Noam 1" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/iz.json b/middle-east/iz.json index a604dcdd..69afa9e0 100644 --- a/middle-east/iz.json +++ b/middle-east/iz.json @@ -312,14 +312,6 @@ "text": "total: 0% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "30.4% (2016)" }, @@ -586,8 +578,9 @@ "text": "last held on 10 October 2021 (next to be held in 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party/coalition - NA; seats by party/coalition - Taqadum 47, State of Law Coalition 43, Al Fatah Alliance 37, Kurdistan Democratic Party 31, Kurdistan Coalition 18, Azm Alliance 16, Imtidad 16, State Forces Alliance 11, Ishraqat Kanun 10, New Generation Movement 9, National Contract Party 8, Tasmim Alliance 7, Babiliyun Movement 3, other 73; composition - men 234, women 95, percentage women 29.2%; note - seat counts reflect updated numbers following the 12 June 2022 Sadrist Trend withdrawal from government formation, and its 73 seats were reallocated to other parties" - } + "text": "percent of vote by party/coalition - NA; seats by party/coalition - Taqadum 47, State of Law Coalition 43, Al Fatah Alliance 37, Kurdistan Democratic Party 31, Kurdistan Coalition 18, Azm Alliance 16, Imtidad 16, State Forces Alliance 11, Ishraqat Kanun 10, New Generation Movement 9, National Contract Party 8, Tasmim Alliance 7, Babiliyun Movement 3, other 73; composition - men 234, women 95, percentage women 29.2%" + }, + "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" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/jo.json b/middle-east/jo.json index 5d50c13f..f171e27e 100644 --- a/middle-east/jo.json +++ b/middle-east/jo.json @@ -585,8 +585,7 @@ }, "election results": { "text": "Senate - composition - men 55, women 10, percent of women 15.4%

House of Representatives - percentage by party -  NA; seats by party - Islamic Action Front 31, Mithaq 21, Irada 19, and Taqadum 8, other (includes seats reserved for women, minorities)" - }, - "note": "note: in 2022, a new electoral law - effective for the anticipated 2024 election - will increase the total number of Chamber of Deputies' seats to 138 from 130; 97 members to be directly elected from multi-seat geographic districts by open list proportional representation vote, with over 7 percent of total votes needed to gain a seat, and 41 members to be directly elected from a single national district by closed party-list proportional representation vote, with over a 2.5 percent of total votes needed to gain a seat" + } }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/ku.json b/middle-east/ku.json index fc358ae5..2ea4eaaa 100644 --- a/middle-east/ku.json +++ b/middle-east/ku.json @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "50 nonpartisan candidates, including 29 opposition candidates; composition - men 63, women 2, percent women 3.1%" }, - "note": "Note: on 10 May 2024, Amir Sheikh MISHAL al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved the National Assembly, and some powers held by the National Assembly are assumed by the government" + "note": "note: in May 2024, Amir Sheikh MISHAL al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved the National Assembly, and some powers held by the National Assembly were assumed by the government" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/le.json b/middle-east/le.json index 88744fa6..30e066ca 100644 --- a/middle-east/le.json +++ b/middle-east/le.json @@ -560,15 +560,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral House of Representatives or Majlis al-Nuwab in Arabic, Chambre des députés in French (128 seats; members directly elected in multi-member constituencies by open-list proportional representation vote, apportioned evenly between Christians and Muslims; members serve 4-year terms)" + "text": "unicameral House of Representatives or Majlis al-Nuwab in Arabic, Chambre des députés in French (128 seats; members directly elected in multi-member constituencies by open-list proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 15 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2026)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party/coalition – NA; seats by party/coalition – FPM 16, LF 14, Amal Movement 13, Hezbollah 13, PSP 9, Kata’ib Party 4, other 30, independent 29; composition - men 120, women 8, percentage women 6.3%; note - a dozen of the elected deputies are from groups pushing for reform with origins in the recent protest movements against the established elite and have formed a group called the \"Forces of Change\"" + "text": "percent of vote by party/coalition – NA; seats by party/coalition – FPM 16, LF 14, Amal Movement 13, Hezbollah 13, PSP 9, Kata’ib Party 4, other 30, independent 29; composition - men 120, women 8, percentage women 6.3%" }, - "note": "note: Lebanon’s constitution states the Lebanese Parliament cannot conduct regular business until it elects a president when the position is vacant" + "note": "note 1: Lebanon’s constitution states that the Parliament cannot conduct regular business until it elects a president when the position is vacant 

note 2: seats are apportioned evenly between Christians and Muslims" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/middle-east/mu.json b/middle-east/mu.json index f4403330..05a0c0a8 100644 --- a/middle-east/mu.json +++ b/middle-east/mu.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "

The inhabitants of the area of present-day Oman have long prospered from Indian Ocean trade. In the late 18th century, the nascent sultanate in Muscat signed the first in a series of friendship treaties with Britain. Over time, Oman's dependence on British political and military advisors increased, although the sultanate never became a British colony. In 1970, QABOOS bin Said Al Said overthrew his father and ruled as sultan for the next five decades. His extensive modernization program opened the country to the outside world. He prioritized strategic ties to the UK and US, and his moderate, independent foreign policy allowed Oman to maintain good relations with its neighbors and avoid external entanglements.

In 2011, the popular uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa inspired demonstrations in Oman that called for more jobs and economic benefits and an end to corruption. In response, QABOOS implemented economic and political reforms such as granting Oman’s legislative body more power and authorizing direct elections for its lower house. Additionally, the sultan increased unemployment benefits and issued a royal directive mandating a national public- and private-sector job creation plan. As part of the government's efforts to decentralize authority and allow greater citizen participation in local governance, Oman successfully conducted its first municipal council elections in 2012. QABOOS, Oman's longest reigning monarch, died on in 2020. His cousin, HAYTHAM bin Tariq Al Said, former Minister of Heritage and Culture, was sworn in as Oman's new sultan the same day.

" + "text": "

The inhabitants of the area of present-day Oman have long prospered from Indian Ocean trade. In the late 18th century, the nascent sultanate in Muscat signed the first in a series of friendship treaties with Britain. Over time, Oman's dependence on British political and military advisors increased, although the sultanate never became a British colony. In 1970, QABOOS bin Said Al Said overthrew his father and ruled as sultan for the next five decades. His extensive modernization program opened the country to the outside world. He prioritized strategic ties to the UK and US, and his moderate, independent foreign policy allowed Oman to maintain good relations with its neighbors and avoid external entanglements.

In 2011, the popular uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa inspired demonstrations in Oman that called for more jobs and economic benefits and an end to corruption. In response, QABOOS implemented economic and political reforms such as granting Oman’s legislative body more power and authorizing direct elections for its lower house. Additionally, the sultan increased unemployment benefits and issued a royal directive mandating a national public- and private-sector job creation plan. As part of the government's efforts to decentralize authority and allow greater citizen participation in local governance, Oman successfully conducted its first municipal council elections in 2012. QABOOS, Oman's longest reigning monarch, died in 2020. His cousin, HAYTHAM bin Tariq Al Said, former Minister of Heritage and Culture, was sworn in as Oman's new sultan the same day.

" } }, "Geography": { diff --git a/middle-east/qa.json b/middle-east/qa.json index c27e3948..7a8efffc 100644 --- a/middle-east/qa.json +++ b/middle-east/qa.json @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ "text": "previous 1972 (provisional); latest drafted 2 July 2002, approved by referendum 29 April 2003, endorsed 8 June 2004, effective 9 June 2005" }, "amendments": { - "text": "proposed by the Amir or by one third of Advisory Council members; passage requires two-thirds majority vote of Advisory Council members and approval and promulgation by the emir; articles pertaining to the rule of state and its inheritance, functions of the emir, and citizen rights and liberties cannot be amended" + "text": "proposed by the Amir or by one third of Advisory Council members; passage requires two-thirds majority vote of Advisory Council members and approval and promulgation by the emir; articles pertaining to the rule of state and its inheritance, functions of the emir, and citizen rights and liberties cannot be amended; amended by referendum November 2024; note - among the 19 proposed amendments, a major one was replacing direct elections for 30 of the 45 members of the Shura Council with appointments" } }, "International law organization participation": { @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Advisory Council or Majlis al-Shura (45 seats; 30 members directly elected by popular vote for 4-year re-electable terms; 15 members appointed by the monarch to serve until resignation or until relieved; note - legislative drafting authority rests with the Council of Ministers and is reviewed by the Advisory Council" + "text": "unicameral Advisory Council or Majlis al-Shura (45 seats; members appointed by the monarch to serve until resignation or until relieved; note 1 - legislative drafting authority rests with the Council of Ministers and is reviewed by the Advisory Council; note 2 - a constitutional amendment passed in late 2023, replaced direct elections for 30 of the 45 members of the Shura Council with appointments" }, "elections": { "text": "last held for 30 elected members on 2 October 2021 (next to be held in 2025); last members appointed - 14 October 2021 (next appointments - NA)" diff --git a/middle-east/sa.json b/middle-east/sa.json index 687afd9f..fd1b0274 100644 --- a/middle-east/sa.json +++ b/middle-east/sa.json @@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ "note": "note: SANG also has an irregular force (Fowj), primarily Bedouin tribal volunteers, with a total strength of approximately 25,000" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the inventory of the Saudi military forces, including the SANG, includes a mix of mostly modern weapons systems from the US and Europe; in recent years, the US has been the leading supplier of armaments; other major suppliers include France, Spain, and the UK; Saudi Arabia is one of the world's largest importers of arms (2024)", + "text": "the inventory of the Saudi military forces, including the SANG, includes a mix of mostly modern weapons and equipment from Europe and the US; the US has been the largest supplier; major European suppliers have included France, Spain, and the UK; Saudi Arabia is one of the world's largest importers of arms (2024)", "note": "note: the Saudi Navy is in the midst of a multi-year and multi-billion-dollar expansion and modernization program to purchase new frigates, corvettes, and other naval craft from such suppliers as Spain and the US" }, "Military service age and obligation": { diff --git a/middle-east/we.json b/middle-east/we.json index 38ffd24b..0b6dd050 100644 --- a/middle-east/we.json +++ b/middle-east/we.json @@ -299,9 +299,6 @@ }, "note": "note: note includes Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "text": "

note: on 31 August 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Asia; the West Bank is currently considered a high risk to travelers for polio; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

" - }, "Children under the age of 5 years underweight": { "text": "2.1% (2019/20)", "note": "note: estimate is for Gaza Strip and the West Bank" @@ -856,7 +853,7 @@ "text": "the PA police and security forces have approximately 28,000 active personnel, including about 11,500 National Security Forces (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the security services are armed mostly with small arms and light weapons; in recent years, they have received small amounts of equipment from Jordan, Russia, and the US (2023)" + "text": "the security services are lightly equipped with small arms, light weapons, and wheeled vehicles (2024)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "Palestinian Authority security forces maintain security control of 17.5% (called Area A) of the West Bank, as agreed by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel in the Oslo Accords; Israeli security forces maintain responsibility for the remaining 82.5% of the West Bank, including Area B (22.5%), where the Palestinian Authority has administrative control, and Area C (60%), where Israel maintains administrative control (2023)" diff --git a/middle-east/ym.json b/middle-east/ym.json index 8412b11f..3090240f 100644 --- a/middle-east/ym.json +++ b/middle-east/ym.json @@ -308,21 +308,6 @@ "text": "total: 40.9% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, malaria, and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "schistosomiasis" - }, - "note": "note: on 31 August 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Asia; Yemen is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "17.1% (2016)" }, @@ -1129,7 +1114,7 @@ "text": "information limited and widely varied; Yemen Government: up to 300,000 estimated military, paramilitary, militia, and other security forces; UAE- and Saudi-backed forces: estimated 150-200,000 trained militia and paramilitary fighters; Houthis: up to 200,000 estimated fighters (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the inventory of the Yemeni Government forces consists primarily of Russian and Soviet-era equipment, although much of it has been lost in the current conflict; since the start of the civil war in 2014, it has received limited amounts of donated equipment from some Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia and UAE, as well as the US

Houthi forces are armed largely with weapons seized from Yemeni Government forces; they are also reported to have received military hardware from Iran (2023)" + "text": "the Yemeni Government forces have an inventory consisting primarily of Russian and Soviet-era weapons and equipment   Houthi forces are armed largely with weapons seized from the Yemeni Government stockpiles, smuggled in from Iran, and manufactured copies of Iranian designs and pre-war Yemeni Government weapons, such as Chinese and Russian missiles (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2001; 2-year service obligation (note - limited information since the start of the civil war in 2014) (2022)", diff --git a/north-america/ca.json b/north-america/ca.json index 85bc7777..34d93b53 100644 --- a/north-america/ca.json +++ b/north-america/ca.json @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ "text": "5480 Ottawa Place, Washington DC  20521-5480" }, "telephone": { - "text": "[1] (613) 238-5335" + "text": "[1] (613) 688-5335" }, "FAX": { "text": "[1] (613) 241-7845" diff --git a/north-america/gl.json b/north-america/gl.json index 130d38b3..7f51ad02 100644 --- a/north-america/gl.json +++ b/north-america/gl.json @@ -450,14 +450,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Parliament or Inatsisartut (31 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party-list proportional representation vote - by the d'Hondt method - to serve 4-year terms)
Greenland elects 2 members to the Danish Parliament to serve 4-year terms" + "text": "unicameral Parliament or Inatsisartut (31 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party-list proportional representation vote - by the d'Hondt method - to serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Greenland Parliament - last held on 6 April 2021 (next to be held in 2025)" }, "election results": { "text": "Greenland Parliament - percent of vote by party - IA 38.7%, S 32.2%, N 12.9%, D 9.7%, A 6.5%; seats by party - IA 12, S 10, N 4, D 3, A 2; composition as of May 2024 - men 20, women 11, percentage women 35%

Greenland members in Danish Parliament - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - IA 1, S 1; composition - 2 women" - } + }, + "note": "note: Greenland elects 2 members to the Danish Parliament to serve 4-year terms" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/north-america/sb.json b/north-america/sb.json index 9a2bb5f2..8de77665 100644 --- a/north-america/sb.json +++ b/north-america/sb.json @@ -428,14 +428,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral Territorial Council or Conseil Territorial (19 seats - Saint Pierre 15, Miquelon 4; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 6-year terms);
Saint Pierre and Miquelon indirectly elects 1 senator to the French Senate by an electoral college to serve a 6-year term and directly elects 1 deputy to the French National Assembly by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term" + "text": "unicameral Territorial Council or Conseil Territorial (19 seats - Saint Pierre 15, Miquelon 4; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed to serve 6-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "Territorial Council - first round held on 20 March and second round held on 27 March 2022 (next to be held in March 2028)

French Senate - last held on 27 September 2020 (next to be held no later than September 2025)

French National Assembly - last held on 12 and 19 June 2022 (next to be held by June 2027)" }, "election results": { "text": "Territorial Council - percent of vote by party in first round - AD 45.9%, Focus on the Future 37%, Together to Build 17.1%; percent of vote by party in second round - AD 51.8%, Focus on the Future 38.1%, Together to Build 10.1%, seats by party - AD 15, Focus on the Future 4; composition - men NA, women NA, percent of women NA%

French Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PS 1 (affiliated with UMP)

French National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - AD 1" - } + }, + "note": "note: 1 senator is indirectly elected to the French Senate by an electoral college for a 6-year term, and 1 deputy is directly elected to the French National Assembly for a 5-year term" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/north-america/us.json b/north-america/us.json index 2e01f7d3..eac1c5bc 100644 --- a/north-america/us.json +++ b/north-america/us.json @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ } }, "Communications - note": { - "text": "note 1: The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA, claims to be the largest library in the world with more than 167 million items (as of 2018); its collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include materials from all parts of the world and in over 450 languages; collections include: books, newspapers, magazines, sheet music, sound and video recordings, photographic images, artwork, architectural drawings, and copyright data

note 2: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, hosts one of four dedicated ground antennas that assist in the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation system (the others are on Ascension (Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tistan da Cunha), Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory), and at Kwajalein (Marshall Islands)" + "text": "

note 1: The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA, claims to be the largest library in the world with more than 167 million items (as of 2018); its collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include materials from all parts of the world and in over 450 languages; collections include: books, newspapers, magazines, sheet music, sound and video recordings, photographic images, artwork, architectural drawings, and copyright data

note 2: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, hosts one of four dedicated ground antennas that assist in the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation system (the others are on Ascension (Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tistan da Cunha), Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory), and at Kwajalein (Marshall Islands)

" } }, "Transportation": { @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "United States Armed Forces (aka US Military): US Army (USA), US Navy (USN; includes US Marine Corps or USMC), US Air Force (USAF), US Space Force (USSF); US Coast Guard (USCG); National Guard (Army National Guard and Air National Guard) (2024)", - "note": "note 1: the US Coast Guard is administered in peacetime by the Department of Homeland Security, but in wartime reports to the Department of the Navy

note 2: the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard are reserve components of their services and operate in part under state authority; the US military also maintains reserve forces for each branch

note 3: US law enforcement personnel include those of federal agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice, the 50 states, special jurisdictions, local sheriff’s offices, and municipal, county, regional, and tribal police departments

note 4: some US states have \"state defense forces\" (SDFs), which are military units that operate under the sole authority of state governments; SDFs are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state; as of 2023, more than 20 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico had SDFs, which typically have emergency management and homeland security missions; most are organized as ground units, but air and naval units also exist" + "note": "note 1: the US Coast Guard is administered in peacetime by the Department of Homeland Security, but in wartime reports to the Department of the Navy

note 2: the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard are reserve components of their services and operate in part under state authority; the US military also maintains reserve forces for each branch

note 3: US law enforcement personnel include those of federal agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice, the 50 states, special jurisdictions, local sheriff’s offices, and municipal, county, regional, and tribal police departments

note 4: some US states have \"state defense forces\" (SDFs), which are military units that operate under the sole authority of state governments; SDFs are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state; most are organized as ground units, but air and naval units also exist" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2024": { @@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ "text": "approximately 1.31 million active-duty personnel (446,000 Army; 328,000 Navy; 317,000 Air Force; 9,000 Space Force; 167,000 Marine Corps; 40,000 Coast Guard); 330,000 Army National Guard; 105,000 Air National Guard (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the US military's inventory is comprised almost entirely of domestically produced weapons systems (some assembled with foreign components) along with a smaller mix of imported equipment from a variety of Western countries such as Germany and the UK; the US defense industry is capable of designing, developing, maintaining, and producing the full spectrum of weapons systems; the US is the world's leading arms exporter (2024)" + "text": "the US military's inventory is comprised almost entirely of domestically produced weapons systems (some assembled with foreign components) along with a smaller mix of imported equipment from a variety of countries such as Germany and the UK; the US defense industry is capable of designing, developing, maintaining, and producing the full spectrum of weapons systems; the US is the world's leading arms exporter (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age (17 years of age with parental consent) for voluntary service for men and women; no conscription (currently inactive, but males aged 18-25 must register with Selective Service in case conscription is reinstated in the future); maximum enlistment age 34 (Army), 42 (Air Force/Space Force), 39 (Navy), 28 (Marines), 31 (Coast Guard); 8-year service obligation, including 2-5 years active duty (Army), 2 years active duty (Navy), 4 years active duty (Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, Space Force) (2024)", @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ "text": "has 20 commercial, government, and private space ports hosting Federal Aviation Administration-licensed activity spread across 10 states (Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia) (2024)" }, "Space program overview": { - "text": "has a large and 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; has an astronaut program and a large corps of astronauts; researching and developing a broad range of other space-related capabilities and technologies, such as advanced telecommunications and optics, navigational aids, propulsion, robotics, solar sails, space-based manufacturing, and robotic satellite repair/refueling; has launched orbital or lander probes to the Sun and all planets in the solar system, as well as to asteroids and beyond the solar system; has international missions and projects with dozens of countries and organizations, including such major partners as Canada, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, as well as the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU, and their individual member states; as of October 2024, nearly 50 countries had signed onto the US-led Artemis Accords, whose purpose is to establish principles, guidelines, and best practices to enhance the governance of the civil exploration and use of outer space with the intention of advancing the Artemis Program, an international effort to establish a sustainable and robust presence on the Moon and an onward human mission to Mars; the US commercial space industry is one of the world’s largest and most capable and is active across the entire spectrum of US government space programs; the majority of both NASA and US military space launches are conducted by US commercial companies; the US space economy was valued at over $200 billion in 2021 (2024)", + "text": "has a large and 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; has an astronaut program and a large corps of astronauts; researching and developing a broad range of other space-related capabilities and technologies, such as advanced telecommunications and optics, navigational aids, propulsion, robotics, solar sails, space-based manufacturing, and robotic satellite repair/refueling; has launched orbital or lander probes to the Sun and all planets in the solar system, as well as to asteroids and beyond the solar system; has international missions and projects with dozens of countries and organizations, including such major partners as Canada, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, as well as the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU, and their individual member states; as of November 2024, nearly 50 countries had signed onto the US-led Artemis Accords, whose purpose is to establish principles, guidelines, and best practices to enhance the governance of the civil exploration and use of outer space with the intention of advancing the Artemis Program, an international effort to establish a sustainable and robust presence on the Moon and an onward human mission to Mars; the US commercial space industry is one of the world’s largest and most capable and is active across the entire spectrum of US government space programs; the majority of both NASA and US military space launches are conducted by US commercial companies; the US space economy was valued at over $200 billion in 2021 (2024)", "note": "note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in the Space Programs reference guide" } }, diff --git a/south-america/ec.json b/south-america/ec.json index 9116495a..74764bf7 100644 --- a/south-america/ec.json +++ b/south-america/ec.json @@ -582,12 +582,12 @@ "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Asamblea Nacional (137 seats; 116 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote, 15 members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by open-list proportional representation vote, and 6 directly elected in multi-seat constituencies for Ecuadorians living abroad by simple majority vote; members serve 4-year terms); note - all Assembly members have alternates from the same party who cast votes when a primary member is absent, resigns, or is removed from office" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 20 August 2023 (next to be held on 28 February 2025); note – on 18 May 2023, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council announced that the legislative and presidential elections - originally scheduled for February 2025 - would be held on 20 August 2023 after President Guillermo LASSO dissolved the National Assembly by decree on 17 May 2023; a return to a regular election cycle will occur in February 2025" + "text": "last held on 20 August 2023 (next to be held on 28 February 2025)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - RC5 38%, Construye 20.4%, ADN 10.2%, PSC 10.2%, Actuemos 5.8%, MUPP 2.9%, other 12.4%; seats by party - RC5 52, Construye 28, ADN 14, PSC 14, Actuemos 8, MUPP 4, other 17; composition - men 78, women 59, percentage women 43.1%; note - defections by National Assembly members are commonplace, resulting in frequent changes in the numbers of seats held by the various parties" }, - "note": "note:  all Assembly members have alternates from the same party who cast votes when a primary member is absent, resigns, or is removed from office" + "note": "note 1: all Assembly members have alternates from the same party who cast votes when a primary member is absent, resigns, or is removed from office

note 2: on 18 May 2023, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council announced that the legislative and presidential elections - originally scheduled for February 2025 - would be held on 20 August 2023 after President Guillermo LASSO dissolved the National Assembly by decree on 17 May 2023; a return to a regular election cycle will occur in February 2025" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/south-america/gy.json b/south-america/gy.json index ce5e84d9..67084b7a 100644 --- a/south-america/gy.json +++ b/south-america/gy.json @@ -304,17 +304,6 @@ "text": "total: 4% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever and malaria" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "20.2% (2016)" }, diff --git a/south-america/pa.json b/south-america/pa.json index ae5d56f4..61f78ccb 100644 --- a/south-america/pa.json +++ b/south-america/pa.json @@ -308,17 +308,6 @@ "text": "total: 3.8% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "20.3% (2016)" }, diff --git a/south-america/pe.json b/south-america/pe.json index e2c7d9b8..7f240f85 100644 --- a/south-america/pe.json +++ b/south-america/pe.json @@ -320,17 +320,6 @@ "text": "total: 12.6% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, malaria, Bartonellosis (Oroya fever), and sexually transmitted diseases: hepatitis B (2024)" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "19.7% (2016)" }, diff --git a/south-america/uy.json b/south-america/uy.json index cd4713e5..3ba55bae 100644 --- a/south-america/uy.json +++ b/south-america/uy.json @@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ "text": "approximately 23,000 active-duty personnel (15,000 Army; 5,000 Navy; 3,000 Air Force) (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory includes a wide variety of older or second-hand equipment; in recent years, it has imported limited amounts of military hardware from a variety of countries with Spain as the leading supplier (2023)" + "text": "the military's inventory includes a variety of mostly older or second-hand equipment originating from a wide range of suppliers, including Brazil, Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, Germany, Portugal, Russia/former Soviet Union, South Korea, Spain, and the US (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-30 years of age (18-22 years of age for Navy) for voluntary military service for men and women; up to 40 years of age for specialists; enlistment is voluntary in peacetime, but the government has the authority to conscript in emergencies (2024)", diff --git a/south-america/ve.json b/south-america/ve.json index 2351a68d..df770277 100644 --- a/south-america/ve.json +++ b/south-america/ve.json @@ -316,17 +316,6 @@ "text": "total: 4.2% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea and hepatitis A" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever and malaria" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "25.6% (2016)" }, @@ -560,14 +549,15 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Asamblea Nacional (277 seats; 3 seats reserved for indigenous peoples of Venezuela; members serve 5-year terms); note - in 2020, the National Electoral Council increased the number of seats in the National Assembly from 167 to 277 for the 6 December 2020 election" + "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Asamblea Nacional (277 seats; 3 seats reserved for indigenous peoples of Venezuela; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 6 December 2020 (next expected to be held in December 2025)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - GPP (pro-government) 69.3%, Democratic Alliance (opposition coalition) 17.7%, other 13%; seats by party - GPP 253, Democratic Alliance 18, indigenous peoples 3, other 3; composition - NA" - } + }, + "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" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1118,7 +1108,7 @@ "note": "note: in December 2022, President Nicolas MADURO announced that the National Police would be increased to 100,000 in 2024" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the FANB inventory is mainly of Chinese and Russian origin with a smaller mix of mostly older equipment from Western countries, including the US; in recent years, leading suppliers has been China (2023)", + "text": "the FANB inventory is comprised mostly of Russian/Soviet-era weapons and equipment; in recent years, it has acquired some material from China and Iran; it also has smaller quantities of older equipment from France, Germany, Spain, the UK, and the US (2024)", "note": "note: the US prohibited the sale or transfer of military arms or technology to Venezuela in 2006" }, "Military service age and obligation": { diff --git a/south-asia/af.json b/south-asia/af.json index 0e636fcf..881ba0af 100644 --- a/south-asia/af.json +++ b/south-asia/af.json @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ "note": "note: the United States has not yet made a decision whether to recognize the Taliban or any other entity as the government of Afghanistan" }, "Legislative branch": { - "text": "note:  before August 2021, Afghanistan had a bicameral National Assembly that consisted of the House of Elders and House of the People; the parliament has been on hiatus since August 2021 and the Taliban has shown no interest in reviving it" + "text": "note: before August 2021, Afghanistan had a bicameral National Assembly that consisted of the House of Elders and House of the People; the parliament has been on hiatus since August 2021 and the Taliban has shown no interest in reviving it" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -1077,14 +1077,14 @@ "text": "the Taliban claims that the defense forces have approximately 150,000 personnel; it also claims that over 50,000 personnel had been trained for the police forces (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the Taliban military/security forces are armed largely with US-provided equipment captured from the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces  (2023)" + "text": "the Taliban military/security forces are armed with weapons and equipment captured in 2021 from the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, which was largely equipped with Russian/Soviet-era and US material (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "service is voluntary; there is no conscription (2023)", "note": "note: the Taliban dismissed nearly all women from the former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, except those serving in detention facilities and assisting with body searches" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Taliban’s primary security threats include ISIS-Khorasan and anti-Taliban resistance elements  (2023)" + "text": "the Taliban’s security focuses include border security, ISIS-Khorasan, and anti-Taliban resistance elements (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-asia/bg.json b/south-asia/bg.json index 72035b8f..a7030de0 100644 --- a/south-asia/bg.json +++ b/south-asia/bg.json @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "unicameral House of the Nation or Jatiya Sangsad (350 seats; 300 members in single-seat territorial constituencies directly elected by simple majority vote; 50 members - reserved for women only - indirectly elected by the House of the Nation membership by proportional representation vote using single transferable vote method; all members serve 5-year terms); note - on 5 August 2024, Prime Minister Sheikh HASINA Wazed resigned, and the following day, President Mohammad Shahabuddin CHUPPI dissolved House of the Nation" + "text": "unicameral House of the Nation or Jatiya Sangsad (350 seats; 300 members in single-seat territorial constituencies directly elected by simple majority vote; all members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "last held on 7 January 2024 (next to be held in 2026)" @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party as of December 2023 - AL 306, JP 27, BNP 0, other 14, independent 3; composition - men 280, women 70, percentage women 20%" }, - "note": "note:  50 seats are reserved for women only and are indirectly elected by the House of the Nation members using proportional representation" + "note": "note 1: 50 seats are reserved for women only and are indirectly elected by the House of the Nation members using proportional representation

note 2: on 5 August 2024, Prime Minister Sheikh HASINA Wazed resigned, and the following day, President Mohammad Shahabuddin CHUPPI dissolved House of the Nation" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/south-asia/bt.json b/south-asia/bt.json index 0b7bbfd1..c0594d1d 100644 --- a/south-asia/bt.json +++ b/south-asia/bt.json @@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ "text": "estimated 7-8,000 active personnel (2024)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the Royal Bhutan Army is lightly armed with a mix of mostly older equipment originating from such suppliers as India, the former Soviet Union, Thailand, and others (2023)" + "text": "the Royal Bhutan Army is lightly armed; it has a small amount of heavy equipment, such as armored cars and helicopters, originating from India and Thailand (2024)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription; militia training is compulsory for males aged 20-25, over a 3-year period  (2023)", diff --git a/south-asia/ce.json b/south-asia/ce.json index 22c7302b..66ff05a4 100644 --- a/south-asia/ce.json +++ b/south-asia/ce.json @@ -299,20 +299,6 @@ "text": "total: 2.4% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "intermediate (2023)" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "leptospirosis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "5.2% (2016)" }, diff --git a/south-asia/in.json b/south-asia/in.json index df73cafe..4077897e 100644 --- a/south-asia/in.json +++ b/south-asia/in.json @@ -321,23 +321,6 @@ "text": "total: 16.6% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "very high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "dengue fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria" - }, - "water contact diseases": { - "text": "leptospirosis" - }, - "animal contact diseases": { - "text": "rabies" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "3.9% (2016)" }, @@ -618,7 +601,7 @@ "election results": { "text": "Council of States (2022) - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - BJP 97, INC 34, AITC 13, DMK 10, other 2, independent 2; composition as of March 2024 - men 206, women 32, percentage women 13.8%

House of the People - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - BJP 240, INC 99, SP 37, AITC 29, DMK 22, BJD 12, RJD 4, AAP 3, other 93

seats by party - BJP 303, INC 52, DMK 24, AITC 22, YSRCP 22, SS 18, JDU 16, BJD 12, BSP 10, TRS 9, LJP 6, NCP 5, SP 5, other 35, independent 4, vacant 2; composition as of March 2024 - men 446, women 77, percentage women 14.7%; total Parliament percentage women 14.3%" }, - "note": "note: in late September 2023, both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha passed a bill that reserves one third of the House seats for women; implementation could begin for the House election in 2029" + "note": "note: in September 2023, both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha passed a bill that reserves one third of the House seats for women; implementation could begin for the House election in 2029" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/south-asia/np.json b/south-asia/np.json index 3bfaa0a3..da23ff1f 100644 --- a/south-asia/np.json +++ b/south-asia/np.json @@ -303,17 +303,6 @@ "text": "total: 12.3% of population (2020 est.)" } }, - "Major infectious diseases": { - "degree of risk": { - "text": "high (2023)" - }, - "food or waterborne diseases": { - "text": "bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever" - }, - "vectorborne diseases": { - "text": "Japanese encephalitis, malaria, and dengue fever" - } - }, "Obesity - adult prevalence rate": { "text": "4.1% (2016)" }, diff --git a/south-asia/pk.json b/south-asia/pk.json index aad4a722..aa0fd734 100644 --- a/south-asia/pk.json +++ b/south-asia/pk.json @@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ "Terrorism": { "Terrorist group(s)": { "text": "Haqqani Network; Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami; Harakat ul-Mujahidin; Hizbul Mujahideen; Indian Mujahedeen; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K); Islamic State of ash-Sham – India; Islamic State of ash-Sham – Pakistan; Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; Jaish-e-Mohammed; Jaysh al Adl (Jundallah); Lashkar i Jhangvi; Lashkar-e Tayyiba; Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP); al-Qa’ida; al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)", - "note": "note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in the Terrorism reference guide" + "note": "note 1: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in the Terrorism reference guide

note 2: the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), an armed separatist group that targets security forces and civilians, has been active in Pakistan since the 2000s, mainly in ethnic Baloch areas of the country; in 2019, the US designated BLA as Specially Designated Global Terrorists" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/world/xx.json b/world/xx.json index d48632cc..db1e0e5f 100644 --- a/world/xx.json +++ b/world/xx.json @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ "note": "note 1: Andorra and the Holy See (Vatican) are also monarchies of a sort, but they are not ruled by royal houses; Andorra has two co-princes (the president of France and the bishop of Urgell) and the Holy See is ruled by an elected pope

note 2: the sovereign of Great Britain is also the monarch for 14 of the countries (including Australia, Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand) that make up the Commonwealth; that brings to 43 the total number of countries with some type of monarchies" }, "Legislative branch": { - "text": "

there are 230 political entities with legislative bodies; of these 144 are unicameral (a single “house”) and 86 are bicameral (both upper and lower houses); note - 33 territories, possessions, or other special administrative units have their own governing bodies

" + "text": "note: there are 230 political entities with legislative bodies; of these 144 are unicameral (a single “house”) and 86 are bicameral (both upper and lower houses); 33 territories, possessions, or other special administrative units have their own governing bodies" }, "Flag description": { "text": "while a \"World\" flag does not exist, the flag of the United Nations (UN) -- adopted on 7 December 1946 -- has been used on occasion to represent the entire planet; technically, however, it only represents the international organization itself; the flag displays the official emblem of the UN in white on a blue background; the emblem design shows a world map in an azimuthal equidistant projection centered on the North Pole, with the image flanked by two olive branches crossed below; blue was selected as the color to represent peace, in contrast to the red usually associated with war; the map projection chosen includes all of the continents except Antarctica",