diff --git a/africa/ag.json b/africa/ag.json
index 590cdd46..18329f29 100644
--- a/africa/ag.json
+++ b/africa/ag.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "112 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "78 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -304,6 +304,9 @@
"HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "(2021 est.) <0.1%"
},
+ "Major infectious diseases": {
+ "text": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Algeria 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": "27.4% (2016)"
},
@@ -438,6 +441,9 @@
"Revenue from coal": {
"text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
+ "Major infectious diseases": {
+ "text": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Algeria 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"
+ },
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
"text": "12,378,740 tons (2016 est.)"
@@ -795,6 +801,14 @@
"text": "27.6 (2011 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "37.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.8%"
@@ -803,6 +817,17 @@
"text": "26.8% (1995)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.17% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.04% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "1.13% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$54.15 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1076,8 +1101,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 213; ALPAL-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Algeria and the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca; ORVAL is a submarine cable to Spain; landing points for the TE North/TGN-Eurasia/SEACOM/SeaMeWe-4 fiber-optic submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; MED cable connecting Algeria with France; microwave radio relay to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia; Algeria part of the 4,500 Km terrestrial Trans Sahara Backbone network which connects to other fiber networks in the region; Alcomstat-1 satellite offering telemedicine network (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run Radio-Television Algerienne operates the broadcast media and carries programming in Arabic, Berber dialects, and French; use of satellite dishes is widespread, providing easy access to European and Arab satellite stations; state-run radio operates several national networks and roughly 40 regional radio stations"
@@ -1121,9 +1145,7 @@
"text": "7T"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "149 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "149 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1226,10 +1248,10 @@
"text": "approximately 140,000 ANP personnel (120,000 Army; 6,000 Navy; 14,000 Air Force); approximately 130,000 National Gendarmerie; approximately 200,000 General Directorate of National Security (2022)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
- "text": "the ANP's inventory includes mostly Russian-sourced equipment; since 2010, Algeria has received arms from a variety of countries, with Russia as the leading supplier (2022)"
+ "text": "the ANP's inventory includes mostly Russian-sourced equipment; since 2010, Algeria has received arms from a variety of countries with Russia as the leading supplier (2022)"
},
"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 compulsory service for men (all Algerian men must register at age 17); conscript service obligation reduced from 18 to 12 months in 2014 (2022)",
+ "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service for men and women; 19-30 years of age for mandatory service for men (all Algerian men must register at age 17); service obligation reduced from 18 to 12 months in 2014 (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2020, conscripts comprised an estimated 70% of the military"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/africa/ao.json b/africa/ao.json
index 17704351..8804877b 100644
--- a/africa/ao.json
+++ b/africa/ao.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "241 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "222 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -825,6 +825,14 @@
"text": "51.3 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "48.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "0.6%"
@@ -833,6 +841,17 @@
"text": "44.7% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$37.02 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1105,8 +1124,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 244; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, WACS, ACE and SACS fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to other countries in west Africa, Brazil, Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 29, Angosat-2 satellite expected by 2021 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state controls all broadcast media with nationwide reach; state-owned Televisao Popular de Angola (TPA) provides terrestrial TV service on 2 channels; a third TPA channel is available via cable and satellite; TV subscription services are available; state-owned Radio Nacional de Angola (RNA) broadcasts on 5 stations; about a half-dozen private radio stations broadcast locally"
@@ -1150,9 +1168,7 @@
"text": "D2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "102 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "102 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1265,7 +1281,10 @@
"text": "most Angolan military weapons and equipment are of Russian, Soviet, or Warsaw Pact origin; in recent years, Russia has been the principal supplier of military hardware to Angola (2022)"
},
"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; 2-year conscript service obligation; Angolan citizenship required; the Navy is entirely staffed with volunteers (2021)"
+ "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)"
+ },
+ "Military deployments": {
+ "text": "in 2023, Angola agreed to send 500 troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 12 months as part of an African regional force to assist with security in the eastern part of the country where the DRC military is combating a rebel group known as M23"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the Angolan Armed Forces were created in 1991 under the Bicesse Accords signed between the Angolan Government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA); the current force is responsible for country’s external defense but also has some domestic security responsibilities, including border protection, expulsion of irregular migrants, and small-scale counterinsurgency operations against groups like the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda separatists in Cabinda; the Army is one of the largest in the region with 6 infantry divisions spread amongst 6 military regions; it is also one of the better equipped, with a significant portion of its units being motorized and supported by approximately 300 Soviet-era tanks, largely acquired in the 1980s and 1990s; the Air Force is also one of the largest and best equipped in the region with a fleet of approximately 100 combat aircraft, plus a substantial inventory of transport aircraft and helicopter gunships; while naval modernization has received more attention in recent years, the Navy remains a small force of fast attack and coastal patrol craft (2023)"
@@ -1280,7 +1299,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "23,155 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,272 (Guinea), 6,357 (Cote d'Ivoire), 5,725 (Mauritania) (2023)"
+ "text": "23,176 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,272 (Guinea), 6,357 (Cote d'Ivoire), 5,725 (Mauritania) (2023)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/africa/bc.json b/africa/bc.json
index 70af4296..12220e7e 100644
--- a/africa/bc.json
+++ b/africa/bc.json
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "144 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "186 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -302,7 +302,8 @@
},
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "malaria"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Botswana 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": "18.9% (2016)"
@@ -450,7 +451,8 @@
},
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "malaria"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Botswana 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -828,6 +830,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.33% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.24% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.36% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.305 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1080,18 +1093,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "140,003 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "132,457 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "6 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "5 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "3,829,408 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4,160,553 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "163 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "161 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1099,12 +1112,11 @@
"text": "effective regulatory reform has made Botswana’s telecom market one of the most liberalized in the region; there is a service-neutral licensing regime adapted to the convergence of technologies and services, and several operators now compete in all telecom sectors; Botswana has one of the highest mobile penetration rates in Africa; in a bid to generate new revenue streams and secure market share, the three mobile network operators have entered the underdeveloped broadband sector by adopting of 3G, LTE, and WiMAX technologies; in the fixed-line broadband market they compete with a large number of ISPs, some of which have rolled out their own wireless access infrastructure; the landlocked country depends on satellites for international bandwidth, and on other countries for transit capacity to the landing points of international submarine cables; the landing of additional cables in the region in recent years has improved the competitive situation in this sector, while prices for connectivity have fallen dramatically (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity has declined in recent years and now stands at roughly 6 telephones per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is roughly 163 telephones per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity has declined in recent years and now stands at roughly 5 telephones per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is roughly 161 telephones per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 267; international calls are made via satellite, using international direct dialing; 2 international exchanges; digital microwave radio relay links to Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 TV stations - 1 state-owned and 1 privately owned; privately owned satellite TV subscription service is available; 2 state-owned national radio stations; 4 privately owned radio stations broadcast locally (2019)"
@@ -1148,9 +1160,7 @@
"text": "A2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "74 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "74 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/bn.json b/africa/bn.json
index f0a76355..9a9be8fc 100644
--- a/africa/bn.json
+++ b/africa/bn.json
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "397 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "523 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Benin 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Benin 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": "9.6% (2016)"
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Benin 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Benin 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -844,6 +844,17 @@
"text": "29% (2003)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.31% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.51% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "1.39% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.578 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1113,8 +1124,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 229; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC and ACE fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe, and most West African countries; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat-Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run Office de Radiodiffusion et de Television du Benin (ORTB) operates a TV station providing a wide broadcast reach; several privately owned TV stations broadcast from Cotonou; satellite TV subscription service is available; state-owned radio, under ORTB control, includes a national station supplemented by a number of regional stations; substantial number of privately owned radio broadcast stations; transmissions of a few international broadcasters are available on FM in Cotonou (2019)"
@@ -1158,9 +1168,7 @@
"text": "TY"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "6 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "6 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1251,10 +1259,10 @@
"text": "approximately 7,000 active-duty troops; estimated 5,000 Republican Police (2022)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
- "text": "the FAB is equipped with a small mix of mostly older French, Soviet-era, and US equipment (2022)"
+ "text": "the FAB is equipped with a small mix of mostly older or secondhand French, Soviet-era, and US equipment (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-35 years of age for voluntary and selective compulsory military service; a higher education diploma is required; both sexes are eligible for military service; conscript service is 18 months (2022)"
+ "text": "18-35 years of age for voluntary and selective compulsory military service for men and women; a higher education diploma is required; conscript service is 18 months (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "260 (plus about 160 police) Mali (MINUSMA) (May 2022)"
@@ -1263,7 +1271,7 @@
"text": "a key focus for the security forces of Benin is countering infiltrations into the country by terrorist groups tied to al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) operating just over the border from north Benin in Burkina Faso and Niger; in May 2022, the Benin Government said it was \"at war\" after suffering a series of attacks from these groups; later that same year, President TALON said his government would spend more than $130 million to recruit up to 4,000 additional military personnel, modernize military equipment, and build and fortify operating bases; in addition, the FAB participates in the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) along with Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border
the FAB has a close working relationship with the Belgian armed forces; the Belgians offer military advice, training, and second-hand equipment donations, and deploy to Benin for limited military exercises (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
- "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\"
"
+ "text": "The International Maritime Bureau reported no incidents in 2022 in the waters off Benin; past incidents have been reported where vessels were attacked and crews kidnapped; these incidents showed that the pirates / robbers in the area are well armed and violent; pirates have robbed vessels and kidnapped crews for ransom; in the past, product tankers were hijacked and cargo stolen; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\"
"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
diff --git a/africa/by.json b/africa/by.json
index 56de4901..2901e67d 100644
--- a/africa/by.json
+++ b/africa/by.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "548 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "494 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -317,7 +317,8 @@
},
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Burundi 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": "5.4% (2016)"
@@ -482,7 +483,8 @@
},
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Burundi 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
@@ -839,6 +841,17 @@
"text": "28% (2006)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.72% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.88% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "1.82% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$536.7 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1082,18 +1095,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "18,300 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "15,976 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "(2020 est.) less than 1"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "6,631,151 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,740,494 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "56 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "62 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1101,12 +1114,11 @@
"text": "Burundi provides an attractive telecom market given its high population density and existing low subscription rates for all services; one downside for investors is that the country has a very low economic output, disposable income is also very low, and fixed-line infrastructure is poor outside the main urban areas; this is a greater motivation for investors to focus on improving mobile networks than in expanding fixed-line infrastructure; to overcome difficulties associated with the poor telecom infrastructure, the government has supported a number of prominent telcos building a national fiber backbone network; this network offers onward connectivity to submarine cable infrastructure landings in Kenya and Tanzania; the first sections of this network were switched on in early 2014, and additional provinces have since been connected; in addition, the government in early 2018 kick-started the Burundi Broadband project, which aims to deliver national connectivity by 2025; based on this improved infrastructure the government and ITU have developed an ICT strategy to make use of telecoms to promote the country’s socio-economic development through to 2028; progress made by Tanzania with its own national backbone network has benefited Burundi, which has been provided with onward connectivity to most countries in the region; International bandwidth capacity has continued to increase in recent years, including a 38% increase in the nine months to September 2021, resulting in lower retail prices for consumers; two of the mobile operators have launched 3G and LTE services to capitalize on the growing demand for internet access; the number of mobile subscribers increased 7% in the third quarter of 2021, quarter-on-quarter; similar growth is expected for the next two years at least, which will help bring the mobile level closer to the average for the region (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "telephone density one of the lowest in the world; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage is about 56 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage is about 62 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 257; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean); the government, supported by the World Bank, has backed a joint venture with a number of prominent telecoms to build a national fiber backbone network, offering onward connectivity to submarine cable infrastructure landings in Kenya and Tanzania (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-controlled Radio Television Nationale de Burundi (RTNB) operates a TV station and a national radio network; 3 private TV stations and about 10 privately owned radio stations; transmissions of several international broadcasters are available in Bujumbura (2019)"
@@ -1136,9 +1148,7 @@
"text": "9U"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "7 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "7 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1184,7 +1194,8 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "National Defense Forces (Forces de Defense Nationale, FDN): Army (includes maritime wing, air wing); Ministry of Public Security: National Police (Police Nationale du Burundi) (2022)"
+ "text": "National Defense Force of Burundi (Force de Defense Nationale du Burundi or FDNB): Land Force (Force Terrestre), the Navy Force (Force Marine), the Air Force (Force Aerienne) and Specialized Units (Unites Specialisees); Ministry of Public Security: National Police (Police Nationale du Burundi) (2023)",
+ "note": "note: the Specialized Units include a special security brigade for the protection of institutions (aka BSPI) and military police"
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
@@ -1204,19 +1215,19 @@
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
- "text": "approximately 30,000 active duty troops, the majority of which are ground forces (2022)"
+ "text": "approximately 25-30,000 active-duty troops, the majority of which are ground forces (2022)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the FDN has a mix of mostly older weapons and equipment typically of French, Russian, and Soviet origin, and a smaller selection of more modern secondhand equipment from such countries as China, South Africa, and the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service (2021)"
+ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service (2022)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "760 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 5,400 Somalia (ATMIS) (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "in addition to its foreign deployments the FDN was focused on internal security missions, particularly against rebel groups opposed to the regime such as National Forces of Liberation (FNL), the Resistance for the Rule of Law-Tabara (aka RED Tabara), and Popular Forces of Burundi (FPB or FOREBU); these groups were based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and have carried out sporadic attacks in Burundi (2022)"
+ "text": "the FDNB is responsible for defending Burundi’s territorial integrity and protecting its sovereignty; it has an internal security role, including maintaining and restoring public order if required; the FDNB also participates in providing humanitarian/disaster assistance, countering terrorism, narcotics trafficking, piracy, and illegal arms trade, and protecting the country’s environment; the FDNB conducts limited training with foreign partners such as Russia and participates in regional peacekeeping missions, most recently in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Somalia; these missions have provided the force some operational experience and funding; in recent years the FDNB has conducted operations against anti-government rebel groups based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that have carried out sporadic attacks in Burundi, such as the such as National Forces of Liberation (FNL), the Resistance for the Rule of Law-Tabara (aka RED Tabara), and Popular Forces of Burundi (FPB or FOREBU)
the Land Force’s primary units are 4 regionally based divisions which are comprised mostly of light infantry complemented by a few battalions of artillery, light armored forces, and commandos; the FDNB also has a separate special security brigade for protecting key facilities; the Air Force is lightly equipped with a handful of combat helicopters, while the Naval Force has a few patrol boats for monitoring Burundi’s 175-km shoreline on Lake Tanganyika
the Arusha Agreement that ended the 1993-2005 created a unified military by balancing the predominantly Tutsi ex-Burundi Armed Forces (ex-FAB) and the largely Hutu dominated armed movements and requiring the military to have a 50/50 ethnic mix of Tutsis and Hutus (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
@@ -1225,7 +1236,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "87,485 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
+ "text": "86,857 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "84,791 (some ethnic Tutsis remain displaced from intercommunal violence that broke out after the 1993 coup and fighting between government forces and rebel groups; violence since April 2015) (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/cd.json b/africa/cd.json
index f41169fc..9029b892 100644
--- a/africa/cd.json
+++ b/africa/cd.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "1,140 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "1,063 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Chad 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Chad 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": "6.1% (2016)"
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Chad 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Chad 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
@@ -855,6 +855,17 @@
"text": "30.8% (2003)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.337 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1095,18 +1106,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "5,340 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "5,300 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "(2020 est.) less than 1"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "8,687,151 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "10 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "53 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "60 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1114,12 +1125,11 @@
"text": "the telecom infrastructure is particularly poor; fixed, mobile and internet is well below African averages; Chad’s telecom market offers some potential for investors to develop services given the low starting base; the country’s first 3G/LTE mobile license was awarded in April 2014; Chad finally gained access to international fiber bandwidth in 2012 its national backbone infrastructure remains underdeveloped; the World Bank-funded Central African Backbone (CAB) project takes in Chad, while the country is also party to a Trans-Saharan Backbone project which will link a fiber cable to Nigeria and Algeria (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscribership base of about 53 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscribership base of about 60 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 235; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV station; 2 privately-owned TV stations; state-owned radio network, Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne (RNT), operates national and regional stations; over 10 private radio stations; some stations rebroadcast programs from international broadcasters (2017)"
@@ -1149,9 +1159,7 @@
"text": "TT"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "59 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "59 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1232,14 +1240,14 @@
"text": "the ANT is mostly armed with older or secondhand equipment from Belgium, France, Russia, and the former Soviet Union; in recent years it has received equipment, including donations, from other countries, including China, Italy, Ukraine, and the US (2022)"
},
"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; soldiers released from active duty are in the reserves until the age of 50 (2022)"
+ "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; soldiers released from active duty are in the reserves until the age of 50 (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "1,450 Mali (MINUSMA) (May 2022)",
"note": "note 1: Chad has committed approximately 1,000-1,500 troops to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically; in 2019, Chad sent more than 1,000 troops to Nigeria’s Borno State to fight Boko Haram as part of the MNJTF mission
note 2: Chad is also part of a four (formerly five)-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G4 Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Chad, Mali (withdrew in 2022), Mauritania, and Niger; it has committed 550 troops and 100 gendarmes to the force; as of 2020, defense forces from each of the participating states were allowed to pursue terrorist fighters up to 100 km into neighboring countries; the force is backed by France, the UN, and the US"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the ANT has considerable combat experience against insurgents and terrorist groups, although it is assessed to be underfunded and its performance to be uneven; it has a tradition of deep involvement in domestic politics; over the past decade, the ANT has received considerable foreign military assistance, particularly from France, which maintains a military base in N’Djamena; the ANT's current operational focus is on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations; it is engaged with the Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in West Africa terrorist groups in the Lake Chad Basin area (primarily the Lac Province) and in the Sahel, particularly the tri-border area with Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger; in addition, the ANT conducts frequent operations against internal anti-government militias and armed dissident groups
several rebel groups operate in northern Chad from bases in southern Libya, including the FACT (Front pour le Changement et la Concorde au Tchad), the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic le Conseil de Commandement Militaire pour le salut de la République or CCSMR), the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (le Union des Forces pour la Démocratie et le Développement or UFDD), and the Union of Resistance Forces (le Union des Forces de la Résistance UFR); former Chadian President Idriss DEBY was killed in April 2021 during fighting in the northern part of the country between the FACT and the Chadian Army; some armed groups, including the UFDD and UFR, signed an accord in August 2022 in return for the release of prisoners, amnesty, and an end to hostilities between the Chadian Government and these armed factions; however, other armed groups, including the FACT and CCSMR, refused to join the accord (2023)"
+ "text": "the ANT has considerable combat experience against insurgents and terrorist groups; it also has a tradition of deep involvement in domestic politics; over the past decade, the ANT has received substantial foreign military assistance, particularly from France, which maintains a military base in N’Djamena; the ANT's current operational focus is on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations; it is engaged with the Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in West Africa terrorist groups in the Lake Chad Basin area (primarily the Lac Province) and in the Sahel, particularly the tri-border area with Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger; in addition, the ANT conducts frequent operations against internal anti-government militias and armed dissident groups
several rebel groups operate in northern Chad from bases in southern Libya, including the FACT (Front pour le Changement et la Concorde au Tchad), the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic le Conseil de Commandement Militaire pour le salut de la République or CCSMR), the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (le Union des Forces pour la Démocratie et le Développement or UFDD), and the Union of Resistance Forces (le Union des Forces de la Résistance UFR); former Chadian President Idriss DEBY was killed in April 2021 during fighting in the northern part of the country between the FACT and the Chadian Army; some armed groups, including the UFDD and UFR, signed an accord in August 2022 in return for the release of prisoners, amnesty, and an end to hostilities between the Chadian Government and these armed factions; however, other armed groups, including the FACT and CCSMR, refused to join the accord (2023)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
@@ -1254,7 +1262,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "405,239 (Sudan), 124,601 (Central African Republic), 42,607 (Cameroon), 20,694 (Nigeria) (2023)"
+ "text": "405,689 (Sudan), 124,601 (Central African Republic), 42,607 (Cameroon), 20,694 (Nigeria) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "381,289 (majority are in the east) (2023)"
diff --git a/africa/cf.json b/africa/cf.json
index c6bc723e..97382930 100644
--- a/africa/cf.json
+++ b/africa/cf.json
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "378 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "282 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Republic of the Congo 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Republic of the Congo 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": "9.6% (2016)"
@@ -489,11 +489,11 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Republic of the Congo 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Republic of the Congo 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
- "text": "due to refugee influx - as of 30 April 2022, about 29,100 refugees from the Central African Republic and 22,100 from the Democratic Republic of the Congo were residing in the country, mostly in Likouala and Plateaux departments; host communities face food shortages and limited livelihood opportunities, and refugees’ food security is essentially dependent on continued humanitarian assistance (2022)"
+ "text": "due to floods - above average rainfall amounts since November 2022 triggered flooding in December 2022 and January 2023 in central and northern parts of the country, displacing people; according to damage assessment reports, about 165,000 people have been affected in 23 districts in the departments of Cuvette, Likouala, Plateaux and Sangha (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -873,6 +873,17 @@
"text": "37.1% (2005)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.21% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2016": {
+ "text": "0.08% of GDP (2016 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.965 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1124,10 +1135,10 @@
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "4.89 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "5,558,658 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "89 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "97 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1135,12 +1146,11 @@
"text": "suffering from economic challenges of stimulating recovery and reducing poverty; primary network consists of microwave radio relay and coaxial cable with services barely adequate for government use; key exchanges are in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, and Loubomo; intercity lines frequently out of order; youth are seeking the Internet more than their parents and often gain access through cyber cafes; only the most affluent have Internet access in their homes; operator has plans to upgrade national broadband through fiber link to West Africa Cable System (WACS) landing station at Pointe-Noire with connections to Angola and DRC; fiber network project with aims to connect north and south regions; DRC operator added fiber link between Brazzaville and Kinshasa (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line infrastructure inadequate, providing less than 1 fixed-line connection per 100 persons; mobile-cellular 89 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line infrastructure inadequate, providing less than 1 fixed-line connection per 100 persons; mobile-cellular 97 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 242; WACS submarine cables to Europe and Western and South Africa; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV and 3 state-owned radio stations; several privately owned TV and radio stations; satellite TV service is available; rebroadcasts of several international broadcasters are available"
@@ -1184,9 +1194,7 @@
"text": "TN"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "27 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "27 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1303,7 +1311,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "29,639 (Central African Republic), 28,554 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
+ "text": "26,950 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022); 30,031 (Central African Republic) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "159,830 (multiple civil wars since 1992) (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/cg.json b/africa/cg.json
index efcd7fac..5956d51c 100644
--- a/africa/cg.json
+++ b/africa/cg.json
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "473 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "547 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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": "6.7% (2016)"
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
@@ -884,6 +884,17 @@
"text": "34.7% (2006)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.28% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "4.01% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "3.83% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$4.634 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1131,12 +1142,20 @@
}
},
"Communications": {
- "Telephones - mobile cellular": {
+ "Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "40,798,396 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "46 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
+ }
+ },
+ "Telephones - mobile cellular": {
+ "total subscriptions": {
+ "text": "47 million (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
+ "text": "49 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1144,12 +1163,11 @@
"text": "the telecom system remains one of the least developed in the region; the government can only loosely regulate the sector; the investment made in infrastructure is derived from donor countries or from the efforts of foreign (particularly Chinese) companies and banks; efforts have been made to improve the regulation of the telecom sector; the limited fixed-line infrastructure has become the principal providers of basic telecom services; the development of the DRC’s internet and broadband market has been held back by the poorly developed national and international infrastructure; the country was finally connected to international bandwidth through the WACS submarine cable in 2013; breakages in the WACS cable have exposed the vulnerability of international bandwidth, which is still limited; the Equiano submarine cable, and has also completed a 5,000km cable running through the DRC to link to cable systems landing in countries facing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; the first commercial LTE networks were launched in May 2018 soon after LTE licenses were issued; mobile operators are keen to develop mobile data services, capitalizing on the growth of smartphones usage; there has been some progress with updating technologies, most of the GSM network has been upgraded to 3G by 2021 (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "inadequate fixed-line infrastructure with fixed-line connections less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscriptions over 46 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "inadequate fixed-line infrastructure with fixed-line connections less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscriptions over 49 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 243; ACE and WACS submarine cables to West and South Africa and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned TV broadcast station with near national coverage; more than a dozen privately owned TV stations - 2 with near national coverage; 2 state-owned radio stations are supplemented by more than 100 private radio stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are available"
@@ -1193,9 +1211,7 @@
"text": "9Q"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "198 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "198 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1312,8 +1328,8 @@
"text": "the FARDC is equipped mostly with Soviet-era weapons systems and equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-45 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 18-45 years of age for compulsory military service for men; it is unclear how much conscription is used (2021)",
- "note": "note: in eastern Congo, fighters from armed groups, and in some cases government security forces, have been accused of forced recruitment of child soldiers"
+ "text": "18-45 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 18-45 years of age for compulsory military service for men; it is unclear how much conscription is used (2023)",
+ "note": "note: in eastern Congo, fighters from armed groups, and in some cases government security forces, have been accused of forced recruitment of child soldiers"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the FARDC’s primary focus is internal security; while the FARDC is large on paper, with an estimated 18 operational infantry brigades, it struggles to provide security in large portions of the country; the FARDC is widely assessed to suffer from insufficient training, low equipment readiness, poor morale and leadership, ill-discipline, and widespread corruption; it was created out of the armed factions of the Congo wars that ended in 2003, incorporating various militia, paramilitary, and rebel formations; the DRC’s most effective military force, the Republican Guard, is overseen by the office of the presidency rather than the FARDC and focuses largely on protecting the president and government institutions and enforcing internal security
the FARDC is actively conducting operations against a variety of illegal armed groups (IOGs) operating in the DRC, particularly in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu, where more than 15 significant and cohesive IOGs operate; there is also violence in Maniema, Kasai, Kasai Central, and Tanganyika provinces; some estimates place over 100 IOGs operating in the country, including organized militias, such as the Nduma Defense of Congo-Renewal (NDC-R), which controls a large portion of North Kivu; Mai Mai groups (local militias that operate variously as self-defense networks and criminal rackets); and foreign-origin groups seeking safe haven and resources, such as the Ugandan-origin Allied Democratic Forces (ADF; aka Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the DRC), the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), multiple groups originating from Burundi, the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), and the March 23 Movement (aka M23 or Congolese Revolutionary Army), which the DRC has accused Rwanda of backing; the FARDC has been accused of collaborating with some IOGs, such as the NDC-R
the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has operated in the central and eastern parts of the country since 1999; as of 2022, MONUSCO had around 15,000 military and police personnel; MONUSCO includes a Force Intervention Brigade (FIB; 3 infantry battalions, plus artillery and special forces), the first ever UN peacekeeping force specifically tasked to carry out targeted offensive operations to neutralize and disarm groups considered a threat to state authority and civilian security (2023)"
@@ -1331,10 +1347,10 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "208,789 (Rwanda) (2022); 211,245 (Central African Republic), 56,194 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 43,655 (Burundi) (2023)"
+ "text": "211,312 (Central African Republic), 208,389 (Rwanda), 56,192 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 43,623 (Burundi) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
- "text": "5.52 million (fighting between government forces and rebels since mid-1990s; conflict in Kasai region since 2016) (2022)"
+ "text": "6.06 million (fighting between government forces and rebels since mid-1990s; conflict in Kasai region since 2016) (2023)"
}
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
diff --git a/africa/cm.json b/africa/cm.json
index 4ac47798..28f4e004 100644
--- a/africa/cm.json
+++ b/africa/cm.json
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "529 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "438 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Cameroon 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Cameroon 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": "11.4% (2016)"
@@ -497,11 +497,11 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Cameroon 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Cameroon 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
- "text": "due to civil insecurity and population displacements - according to a March 2022 analysis, about 2.4 million people are projected to be severely food insecure between June and August 2022; this is mainly the result of conflict, sociopolitical unrest and high food prices (2022)"
+ "text": "due to civil insecurity, high food prices, and floods - according to a November 2022 analysis (the latest available), about 3.6 million people were estimated to be acutely food insecure between October and December 2022, as a result of conflict, sociopolitical unrest and high food prices, as well as floods that caused people displacements, damaged standing crops and prevented access to fields (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -878,6 +878,14 @@
"text": "46.6 (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "45.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "37.5%"
@@ -886,6 +894,17 @@
"text": "35.4% (2001)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.9% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.83% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.363 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1135,18 +1154,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "964,378 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "739,572 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "4 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "3 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "22,350,310 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "22,442,414 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "84 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "83 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1154,12 +1173,11 @@
"text": "Cameroon was for many years one of the few countries in Africa with only two competing mobile operators; the investment programs among operators over the next few years will considerably boost mobile broadband services in rural areas of the country, many of which are under served by fixed-line infrastructure; the government has also been supportive, having launched its ‘Cameroon Digital 2020’ program, aimed at improving connectivity nationally; improved submarine and terrestrial cable connectivity has substantially increased international bandwidth, in turn leading to reductions in access prices for consumers; other projects such as Acceleration of the Digital Transformation of Cameroon are aimed at developing the digital economy (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "only a little above 3 per 100 persons for fixed-line subscriptions; mobile-cellular usage has increased sharply, reaching a subscribership base of roughly 95 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "only a little above 3 per 100 persons for fixed-line subscriptions; mobile-cellular usage has increased sharply, reaching a subscribership base of roughly 83 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 237; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, SAIL, ACE, NCSCS, Ceiba-2, and WACS fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe, South America, and West Africa; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government maintains tight control over broadcast media; state-owned Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV), broadcasting on both a TV and radio network, was the only officially recognized and fully licensed broadcaster until August 2007, when the government finally issued licenses to 2 private TV broadcasters and 1 private radio broadcaster; about 70 privately owned, unlicensed radio stations operate but are subject to closure at any time; foreign news services required to partner with state-owned national station (2019)"
@@ -1203,9 +1221,7 @@
"text": "TJ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "33 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "33 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1305,21 +1321,21 @@
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
- "text": "information varies; approximately 40,000 active-duty troops; (25,000 ground forces, including the Rapid Intervention Battalion/BIR and Presidential Guard; 2,000 Navy; 1,000 Air Force; 12,000 Gendarmerie) (2022)",
+ "text": "information varies; approximately 35-40,000 active-duty troops; (20-25,000 ground forces, including the Rapid Intervention Battalion/BIR and Presidential Guard; 2,000 Navy; 1,000 Air Force; 12,000 Gendarmerie) (2022)",
"note": "note: the BIR has approximately 5,000 personnel"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
- "text": "the FAC inventory includes a wide mix of mostly older or second-hand Chinese, Russian, and Western equipment, with a limited quantity of more modern weapons received in recent years from such countries as China, South Africa, and the US (2022)"
+ "text": "the FAC inventory includes a wide mix of mostly older or second-hand Chinese, Russian, and Western equipment, with a limited quantity of more modern weapons received in recent years from such countries as China, France, and Russia (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-23 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; no conscription; high school graduation required; service obligation 4 years (2021)"
+ "text": "18-23 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; no conscription; high school graduation required; service obligation 4 years (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "750 (plus about 350 police) Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (May 2022)",
"note": "note: Cameroon has committed approximately 2,000-2,500 troops to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own country territories, although cross‐border operations occur occasionally"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the FAC is a professional and politically independent military; the Army and the Rapid Intervention Battalion (RIB) are well-organized and mobile; in addition to the RIB’s specialized forces, the Army has 4 motorized infantry brigades spread amongst 5 military regions; the ground forces are largely focused on internal security, particularly the threat from the terrorist group Boko Haram along its frontiers with Nigeria and Chad (Far North region) and an insurgency from armed Anglophone separatist groups in the North-West and South-West regions (as of 2023, this conflict had left more than 3,500 civilians dead and over 500,000 people displaced since fighting started in 2016); in addition, the FAC often deploys ground units to the border region with the Central African Republic to counter intrusions from armed militias and bandits; the Navy’s missions include protecting Cameroon’s oil installations, combatting crime and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, and patrolling the country’s lakes and rivers; it has an inventory of coastal, inshore, and river patrol craft; the Air Force supports both the ground and naval forces and has a handful of light attack aircraft and combat helicopters (2023)"
+ "text": "the FAC is a professional and politically independent military; the Army and the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) are well-organized and mobile; the Army has 4 motorized infantry brigades spread amongst 5 military regions; the US-trained, 5,000-man BIR has up to 9 battalions, detachments, or groups consisting of airborne, air mobile, amphibious, light, and motorized infantry, armored reconnaissance, counterterrorism, and support units, such as artillery and intelligence; the BIR reportedly receives better training, equipment, and pay than regular Army units
the ground forces are largely focused on internal security, particularly the threat from the terrorist group Boko Haram along its frontiers with Nigeria and Chad (Far North region) and an insurgency from armed Anglophone separatist groups in the North-West and South-West regions (as of 2023, this conflict had left more than 3,500 civilians dead and over 500,000 people displaced since fighting started in 2016); in addition, the FAC often deploys ground units to the border region with the Central African Republic to counter intrusions from armed militias and bandits; the Navy’s missions include protecting Cameroon’s oil installations, combatting crime and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, and patrolling the country’s lakes and rivers; the Air Force supports both the ground and naval forces and has small numbers of light ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as attack, multipurpose, and transport helicopters (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of maritime kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\""
@@ -1340,7 +1356,7 @@
"text": "347,593 (Central African Republic), 126,151 (Nigeria) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
- "text": "983,281 (2022) (includes far north, northwest, and southwest)"
+ "text": "1.01 million (2023) (includes far north, northwest, and southwest)"
}
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
diff --git a/africa/cn.json b/africa/cn.json
index 6a144114..9f419554 100644
--- a/africa/cn.json
+++ b/africa/cn.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "273 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "217 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -748,6 +748,17 @@
"text": "55.2% (2004)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "18.56% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "14.1% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "14.52% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$165.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -997,18 +1008,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "7,573 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,431 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "781,579 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "853,449 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "90 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "104 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1016,12 +1027,11 @@
"text": "Comoros launched a special program for the construction of a wireless network to inter connect the 3 islands of the archipelago; telephone service limited to the islands' few towns (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage about 90 per 100 persons; 2 companies provide domestic and international mobile service and wireless data (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage about 104 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 269; landing point for the EASSy, Comoros Domestic Cable System, Avassa, and FLY-LION3 fiber-optic submarine cable system connecting East Africa with Europe; HF radiotelephone communications to Madagascar and Reunion (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "national state-owned TV station and a TV station run by Anjouan regional government; national state-owned radio; regional governments on the islands of Grande Comore and Anjouan each operate a radio station; a few independent and small community radio stations operate on the islands of Grande Comore and Moheli, and these two islands have access to Mayotte Radio and French TV"
@@ -1059,9 +1069,7 @@
"text": "D6"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/ct.json b/africa/ct.json
index 1e3ca7cb..52300270 100644
--- a/africa/ct.json
+++ b/africa/ct.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "829 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "835 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Central African Republic 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Central African Republic 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": "7.5% (2016)"
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Central African Republic 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; the Central African Republic 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production/supplies": {
@@ -1068,18 +1068,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "2,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "2,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "(2020 est.) less than 1"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1.831 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1.8 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "38 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "34 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1087,12 +1087,11 @@
"text": "given the poor fixed-line infrastructure in most countries across Africa, voice and data services across the region are greatly dependent on mobile networks; in the majority of markets, including those with better developed fixed infrastructure such as South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya, up to 98% of all voice and data connections are via mobile networks; during the last two to three years, national governments and telecom regulators have striven to improve fixed infrastructure with the wider aim of developing economic growth based on digital services and connectivity; this work is principally focused on delivering fiber-based connectivity; since the amount of copper infrastructure (DSL or HFC) used for broadband is so negligible, governments and private firms, including telcos are investing in fiber rather than in older technologies; while supporting broadband to premises, health centers, and government buildings, the new fiber infrastructure is mainly being deployed to provide mobile platforms and to support the rapid growth in data traffic (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "very limited telephone service with less than 1 fixed-line connection per 100 persons; with the presence of multiple providers mobile-cellular service has reached nearly 38 per 100 mobile-cellular subscribers; cellular usage is increasing from a low base; most fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone services are concentrated in Bangui (2020)"
+ "text": "very limited telephone service with less than 1 fixed-line connection per 100 persons; 34 per 100 mobile-cellular subscribers (2020)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 236; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government-owned network, Radiodiffusion Television Centrafricaine, provides limited domestic TV broadcasting; state-owned radio network is supplemented by a small number of privately owned broadcast stations as well as a few community radio stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are available (2017)"
@@ -1136,9 +1135,7 @@
"text": "TL"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "39 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "39 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1219,7 +1216,7 @@
"text": "18 years of age for military service; no conscription (2021)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the 2013 coup resulted in the institutional collapse of the FACA; its forces were overwhelmed and forced to flee to neighboring countries; it has been estimated that only 10% of the FACA returned after the coup, and it has struggled to rebuild in the years of instability since, despite considerable foreign assistance; significant portions of the country remain outside state control and are ungoverned, with the presence of multiple armed actors creating insecurity in much of the country
in 2018, the UN Security Council approved Russian security assistance for the CAR to help train and advise FACA personnel, as well as transport them to operational areas, provide logistical support, and assist with medical evacuation; in addition to teams of military trainers, Russia sent private military contractors, and as of 2022, as many as 2,000 were providing assistance to the FACA, as well as performing other security roles such as guarding mines and government officials; some Russian contractors and the CAR forces they supported have been accused of carrying out indiscriminate killings, using excessive force against civilians, and looting
the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has operated in the country since 2014; its mission includes providing security, protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, disarming and demobilizing armed groups, and supporting the country’s fragile transitional government; as of 2022, MINUSCA had approximately 15,000 military and police personnel
the European Union Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM-RCA) has operated in the country since 2016, providing advice, training, and educational programs to the country's security forces; since 2016, the EU mission has trained 5 territorial infantry battalions and 1 amphibious infantry battalion; the mission suspended operational training in 2021; France also provided assistance to the FACA before suspending its support, also in 2021 (2022)"
+ "text": "the 2013 coup resulted in the institutional collapse of the FACA; its forces were overwhelmed and forced to flee to neighboring countries; it has been estimated that only 10% of the FACA returned after the coup, and it has struggled to rebuild in the years of instability since, despite considerable foreign assistance; significant portions of the country remain outside state control and are ungoverned, with the presence of multiple armed actors creating insecurity in much of the country
in late 2020 and early 2021, the Coalition des Patriotes pour le Change (CPC), a loose coalition of armed groups comprised largely of former Seleka and anti-Balaka fighters, attacked the capital Bangui; CAR Government forces, along with Russian private military contractors and Rwandan troops, repelled the attack but have not been able to stabilize the country; the CPC has retreated to its rear bases and into neighboring countries and continued conducting attacks; other armed groups are also active; forces on both sides have been accused of abuses and atrocities in the fighting
in 2018, the UN Security Council approved Russian security assistance for the CAR to help train and advise FACA personnel, as well as transport them to operational areas, provide logistical support, and assist with medical evacuation; in addition to teams of military trainers, Russia sent private military contractors, and as of 2022, as many as 2,000 were providing assistance to the FACA, as well as performing other security roles such as guarding mines and government officials; some Russian contractors and the CAR forces they supported have been accused of carrying out indiscriminate killings, using excessive force against civilians, and looting
the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has operated in the country since 2014; its mission includes providing security, protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, disarming and demobilizing armed groups, and supporting the country’s fragile transitional government; as of 2022, MINUSCA had approximately 15,000 military and police personnel
the European Union Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM-RCA) has operated in the country since 2016, providing advice, training, and educational programs to the country's security forces; since 2016, the EU mission has trained 5 territorial infantry battalions and 1 amphibious infantry battalion; the mission suspended operational training in 2021; France also provided assistance to the FACA before suspending its support, also in 2021 (2022)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
@@ -1228,10 +1225,10 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "6,619 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (2022)"
+ "text": "6,630 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
- "text": "518,116 (clashes between army and rebel groups since 2005; tensions between ethnic groups) (2022)"
+ "text": "482,816 (clashes between army and rebel groups since 2005; tensions between ethnic groups) (2022)"
}
}
}
diff --git a/africa/cv.json b/africa/cv.json
index e3d92aca..ba70aa0d 100644
--- a/africa/cv.json
+++ b/africa/cv.json
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "58 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "42 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -772,6 +772,17 @@
"text": "40.6% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "16.12% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "14.43% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "12.18% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$493.5 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1021,18 +1032,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "57,668 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "53,586 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "10 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "9 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "544,729 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "590,171 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "98 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1040,12 +1051,11 @@
"text": "LTE reaches almost 40% of the population; regulator awards commercial 4G licenses and starts 5G pilot; govt. extends USD 25 million for submarine fiber-optic cable project linking Africa to Portugal and Brazil (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "a little over 10 per 100 fixed-line teledensity and nearly 98 per 100 mobile-cellular; fiber-optic ring, completed in 2001, links all islands providing Internet access and ISDN services; cellular service introduced in 1998; broadband services launched early in the decade (2020)"
+ "text": "9 per 100 fixed-line teledensity and nearly 100 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 238; landing points for the Atlantis-2, EllaLink, Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 1, 2, 3 and WACS fiber-optic transatlantic telephone cable that provides links to South America, Africa, and Europe; HF radiotelephone to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run TV and radio broadcast network plus a growing number of private broadcasters; Portuguese public TV and radio services for Africa are available; transmissions of a few international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1089,9 +1099,7 @@
"text": "D4"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "9 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "9 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1163,7 +1171,7 @@
"text": "the FACV has a limited amount of mostly dated and second-hand equipment, largely from China, some European countries, and the former Soviet Union (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-35 years of age for male and female selective compulsory military service; 2-years conscript service obligation; 17 years of age for voluntary service (with parental consent) (2022)"
+ "text": "18-35 years of age for male and female selective compulsory military service; 24-month conscript service obligation; 17 years of age for voluntary service (with parental consent) (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "as of 2022, the FACV/National Guard was mostly a ground force with 2 infantry battalions and a small air component with a maritime patrol squadron; the Coast Guard had a few coastal patrol craft and patrol boats"
diff --git a/africa/dj.json b/africa/dj.json
index a767efd3..6693e510 100644
--- a/africa/dj.json
+++ b/africa/dj.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "248 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "234 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "dengue fever"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Djibouti 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Djibouti 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": "13.5% (2016)"
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "dengue fever"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Djibouti 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Djibouti 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
@@ -795,6 +795,17 @@
"text": "30.9% (2002)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.01% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.57% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "2.05% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$717 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1043,18 +1054,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "38,866 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "27,326 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "4 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "2 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "434,035 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "489,339 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "44 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "44 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1062,12 +1073,11 @@
"text": "Djibouti remains one of the last bastions where the national telco has a monopoly on all telecom services, including fixed lines, mobile, internet, and broadband; despite the country benefiting from its location as a hub for international submarine cables, prices for telecom services remain relatively high, and out of reach for a number of customers, weighing on market advancement; the Djibouti government is aiming to sell a minority stake in the incumbent telco (retaining some control of decisions) while securing the financial backing and the management acumen of a foreign operator; this is part of a larger plan to modernize the country’s economy more generally; the state expects to conduct a sale of up to 40% of the company to an international investor by the end 2022 (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "about 4 per 100 fixed-line teledensity and nearly 44 per 100 mobile-cellular; Djibouti Telecom (DT) is the sole provider of telecommunications services and utilizes mostly a microwave radio relay network; fiber-optic cable is installed in the capital; rural areas connected via wireless local loop radio systems; mobile cellular coverage is primarily limited to the area in and around Djibouti city (2020)"
+ "text": "about 2 per 100 fixed-line teledensity and nearly 44 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 253; landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3 & 5, EASSy, Aden-Djibouti, Africa-1, DARE-1, EIG, MENA, Bridge International, PEACE Cable, and SEACOM fiber-optic submarine cable systems providing links to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and Africa; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intelsat - Indian Ocean and 1 Arabsat) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned Radiodiffusion-Television de Djibouti operates the sole terrestrial TV station, as well as the only 2 domestic radio networks; no private TV or radio stations; transmissions of several international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1105,9 +1115,7 @@
"text": "J2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "13 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "13 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1166,24 +1174,24 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Djibouti Armed Forces (FAD): Army, Navy, Air Force; Djibouti Coast Guard; Ministry of Interior: National Gendarmerie, National Police (2022)",
+ "text": "Djibouti Armed Forces (Force Armée Djiboutienne or FAD): Army, Navy, Air Force; Djibouti Coast Guard; Ministry of Interior: National Gendarmerie, National Police (2022)",
"note": "note: the National Police is responsible for security within Djibouti City and has primary control over immigration and customs procedures for all land border-crossing points, while the National Gendarmerie is responsible for all security outside of Djibouti City, as well as for protecting critical infrastructure within the city, such as the international airport"
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "3.5% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $180 million)"
+ "text": "3.5% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "3.5% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $160 million)"
+ "text": "3.5% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "3.3% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $150 million)"
+ "text": "3.3% of GDP (2017 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2016": {
- "text": "2.7% of GDP (2016 est.) (approximately $120 million)"
+ "text": "2.7% of GDP (2016 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2015": {
- "text": "2.5% of GDP (2015 est.) (approximately $110 million)"
+ "text": "2.5% of GDP (2015 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/africa/eg.json b/africa/eg.json
index bc798302..5ab7a684 100644
--- a/africa/eg.json
+++ b/africa/eg.json
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "37 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -855,6 +855,14 @@
"text": "31.5 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "33.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "4%"
@@ -863,6 +871,17 @@
"text": "26.6% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "7.79% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "8.1% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "8.84% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$42.32 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1106,18 +1125,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "9,858,331 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "11,030,900 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "10 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "10 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "95,357,427 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "103,449,427 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "93 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "95 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1125,12 +1144,11 @@
"text": "Egypt’s large telecom market is supported by a population of about 108 million and benefits from effective competition in most sectors; a liberal regulatory regime allows for unified licenses which permit operators to offer fixed-line as well as mobile services; in recent years the government has developed a number of digital migration projects aimed at increasing average broadband speeds, delivering fiber broadband to about 60% of the population, developing an in-house satellite program, and creating a knowledge-based economy through the greater adoption of ICTs; the New Administrative Capital being built is only one of more than a dozen smart city projects, which together are stimulating investment in 5G and fiber broadband, as well as the adoption of IoT and AI solutions; the country endeavors to be a significant ICT hub in the North Africa and Middle East regions; Egypt’s mature mobile market has one of the highest subscription rates in Africa; progress in the adoption of mobile data services has been hampered by the lack of sufficient spectrum; the regulator in September 2020 made available 60MHz in the 2.6GHz band, though the spectrum was not allocated until late 2021; the additional spectrum will go far to enabling the MNOs to improve the quality of mobile broadband services offered; further 5G trials are to be held later in 2022, focused on the New Administrative Capital; the international cable infrastructure remains an important asset for Egypt, which benefits from its geographical position; Telecom Egypt has become one of the largest concerns in this segment, being a participating member in numerous cable systems; in mid-2021 the telco announced plans to build the Hybrid African Ring Path system, connecting a number of landlocked countries in Africa with Italy, France, and Portugal; the system will partly use the company’s existing terrestrial and sub sea cable networks (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line roughly 10 per 100, mobile-cellular 93 per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line roughly 10 per 100, mobile-cellular 95 per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 20; landing points for Aletar, Africa-1, FEA, Hawk, IMEWE, and the SEA-ME-WE-3 & 4 submarine cable networks linking to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia ; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat); tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to Israel; a participant in Medarabtel (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "mix of state-run and private broadcast media; state-run TV operates 2 national and 6 regional terrestrial networks, as well as a few satellite channels; dozens of private satellite channels and a large number of Arabic satellite channels are available for free; some limited satellite services are also available via subscription; state-run radio operates about 30 stations belonging to 8 networks; privately-owned radio includes 8 major stations, 4 of which belong to 1 network (2019)"
@@ -1177,9 +1195,7 @@
"text": "SU"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "83 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "83 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1269,7 +1285,7 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF): Army (includes Republican Guard), Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force, Air Defense Command, Border Guard Forces; Interior Ministry: Public Security Sector Police, the Central Security Force, National Security Sector (2022)",
+ "text": "Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF): Army (includes Republican Guard), Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force, Air Defense Forces, Border Guard Forces; Interior Ministry: Public Security Sector Police, the Central Security Force, National Security Sector (2023)",
"note": "note 1: the Public Security Sector Police are responsible for law enforcement nationwide; the Central Security Force protects infrastructure and is responsible for crowd control; the National Security Sector is responsible for internal security threats and counterterrorism along with other security services
note 2: in addition to its external defense duties, the EAF also has a mandate to assist police in protecting vital infrastructure during a state of emergency; military personnel were granted full arrest authority in 2011 but normally only use this authority during states of emergency and “periods of significant turmoil”"
},
"Military expenditures": {
@@ -1280,13 +1296,13 @@
"text": "1.3% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019) (approximately $15.8 billion)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.4% of GDP (2018) (approximately $15.9 billion)"
+ "text": "1.4% of GDP (2018)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.6% of GDP (2017) (approximately $16.7 billion)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2017)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1296,8 +1312,8 @@
"text": "the EAF's inventory is comprised of a mix of domestically produced, imported Soviet-era, and more modern, particularly Western, weapons systems; in recent years, the EAF has embarked on an extensive equipment modernization program with significant purchases from foreign suppliers; in recent years, major suppliers have included France, Russia, and the US; Egypt has an established defense industry that produces a range of products from small arms to armored vehicles and naval vessels; it also has licensed and co-production agreements with several countries, including the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "voluntary enlistment possible from age 16 for men and women; 18-30 years of age for conscript service for men; service obligation 14-36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation; active service length depends on education; high school drop-outs serve for the full 36 months, while college graduates serve for lesser periods of time, depending on their education (2022)",
- "note": "note: as of 2020, conscripts were estimated to comprise over half of the military, as well as a considerable portion of the Central Security Force"
+ "text": "voluntary enlistment possible from age 16 for men and women; 18-30 years of age for conscript service for men; service obligation 14-36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation; active service length depends on education; high school drop-outs serve for the full 36 months, while college graduates serve for lesser periods of time, depending on their education (2023)",
+ "note": "note: conscripts are estimated to comprise over half of the military, as well as a considerable portion of the Central Security Force"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "1,000 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 1,075 Mali (MINUSMA) (May 2022)"
diff --git a/africa/ek.json b/africa/ek.json
index ebcc97ae..76b0d5be 100644
--- a/africa/ek.json
+++ b/africa/ek.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "301 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "212 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -759,6 +759,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2017": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.114 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1004,18 +1015,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "11,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "11,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "645,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "650,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "46 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "39 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1023,12 +1034,11 @@
"text": "the telecom service is forecasted to register a growth of more than 6% during the period of 2022-2026; mobile data is the largest contributor to total service revenue in 2021, followed by mobile voice, fixed broadband, mobile messaging, and fixed voice; the launch of the international submarine cable ACE, which connects 13 West African countries with Europe, will improve international capacity, bringing opportunities to data center providers; 4G network expansion and 4G service promotion will allow consumers and businesses to leverage 4G services (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line density is less than 1 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 46 per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line density is less than 1 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 39 per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 240; landing points for the ACE, Ceiba-1, and Ceiba-2 submarine cables providing communication from Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea to numerous Western African and European countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the state maintains control of broadcast media with domestic broadcast media limited to 1 state-owned TV station, 1 private TV station owned by the president's eldest son (who is the Vice President), 1 state-owned radio station, and 1 private radio station owned by the president's eldest son; satellite TV service is available; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are generally accessible (2019)"
@@ -1072,9 +1082,7 @@
"text": "3C"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "7 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "7 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1139,13 +1147,13 @@
"text": "1.5% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.5% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $270 million)"
+ "text": "1.5% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.1% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $230 million)"
+ "text": "1.1% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.1% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $250 million)"
+ "text": "1.1% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1155,10 +1163,10 @@
"text": "the FAGE is armed with mostly older (typically Soviet-era) and second-hand weapons systems; in recent years, it has sought to modernize its naval inventory with purchases of vessels from several countries, including Bulgaria and Israel (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for selective compulsory military service, although conscription is rare in practice; 2-year service obligation; women hold only administrative positions in the Navy (2021)"
+ "text": "18 years of age for selective compulsory military service, although conscription is rare in practice; 24-month service obligation (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the FAGE’s National Guard (Army) has only three small infantry battalions with limited combat capabilities; the country has invested heavily in naval capabilities in recent years to protect its oil installations and combat piracy and crime in the Gulf of Guinea; while the Navy was small, it is well-equipped with an inventory that includes a light frigate and a corvette, as well as several off-shore patrol boats; the Air Force has only a few operational combat aircraft and ground attack-capable helicopters (2023)"
+ "text": "the FAGE’s National Guard (Army) has only three small infantry battalions with limited combat capabilities; the country has invested heavily in naval capabilities in recent years to protect its oil installations and combat piracy and crime in the Gulf of Guinea; while the Navy was small, its inventory includes a light frigate and a corvette, as well as several off-shore patrol boats; the Air Force has only a few operational combat aircraft and ground attack-capable helicopters (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\""
diff --git a/africa/er.json b/africa/er.json
index eb5eeb07..d6f89950 100644
--- a/africa/er.json
+++ b/africa/er.json
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "480 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "322 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -300,7 +300,8 @@
},
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "malaria and dengue fever"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Eritrea 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% (2016)"
@@ -442,7 +443,8 @@
},
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "malaria and dengue fever"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Eritrea 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -1022,18 +1024,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "66,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "66,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "2 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "2 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1.801 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1.8 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "51 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "50 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1041,12 +1043,11 @@
"text": "Eritrea’s telecom sector operates under a state-owned monopoly for fixed and mobile services; as a result of such restrictions on competition, the country has the least developed telecommunications market in Africa; mobile penetration stands at only about 20%, while fixed-line internet use barely registers; this is exacerbated by the very low use of computers, with only about 4% of households having a computer, and most of these being in the capital, Asmara; the 3G network continues to rollout which provides basic internet access to the majority or Eritreans; investment in telecom infrastructure is still required to improve the quality of services; the government has embarked on a work program to do exactly that, specifically aimed at extending services to remote areas, improving the quality of services, and ensuring that more telecoms infrastructure is supported by solar power to compensate for the poor state of the electricity network; additional foreign investment in telecom infrastructure, as well as introduction of more competition, would help transform what remains a virtually untapped market (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscribership is less than 2 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular is just over 51 per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscribership is less than 2 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular is just over 50 per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 291 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government controls broadcast media with private ownership prohibited; 1 state-owned TV station; state-owned radio operates 2 networks; purchases of satellite dishes and subscriptions to international broadcast media are permitted (2019)"
@@ -1087,9 +1088,7 @@
"text": "E3"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "13 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "13 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1161,19 +1160,19 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "10% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $640 million)"
+ "text": "10% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "10.2% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $630 million)"
+ "text": "10.2% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "10.3% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $630 million)"
+ "text": "10.3% of GDP (2017 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2016": {
- "text": "10.4% of GDP (2016 est.) (approximately $640 million)"
+ "text": "10.4% of GDP (2016 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2015": {
- "text": "10.6% of GDP (2015 est.) (approximately $600 million)"
+ "text": "10.6% of GDP (2015 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1183,7 +1182,7 @@
"text": "the EDF inventory is comprised primarily of older Russian and Soviet-era systems; Eritrea was under a UN arms embargo from 2009 to 2018; from the 1990s to 2008, Russia was the leading supplier of arms to Eritrea, and in recent years, Eritrea has expressed interest in purchasing additional Russian equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "Eritrea mandates military service for all citizens between the ages of 18 and 40 (18-27 for women if conscripted); 18-month conscript service obligation, which includes 4-6 months of military training and 12 months of military or other national service (military service is most common); in practice, military service is often extended indefinitely; citizens up to the age of 55 eligible for recall during mobilization (2022)",
+ "text": "Eritrea mandates military service for all citizens between the ages of 18 and 40 (18-27 for women if conscripted); 18-month conscript service obligation, which includes 4-6 months of military training and 12 months of military or other national service (military service is most common); in practice, military service is often extended indefinitely; citizens up to the age of 55 eligible for recall during mobilization (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2020, women were estimated to make up as much as 30% of the Eritrean military"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/africa/et.json b/africa/et.json
index 17e5bdc8..1d95b370 100644
--- a/africa/et.json
+++ b/africa/et.json
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "401 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "267 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Ethiopia 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, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Ethiopia 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": "4.5% (2016)"
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Ethiopia 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, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Ethiopia 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
@@ -889,6 +889,14 @@
"text": "35 (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "56.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "4.1%"
@@ -897,6 +905,17 @@
"text": "25.6% (2005)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.4% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.38% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.5% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$11.24 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1148,18 +1167,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1.252 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "890,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "44.5 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "65 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "39 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "54 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1167,12 +1186,11 @@
"text": "has been one of the last in Africa to allow its national telco a monopoly on all telecom services including fixed, mobile, internet and data communications; this has stifled innovation, restricted network expansion, and limited the scope of services on offer; the World Bank in early 2021 provided a $200 million loan to help develop the country’s digital transformation, while the government has embarked on its 2020-2030 program as well as its Digital Ethiopia 2025 strategy, both aimed at making better use of digital technologies to promote socioeconomic development (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscriptions at about 1 per 100 while mobile-cellular stands at a little over 39 per 100; the number of mobile telephones is increasing steadily (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscriptions less than 1 per 100 while mobile-cellular stands at a little over 54 per 100 people (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 251; open-wire to Sudan and Djibouti; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti; 2 domestic satellites provide the national trunk service; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean) (2016)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "6 public TV stations broadcasting nationally and 10 public radio broadcasters; 7 private radio stations and 19 community radio stations (2017)"
@@ -1216,9 +1234,7 @@
"text": "ET"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "57 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "57 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1309,8 +1325,8 @@
"text": "the ENDF's inventory is comprised mostly of Russian and Soviet-era equipment; in recent years, the ENDF has received arms from a variety of countries, including China, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates; Ethiopia has a modest industrial defense base centered on small arms and production of armored vehicles (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-22 years of age for voluntary military service (although the military may, when necessary, recruit a person more than 22 years old); no compulsory military service, but the military can conduct callups when necessary and compliance is compulsory (2022)",
- "note": "note: in November 2021, the Ethiopian Government issued a nationwide state of emergency that enabled officials to order military-age citizens to undergo training and accept military duty in support of the Tigray conflict; the order also recalled retired military officers to active duty"
+ "text": "18-22 years of age for voluntary military service (although the military may, when necessary, recruit a person more than 22 years old); no compulsory military service, but the military can conduct callups when necessary and compliance is compulsory (2023)",
+ "note": "note: during the 2020-2022 Tigray conflict, the Ethiopian Government issued a nationwide state of emergency that enabled officials to order military-age citizens to undergo training and accept military duty; the order also recalled retired military officers to active duty"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "5-8,000 Somalia (approximately 4,000 for ATMIS; the remainder under a bilateral agreement with Somalia; note - bilateral figures are prior to the 2020-22 conflict with Tigray); 250 Sudan (UNISFA); 1,450 South Sudan (UNMISS) (2022)"
@@ -1331,10 +1347,10 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "410,727 (South Sudan), 252,496 (Somalia), 163,251 (Eritrea), 48,743 (Sudan) (2023)"
+ "text": "412,594 (South Sudan), 253,069 (Somalia), 163,656 (Eritrea), 48,881 (Sudan) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
- "text": "2.72 million (includes conflict- and climate-induced IDPs, excluding unverified estimates from the Amhara region; border war with Eritrea from 1998-2000; ethnic clashes; and ongoing fighting between the Ethiopian military and separatist rebel groups in the Somali and Oromia regions; natural disasters; intercommunal violence; most IDPs live in Sumale state) (2022)"
+ "text": "2.73 million (includes conflict- and climate-induced IDPs, excluding unverified estimates from the Amhara region; border war with Eritrea from 1998-2000; ethnic clashes; and ongoing fighting between the Ethiopian military and separatist rebel groups in the Somali and Oromia regions; natural disasters; intercommunal violence; most IDPs live in Sumale state) (2023)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/africa/ga.json b/africa/ga.json
index 95c4bd57..4c9f56ec 100644
--- a/africa/ga.json
+++ b/africa/ga.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "597 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "458 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; The Gambia 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, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; The Gambia 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": "10.3% (2016)"
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; The Gambia 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, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; The Gambia 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -832,6 +832,17 @@
"text": "36.9% (2003)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "26.84% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "22.98% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "15.21% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$300.4 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1080,18 +1091,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "60,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "60,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "2 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "2 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "2,677,954 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "27 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "111 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1099,12 +1110,11 @@
"text": "Gambia’s telecom market has five mobile networks providing effective competition; mobile subscriptions are well above the African average, itself a testament to the poor condition of the fixed-line infrastructure and the lack of availability of fixed services in many rural areas of the country; there are only four licensed ISPs, which are small networks serving local areas, and so competition is minimal; their limited services are complemented by the fixed-wireless offerings of three of the MNOs; the government has embarked on a National Broadband Network program aimed at closing the digital divide affecting many parts of the country; despite efforts to improve internet connectivity, the country ranks among the lowest globally in terms of digital readiness. (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscriptions nearly 2 per 100 with one dominant company and mobile-cellular teledensity nearly 111 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscriptions are 2 per 100 and mobile-cellular teledensity nearly 110 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 220; landing point for the ACE submarine cable to West Africa and Europe; microwave radio relay links to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-run TV-channel; one privately-owned TV-station; 1 Online TV-station; three state-owned radio station and 31 privately owned radio stations; eight community radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available, some via shortwave radio; cable and satellite TV subscription services are obtainable in some parts of the country
(2019)"
@@ -1145,9 +1155,7 @@
"text": "C5"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1198,13 +1206,13 @@
"text": "0.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "0.8% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $25 million)"
+ "text": "0.8% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "0.7% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $20 million)"
+ "text": "0.7% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "0.7% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $20 million)"
+ "text": "0.7% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/africa/gb.json b/africa/gb.json
index addb73fc..caa7df69 100644
--- a/africa/gb.json
+++ b/africa/gb.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "252 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "227 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -816,6 +816,17 @@
"text": "32.7% (2005)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.11% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.11% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.634 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1061,18 +1072,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "25,428 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "31,708 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "3,049,530 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "3,144,609 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "137 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "134 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1080,12 +1091,11 @@
"text": "the telecom market was liberalized in 1999 when the government awarded three mobile telephony licenses and two ISP licenses and established an independent regulatory authority; in contrast with the mobile market, Gabon’s fixed-line and internet sectors have remained underdeveloped due to a lack of competition and high prices; the country has sufficient international bandwidth on the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE submarine cable; the arrival of the ACE submarine cable, combined with progressing work on the CAB cable, has increased back haul capacity supporting mobile data traffic (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line is a little over 1 per 100 subscriptions; a growing mobile cellular network with multiple providers is making telephone service more widely available with mobile cellular teledensity at nearly 139 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line 1 per 100 subscriptions; mobile cellular subscriptions are 134 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 241; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, ACE and Libreville-Port Gentil Cable fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and West Africa; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state owns and operates 2 TV stations and 2 radio broadcast stations; a few private radio and TV stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are accessible; satellite service subscriptions are available"
@@ -1123,9 +1133,7 @@
"text": "TR"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "44 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "44 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1216,13 +1224,13 @@
"text": "1.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.6% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $450 million)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.6% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $440 million)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $480 million)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1232,10 +1240,10 @@
"text": "the Gabonese military is lightly armed with a mix of equipment from a variety of suppliers including Brazil, China, France, Germany, and South Africa (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "20 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2021)"
+ "text": "18-26 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the Gabonese military is a small, but capable force responsible for both internal and external security; members of the military attempted a failed coup in 2019; the Gabonese military has benefited from cooperation with international partners, particularly the French military, which has maintained a long-term presence in Gabon; the Army’s core forces are the Republican Guard and an airborne infantry battalion, which are supported by several small regionally-based infantry units; the Gendarmerie has regionally-based “legions,” as well as mobile forces, a national parks security unit, and a special intervention group; the Air Force has a small number of older French-made fighter aircraft and some combat helicopters, also mostly of French origin; the Navy has a small force of patrol boats (2023)"
+ "text": "the Gabonese military is a small and lightly-armed force that is responsible for both external and internal security; members of the military attempted a failed coup in 2019; the Gabonese military has benefited from cooperation with international partners, particularly the French military, which has maintained a long-term presence in Gabon; the Army’s core forces are the Republican Guard and an airborne infantry battalion, which are supported by several small regionally-based infantry units; the Gendarmerie has regionally-based “legions,” as well as mobile forces, a national parks security unit, and a special intervention group; the Air Force has a small number of older French-made fighter aircraft and some combat helicopters, also mostly of French origin; the Navy has a small force of patrol boats (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\""
diff --git a/africa/gh.json b/africa/gh.json
index d1bd9e76..aa4beb44 100644
--- a/africa/gh.json
+++ b/africa/gh.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "308 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "263 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: since October 2021, there has been a yellow fever outbreak in Ghana with numerous cases, including some deaths, in the following regions: Savannah, Upper West, Bono, and Oti; the CDC recommends travelers going to Ghana 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; there are no medications to treat or cure yellow fever"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: since October 2021, there has been a yellow fever outbreak in Ghana with numerous cases, including some deaths, in the following regions: Savannah, Upper West, Bono, and Oti; the CDC recommends travelers going to Ghana 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; there are no medications to treat or cure yellow fever"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -851,6 +851,14 @@
"text": "43.5 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "41.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2%"
@@ -859,6 +867,17 @@
"text": "32.8% (2006)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "6.13% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.93% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "5.23% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$9.544 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1107,18 +1126,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "307,668 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "315,271 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "40,461,609 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "40,454,073 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "130 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "123 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1126,12 +1145,11 @@
"text": "challenged by unreliable electricity and shortage of skilled labor, Ghana seeks to extend telecom services nationally; investment in fiber infrastructure and off-grid solutions provide data coverage to over 23 million people; launch of LTE has improved mobile data services, including m-commerce and banking; moderately competitive Internet market, most through mobile networks; international submarine cables, and terrestrial cables have improved Internet capacity; LTE services are widely available; the relatively high cost of 5G-compatible devices also inhibits most subscribers from migrating from 3G and LTE platforms (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line data less than 1 per 100 subscriptions; competition among multiple mobile-cellular providers has spurred growth with a voice subscribership of more than 130 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line data less than 1 per 100 subscriptions; mobile-cellular subscriptions 123 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 233; landing points for the SAT-3/WASC, MainOne, ACE, WACS and GLO-1 fiber-optic submarine cables that provide connectivity to South and West Africa, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); microwave radio relay link to Panaftel system connects Ghana to its neighbors; GhanaSat-1 nanosatellite launched in 2017 (2017)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned TV station, 2 state-owned radio networks; several privately owned TV stations and a large number of privately owned radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are accessible; several cable and satellite TV subscription services are obtainable"
@@ -1172,9 +1190,7 @@
"text": "9G"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "10 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "10 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1255,13 +1271,13 @@
"text": "0.4% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "0.4% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $360 million)"
+ "text": "0.4% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "0.3% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $330 million)"
+ "text": "0.3% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "0.3% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $300 million)"
+ "text": "0.3% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/africa/gv.json b/africa/gv.json
index 801dd2c5..f2bfcf57 100644
--- a/africa/gv.json
+++ b/africa/gv.json
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "576 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "553 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -318,8 +318,7 @@
},
"aerosolized dust or soil contact diseases": {
"text": "Lassa fever (2016)"
- },
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Guinea 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": "7.7% (2016)"
@@ -476,8 +475,7 @@
},
"aerosolized dust or soil contact diseases": {
"text": "Lassa fever (2016)"
- },
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Guinea 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"
+ }
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -844,6 +842,17 @@
"text": "30.3% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.14% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.16% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.18% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.7 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1115,8 +1124,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 224; ACE submarine cable connecting Guinea with 20 landing points in Western and South Africa and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Government maintains marginal control over broadcast media; single state-run TV station; state-run radio broadcast station also operates several stations in rural areas; a dozen private television stations; a steadily increasing number of privately owned radio stations, nearly all in Conakry, and about a dozen community radio stations; foreign TV programming available via satellite and cable subscription services
(2022)"
@@ -1146,9 +1154,7 @@
"text": "3X"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "16 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "16 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1227,13 +1233,13 @@
"text": "1.4% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.6% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $270 million)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $280 million)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $260 million)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1249,7 +1255,7 @@
"text": "670 Mali (MINUSMA) (May 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the Guinean military is small and lightly armed; it is responsible for external defense, but also has some domestic security responsibilities and has historically been involved in suppressing public protests; the military has undergone some attempts at reform since 2010, but in 2021 the Army’s special forces led a successful coup; the Army has a mix of approximately 10 infantry, light armor, commando, and special forces battalions, as well as a presidential guard force; piracy and natural resource protection in the Gulf of Guinea are key areas of concern for the small Navy, which possesses only a few patrol boats; the Air Force has a handful of serviceable aircraft, including helicopter gunships (2023)"
+ "text": "the Guinean military is a small and lightly armed force that is responsible for external defense, but also has some domestic security responsibilities and has historically been involved in suppressing public protests; the military has undergone some attempts at reform since 2010, but in 2021 the Army’s special forces led a successful coup; the Army has a mix of approximately 10 infantry, light armor, commando, and special forces battalions, as well as a presidential guard force; piracy and natural resource protection in the Gulf of Guinea are key areas of concern for the small Navy, which possesses only a few patrol boats; the Air Force has a handful of serviceable aircraft, including helicopter gunships (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\""
diff --git a/africa/iv.json b/africa/iv.json
index e68fc87a..3be72157 100644
--- a/africa/iv.json
+++ b/africa/iv.json
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "617 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "480 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Côte d'Ivoire 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": "10.3% (2016)"
@@ -493,7 +494,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Côte d'Ivoire 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -856,6 +858,14 @@
"text": "37.2 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "39.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.2%"
@@ -864,6 +874,17 @@
"text": "31.8% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.54% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.56% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.57% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$7.749 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1110,18 +1131,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "264,073 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "265,513 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "40,095,246 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "44,561,505 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "152 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "162 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1129,12 +1150,11 @@
"text": "in recent years the government of Ivory Coast has helped develop a competitive telecom sector focused on the provision of converged services, thus allowing operators to offer fixed-line and mobile services under a universal services license regime; the fixed internet and broadband sectors remain underdeveloped; this is a legacy of poor international connectivity, which resulted in high wholesale prices, limited bandwidth, and a lack of access for alternative operators to international infrastructure; these limitations were addressed following the landing of a second cable in November 2011; Orange Group has also launched its 20,000km Djoliba cable system, reaching across eight countries in the region, while the 2Africa submarine cable is being developed by a consortium of companies; with a landing station providing connectivity to Côte d'Ivoire, the system is expected to be completed in late 2023 (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "1 per 100 fixed-line teledensity; with multiple mobile-cellular service providers competing in the market, mobile subscriptions have increased to 152 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "1 per 100 fixed-line teledensity; mobile subscriptions are 162 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 225; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC, ACE, MainOne, and WACS fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and South and West Africa; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-controlled Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirieinne (RTI) is made up of 2 radio stations (Radio Cote d'Ivoire and Frequence2) and 2 television stations (RTI1 and RTI2), with nationwide coverage, broadcasts mainly in French; after 2011 post-electoral crisis, President OUATTARA's administration reopened RTI Bouake', the broadcaster's office in Cote d'Ivoire's 2nd largest city, where facilities were destroyed during the 2002 rebellion; Cote d'Ivoire is also home to 178 proximity radio stations, 16 religious radio stations, 5 commercial radio stations, and 5 international radios stations, according to the Haute Autorite' de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA); govt now runs radio UNOCIFM, a radio station previously owned by the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire; in Dec 2016, the govt announced 4 companies had been granted licenses to operate -Live TV, Optimum Media Cote d'Ivoire, the Audiovisual Company of Cote d'Ivoire (Sedaci), and Sorano-CI, out of the 4 companies only one has started operating (2019)"
@@ -1178,9 +1198,7 @@
"text": "TU"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "27 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "27 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1285,7 +1303,7 @@
"text": "the inventory of the FACI consists mostly of older or second-hand equipment, typically of French or Soviet-era origin; Cote d'Ivoire was under a partial UN arms embargo from 2004 to 2016; in recent years it has received limited amounts of mostly second-hand equipment from several countries, including France (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-25 years of age for compulsory and voluntary male and female military service; conscription is not enforced; voluntary recruitment of former rebels into the new national army is restricted to ages 22-29 (2022)"
+ "text": "18-26 years of age for compulsory and voluntary male and female military service; conscription is not enforced (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "850 Mali (MINUSMA) (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/ke.json b/africa/ke.json
index 864f77cf..70606140 100644
--- a/africa/ke.json
+++ b/africa/ke.json
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "342 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "530 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -856,6 +856,14 @@
"text": "40.8 (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "52.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.8%"
@@ -864,6 +872,17 @@
"text": "37.8% (2005)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.42% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.09% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.83% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$13.95 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1135,8 +1154,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 254; landing point for the EASSy, TEAMS, LION2, DARE1, PEACE Cable, and SEACOM fiber-optic submarine cable systems covering East, North and South Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat; launched first micro satellites in 2018 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "about a half-dozen large-scale privately owned media companies with TV and radio stations, as well as a state-owned TV broadcaster, provide service nationwide; satellite and cable TV subscription services available; state-owned radio broadcaster operates 2 national radio channels and provides regional and local radio services in multiple languages; many private radio stations broadcast on a national level along with over 100 private and non-profit regional stations broadcasting in local languages; TV transmissions of all major international broadcasters available, mostly via paid subscriptions; direct radio frequency modulation transmissions available for several foreign government-owned broadcasters (2019)"
@@ -1177,9 +1195,7 @@
"text": "5Y"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "197 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "197 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1293,10 +1309,10 @@
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "260 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 3,650 Somalia (ATMIS) (2022)",
- "note": "note: in November 2022, Kenya sent approximately 900 troops to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of a newly formed East Africa Community Regional Force (EACRF) to assist the DRC military against the rebel group M23; the force is led by Kenya"
+ "note": "note: in November 2022, Kenya sent approximately 1,000 troops to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of a newly formed East Africa Community Regional Force (EACRF) to assist the DRC military against the rebel group M23; the force is led by Kenya"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the KDF is considered to be an experienced, effective, and professional force; it has conducted operations in neighboring Somalia since 2011 and taken part in numerous regional peacekeeping and security missions; it is a leading member of the Africa Standby Force; the KDF trains regularly, participates in multinational exercises, and has ties to a variety of foreign militaries, including those of France, the UK, and the US; its chief security concerns and missions include protecting the country’s sovereignty and territory, regional disputes, the threat posed by the al-Shabaab terrorist group based in neighboring Somalia, maritime crime and piracy, and assisting civil authorities in responding to emergency, disaster, or political unrest as requested
the Army has 5 combat brigades, including 3 infantry, an armored, and an artillery brigade; it also has a helicopter-equipped air cavalry battalion and a special operations regiment comprised of airborne, special forces, and ranger battalions; the Navy has several offshore patrol vessels, large coastal patrol boats, and missile-armed craft; the Air Force has a small inventory of older US-origin fighter aircraft and more than 50 combat and transport helicopters
Kenyan military forces intervened in Somalia in October 2011 to combat the al Qaida-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group, which had conducted numerous cross-border attacks into Kenya; in November 2011, the UN and the African Union invited Kenya to incorporate its forces into the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM); Kenyan forces were formally integrated into AMISOM in February 2012; they consist of approximately 3,600 troops and are responsible for AMISOM’s Sector 2 comprising Lower and Middle Jubba (see Appendix T for additional details on al-Shabaab; note - as of May 2022, AMISOM was renamed the AU Transition Mission in Somalia or ATMIS)
the Kenya Military Forces were created following independence in 1963; the current KDF was established and its composition laid out in the 2010 constitution; it is governed by the Kenya Defense Forces Act of 2012; the Army traces its origins back to the Kings African Rifles (KAR), a British colonial regiment raised from Britain's East Africa possessions from 1902 until independence in the 1960s; the KAR conducted both military and internal security functions within the colonial territories, and served outside the territories during the World Wars (2023)"
+ "text": "the KDF is considered to be an experienced, effective, and professional force; it has conducted operations in neighboring Somalia since 2011 and taken part in numerous regional peacekeeping and security missions; it is a leading member of the Africa Standby Force; the KDF trains regularly, participates in multinational exercises, and has ties to a variety of foreign militaries, including those of France, the UK, and the US; its chief security concerns and missions include protecting the country’s sovereignty and territory, regional disputes, the threat posed by the al-Shabaab terrorist group based in neighboring Somalia, maritime crime and piracy, and assisting civil authorities in responding to emergency, disaster, or political unrest as requested
the Army has 5 combat brigades, including 3 infantry, an armored, and an artillery brigade; it also has a helicopter-equipped air cavalry battalion and a special operations regiment comprised of airborne, special forces, and ranger battalions; the Navy has several offshore patrol vessels, large coastal patrol boats, and missile-armed craft; the Air Force has a small inventory of older US-origin fighter aircraft, as well as some transport aircraft and combat helicopters
Kenyan military forces intervened in Somalia in October 2011 to combat the al Qaida-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group, which had conducted numerous cross-border attacks into Kenya; in November 2011, the UN and the African Union invited Kenya to incorporate its forces into the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM); Kenyan forces were formally integrated into AMISOM in February 2012; they consist of approximately 3,600 troops and are responsible for AMISOM’s Sector 2 comprising Lower and Middle Jubba (see Appendix T for additional details on al-Shabaab; note - as of May 2022, AMISOM was renamed the AU Transition Mission in Somalia or ATMIS)
the Kenya Military Forces were created following independence in 1963; the current KDF was established and its composition laid out in the 2010 constitution; it is governed by the Kenya Defense Forces Act of 2012; the Army traces its origins back to the Kings African Rifles (KAR), a British colonial regiment raised from Britain's East Africa possessions from 1902 until independence in the 1960s; the KAR conducted both military and internal security functions within the colonial territories, and served outside the territories during the World Wars (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports that shipping in territorial and offshore waters in the Indian Ocean remain at risk for piracy and armed robbery against ships"
@@ -1314,7 +1330,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "279,925 (Somalia), 153,289 (South Sudan), 53,980 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 21,620 (Ethiopia), 8,159 (Burundi), 5,540 (Sudan) (2022)"
+ "text": "279,925 (Somalia), 153,289 (South Sudan), 21,620 (Ethiopia), 8,159 (Burundi), 5,540 (Sudan) (2022); 72,192 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "190,000 (election-related violence, intercommunal violence, resource conflicts, al-Shabaab attacks in 2017 and 2018) (2021)"
diff --git a/africa/li.json b/africa/li.json
index 21bb9395..eca746cf 100644
--- a/africa/li.json
+++ b/africa/li.json
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "661 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "652 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -813,6 +813,17 @@
"text": "30.1% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "10.97% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "10.43% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "13.44% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$553.6 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1084,8 +1095,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 231; landing point for the ACE submarine cable linking 20 West African countries and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "8 private and 1 government-owned TV station; satellite TV service available; 1 state-owned radio station; approximately 20 independent radio stations broadcasting in Monrovia, with approximately 80 more local stations operating in other areas; transmissions of 4 international (including the British Broadcasting Corporation and Radio France Internationale) broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1115,9 +1125,7 @@
"text": "A8"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "29 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "29 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/lt.json b/africa/lt.json
index b666b577..7984fb67 100644
--- a/africa/lt.json
+++ b/africa/lt.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "544 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "566 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -817,6 +817,17 @@
"text": "39.4% (2003)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "20% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "20.98% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "22.16% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.09 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1088,8 +1099,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 266; Internet accessibility has improved with several submarine fiber optic cables that land on African east and west coasts, but the country's land locked position makes access prices expensive; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV station and 2 state-owned radio stations; government controls most private broadcast media; satellite TV subscription service available; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters obtainable (2019)"
@@ -1119,9 +1129,7 @@
"text": "7P"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "24 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "24 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/ly.json b/africa/ly.json
index c7589bca..d8ab6e2a 100644
--- a/africa/ly.json
+++ b/africa/ly.json
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "72 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "72 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -750,6 +750,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2017": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$15.78 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1015,8 +1026,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 218; landing points for LFON, EIG, Italy-Libya, Silphium and Tobrok-Emasaed submarine cable system connecting Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat, Arabsat, and Intersputnik; microwave radio relay to Tunisia and Egypt; tropospheric scatter to Greece; participant in Medarabtel (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-funded and private TV stations; some provinces operate local TV stations; pan-Arab satellite TV stations are available; state-funded radio (2019)"
@@ -1057,9 +1067,7 @@
"text": "5A"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "146 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "146 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1140,7 +1148,7 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Libya lacks a nationwide military and the interim government, the Government of National Unity (GNU), relies on its cooperation with disparate militias that it cannot entirely control for security; the GNU has a ministry of defense and access to various ground, air, and naval/coast guard forces comprised of a mix of semi-regular military units, militias, civilian volunteers, and foreign troops and mercenaries
the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), under de facto LNA commander Khalifa HAFTER, also includes various ground, air, and naval units comprised of semi-regular military personnel, militias, and foreign troops and mercenaries; the LNA operates independently from the GNU and exerts influence throughout eastern, central, and southern Libya (2022)",
+ "text": "the Government of National Unity (GNU) has access to various ground, air, and naval/coast guard forces comprised of a mix of formations and equipment from the QADHAFI regime, semi-regular military units, militias, civilian volunteers, and foreign private military contractors and mercenaries; the GNU has a Ministry of Defense, but has limited control over its security forces
the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), under de facto LNA commander Khalifa HAFTER, also includes various ground, air, and naval forces comprised of semi-regular military personnel, militias, and foreign private military contractors and mercenaries; the LNA operates independently from the GNU and exerts influence throughout eastern, central, and southern Libya (2022)",
"note": "note 1: the Stabilization Support Authority (SSA) is a state-funded militia established in January 2021 by the GNU; it is tasked with securing government buildings and officials, participating in combat operations, apprehending those suspected of national security crimes, and cooperating with other security bodies
note 2: the national police force under the Ministry of Interior oversees internal security (with support from military forces under the Ministry of Defense), but much of Libya's security-related police work generally falls to informal armed groups, which received government salaries but lacked formal training, supervision, or consistent accountability"
},
"Military expenditures": {
@@ -1171,7 +1179,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "19,764 (Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 11,810 (Syria) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,096 (Eritrea) (2023)"
+ "text": "20,355 (Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 11,308 (Syria) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,716 (Eritrea) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "134,787 (conflict between pro-QADHAFI and anti-QADHAFI forces in 2011; post-QADHAFI tribal clashes 2014) (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/ma.json b/africa/ma.json
index 402695a3..de636df0 100644
--- a/africa/ma.json
+++ b/africa/ma.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "335 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "392 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -827,6 +827,17 @@
"text": "34.7% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.89% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "3.09% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.828 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1095,8 +1106,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 261; landing points for the EASSy, METISS, and LION fiber-optic submarine cable systems connecting to numerous Indian Ocean Islands, South Africa, and Eastern African countries; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intelsat - Indian Ocean, 1 Intersputnik - Atlantic Ocean region) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned Radio Nationale Malagasy (RNM) and Television Malagasy (TVM) have an extensive national network reach; privately owned radio and TV broadcasters in cities and major towns; state-run radio dominates in rural areas; relays of 2 international broadcasters are available in Antananarivo (2019)"
@@ -1140,9 +1150,7 @@
"text": "5R"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "83 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "83 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/mi.json b/africa/mi.json
index cd0e26f5..9c8dc599 100644
--- a/africa/mi.json
+++ b/africa/mi.json
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "349 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "381 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
@@ -844,6 +844,17 @@
"text": "37.5% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.05% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.55% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.356 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1115,8 +1126,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 265; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "radio is the main broadcast medium; privately owned Zodiak radio has the widest national broadcasting reach, followed by state-run radio; numerous private and community radio stations broadcast in cities and towns around the country; the largest TV network is government-owned, but at least 4 private TV networks broadcast in urban areas; relays of multiple international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1160,9 +1170,7 @@
"text": "7Q"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "32 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "32 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1264,7 +1272,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "34,840 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 13,205 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers), 7,807 (Rwanda) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
+ "text": "13,205 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers), 7,807 (Rwanda) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022); 35,420 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers (2023)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/africa/ml.json b/africa/ml.json
index 7cb55441..508f629d 100644
--- a/africa/ml.json
+++ b/africa/ml.json
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "562 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "440 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -489,7 +490,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -863,6 +865,17 @@
"text": "25.8% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "5.71% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.62% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "5.99% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.075 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1131,8 +1144,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 223; satellite communications center and fiber-optic links to neighboring countries; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean, 1 Indian Ocean) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "national public TV broadcaster; 2 privately owned companies provide subscription services to foreign multi-channel TV packages; national public radio broadcaster supplemented by a large number of privately owned and community broadcast stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1167,9 +1179,7 @@
"text": "TZ, TT"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "25 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "25 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1256,13 +1266,13 @@
"text": "the FAMA's inventory consists primarily of Soviet-era equipment, although in recent years it has received limited quantities of mostly secondhand armaments from more than a dozen countries, especially Russia (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for men and women for selective compulsory and voluntary military service; 2-year conscript service obligation (2022)"
+ "text": "18 years of age for men and women for selective compulsory and voluntary military service; 24-month compulsory service obligation (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "note: until announcing its withdrawal in May of 2022, Mali was part of a five-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G5 Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger; Mali had committed 1,100 troops and 200 gendarmes to the force"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "prior to the coup in August 2020 and military takeover in May 2021, the Malian military had intervened in the political arena at least five times since the country gained independence in 1960; two attempts failed (1976 and 1978), while three succeeded in overturning civilian rule (1968, 1991, and 2012)
the FAMA and the remainder of the security forces collapsed in 2012 during the fighting against Tuareg rebels and Islamic militants and have since been rebuilt with considerable external assistance, including the EU, France, and the UN; for example, the EU Training Mission in Mali (EUTM) from 2013-2022 trained some 14,000 Malian soldiers and 8 combined arms battalions/battlegroups (Groupement Tactique InterArmes, GTIA), each of which was structured to be self-sufficient with its own motorized/mechanized infantry, light armor, commandos, artillery, engineers, and other support forces; EUTM suspended its training program in 2022, citing issues with the ruling military government, including human rights abuses and the presence of Russian private military contractors; over the same period, the French military provided assistance to the Malian security forces and conducted counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations in Mali; the French suspended operations in 2021 and in August 2022 withdrew the last of its forces while also citing issues with the military government; the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has operated in the country since 2013 with the mission of providing security, rebuilding Malian security forces, protecting civilians, supporting national political dialogue, and assisting in the reestablishment of Malian government authority; as of late 2022, MINUSMA had around 14,000 personnel deployed
the military government has increased security ties with Russia; Russia has provided military equipment, and in December 2021, Mali contracted with a Russian private military company to provide training for local armed forces and security to senior Malian officials; they have also participated in security operations and been accused of war crimes; as of 2022, there were an estimated 1,000 Russian military contractors in Mali
Malian security forces are actively engaged in operations against several insurgent terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS), as well as other rebel groups, communal militias, and criminal bands spread across the central, northern, and southern regions of the country; the government was reportedly in control of only an estimated 10-20% of the country's central and northern territories, and terror attacks were increasing in the more heavily populated south, including around the capital Bamako; the Macina Liberation Front (FLM), part of the Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) coalition of al-Qa'ida-linked terror groups, has played a large role in a surge in violence in Mali’s central and southern regions; in the north, the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS) has been able to reassert itself in 2022 (2022)"
+ "text": "prior to the coup in August 2020 and military takeover in May 2021, the Malian military had intervened in the political arena at least five times since the country gained independence in 1960; two attempts failed (1976 and 1978), while three succeeded in overturning civilian rule (1968, 1991, and 2012)
the FAMA and the remainder of the security forces collapsed in 2012 during the fighting against Tuareg rebels and Islamic militants and have since been rebuilt with considerable external assistance, including the EU, France, and the UN; for example, the EU Training Mission in Mali (EUTM) from 2013-2022 trained some 14,000 Malian soldiers and 8 combined arms battalions/battlegroups (Groupement Tactique InterArmes, GTIA), each of which was structured to be self-sufficient with its own motorized/mechanized infantry, light armor, commandos, artillery, engineers, and other support forces; EUTM suspended its training program in 2022, citing issues with the ruling military government, including human rights abuses and the presence of Russian private military contractors; over the same period, the French military provided assistance to the Malian security forces and conducted counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations in Mali; the French suspended operations in 2021 and in August 2022 withdrew the last of its forces while also citing issues with the military government; the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has operated in the country since 2013 with the mission of providing security, rebuilding Malian security forces, protecting civilians, supporting national political dialogue, and assisting in the reestablishment of Malian government authority; as of late 2022, MINUSMA had around 14,000 personnel deployed
the military government has increased security ties with Russia; Russia has provided military equipment, and in December 2021, Mali contracted with a Russian private military company to provide training for local armed forces and security to senior Malian officials; they have also participated in security operations and been accused of war crimes; as of 2022, there were an estimated 1,000 Russian military contractors in Mali
Malian security forces are actively engaged in operations against several insurgent terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS), as well as other rebel groups, communal militias, and criminal bands spread across the central, northern, and southern regions of the country; the government was reportedly in control of only an estimated 10-20% of the country's central and northern territories, and terror attacks were increasing in the more heavily populated south, including around the capital Bamako; the Macina Liberation Front (FLM), part of the Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) coalition of al-Qa'ida-linked terror groups, has played a large role in a surge in violence in Mali’s central and southern regions; in the north, ISIS in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS) has been able to reassert itself (2022)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
diff --git a/africa/mo.json b/africa/mo.json
index 12f81475..37601cc2 100644
--- a/africa/mo.json
+++ b/africa/mo.json
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
"note": "note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "70 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)",
+ "text": "72 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)",
"note": "note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
@@ -855,6 +855,14 @@
"text": "39.5 (2013 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "34% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.7%"
@@ -863,6 +871,17 @@
"text": "33.2% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "7.49% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "6.11% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.4% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$22.81 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1128,8 +1147,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 212; landing point for the Atlas Offshore, Estepona-Tetouan, Canalink and SEA-ME-WE-3 fiber-optic telecommunications undersea cables that provide connectivity to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Australia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 TV broadcast networks with state-run Radio-Television Marocaine (RTM) operating one network and the state partially owning the other; foreign TV broadcasts are available via satellite dish; 3 radio broadcast networks with RTM operating one; the government-owned network includes 10 regional radio channels in addition to its national service (2019)"
@@ -1176,9 +1194,7 @@
"text": "CN"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "62 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "62 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1258,8 +1274,8 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Royal Armed Forces: Royal Moroccan Army (includes the Moroccan Royal Guard), Royal Moroccan Navy (includes Coast Guard, marines), Royal Moroccan Air Force; Ministry of Defense (aka Administration of National Defense): Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie; Ministry of Interior: National Police, Auxiliary Forces (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: the National Police manages internal law enforcement in cities; the Royal Gendarmerie is responsible for law enforcement in rural regions and on national highways
note 2: the Auxiliary Forces provide support to the Gendarmerie and National Police; it includes a Mobile Intervention Corps, a motorized paramilitary security force that supplements the military and the police as needed
note 3: the Moroccan Royal Guard was established in the 11th century and is considered one of the world's oldest active units still in military service
"
+ "text": "Royal Armed Forces (FAR): Royal Moroccan Army (includes the Moroccan Royal Guard), Royal Moroccan Navy (includes Coast Guard, marines), Royal Moroccan Air Force; Ministry of Defense (aka Administration of National Defense): Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie; Ministry of Interior: National Police, Auxiliary Forces (2022)",
+ "note": "note 1: the Moroccan Royal Guard is officially part of the Royal Moroccan Army, but is under the direct operational control of the Royal Military Household of His Majesty the King; it provides for the security and safety of the King and royal family; it was established in the 11th century and is considered one of the world's oldest active units still in military service
note 2: the National Police manages internal law enforcement in cities; the Royal Gendarmerie is responsible for law enforcement in rural regions and on national highways; the Gendarmerie operates mobile and fixed checkpoints along the roads in border areas and at the entrances to major municipalities; it also has a counterterrorism role
note 3: the Auxiliary Forces provide support to the Gendarmerie and National Police; it includes a Mobile Intervention Corps, a motorized paramilitary security force that supplements the military and the police as needed
"
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
@@ -1279,13 +1295,13 @@
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
- "text": "approximately 200,000 active personnel (175,000 Army; 10,000 Navy; 15,000 Air Force); estimated 20,000 Gendarmerie; estimated 5,000 Mobile Intervention Corps (2022)"
+ "text": "approximately 200,000 active personnel (175,000 Army; 10,000 Navy; 15,000 Air Force); estimated 20,000 Gendarmerie; estimated 5,000 Mobile Intervention Corps; estimated 25-30,000 Auxiliary Forces (2022)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the Moroccan military's inventory is comprised of mostly older French and US equipment, although in recent years, it has received quantities of more modern equipment from a variety of countries with France and the US continuing to be the leading suppliers (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "19-25 years of age for 12-month compulsory and voluntary military service for men and women (conscription abolished 2006 and reintroduced in 2019) (2022)"
+ "text": "19-25 years of age for 12-month compulsory and voluntary military service for men and women (conscription abolished 2006 and reintroduced in 2019) (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "775 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 925 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) (May 2022)"
diff --git a/africa/mp.json b/africa/mp.json
index 135aa987..54fb4435 100644
--- a/africa/mp.json
+++ b/africa/mp.json
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "61 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "84 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -780,6 +780,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.36% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.5% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.21% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.994 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1048,8 +1059,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 230; landing points for the SAFE, MARS, IOX Cable System, METISS and LION submarine cable system that provides links to Asia, Africa, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean Islands of Reunion, Madagascar, and Mauritius; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean); new microwave link to Reunion; HF radiotelephone links to several countries (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation is the national public television and radio broadcaster; it broadcasts programming in French, English, Hindi, Creole and Chinese, it provides 17 television channels in Mauritius; there are nine Mauritian FM radio stations and two operating on the AM band
(2022)"
@@ -1093,9 +1103,7 @@
"text": "3B"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "5 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "5 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/mr.json b/africa/mr.json
index 29e988da..141744d7 100644
--- a/africa/mr.json
+++ b/africa/mr.json
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "766 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "465 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -484,8 +484,8 @@
"note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Mauritania 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
- "severe localized food insecurity": {
- "text": "due to shortfall in agricultural production and economic downturn - according to the latest analysis, about 878,000 people are assessed to be in need of humanitarian assistance between June and August 2022 as a result of shortfalls in cereal and livestock production in 2021 and reduced incomes owing to the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy (2022)"
+ "widespread lack of access": {
+ "text": "due to high food prices - according to the latest analysis, nearly 695,000 people are projected to be in need of humanitarian assistance during the June to August 2023 lean season; this would be an improvement compared to the previous year, mostly due to the substantial cereal production increase in 2022; high food prices continue to worsen food security, while flooding in 2022, which affected about 54,000 people, has further aggravated the conditions of vulnerable households (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -851,6 +851,17 @@
"text": "29.5% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.01% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.8% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.81% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.354 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1122,8 +1133,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 222; landing point for the ACE submarine cable for connectivity to 19 West African countries and 2 European countries; satellite earth stations - 3 (1 Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean, 2 Arabsat) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "12 TV stations: 6 government-owned and 6 private (the 6th was started in early 2022, owed by the President of Mauritanian Businessmen); in October 2017, the government suspended most private TV stations due to non-payment of broadcasting fees, but they later negotiated payment options with the government and are back since 2019. There are 19 radio broadcasters: 15 government-owned, 4 (Radio Nouakchott Libre, Radio Tenwir, Radio Kobeni and Mauritanid) private; all 4 private radio stations broadcast from Nouakchott; of the 15 government stations, 4 broadcast from Nouakchott (Radio Mauritanie, Radio Jeunesse, Radio Koran and Mauritanid) and the other 12 broadcast from each of the 12 regions outside Nouakchott; Radio Jeunesse and Radio Koran are now also being re-broadcast in all the regions. (2022)"
@@ -1164,9 +1174,7 @@
"text": "5T"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "30 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "30 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1234,8 +1242,8 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Mauritanian Armed Forces: National Army, Mauritanian Navy (Marine Mauritanienne), Islamic Republic of Mauritania Air Group (Groupement Aerienne Islamique de Mauritanie, GAIM); Gendarmerie (Ministry of Defense); Ministry of Interior and Decentralization: National Police, National Guard, General Group for Road Safety (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: the National Police is responsible for enforcing the law and maintaining order in urban areas, while the Gendarmerie is responsible for maintaining civil order around metropolitan areas and providing law enforcement services in rural areas
note 2: the National Guard performs a limited police function in keeping with its peacetime role of providing security at government facilities, to include prisons; regional authorities may call upon the National Guard to restore civil order during riots and other large-scale disturbances
note 3: the General Group for Road Safety maintains security on roads and operates checkpoints throughout the country"
+ "text": "Mauritanian Armed Forces (aka Armée Nationale Mauritanienne): National Army, National Navy (Marine Nationale), Mauritania Islamic Air Force; Gendarmerie (Ministry of Defense); Ministry of Interior and Decentralization: National Police, National Guard, General Group for Road Safety (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: the National Police is responsible for enforcing the law and maintaining order in urban areas, while the Gendarmerie is responsible for maintaining civil order around metropolitan areas and providing law enforcement services in rural areas; the Gendarmerie is under the Ministry of Defense, but also supports the ministries of Interior and Justice
note 2: the National Guard performs a limited police function in keeping with its peacetime role of providing security at government facilities, to include prisons; regional authorities may call upon the National Guard to restore civil order during riots and other large-scale disturbances
note 3: the General Group for Road Safety maintains security on roads and operates checkpoints throughout the country"
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
diff --git a/africa/mz.json b/africa/mz.json
index 3a3b6492..d7b4dd01 100644
--- a/africa/mz.json
+++ b/africa/mz.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "289 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "127 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -861,6 +861,17 @@
"text": "36.7% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.88% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.49% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.95% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.356 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1132,8 +1143,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 258; landing points for the EASSy and SEACOM/ Tata TGN-Eurasia fiber-optic submarine cable systems linking numerous east African countries, the Middle East and Asia ; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean); TdM contracts for Itelsat for satellite broadband and bulk haul services (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-run TV station supplemented by private TV station; Portuguese state TV's African service, RTP Africa, and Brazilian-owned TV Miramar are available; state-run radio provides nearly 100% territorial coverage and broadcasts in multiple languages; a number of privately owned and community-operated stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1177,9 +1187,7 @@
"text": "C9"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "98 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "98 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1289,7 +1297,7 @@
"text": "the FADM's inventory consists primarily of Soviet-era equipment, although in recent years it has received limited quantities of more modern equipment from a variety of countries, mostly as aid/donations (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "registration for military service is mandatory for all men and women at 18 years of age; 18-35 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary service for men and women; 2-year service obligation (2021)"
+ "text": "registration for military service is mandatory for all men and women at 18 years of age; 18-35 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary service for men and women; 24-month service obligation (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the FADM is responsible for external security, cooperating with police on internal security, and responding to natural disasters and other emergencies; the current primary focus of the FADM is countering an insurgency driven by militants with ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, an area known for rich liquid natural gas deposits; insurgent attacks in the province began in 2017 and the fighting has left over 4,000 estimated dead and approximately 1 million displaced; the FADM is widely assessed as lacking the training, equipment, and overall capabilities to address the insurgency; several countries from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the EU, as well as Rwanda and the US are providing various forms of military assistance; the SADC countries and Zambia have sent more than 3,000 military and security personnel, while the EU and the US have provided training assistance (2023)"
@@ -1307,7 +1315,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "11,952 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 8,968 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
+ "text": "8,968 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022); 11,751 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "1.03 million (north Mozambique, violence between the government and an opposition group, violence associated with extremists groups in 2018, political violence 2019) (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/ng.json b/africa/ng.json
index 68e69700..4e48022b 100644
--- a/africa/ng.json
+++ b/africa/ng.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "509 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "441 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -479,11 +479,11 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
- "exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production/supplies": {
- "text": "due to internal conflict and shortfall in cereal production - according to the latest analysis, about 4.4 million people are estimated to need humanitarian food assistance between June and August 2022, reflecting worsening conflicts and security conditions, and unfavorable weather that resulted in a sharp fall in cereal production in 2021; additionally, higher year-on-year prices of food continue to constrain access to food, aggravating conditions (2022)"
+ "widespread lack of access": {
+ "text": "due to internal conflict, high food prices, and floods - about 2.87 million people are projected to be acutely food insecure during the June to August 2023 lean season period; this would be an improvement on the situation in 2022, mostly reflecting the sharp upturn in crop yields following the below‑average cereal output in 2021; persistent insecurity continues to disrupt livelihoods and has displaced over 360,000 people as of January 2023, mostly in the Diffa, Tahoua and Tillabery regions; high food prices, as well as the floods in 2022 that affected about 327,000 people, are additional factors that have aggravated food insecurity (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -861,6 +861,17 @@
"text": "26.8% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.79% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.39% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "2.32% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.757 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1126,8 +1137,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 227; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run TV station; 3 private TV stations provide a mix of local and foreign programming; state-run radio has only radio station with national coverage; about 30 private radio stations operate locally; as many as 100 community radio stations broadcast; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available"
@@ -1165,9 +1175,7 @@
"text": "5U"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "30 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "30 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1255,7 +1263,7 @@
"text": "the FAN's inventory consists of a wide variety of older weapons; in recent years, it has received small amounts of mostly secondhand equipment and donations from several countries, particularly the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "has conscription, although it is reportedly not always enforced; 18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory or voluntary military service; enlistees must be Nigerien citizens and unmarried; 2-year service term; women may serve in health care (2022)"
+ "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for selective compulsory or voluntary military service for unmarried men and women; 24-month service term (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "875 Mali (MINUSMA) (May 2022)",
diff --git a/africa/ni.json b/africa/ni.json
index 56a52141..f9988adf 100644
--- a/africa/ni.json
+++ b/africa/ni.json
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "917 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "1,047 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
"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
note 2: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Nigeria; as of 9 December 2022, Nigeria has reported a total of 266,283 cases of COVID-19 or 129.17 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 3,155 cumulative deaths or a rate of 1.53 cumulative death per 100,000 population; as of 13 November 2022, 29.28% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
note 3: on 21 March 2022, 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": "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
note 2: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Nigeria; as of 9 December 2022, Nigeria has reported a total of 266,283 cases of COVID-19 or 129.17 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 3,155 cumulative deaths or a rate of 1.53 cumulative death per 100,000 population; as of 13 November 2022, 29.28% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
note 3: on 22 March 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 4: on 24 February 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued 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"
},
"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "8.9% (2016)"
@@ -491,11 +491,11 @@
"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
note 2: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Nigeria; as of 9 December 2022, Nigeria has reported a total of 266,283 cases of COVID-19 or 129.17 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 3,155 cumulative deaths or a rate of 1.53 cumulative death per 100,000 population; as of 13 November 2022, 29.28% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
note 3: on 21 March 2022, 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": "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
note 2: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Nigeria; as of 9 December 2022, Nigeria has reported a total of 266,283 cases of COVID-19 or 129.17 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 3,155 cumulative deaths or a rate of 1.53 cumulative death per 100,000 population; as of 13 November 2022, 29.28% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
note 3: on 22 March 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 4: on 24 February 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
- "text": "due to persistent civil conflict in the northern areas, localized shortfalls in cereal production, and high food prices - according to the latest analysis, about 19.45 million people were projected to be in need of humanitarian food assistance between June and August 2022, owing to the deterioration of security conditions and conflicts in northern states, localized shortfalls in staple food production, high food prices and reduced incomes;as of September 2022, flood affected about 190,000 people in areas already affected by high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition and violence in northeastern states (2022)"
+ "text": "due to persistent civil conflict in the northern areas, floods, high food prices, and an economic slowdown - about 25.3 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity during the June to August 2023 lean season; this would be a significant deterioration compared to last year, when 19.45 million people were estimated to be acutely food insecure; acute food insecurity is mostly driven by the deterioration of security conditions and conflicts in northern states, which have led to the displacement of about 3.17 million people as of March 2022 (the latest data available) and are constraining farmers’ access to their lands; widespread flooding in 2022, affecting about 4.5 million people across the country, has further compounded conditions, particularly in areas already facing high levels of insecurity; high food prices and the expected slowdown in economic growth in 2023 are additional drivers of acute food insecurity (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -862,6 +862,14 @@
"text": "35.1 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "59% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.8%"
@@ -870,6 +878,17 @@
"text": "38.2% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "4.42% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.98% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.31% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$12.92 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1138,8 +1157,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 234; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC, NCSCS, MainOne, Glo-1 & 2, ACE, and Equiano fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and South and West Africa; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "nearly 70 federal government-controlled national and regional TV stations; all 36 states operate TV stations; several private TV stations operational; cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; network of federal government-controlled national, regional, and state radio stations; roughly 40 state government-owned radio stations typically carry their own programs except for news broadcasts; about 20 private radio stations; transmissions of international broadcasters are available; digital broadcasting migration process completed in three states in 2018 (2019)"
@@ -1183,9 +1201,7 @@
"text": "5N"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "54 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "54 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/od.json b/africa/od.json
index 7b4a2465..d21c3815 100644
--- a/africa/od.json
+++ b/africa/od.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "1,150 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "1,223 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -300,8 +300,7 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- },
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; South Sudan 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": "6.6% (2014)"
@@ -413,12 +412,11 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- },
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; South Sudan 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"
+ }
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
- "text": "due to economic downturn, civil insecurity, lingering impact of floods and prolonged conflict - despite sustained humanitarian assistance, food insecurity still affects large segments of the population, driven by macroeconomic challenges that have resulted in rampant food and non-food inflation, insufficient food supplies due to a stagnant agricultural production, livelihood losses owing to consecutive years with widespread floods and the escalation of organized violence at the sub-national level since 2020; about 7.74 million people, approximately 63% of the total population, were estimated to be severely food insecure during the lean season between April and July 2022 (2022)"
+ "text": "due to economic downturn, the lingering effects of floods, and prolonged internal conflict - despite sustained humanitarian assistance, food insecurity still affects large segments of the population, owing to rampant inflation and insufficient food supplies due to stagnant agricultural production, the effects of consecutive years with widespread floods, and the escalation of organized violence at the subnational level since 2020; about 7.76 million people, almost two thirds of the total population, are expected to face severe acute food insecurity in the lean season between April and July 2023 (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -961,8 +959,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 211 (2017)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a single TV channel and a radio station are controlled by the government; several community and commercial FM stations are operational, mostly sponsored by outside aid donors; some foreign radio broadcasts are available
(2019)"
@@ -1000,9 +997,7 @@
"text": "Z8"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "89 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "89 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1090,7 +1085,7 @@
"text": "the SSPDF inventory is primarily of Soviet origin; South Sudan has been under a UN arms embargo since 2018 (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscription only for men; women may volunteer; 12-24 months service (2022)",
+ "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; 12-24 months service (2023)",
"note": "note: in 2019, women made up less than 10% of the active military"
},
"Military - note": {
@@ -1103,7 +1098,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "289,840 (Sudan), 10,849 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022)"
+ "text": "289,840 (Sudan) (2022); 11,162 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "2.23 million (alleged coup attempt and ethnic conflict beginning in December 2013; information is lacking on those displaced in earlier years by: fighting in Abyei between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in May 2011; clashes between the SPLA and dissident militia groups in South Sudan; inter-ethnic conflicts over resources and cattle; attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army; floods and drought) (2023)"
diff --git a/africa/pu.json b/africa/pu.json
index 5687dbcf..1c1788f7 100644
--- a/africa/pu.json
+++ b/africa/pu.json
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "667 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "725 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -304,8 +304,7 @@
},
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
- },
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Guinea-Bissau 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": "9.5% (2016)"
@@ -459,8 +458,7 @@
},
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
- },
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Guinea-Bissau 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"
+ }
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -784,6 +782,17 @@
"text": "28% (2002)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "12.22% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "10.5% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "8.51% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$246.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1027,12 +1036,20 @@
}
},
"Communications": {
- "Telephones - mobile cellular": {
+ "Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,913,858 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4,800 (2009 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "97 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "(2009 est.) less than 1"
+ }
+ },
+ "Telephones - mobile cellular": {
+ "total subscriptions": {
+ "text": "2,236,511 (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
+ "text": "109 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1040,12 +1057,11 @@
"text": "small system including a combination of microwave radio relay, open-wire lines, radiotelephone, and mobile cellular communications; 2 mobile network operators; one of the poorest countries in the world and this is reflected in the country's telecommunications development; radio is the most important source of information for the public (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile cellular teledensity is just over 97 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile cellular teledensity is just over 109 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 245; ACE submarine cable connecting Guinea-Bissau with 20 landing points in Western and South Africa and Europe (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV station, Televisao da Guine-Bissau (TGB) and a second station, Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP) Africa, is operated by Portuguese public broadcaster (RTP); 1 state-owned radio station, several private radio stations, and some community radio stations; multiple international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1075,9 +1091,7 @@
"text": "J5"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "8 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "8 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1145,13 +1159,13 @@
"text": "1.7% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.9% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $50 million)"
+ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.7% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $45 million)"
+ "text": "1.7% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.7% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $45 million)"
+ "text": "1.7% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1161,7 +1175,7 @@
"text": "the FARP is poorly armed with an inventory consisting of Soviet-era equipment, much of which is reportedly unserviceable; over the past several years, it has received only a small amount of equipment from China and Spain (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-25 years of age for selective compulsory military service (Air Force service is voluntary); 16 years of age or younger, with parental consent, for voluntary service (2022)"
+ "text": "18-25 years of age for selective compulsory military service for men and women (Air Force service is voluntary); 16 years of age or younger, with parental consent, for voluntary service (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the FARP is focused on external security, but also has some internal security duties, and it has been influential in the country’s politics since independence was gained in 1974, having staged at least nine coups as well as several mutinies; FARP members were suspected of coup plotting as recently as 2021, and the military has been accused of involvement in narcotics trafficking; since the 2000s, the FARP has undergone various attempts at defense and security sector reforms with limited success under the auspices of the African Union, the EU, the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS), and the UN
from 2012-2020, ECOWAS deployed a security force to Guinea-Bissau to manage the post-coup transition, including protecting key political figures and public buildings, restoring civil institutions, and re-establishing the rule of law; at the height of the deployment, the force, known as the ECOWAS Mission in Guinea-Bissau (ECOMIB), deployed nearly 700 military and police personnel from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Senegal (2023)"
diff --git a/africa/rw.json b/africa/rw.json
index f5bda75d..be80c529 100644
--- a/africa/rw.json
+++ b/africa/rw.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "248 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "259 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -831,6 +831,17 @@
"text": "43.2% (2011 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.75% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.52% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "2.7% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.943 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1099,8 +1110,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 250; international connections employ microwave radio relay to neighboring countries and satellite communications to more distant countries; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) in Kigali (includes telex and telefax service); international submarine fiber-optic cables on the African east coast has brought international bandwidth and lessened the dependency on satellites"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "13 TV stations; 35 radio stations registered, including international broadcasters, government owns most popular TV and radio stations; regional satellite-based TV services available"
@@ -1141,9 +1151,7 @@
"text": "9XR"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "7 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "7 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1233,7 +1241,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "72,120 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 48,592 (Burundi) (2023)"
+ "text": "71,559 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 48,592 (Burundi) (2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "9,500 (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/se.json b/africa/se.json
index 1e1b563d..a1f309d3 100644
--- a/africa/se.json
+++ b/africa/se.json
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@
"text": "1.08 male(s)/female (2023 est.)"
}
},
+ "Maternal mortality ratio": {
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020)"
+ },
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
"text": "10.38 deaths/1,000 live births"
@@ -760,6 +763,17 @@
"text": "15.4% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.79% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.4% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "1.39% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$593.4 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1025,8 +1039,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 248; landing points for the PEACE and the SEAS submarine cables providing connectivity to Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia; direct radiotelephone communications with adjacent island countries and African coastal countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the national broadcaster, Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), which is funded by taxpayer money, operates the only terrestrial TV station, which provides local programming and airs broadcasts from international services; a privately owned Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel also provides local programming multi-channel cable and satellite TV are available through 2 providers; the national broadcaster operates 1 AM and 1 FM radio station; there are 2 privately operated radio stations; transmissions of 2 international broadcasters are accessible in Victoria
(2019)"
@@ -1070,9 +1083,7 @@
"text": "S7"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "14 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "14 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/sf.json b/africa/sf.json
index 780e0da1..d3f03b97 100644
--- a/africa/sf.json
+++ b/africa/sf.json
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@
}
},
"Natural resources": {
- "text": "gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, rare earth elements, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas"
+ "text": "gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, rare earth elements, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas",
+ "note": "note: South Africa was the World's leading chromite ore producer in 2022 with an output of 18,000 mt"
},
"Land use": {
"agricultural land": {
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "119 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "127 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -849,6 +850,14 @@
"text": "63 (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "21.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.2%"
@@ -857,6 +866,17 @@
"text": "51.3% (2011 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.22% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.24% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.23% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$92.86 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1128,8 +1148,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 27; landing points for the WACS, ACE, SAFE, SAT-3, Equiano, SABR, SAEx1, SAEx2, IOX Cable System, METISS, EASSy, and SEACOM/ Tata TGN-Eurasia fiber-optic submarine cable systems connecting South Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, Asia, South America, Indian Ocean Islands, and the US; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) operates 4 TV stations, 3 are free-to-air and 1 is pay TV; e.tv, a private station, is accessible to more than half the population; multiple subscription TV services provide a mix of local and international channels; well-developed mix of public and private radio stations at the national, regional, and local levels; the SABC radio network, state-owned and controlled but nominally independent, operates 18 stations, one for each of the 11 official languages, 4 community stations, and 3 commercial stations; more than 100 community-based stations extend coverage to rural areas"
@@ -1173,9 +1192,7 @@
"text": "ZS"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "407 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "407 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1316,7 +1333,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "22,388 (Somalia), 15,240 (Ethiopia) (mid-year 2022); 56,080 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
+ "text": "22,388 (Somalia), 15,240 (Ethiopia) (mid-year 2022); 56,080 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "5,000 (2020)"
diff --git a/africa/sg.json b/africa/sg.json
index a2b7ffd9..568b05f3 100644
--- a/africa/sg.json
+++ b/africa/sg.json
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "315 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "261 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Senegal 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Senegal 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": "8.8% (2016)"
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Senegal 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Senegal 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -868,6 +868,17 @@
"text": "31.1% (2011)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "10.46% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "10.78% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "10.5% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$4.139 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1130,8 +1141,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 221; landing points for the ACE, Atlantis-2, MainOne and SAT-3/WASC submarine cables providing connectivity from South Africa, numerous western African countries, Europe and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run Radiodiffusion Television Senegalaise (RTS) broadcasts TV programs from five cities in Senegal; in most regions of the country, viewers can receive TV programming from at least 7 private broadcasters; a wide range of independent TV programming is available via satellite; RTS operates a national radio network and a number of regional FM stations; at least 7 community radio stations and 18 private-broadcast radio stations are available; transmissions of at least 5 international broadcasters are accessible on FM in Dakar (2019)"
@@ -1175,9 +1185,7 @@
"text": "6V"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "20 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "20 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1275,7 +1283,7 @@
"text": "the FAS inventory includes mostly older or secondhand equipment from a variety of countries, including France, South Africa, and Russia/former Soviet Union; in recent years, the FAS has undertaken a modernization program and has received small amounts of newer equipment from more than 10 countries, with France as the leading supplier (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 20 years of age for selective conscript service; 2-year service obligation; women have been accepted into military service since 2008 (2022)"
+ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 20 years of age for selective compulsory service for men and possibly women; 24-month service obligation (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "750 Gambia (ECOMIG); 970 Mali (MINUSMA); note - Senegal also has about 1,100 police deployed on various UN peacekeeping missions (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/sh.json b/africa/sh.json
index d6d15601..2b5d3a66 100644
--- a/africa/sh.json
+++ b/africa/sh.json
@@ -735,8 +735,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code (Saint Helena) - 290, (Ascension Island) - 247; landing point for the SaEx1 submarine cable providing connectivity to South Africa, Brazil, Virginia Beach (US) and islands in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan de Cunha; international direct dialing; satellite voice and data communications; satellite earth stations - 5 (Ascension Island - 4, Saint Helena - 1) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Saint Helena has no local TV station; 2 local radio stations, one of which is relayed to Ascension Island; satellite TV stations rebroadcast terrestrially; Ascension Island has no local TV station but has 1 local radio station and receives relays of broadcasts from 1 radio station on Saint Helena; broadcasts from the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) are available, as well as TV services for the US military; Tristan da Cunha has 1 local radio station and receives BFBS TV and radio broadcasts"
@@ -769,9 +768,7 @@
"text": "VQ-H"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/sl.json b/africa/sl.json
index a5552c77..61c64366 100644
--- a/africa/sl.json
+++ b/africa/sl.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "1,120 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "443 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -821,6 +821,17 @@
"text": "33.6% (2003)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "4.36% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.67% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "1.79% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$562 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1089,8 +1100,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 232; landing point for the ACE submarine cable linking to South Africa, over 20 western African countries and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 government-owned TV station; 3 private TV stations; a pay-TV service began operations in late 2007; 1 government-owned national radio station; about two-dozen private radio stations primarily clustered in major cities; transmissions of several international broadcasters are available
(2019)"
@@ -1120,9 +1130,7 @@
"text": "9L"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "8 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "8 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/africa/so.json b/africa/so.json
index 5d4b436c..b61f92fa 100644
--- a/africa/so.json
+++ b/africa/so.json
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "829 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "621 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production/supplies": {
@@ -792,6 +792,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "25.21% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "24.32% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "25.31% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$145.3 million (2014 est.)"
@@ -1033,8 +1044,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 252; landing points for the G2A, DARE1, PEACE, and EASSy fiber-optic submarine cable system linking East Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 private TV stations rebroadcast Al-Jazeera and CNN; Somaliland has 1 government-operated TV station and Puntland has 1 private TV station; the transitional government operates Radio Mogadishu; 1 SW and roughly 10 private FM radio stations broadcast in Mogadishu; several radio stations operate in central and southern regions; Somaliland has 1 government-operated radio station; Puntland has roughly a half-dozen private radio stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1075,9 +1085,7 @@
"text": "6O"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "52 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "52 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1152,7 +1160,7 @@
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
- "text": "approximately 18-20,000 SNA personnel (2022)",
+ "text": "approximately 18-20,000 SNA personnel (2023)",
"note": "note 1: in January 2023, the Somali Government said the SNA would have 24,000 trained and equipped troops by 2024
note 2: as of 2022, there were estimates of up to 50,000 militia forces operating in the country"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
@@ -1160,7 +1168,7 @@
"note": "note: in 2022, the UN voted to maintain an arms embargo on Somali in place since 1992; however, the embargo was modified to reflect the Somali Government’s progress in improving its management of weapons and ammunition; it includes allowing Somalia to import portable surface-to-air missiles, higher-caliber mortars, anti-tank guided weapons, some aircraft and vessels designed or modified for military use, and combat drones for use by its security forces and police — unless the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions objects within five working days of receiving notification from the Somali Government"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscription is authorized but not currently utilized; women may volunteer (2021)",
+ "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)",
"note": "note: in 2019, the Federal Government of Somalia renewed its commitment to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers by signing a roadmap detailing measures and practical actions to prevent violations against children, release children associated with armed forces, and reintegrate them into communities; the signing followed a similar accord committed to ending the use of child soldiers signed by both the Somali Transitional Government and the UN in 2012"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/africa/su.json b/africa/su.json
index 21f7653d..ed4d6aa4 100644
--- a/africa/su.json
+++ b/africa/su.json
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "295 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "270 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Sudan 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": "6.6% (2014)"
@@ -471,7 +472,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Sudan 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -834,6 +836,17 @@
"text": "26.7% (2009 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.83% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.62% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "1.32% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$8.48 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1102,8 +1115,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 249; landing points for the EASSy, FALCON and SAS-1,-2, fiber-optic submarine cable systems linking Africa, the Middle East, Indian Ocean Islands and Asia; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Following the establishment of Sudan’s civilian-led transitional government in August 2019, government-owned broadcasters became increasingly independent from government and military control. Following the October 2021 military takeover, additional restrictions were imposed on these government-owned broadcasters, which now practice a heightened degree of self-censorship but still operate more independently than in the pre-2019 environment. (2022)"
@@ -1144,9 +1156,7 @@
"text": "ST"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "67 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "67 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1258,14 +1268,14 @@
"text": "the SAF's inventory includes a mix of Chinese, Russian, Soviet-era, and domestically produced weapons systems; in recent years, Russia has been the leading arms provider; Sudan has one of the largest defense industries in Africa, which includes state-owned companies with military involvement; it mostly manufactures weapons systems under license from China, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-33 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service for men and women; 1-2 year service obligation (2022)",
+ "text": "18-33 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service for men and women; 12-24 month service obligation (2023)",
"note": "note: implementation of conscription is reportedly uneven"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "approximately 750 Democratic Republic of the Congo (East African Community stabilization force)
Sudan joined the Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015, reportedly providing as many as 40,000 troops during the peak of the war in 2016-17, mostly from the Rapid Support Forces; by 2021, Sudan had reduced the size of the force to about a brigade (approximately 2-3,000 troops) (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the Sudanese military has been a dominant force in the ruling of the country since its independence in 1956; in addition, the Sudanese military and security forces have a large role in the country's economy, reportedly controlling over 200 commercial companies, including businesses involved in gold mining, rubber production, agriculture, and meat exports
the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has operated in the disputed Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan since 2011; UNISFA's mission includes ensuring security, protecting civilians, strengthening the capacity of the Abyei Police Service, de-mining, monitoring/verifying the redeployment of armed forces from the area, and facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid; UNISFA had about 2,000 personnel deployed as of mid-2022
in addition, the UN African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) operated in the war-torn Darfur region between 2007 and the end of its mandate in July 2021; UNAMID was a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force with the mission of bringing stability to Darfur, including protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, and promoting mediation efforts, while peace talks on a final settlement continued; UNAMID withdrew the last of its personnel in December 2021; note - the October 2020 peace agreement provided for the establishment of a Joint Security Keeping Forces (JSKF) comprised of 12,000 personnel tasked with securing the Darfur region in the place of UNAMID; in June 2021, Sudan's transitional government announced it would increase the size of this force to 20,000 and expand its mission scope to include the capital and other parts of the country suffering from violence; the force would include the SAF, RSF, police, intelligence, and representatives from armed groups involved in peace negotiations; in Sep 2022, the first 2,000 members of the JSKF completed training (2022)"
+ "text": "the SAF is large, relatively well-equipped, and supported by militia and paramilitary forces, particularly the RSF; its primary focuses are internal security, border issues, and potential external threats from its neighbors; both the SAF and the RSF have some operational experience from internal security operations and Sudan’s years-long intervention in Yemen with the Saudi-led coalition; information on the organization of the SAF and the RSF varies; the Army is estimated to have more than 10 infantry divisions, as well as divisions of mechanized, armored, and airborne/special forces, and several independent infantry brigades; the RSF is estimated to have as many as 10 paramilitary brigades of varying size and makeup; the Air Force has several squadrons of Chinese- and Russian-origin combat aircraft, as well as multiple squadrons of combat helicopters, also largely of Russian origin; the Navy has a small force of coastal patrol boats
the Sudanese military has been a dominant force in the ruling of the country since its independence in 1956; in addition, the Sudanese military and security forces have a large role in the country's economy, reportedly controlling over 200 commercial companies, including businesses involved in gold mining, rubber production, agriculture, and meat exports
the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has operated in the disputed Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan since 2011; UNISFA's mission includes ensuring security, protecting civilians, strengthening the capacity of the Abyei Police Service, de-mining, monitoring/verifying the redeployment of armed forces from the area, and facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid; UNISFA had about 2,000 personnel deployed as of mid-2022
in addition, the UN African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) operated in the war-torn Darfur region between 2007 and the end of its mandate in July 2021; UNAMID was a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force with the mission of bringing stability to Darfur, including protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, and promoting mediation efforts, while peace talks on a final settlement continued; UNAMID withdrew the last of its personnel in December 2021; note - the October 2020 peace agreement provided for the establishment of a Joint Security Keeping Forces (JSKF) comprised of 12,000 personnel tasked with securing the Darfur region in the place of UNAMID; in June 2021, Sudan's transitional government announced it would increase the size of this force to 20,000 and expand its mission scope to include the capital and other parts of the country suffering from violence; the force would include the SAF, RSF, police, intelligence, and representatives from armed groups involved in peace negotiations; in Sep 2022, the first 2,000 members of the JSKF completed training (2022)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
diff --git a/africa/to.json b/africa/to.json
index bd6d5cdd..718cedd3 100644
--- a/africa/to.json
+++ b/africa/to.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "396 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "399 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -315,7 +315,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Togo 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": "8.4% (2016)"
@@ -483,7 +484,8 @@
},
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Togo 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -853,6 +855,17 @@
"text": "27.1% (2006)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "8.59% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "7.04% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "6.34% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.023 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1121,8 +1134,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 228; landing point for the WACS submarine cable, linking countries along the west coast of Africa with each other and with Portugal; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Symphonie (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV station with multiple transmission sites; five private TV stations broadcast locally; cable TV service is available; state-owned radio network with two stations (in Lome and Kara); several dozen private radio stations and a few community radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters available (2019)"
@@ -1166,9 +1178,7 @@
"text": "5V"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "8 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "8 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1236,7 +1246,7 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Togolese Armed Forces (Forces Armees Togolaise, FAT): Togolese Army (l'Armee de Terre), Togolese Navy (Forces Naval Togolaises), Togolese Air Force (Armee de l’Air), National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Nationale Togolaise or GNT) (2022)",
+ "text": "Togolese Armed Forces (Forces Armees Togolaise, FAT): Togolese Army (l'Armee de Terre), Togolese Navy (Forces Naval Togolaises), Togolese Air Force (Armee de l’Air), National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Nationale Togolaise or GNT) (2023)",
"note": "note: the GNT falls under the Ministry of the Armed Forces but also reports to the Ministry of Security and Civil Protection on many matters involving law enforcement and internal security"
},
"Military expenditures": {
@@ -1270,7 +1280,7 @@
"text": "730 (plus about 300 police) Mali (MINUSMA) (May 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the first Togolese Army unit was created in 1963, while the Air Force was established in 1964; the Navy was not established until 1976; since its creation, the Togolese military has a history of interfering in the country’s politics with assassinations, coups, influence, and a large military crackdown in 2005 that killed hundreds; over the past decade, it has made some efforts to reform and professionalize, as well as increase its role in UN peacekeeping activities; Togolese police have also been deployed on peacekeeping operations, and Togo maintains a regional peacekeeping training center for military and police in Lome; the Navy and Air Force has increased focus on combating piracy and smuggling in the Gulf of Guinea
in June 2022, the Togolese Government declared a state of emergency in its northern border region due to the threat from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), a coalition of al-Qa'ida-affiliated militant groups based in Mali that also operates in neighboring Burkina Faso; the declaration followed an attack on a Togolese military post in May that killed 8 soldiers and a Togolese military operation launched the same month to boost border security and prevent terrorist infiltrations (2022)"
+ "text": "since its creation in 1963, the Togolese military has had a history of interfering in the country’s politics with assassinations, coups, influence, and a large military crackdown in 2005 that killed hundreds; over the past decade, however, it has made some efforts to reform and professionalize, as well as increase its role in UN peacekeeping activities; Togo maintains a regional peacekeeping training center for military and police in Lome; the FAT participates in multinational exercises and has received training from foreign partners, including France and the US
the FAT’s current focuses are primarily terrorism and maritime security; in recent years, it has increased operations in the northern border region of the country to boost border security and prevent terrorist infiltrations from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), a coalition of al-Qa'ida-affiliated militant groups based in Mali that also operates in neighboring Burkina Faso; in 2022, the Togolese Government declared a state of emergency in the north due to the threat from JNIM following an attack on a Togolese military post that killed several soldiers; the Navy and Air Force have increased focus on combating piracy and smuggling in the Gulf of Guinea
the Army has a mixed force of small, lightly-armed combined arms, infantry, and commando regiments, as well as a rapid reaction force; the Gendarmerie includes mobile, regionally-based, and maritime units; the Navy operates a few patrol boats while the Air Force has a small inventory of training, light attack- capable, and transport aircraft, as well as combat helicopters (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\""
diff --git a/africa/tp.json b/africa/tp.json
index f052c0d7..02075a3e 100644
--- a/africa/tp.json
+++ b/africa/tp.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "130 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "146 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -788,6 +788,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.01% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.6% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$103 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1059,8 +1070,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 239; landing points for the Ultramar GE and ACE submarine cables from South Africa to over 20 West African countries and Europe; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 government-owned TV station; 1 government-owned radio station; 3 independent local radio stations authorized in 2005 with 2 operating at the end of 2006; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available"
@@ -1098,9 +1108,7 @@
"text": "S9"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1153,7 +1161,7 @@
"text": "the FASTP has a limited inventory of light weapons (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory military service; 17 is the legal minimum age for voluntary service (2021)"
+ "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory military service (reportedly not enforced); 17 is the legal minimum age for voluntary service (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the FASTP is one of the smallest militaries in Africa and consists of only a few companies of ground troops and some small patrol boats (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/ts.json b/africa/ts.json
index a587d45c..b1d4a0e3 100644
--- a/africa/ts.json
+++ b/africa/ts.json
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "43 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "37 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -798,6 +798,14 @@
"text": "32.8 (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "21.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.6%"
@@ -806,6 +814,17 @@
"text": "27% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "5.57% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "4.89% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "4.46% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$9.876 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1071,8 +1090,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 216; landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-4, Didon, HANNIBAL System and Trapani-Kelibia submarine cable systems that provides links to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Southeast Asia; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria and Libya; participant in Medarabtel; 2 international gateway digital switches (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 state-owned TV stations; 10 private TV stations broadcast locally; satellite TV service is available; state-owned radio network with 2 stations; several dozen private radio stations and community radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters available (2019)"
@@ -1116,9 +1134,7 @@
"text": "TS"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "29 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "29 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1216,7 +1232,7 @@
"text": "the Tunisian military's inventory includes mostly older or second-hand US and European equipment; in recent years, the Netherlands and US have been the leading suppliers of arms to Tunisia (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "20-23 years of age for male compulsory service, 1-year service obligation; individuals engaged in higher education or vocational training programs prior to their military drafting are allowed to delay service until they have completed their programs; 18-23 years of age for voluntary service; women may volunteer (2022)",
+ "text": "20-23 years of age for compulsory service for men with a 12-month service obligation; individuals engaged in higher education or vocational training programs prior to their military drafting are allowed to delay service until they have completed their programs (up to age 35); 18-23 years of age for voluntary service for men and women (2023)",
"note": "note 1: as of 2021, approximately 20-25,000 active military personnel were conscripts
note 2: women have been allowed in the service since 1975 as volunteers only, although as recently as 2018, the Tunisian Government has discussed the possibility of conscripting women; as of 2018, women constituted less than 7% of the military and served in all three services"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/africa/tz.json b/africa/tz.json
index 77fe52d4..bac16625 100644
--- a/africa/tz.json
+++ b/africa/tz.json
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "524 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "238 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
},
"Capital": {
"name": {
- "text": "Dodoma (national capital); note - Dodoma, designated the national capital in 1996, serves as the meeting place for the National Assembly; Dar es Salaam, the original national capital and the country's largest city and commercial center, remains the site of the executive branch offices and diplomatic representation"
+ "text": "Dodoma; note - Dodoma was designated the national capital in 1996; Dar es Salaam, the original national capital, is the country's largest city and commercial center "
},
"geographic coordinates": {
"text": "6 48 S, 39 17 E"
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@
"text": "UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)"
},
"etymology": {
- "text": "Dar es Salaam was the name given by Majid BIN SAID, the first sultan of Zanzibar, to the new city he founded on the Indian Ocean coast; the Arabic name is commonly translated as \"abode/home of peace\"; Dodoma, in the native Gogo language, means \"it has sunk\"; supposedly, one day during the rainy season, an elephant drowned in the area; the villagers in that place were so struck by what had occurred, that ever since the locale has been referred to as the place where \"it (the elephant) sunk\""
+ "text": "Dodoma, in the native Gogo language, means \"it has sunk\"; supposedly, one day during the rainy season, an elephant drowned in the area; the villagers in that place were so struck by what had occurred, that ever since the locale has been referred to as the place where \"it (the elephant) sunk\""
}
},
"Administrative divisions": {
@@ -863,6 +863,14 @@
"text": "40.5 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "33.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.8%"
@@ -871,6 +879,17 @@
"text": "29.6% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.52% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.71% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.72% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$7.873 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1140,8 +1159,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 255; landing points for the EASSy, SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia, and SEAS fiber-optic submarine cable system linking East Africa with the Middle East; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "according to statistics from the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), Tanzania had 45 television stations as of 2020; 13 of those stations provided national content services (commercially broadcasting free-to-air television); there are 196 radio stations, most operating at the district level, but also including 5 independent nationally broadcasting stations and 1 state-owned national radio station; international broadcasting is available through satellite television which is becoming increasingly widespread; there are 3 major satellite TV providers (2020)"
@@ -1185,9 +1203,7 @@
"text": "5H"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "166 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "166 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1297,13 +1313,14 @@
"text": "the TPDF's inventory includes mostly Soviet-era and Chinese equipment; in recent years, China has been the leading supplier of arms to the TPDF (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-25 years of age for voluntary military service; 6-year commitment (2-year contracts afterwards); selective conscription for 2 years of public service (2022)"
+ "text": "18-25 years of age for voluntary military service; 6-year commitment (2-year contracts afterwards); selective conscription for 2 years of public service (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
- "text": "450 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 850 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 125 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (May 2022)"
+ "text": "450 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 850 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 125 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2022)",
+ "note": "note: in 2021, Tanzania began contributing troops to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) intervention force that was assisting the Mozambique Government's fight against Islamic militants"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "in 2021, Tanzania contributed troops to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) intervention force that was assisting the Mozambique Government's fight against Islamic militants (2023)"
+ "text": "the TDPF’s primary concerns are maritime piracy and smuggling, border security, terrorism, animal poaching, and spillover from instability in neighboring countries, particularly Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); it participates in multinational training exercises, regional peacekeeping deployments, and has ties with a variety of foreign militaries, including those of China and the US; it has contributed troops to the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade in the DRC and to the Southern African Development Community intervention force in Mozambique; since 2020, the TPDF has deployed additional troops to its border with Mozambique following several cross-border attacks by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham operating in Mozambique; the TPDF’s principal ground forces are 5 infantry brigades and an armored brigade; the Naval Forces operate patrol and fast attack boats, while the Air Force inventory includes small numbers of combat aircraft and helicopters (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports that shipping in territorial and offshore waters in the Indian Ocean remain at risk for piracy and armed robbery against ships
"
@@ -1321,7 +1338,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "80,043 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 126,608 (Burundi) (2023)"
+ "text": " 126,159 (Burundi), 79,823 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2023)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/africa/ug.json b/africa/ug.json
index b4bb2035..88de7059 100644
--- a/africa/ug.json
+++ b/africa/ug.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "375 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "284 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note 1: on 18 November 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Uganda 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 2: on 15 November 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Level Two Travel Alert (Practice Enhanced Precautions) for Ebola virus in Uganda, currently present in the following districts: Mubende, Kyegegwa, Kassanda, Kagadi, Bunyangabu, Kampala, Wakiso, Masaka City, and Jinja, and recommended that people avoid non-essential travel to these regions; this outbreak has been linked to the Sudan ebolavirus for which there are no vaccines or therapeutics approved for prevention or treatment of the Sudan ebolavirus; in addition, on 6 October 2022, the State Department issued a Level Three Travel Advisory to reconsider travel to Uganda and also announced the following \"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the CDC announced entrance screening for travelers who have been in Uganda in the last 21 days. All U.S.-bound passengers who have been in Uganda at any point in the 21 days prior to their arrival will be routed to one of the following designated airports: New York (JFK), Newark (EWR), Atlanta (ATL), Chicago (ORD), or Washington (IAD), where they will undergo enhanced screening, including a health questionnaire and temperature checks. This applies to all passengers, including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and foreign nationals (to include Diplomatic and Official visas).\""
+ "note": "note: on 15 November 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Level Two Travel Alert (Practice Enhanced Precautions) for Ebola virus in Uganda, currently present in the following districts: Mubende, Kyegegwa, Kassanda, Kagadi, Bunyangabu, Kampala, Wakiso, Masaka City, and Jinja, and recommended that people avoid non-essential travel to these regions; this outbreak has been linked to the Sudan ebolavirus for which there are no vaccines or therapeutics approved for prevention or treatment of the Sudan ebolavirus; in addition, on 6 October 2022, the State Department issued a Level Three Travel Advisory to reconsider travel to Uganda and also announced the following \"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the CDC announced entrance screening for travelers who have been in Uganda in the last 21 days. All U.S.-bound passengers who have been in Uganda at any point in the 21 days prior to their arrival will be routed to one of the following designated airports: New York (JFK), Newark (EWR), Atlanta (ATL), Chicago (ORD), or Washington (IAD), where they will undergo enhanced screening, including a health questionnaire and temperature checks. This applies to all passengers, including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and foreign nationals (to include Diplomatic and Official visas).\""
},
"Obesity - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "5.3% (2016)"
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
},
- "note": "note 1: on 18 November 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Uganda 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 2: on 15 November 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Level Two Travel Alert (Practice Enhanced Precautions) for Ebola virus in Uganda, currently present in the following districts: Mubende, Kyegegwa, Kassanda, Kagadi, Bunyangabu, Kampala, Wakiso, Masaka City, and Jinja, and recommended that people avoid non-essential travel to these regions; this outbreak has been linked to the Sudan ebolavirus for which there are no vaccines or therapeutics approved for prevention or treatment of the Sudan ebolavirus; in addition, on 6 October 2022, the State Department issued a Level Three Travel Advisory to reconsider travel to Uganda and also announced the following \"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the CDC announced entrance screening for travelers who have been in Uganda in the last 21 days. All U.S.-bound passengers who have been in Uganda at any point in the 21 days prior to their arrival will be routed to one of the following designated airports: New York (JFK), Newark (EWR), Atlanta (ATL), Chicago (ORD), or Washington (IAD), where they will undergo enhanced screening, including a health questionnaire and temperature checks. This applies to all passengers, including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and foreign nationals (to include Diplomatic and Official visas).\""
+ "note": "note: on 15 November 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Level Two Travel Alert (Practice Enhanced Precautions) for Ebola virus in Uganda, currently present in the following districts: Mubende, Kyegegwa, Kassanda, Kagadi, Bunyangabu, Kampala, Wakiso, Masaka City, and Jinja, and recommended that people avoid non-essential travel to these regions; this outbreak has been linked to the Sudan ebolavirus for which there are no vaccines or therapeutics approved for prevention or treatment of the Sudan ebolavirus; in addition, on 6 October 2022, the State Department issued a Level Three Travel Advisory to reconsider travel to Uganda and also announced the following \"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the CDC announced entrance screening for travelers who have been in Uganda in the last 21 days. All U.S.-bound passengers who have been in Uganda at any point in the 21 days prior to their arrival will be routed to one of the following designated airports: New York (JFK), Newark (EWR), Atlanta (ATL), Chicago (ORD), or Washington (IAD), where they will undergo enhanced screening, including a health questionnaire and temperature checks. This applies to all passengers, including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and foreign nationals (to include Diplomatic and Official visas).\""
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -835,6 +835,14 @@
"text": "42.8 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "44.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.4%"
@@ -843,6 +851,17 @@
"text": "36.1% (2009 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "4.03% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "4.06% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.848 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1118,8 +1137,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 256; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; analog and digital links to Kenya and Tanzania"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "public broadcaster, Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), operates radio and TV networks; 31 Free-To-Air (FTA) TV stations, 2 digital terrestrial TV stations, 3 cable TV stations, and 5 digital satellite TV stations; 258 operational FM stations"
@@ -1160,9 +1178,7 @@
"text": "5X"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "47 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "47 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1259,7 +1275,7 @@
"note": "note: in December 2022, Uganda sent approximately 1,000 troops to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of a newly formed East Africa Community Regional Force (EACRF) to assist the DRC military against the rebel group M23"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the UPDF, which is constitutionally granted seats in parliament, is widely viewed as a key constituency for MUSEVENI; it has been used by MUSEVENI and his political party to break up rallies, raid opposition offices, and surveil rival candidates
as of 2022, the UPDF was conducting operations along the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (including cross-border operations) against a Congo-based (and formerly based in western Uganda) Ugandan rebel group, the Allied Democratic Front (ADF), which was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US in March 2021 as the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC; see Appendix T); in addition, elements of the UPDF were deployed in the northeast region of Karamoja against cattle rustlers and criminal gangs
beginning in 2012, the UPDF led regional efforts to pursue the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a small, violent group of Ugandan origin that conducted widespread attacks against civilians in much of Central Africa; the UPDF withdrew from the mission in 2017 after declaring that the LRA no longer posed a security threat; Uganda intervened in the South Sudan civil war in 2013-2016 and UPDF forces have clashed with South Sudanese forces along the border as recently as 2020
the military traces its history back to the formation of the Uganda Rifles in 1895 under the British colonial government; the Uganda Rifles were merged with the Central Africa Regiment and the East Africa Rifles to form the King’s African Rifles (KAR) in 1902, which participated in both world wars, as well as the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya (1952-1960); in 1962, the Ugandan battalion of the KAR was transformed into the country's first military force, the Uganda Rifles, which was subsequently renamed the Uganda Army; the UPDF was established in 1995 from the former rebel National Resistance Army following the enactment of the 1995 Constitution of Uganda (2022)"
+ "text": "the UPDF’s missions include defending the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Uganda, assisting the civilian authorities in emergencies and natural disasters, and participating in socio-economic development projects; it supports the police in maintaining internal security and participates in African and UN peacekeeping missions; it is a key contributor to the East Africa Standby Force; the UPDF also has considerable political influence; it is constitutionally granted seats in parliament and is widely viewed as a key constituency for MUSEVENI; it has been used by MUSEVENI and his political party to break up rallies, raid opposition offices, and surveil rival candidates
the UPDF is considered to be a well-equipped force with cosiderable operational experience; from 2012-2017, it led regional efforts to pursue the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a small, violent group of Ugandan origin that conducted widespread attacks against civilians in much of Central Africa; Uganda intervened in the South Sudan civil war in 2013-2016, and UPDF forces have clashed with South Sudanese forces along the border as recently as 2020; it is also conducting operations along the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) against a DRC-based (and formerly based in western Uganda) Ugandan rebel group, the Allied Democratic Front (ADF), which has been designated by the US as the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the DRC (see Appendix T); in December 2022, Uganda sent about 1,000 UPDF troops to the DRC as part of a regional force to assist the DRC Government in combating the M23 rebel group; in addition, elements of the UPDF are deployed in the northeast region of Karamoja against cattle rustlers and criminal gangs
the Land Force has 5 light infantry divisions, including one trained for mountain warfare; it also has independent armored, artillery, and motorized infantry brigades, as well as a marine force for patrolling Uganda’s lakes and rivers; the special forces command has armor, artillery, commandos, motorized infantry, and presidential guard forces; the Air Force has small numbers of largely Russian-made combat aircraft and helicopters
the military traces its history back to the formation of the Uganda Rifles in 1895 under the British colonial government; the Uganda Rifles were merged with the Central Africa Regiment and the East Africa Rifles to form the King’s African Rifles (KAR) in 1902, which participated in both world wars, as well as the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya (1952-1960); in 1962, the Ugandan battalion of the KAR was transformed into the country's first military force, the Uganda Rifles, which was subsequently renamed the Uganda Army; the UPDF was established in 1995 from the former rebel National Resistance Army following the enactment of the 1995 Constitution of Uganda (2023)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
@@ -1274,7 +1290,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "479,364 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 865,363 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 67,494 (Somalia), 40,852 (Burundi), 27,605 (Eritrea), 23,290 (Rwanda), 5,450 (Ethiopia) (2023)"
+ "text": "865,363 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 483,718 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 67,494 (Somalia), 40,852 (Burundi), 27,605 (Eritrea), 23,290 (Rwanda), 5,450 (Ethiopia) (2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "67,000 (2022)"
diff --git a/africa/uv.json b/africa/uv.json
index 0638c8e2..79f68493 100644
--- a/africa/uv.json
+++ b/africa/uv.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "320 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "264 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Burkina Faso 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Burkina Faso 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": "5.6% (2016)"
@@ -471,11 +471,11 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "meningococcal meningitis"
},
- "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Burkina Faso 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": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Burkina Faso 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
- "text": "due to civil insecurity in the north - according to the latest analysis, 3.45 million people are projected to be food insecure and in need of humanitarian assistance between June and August 2022; in Centre-Nord and Sahel regions, insecurity continues to cause population displacements and, as of March 2022, about 1.85 million people had been displaced and required assistance; domestic cereal production in 2021 was estimated at a below-average level due to effects of adverse weather and civil conflict, further aggravating conditions; abnormally high prices of food are also a contributory factor that have constrained access to food; the coup d’état that occurred in January 2022 is an additional factor that could increase civil insecurity and further stress food insecurity conditions (2022)"
+ "text": "due to civil insecurity in the north and high food prices - according to the latest analysis, about 3.53 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity during the June to August 2023 lean season period; this would be a slight increase compared to the preceding year; food insecurity is primarily underpinned by worsening insecurity in Centre-Nord and Sahel regions, which, as of December 2022 (the latest data available), had displaced about 1.88 million people; high food prices further aggravate conditions of the most vulnerable households (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -844,6 +844,17 @@
"text": "32.2% (2009 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.93% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.89% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "2.87% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.666 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1093,18 +1104,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "75,039 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "81,374 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "(2020 est.) less than 1"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "22,117,218 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "24,678,315 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "106 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "112 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1112,12 +1123,11 @@
"text": "Burkina Faso’s telecom sector in recent years has made some gains in providing the necessary infrastructure and bandwidth to support telecom services; an IXP completed in September 2020 increased international bandwidth capacity by a third, while in mid-2021 the government was able to start the second phase of a national fiber backbone project; this will link the capital city to an addition 145 municipalities, and provide additional connectivity to terrestrial cables in neighboring countries; the activities of the militants in side areas of the country jeopardize overall security, and render it difficult for the telcos to safeguard their networks and equipment; Burkina Faso joins G5 Sahel countries to eliminate roaming fees (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage nearly 106 per 100, with multiple providers there is competition and the hope for growth from a low base; Internet penetration is 16% (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage nearly 112 per 100, with multiple providers there is competition and the hope for growth from a low base; Internet penetration is 16% (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 226; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "since the official inauguration of Terrestrial Digital Television (TNT) in December 2017, Burkina Faso now has 14 digital TV channels among which 2 are state-owned; there are more than 140 radio stations (commercial, religious, community) available throughout the country including a national and regional state-owned network; the state-owned Radio Burkina and the private Radio Omega are among the most widespread stations and both include broadcasts in French and local languages (2019)"
@@ -1161,9 +1171,7 @@
"text": "XT"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "23 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "23 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1263,7 +1271,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "34,358 (Mali) (2023)"
+ "text": "34,989 (Mali) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "1,761,915 (2022)
"
diff --git a/africa/wa.json b/africa/wa.json
index d52f9526..ce626e4d 100644
--- a/africa/wa.json
+++ b/africa/wa.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "195 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "215 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -842,6 +842,17 @@
"text": "42% (2010)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.38% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.61% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.52% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$4.268 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1116,8 +1127,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 264; landing points for the ACE and WACS fiber-optic submarine cable linking southern and western African countries to Europe; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 private and 1 state-run TV station; satellite and cable TV service available; state-run radio service broadcasts in multiple languages; about a dozen private radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters available"
@@ -1161,9 +1171,7 @@
"text": "V5"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "112 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "112 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1270,7 +1278,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "6,285 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022)"
+ "text": "6,316 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)"
}
}
}
diff --git a/africa/wz.json b/africa/wz.json
index 161d7de6..cc44d2bb 100644
--- a/africa/wz.json
+++ b/africa/wz.json
@@ -799,6 +799,17 @@
"text": "40.1% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.79% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.64% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.263 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1047,18 +1058,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "39,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "46,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "3 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1.243 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1.4 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "107 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "120 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1066,12 +1077,11 @@
"text": "Eswatini was one of the last countries in the world to open up its telecom market to competition; until 2011 the state-owned Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications also acted as the industry regulator and had a stake in the country’s sole mobile network; a new independent regulatory authority was established in late 2013 and has since embarked on significant changes to the sector; mobile market subscriptions have been affected by the common use among subscribers when they use SIM cards from different networks in order to access cheaper on-net calls; subscriber growth has slowed in recent years, but was expected to have reached 8% in 2021, as people adapted to the changing needs for connectivity caused by the pandemic; the internet sector has been open to competition with a small number of licensed ISPs; DSL services were introduced in 2008, development of the sector has been hampered by the limited fixed-line infrastructure and by a lack of competition in the access and backbone networks; Eswatini is landlocked and so depends on neighboring countries for international bandwidth; this has meant that access pricing is relatively high, and market subscriptions remains relatively low; prices have fallen recently in line with greater bandwidth availability resulting from several new submarine cable systems which have reached the region in recent years; in September 2020 a terrestrial cable linked Mozambique with Eswatini and South Africa (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "Eswatini has 2 mobile-cellular providers; communication infrastructure has a geographic coverage of about 90% and a rising subscriber base; fixed-line stands at nearly 3 per 100 and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 107 telephones per 100 persons; telephone system consists of carrier-equipped, open-wire lines and low-capacity, microwave radio relay (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line stands at nearly 4 per 100 and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 120 telephones per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 268; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV station; satellite dishes are able to access South African providers; state-owned radio network with 3 channels; 1 private radio station (2019)"
@@ -1101,9 +1111,7 @@
"text": "3DC"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "14 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "14 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1153,13 +1161,13 @@
"text": "1.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.9% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $140 million)"
+ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "2.1% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $150 million)"
+ "text": "2.1% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "2.1% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $140 million)"
+ "text": "2.1% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/africa/za.json b/africa/za.json
index 314a2992..20eb4e92 100644
--- a/africa/za.json
+++ b/africa/za.json
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "213 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "135 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -318,7 +318,8 @@
},
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -472,7 +473,8 @@
},
"animal contact diseases": {
"text": "rabies"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: on 22 March 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"
},
"Food insecurity": {
"severe localized food insecurity": {
@@ -848,6 +850,17 @@
"text": "47.4% (2010)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.09% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.74% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.42% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$4.473 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1122,8 +1135,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 260; multiple providers operate overland fiber optic routes via Zimbabwe/South Africa, Botswana/Namibia and Tanzania provide access to the major undersea cables"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "according to the Independent Broadcast Authority, there are 137 radio stations and 47 television stations in Zambia; out of the 137 radio stations, 133 are private (categorized as either commercial or community radio stations), while 4 are public-owned; state-owned Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) operates 2 television channels and 3 radio stations; ZNBC owns 75% shares in GoTV, 40% in MultiChoice, and 40% in TopStar Communications Company, all of which operate in-country
(2019)"
@@ -1167,9 +1179,7 @@
"text": "9J"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "88 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "88 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1281,7 +1291,7 @@
"text": "930 Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (May 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the Zambian Defense Force (ZDF) traces its roots to the Northern Rhodesia Regiment, which was raised by the British colonial government to fight in World War II; the ZDF was established in 1964 from units of the dissolved Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland armed forces; it participated in a number of regional conflicts during the 1970s and 1980s; Zambia actively supported independence movements such as the Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC), and the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) (2022)"
+ "text": "the ZDF is responsible for preserving the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity; it also has some domestic security responsibilities in cases of national emergency; border security and support to African and UN peacekeeping operations are priorities; the ZDF is part of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Standby Force and participates in multinational training exercises; it has received training assistance from China and the US
the Army’s principal combat forces are 3 light infantry brigades, supported by armored and artillery regiments; it also has a maritime patrol unit to provide security for the country’s lakes and rivers; the Air Force has small numbers of mostly Chinese-made combat aircraft and helicopters
the ZDF traces its roots to the Northern Rhodesia Regiment, which was raised by the British colonial government to fight in World War II; the ZDF was established in 1964 from units of the dissolved Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland armed forces; it participated in a number of regional conflicts during the 1970s and 1980s; Zambia actively supported independence movements such as the Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC), and the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
@@ -1290,15 +1300,15 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "46,777 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 7,230 (Burundi) (2022)"
+ "text": "7,230 (Burundi) (2022); 52,288 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), "
}
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
"tier rating": {
- "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Zambia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making efforts to do so; efforts included increasing law enforcement training, establishing two fast-track human trafficking courts, conducting awareness campaigns about human trafficking, slightly increasing prosecutions and convictions, and strengthening prison sentences given to traffickers; however; investigations of trafficking crimes and funding to shelters and other victim assistance programs decreased; authorities did not proactively screen for trafficking among vulnerable populations, including foreign nationals and those involved in commercial sex; authorities detained and deported potential trafficking victims involved in smuggling; the national inter-ministerial committee is weak in overseeing national anti-trafficking efforts and trends (2020)"
+ "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Zambia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; efforts included increasing investigations, prosecutions, and convictions in trafficking crimes, launching a national action plan for trafficking in persons and implementing a national referral mechanism, and increasing screening and identification of victims among migrants; however, the government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to expand anti-trafficking capacity; officials did not amend laws to criminalize all forms of child sex trafficking, nor approve guidelines for funding or shelter operations; because the government has devoted sufficient resources to a written plan that, if implemented, would constitute significant efforts to meet the minimum standards, Zambia was granted a waiver per the TVPA from an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3 and, therefore, remained on Tier 2 Watch List for the third consecutive year (2022)"
},
"trafficking profile": {
- "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Zambia and Zambians abroad; most trafficking occurs within Zambia’s borders, with traffickers exploiting women and children from rural areas in cities in domestic servitude or forced labor in agriculture, textile production, mining, construction, small businesses, such as bakeries, and forced begging; Jerabo gangs force Zambian children into illegal mining operations, such as loading stolen copper or crushing rocks; truck drivers exploit Zambian boys and girls in sex trafficking in towns along the Zimbabwean and Tanzanian borders, and miners exploit them in Solwezi; Zambian boys are exploited for sex trafficking in Zimbabwe and women and girls in South Africa; traffickers exploit victims from Tanzania and Malawi in the Zambian timber industry"
+ "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Zambia as well as Zambians abroad; most trafficking occurs within Zambia’s borders, with traffickers exploiting women and children from rural areas in domestic servitude or forced labor in agriculture, textile production, mining, construction, small businesses, and forced begging; Jerabo—small illegal mining gangs—may force Zambian children into illegal mining operations, such as loading stolen copper or crushing rocks; orphans and children from rural areas are vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced labor; truck drivers exploit Zambian boys and girls in sex trafficking in towns along the Zimbabwean and Tanzanian borders, and miners exploit them in Solwezi; Zambian boys are exploited for sex trafficking in Zimbabwe, women and girls face sex trafficking in South Africa, and some women are recruited for domestic servitude in Lebanon and Oman; women and children from neighboring counties are exploited in force labor and sex trafficking in Zambia; some Chinese women and girls brought to Zambia by Chinese traffickers are sexually exploited in brothels and massage businesses; traffickers exploit victims from Tanzania and Malawi in the Zambian timber industry (2022)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/africa/zi.json b/africa/zi.json
index 351b3273..d3b81fcc 100644
--- a/africa/zi.json
+++ b/africa/zi.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "458 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "357 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
},
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
- "text": "due to high food prices and cereal production downturn - based on a government assessment, an estimated 3.8 million people are expected to be in need of humanitarian assistance between January and March 2023, this number is higher than the level estimated in the first quarter of 2022; the downturn in food security conditions is largely on account of poor food access due to prevailing high food prices and reduced incomes owing to the effects of an economic downturn; a decline in cereal production in 2022 has also aggravated conditions (2022)"
+ "text": "due to high food prices - based on a government assessment, an estimated 3.8 million people are expected to be in need of humanitarian assistance between January and March 2023; this number is higher than the level estimated in the first quarter of 2022; the downturn in food security conditions is largely on account of poor food access resulting from prevailing high food prices and reduced incomes owing to the effects of an economic downturn; a decline in cereal production in 2022 has also aggravated conditions (2023)"
}
},
"Waste and recycling": {
@@ -843,6 +843,17 @@
"text": "40.4% (1995)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "8.52% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "6.49% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "4.18% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.8 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1112,8 +1123,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 263; fiber-optic connections to neighboring states provide access to international networks via undersea cable; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; 5 international digital gateway exchanges"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government owns all local radio and TV stations; foreign shortwave broadcasts and satellite TV are available to those who can afford antennas and receivers; in rural areas, access to TV broadcasts is extremely limited; analog TV only, no digital service (2017)"
@@ -1157,9 +1167,7 @@
"text": "Z"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "196 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "196 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1255,7 +1263,7 @@
"text": "18-22 years of age for voluntary military service (18-24 for officer cadets; 18-30 for technical/specialist personnel); no conscription; women are eligible to serve (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the ZDF was formed after independence from the former Rhodesian Army and the two guerrilla forces that opposed it during the Rhodesian Civil War (aka \"Bush War\") of the 1970s, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA); internal security is a key current responsibility, and the military continues to play an active role in the country’s politics since the coup of 2017 (2022)"
+ "text": "ZDF’s primary responsibilities are protecting the country’s sovereignty and territory and securing its borders; it also has a considerable role in domestic security and has continued to be active in the country’s politics since the 2017 coup; the ZDF is part of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Standby Force and has provided troops to the SADC deployment to Mozambique; Zimbabwe has defense ties with China and Russia; the Army has approximately 5 light infantry brigades, plus brigades of mechanized infantry, presidential guards, special operations, and artillery; the Air Force has a few dozen operational Chinese- and Russian-made combat aircraft and helicopters
the ZDF was formed after independence from the former Rhodesian Army and the two guerrilla forces that opposed it during the Rhodesian Civil War (aka \"Bush War\") of the 1970s, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA); the ZDF intervened in the Mozambique Civil War (1983-1992), the Democratic Republic of Congo during the Second Congo War (1998-2003), and the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002) during the late 1990s (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
@@ -1264,15 +1272,15 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "12,360 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,887 (Mozambique) (2022)"
+ "text": "11,814 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,887 (Mozambique) (2022)"
}
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
"tier rating": {
- "text": "Tier 3 - Zimbabwe does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government passed an anti-trafficking law in 2014 defining trafficking in persons as a crime of transportation and failing to capture the key element of the international definition of human trafficking – the purpose of exploitation – which prevents the law from being comprehensive or consistent with the 2000 UN TIP Protocol that Zimbabwe acceded to in 2013; the government did not report on anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts during 2014, and corruption in law enforcement and the judiciary remain a concern; authorities made minimal efforts to identify and protect trafficking victims, relying on NGOs to identify and assist victims; Zimbabwe’s 2014 anti-trafficking law required the opening of 10 centers for trafficking victims, but none were established during the year; five existing shelters for vulnerable children and orphans may have accommodated child victims; in January 2015, an inter-ministerial anti-trafficking committee was established, but it is unclear if the committee ever met or initiated any activities (2015)"
+ "text": "Tier 2 Watch List - Zimbabwe does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; the government investigated and prosecuted human trafficking cases and conducted training for law enforcement, immigration, and other key officials; however, Zimbabwe did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to increase anti-trafficking capacity; officials did not amend laws to criminalize all forms of trafficking, did not identify or provide care for any trafficking victims, nor convict any traffickers; therefore Zimbabwe remained on Tier 2 Watch List for the second consecutive year (2022)"
},
"trafficking profile": {
- "text": "Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; Zimbabwean women and girls from towns bordering South Africa, Mozambique, and Zambia are subjected to forced labor, including domestic servitude, and prostitution catering to long-distance truck drivers; Zimbabwean men, women, and children experience forced labor in agriculture and domestic servitude in rural areas; family members may recruit children and other relatives from rural areas with promises of work or education in cities and towns where they end up in domestic servitude and sex trafficking; Zimbabwean women and men are lured into exploitative labor situations in South Africa and other neighboring countries"
+ "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Zimbabwe, as well as Zimbabweans abroad; internal trafficking is prevalent and underreported, with adults and children exploited in sex trafficking and forced labor in cattle herding, domestic service, and the mining sectors; most child labor occurs in the agricultural sector; Zimbabwean women and girls from towns bordering South Africa, Mozambique, and Zambia are subjected to forced labor, including domestic servitude, and sex trafficking catering to long-distance truck drivers; Zimbabwean men and children are exploited in illegal diamond and gold mining, and some children are exploited by sex traffickers in illegal mining areas; Zimbabwean women and men are lured into forced labor in neighboring countries, particularly South Africa and the Middle East; women are sex trafficked in South Africa by international criminal syndicates, while traffickers force others into domestic servitude, forced labor, and sex trafficking in Iraq, Kenya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, China, and Uganda, often under the guise of legitimate employment; Zimbabwe is a transit country for Somalis, Ethiopians, Malawians, and Zambians en route to South Africa, and is also a destination country for forced labor and sex trafficking (2022)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/antarctica/ay.json b/antarctica/ay.json
index 5c382815..56c39f58 100644
--- a/antarctica/ay.json
+++ b/antarctica/ay.json
@@ -225,9 +225,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "17 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "17 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with unpaved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/antarctica/fs.json b/antarctica/fs.json
index 5e6657d5..8df6281e 100644
--- a/antarctica/fs.json
+++ b/antarctica/fs.json
@@ -213,9 +213,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with unpaved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/aq.json b/australia-oceania/aq.json
index b8e2e592..1302f2f0 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/aq.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/aq.json
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
"note": "note: data represent population by ethnic origin or race"
},
"Languages": {
- "text": "Samoan 88.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 3.9%, Tongan 2.7%, other Pacific islander 3%, other 1.8% (2010 est.)",
+ "text": "Samoan 87.9% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 3.3%, Tongan 2.1%, other Pacific Islander 4.1%, Asian languages 2.1%, other 0.5% (2010 est.)",
"note": "note: most people are bilingual"
},
"Religions": {
@@ -775,10 +775,10 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "10,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "10,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "22 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "22 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
@@ -798,8 +798,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-684; landing points for the ASH, Southern Cross NEXT and Hawaiki providing connectivity to New Zealand, Australia, American Samoa, Hawaii, California, and SAS connecting American Samoa with Samoa; satellite earth station - 1 (Intelsat-Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "3 TV stations; multi-channel pay TV services are available; about a dozen radio stations, some of which are repeater stations"
@@ -818,9 +817,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "3 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "3 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/as.json b/australia-oceania/as.json
index 4c2a4666..2a6938ef 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/as.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/as.json
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
},
"Natural resources": {
"text": "alumina, coal, iron ore, copper, lithium, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rare earth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, opals, natural gas, petroleum;",
- "note": "note 1: Australia is the world's largest net exporter of coal accounting for 26.5% of global coal exports in 2021;coal is the country’s most abundant energy resource, and coal ranks as the second-largest export commodity from Australia in terms of revenue; in 2020, Australia held the third-largest recoverable coal reserves in the world behind the United States and Russia
note 2: Australia is by far the world's largest supplier of opals
note 3: Australia holds the largest uranium reserves in the world, and was the second-largest global uranium producer behind Kazakhstan in 2020.
note 4: Australia was the largest exporter of LNG in the world in 2020."
+ "note": "note 1: Australia is the world's largest net exporter of coal accounting for 26.5% of global coal exports in 2021; coal is the country’s most abundant energy resource, and coal ranks as the second-largest export commodity from Australia in terms of revenue; in 2020, Australia held the third-largest recoverable coal reserves in the world behind the United States and Russia
note 2: Australia is by far the world's largest supplier of opals
note 3: Australia holds the largest uranium reserves in the world, and was the second-largest global uranium producer behind Kazakhstan in 2020.
note 4: Australia was the largest exporter of LNG in the world in 2020."
},
"Land use": {
"agricultural land": {
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
"text": "28.7 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "6 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -826,6 +826,14 @@
"text": "34.3 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "9.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2%"
@@ -834,6 +842,17 @@
"text": "25.4% (1994)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.06% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.09% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.13% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$490 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1104,8 +1123,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 61; landing points for more than 20 submarine cables including: the SeaMeWe-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the INDIGO-Central, INDIGO West and ASC, North West Cable System, Australia-Papua New Guinea cable, CSCS, PPC-1, Gondwana-1, SCCN, Hawaiki, TGA, Basslink, Bass Strait-1, Bass Strait-2, JGA-S, with links to other Australian cities, New Zealand and many countries in southeast Asia, US and Europe; the H2 Cable, AJC, Telstra Endeavor, Southern Cross NEXT with links to Japan, Hong Kong, and other Pacific Ocean countries as well as the US; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean), 2 Inmarsat, 2 Globalstar, 5 other (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) runs multiple national and local radio networks and TV stations, as well as ABC Australia, a TV service that broadcasts in the Asia-Pacific region and is the main public broadcaster; Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), a second large public broadcaster, operates radio and TV networks broadcasting in multiple languages; several large national commercial TV networks, a large number of local commercial TV stations, and hundreds of commercial radio stations are accessible; cable and satellite systems are available (2022)"
@@ -1149,9 +1167,7 @@
"text": "VH"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "418 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "418 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1283,7 +1299,7 @@
"text": "note: since the 1990s, Australia has deployed more than 30,000 personnel on nearly 100 UN peacekeeping and coalition military operations, including in Cambodia, Rwanda, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, and East Timor"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "Australia has been part of the Australia, New Zealand, and US Security (ANZUS) Treaty since 1951; Australia is also a member of the Five Powers Defense Arrangements (FPDA), a series of mutual assistance agreements reached in 1971 embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK; the FPDA commits the members to consult with one another in the event or threat of an armed attack on any of the members and to mutually decide what measures should be taken, jointly or separately; there is no specific obligation to intervene militarily
Australia has a long-standing military relationship with the US; Australian and US forces first fought together in France in 1918 at the Battle of Hamel, and have fought together in every major US conflict since; Australia and the US signed an agreement in 2014 that allowed for closer bi-lateral defense and security cooperation, including annual rotations of US Marines and enhanced rotations of US Air Force aircraft to Australia; Australian military forces train often with US forces; Australia has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation
Australia also has long-standing defense and security ties to the UK, including a Defense and Security Cooperation Treaty signed in 2013; in 2020, Australia and the UK signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the building of a next generation of frigates for their respective navies; the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) is their premier bilateral forum on foreign policy, defense, and security issues
in 2021, Australia, the UK, and the US announced an enhanced trilateral security partnership called “AUKUS” which would build on existing bilateral ties, including deeper integration of defense and security-related science, technology, industrial bases, and supply chains, as well as deeper cooperation on a range of defense and security capabilities; the first initiative under AUKUS was a commitment to support Australia in acquiring conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy (2023)"
+ "text": "Australia has been part of the Australia, New Zealand, and US Security (ANZUS) Treaty since 1951; Australia is also a member of the Five Powers Defense Arrangements (FPDA), a series of mutual assistance agreements reached in 1971 embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK; the FPDA commits the members to consult with one another in the event or threat of an armed attack on any of the members and to mutually decide what measures should be taken, jointly or separately; there is no specific obligation to intervene militarily
Australia has a long-standing military relationship with the US; Australian and US forces first fought together in France in 1918 at the Battle of Hamel, and have fought together in every major US conflict since; Australia and the US signed an agreement in 2014 that allowed for closer bi-lateral defense and security cooperation, including annual rotations of US Marines and enhanced rotations of US Air Force aircraft to Australia; Australian military forces train often with US forces; Australia has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation
Australia also has long-standing defense and security ties to the UK, including a Defense and Security Cooperation Treaty signed in 2013; in 2020, Australia and the UK signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the building of a next generation of frigates for their respective navies; the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) is their premier bilateral forum on foreign policy, defense, and security issues
in 2021, Australia, the UK, and the US announced an enhanced trilateral security partnership called “AUKUS” which would build on existing bilateral ties, including deeper integration of defense and security-related science, technology, industrial bases, and supply chains, as well as deeper cooperation on a range of defense and security capabilities; the first initiative under AUKUS was a commitment to support Australia in acquiring conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy
the ADF is an experienced and professional force equipped with modern weapons; its missions include protecting Australia’s borders and maritime interests, responding to domestic natural disasters, and deploying overseas for humanitarian, peacekeeping, and other security-related missions; it trains regularly and participates in international exercises; the Army’s principal combat forces include a divisional headquarters with 3 mechanized brigades and a special operations command; the Navy operates over 40 surface craft and submarines, including 11 destroyers and frigates, 2 landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships, and 6 attack-type submarines; the RAF has an air combat group with more than 140 modern combat aircraft, as well as transport and surveillance air groups (2023)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/bp.json b/australia-oceania/bp.json
index 2e13751f..ea3e9cda 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/bp.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/bp.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "104 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "122 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -764,6 +764,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.13% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.79% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.57% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$532.5 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1038,8 +1049,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 677; landing points for the CSCS and ICNS2 submarine cables providing connectivity from Solomon Islands, to PNG, Vanuatu and Australia; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) does not broadcast television; multi-channel pay-TV is available; SIBC operates 2 national radio stations and 2 provincial stations; there are 2 local commercial radio stations; Radio Australia is available via satellite feed (since 2009) (2019)"
@@ -1083,9 +1093,7 @@
"text": "H4"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "36 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "36 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/ck.json b/australia-oceania/ck.json
index fb45d2f4..6a54f76e 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/ck.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/ck.json
@@ -435,9 +435,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/cq.json b/australia-oceania/cq.json
index d17b5ea5..570a2a99 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/cq.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/cq.json
@@ -751,8 +751,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-670; landing points for the Atisa and Mariana-Guam submarine cables linking Mariana islands to Guam; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 TV broadcast station on Saipan; multi-channel cable TV services are available on Saipan; 9 licensed radio broadcast stations (2009)"
@@ -771,9 +770,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "5 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "5 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/cw.json b/australia-oceania/cw.json
index dba261b9..16acc311 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/cw.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/cw.json
@@ -827,18 +827,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "6,576 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "7,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "38 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "41 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "14,539 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "17,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "83 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "100 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -846,12 +846,11 @@
"text": "demand for mobile broadband is increasing due to mobile services being the primary and most wide-spread source for Internet access across the region; Telecom Cook Islands offers international direct dialing, Internet, email, and fax; individual islands are connected by a combination of satellite earth stations, microwave systems, and VHF and HF radiotelephone (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "service is provided by small exchanges connected to subscribers by open-wire, cable, and fiber-optic cable; nearly 38 per 100 fixed-line and about 83 per 100 mobile-cellular (2019)"
+ "text": "service is provided by small exchanges connected to subscribers by open-wire, cable, and fiber-optic cable; nearly 41 per 100 fixed-line and about 100 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 682; the Manatua submarine cable to surrounding islands of Niue, Samoa, French Polynesia and other Cook Islands, the topography of the South Pacific region has made Internet connectivity a serious issue for many of the remote islands; submarine fiber-optic networks are expensive to build and maintain; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 privately owned TV station broadcasts from Rarotonga providing a mix of local news and overseas-sourced programs (2019)"
@@ -889,9 +888,7 @@
"text": "E5"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "11 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "11 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/fj.json b/australia-oceania/fj.json
index 38cc455a..27b2fb5a 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/fj.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/fj.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "34 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "38 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -794,6 +794,17 @@
"text": "34.9% (2009 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "11.26% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "7.94% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.39% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.454 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1042,18 +1053,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "48,510 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "49,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "5 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "5 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "991,500 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "990,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "111 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1061,12 +1072,11 @@
"text": "Fiji is the leading market to watch in terms of both LTE and 5G development in the region; the market boasts relatively sophisticated, advanced digital infrastructure, with telcos’ heavy investment resulting in the country having the highest mobile and internet subscriptions in the Pacific Islands region; LTE, LTE-A, and fiber technologies have received the most investment by the Fijian mobile operators, LTE now accounts for the largest share of connections in the mobile segment; concentrating on the more highly populated areas, the operators are preparing for the next growth area of high-speed data; they also have 5G in mind, and are preparing their networks to be 5G-ready, anticipating an easier migration to the technology based on the relatively high LTE subscription rate; Fiji presents a challenging geographic environment for infrastructure development due to its population being spread across more than 100 islands; the majority of Fijians live on the two main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu; in July 2018, the two islands were linked by the Savusavu submarine cable system, which provides a more secure link in times of emergency weather events such as the regular tropical cyclones that often cause massive destruction to the area, including destroying essential infrastructure such as electricity and telecommunications equipment; notably, the December 2021 eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano in Tonga damaged the Tonga Cable which connects Fiji, and Tonga blocking the latter off from internet services; cable theft and damage of critical communications infrastructure has also become a concern in Fiji, prompting authorities to establish a joint task force to tackle the issue (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line nearly 5 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 111 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line nearly 5 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 110 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 679; landing points for the ICN1, SCCN, Southern Cross NEXT, Tonga Cable and Tui-Samoa submarine cable links to US, NZ, Australia and Pacific islands of Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Fallis & Futuna, and American Samoa; satellite earth stations - 2 Inmarsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Fiji TV, a publicly traded company, operates a free-to-air channel; Digicel Fiji operates the Sky Fiji and Sky Pacific multi-channel pay-TV services; state-owned commercial company, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Ltd, operates 6 radio stations - 2 public broadcasters and 4 commercial broadcasters with multiple repeaters; 5 radio stations with repeaters operated by Communications Fiji, Ltd; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available"
@@ -1110,9 +1120,7 @@
"text": "DQ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "28 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "28 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1189,13 +1197,13 @@
"text": "1.4% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.6% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $160 million)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.6% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $160 million)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.5% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $150 million)"
+ "text": "1.5% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1211,7 +1219,7 @@
"text": "170 Egypt (MFO); 165 Iraq (UNAMI); 150 Golan Heights (UNDOF) (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the RFMF was established in 1920; it has a history of intervening in the country’s politics since the late 1980s, including coups in 1987 and 2006, and a mutiny in 2000
the RFMF also has a long tradition of participating in UN peacekeeping operations; since its first deployment of troops to South Lebanon in 1978 under the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), it has deployed troops on nearly 20 additional UN missions
Fiji has a \"shiprider\" agreement with the US, which allows local maritime law enforcement officers to embark on US Coast Guard (USCG) and US Navy (USN) vessels, including to board and search vessels suspected of violating laws or regulations within Fiji's designated exclusive economic zone (EEZ) or on the high seas; \"shiprider\" agreements also enable USCG personnel and USN vessels with embarked USCG law enforcement personnel to work with host nations to protect critical regional resources (2023)"
+ "text": "established in 1920, the RFMF is a small and lightly-armed force with a history of intervening in the country’s politics, including coups in 1987 and 2006, and a mutiny in 2000, and it continues to have significant political power; the RFMF is responsible for external security but can be assigned some domestic security responsibilities in specific circumstances; it also has a tradition of participating in UN peacekeeping operations, having sent troops on nearly 20 such missions since first deploying personnel to South Lebanon in 1978; these deployments have offered experience and a source of financial support; the RFMF has an infantry regiment and a small naval element comprised of patrol boats
Fiji has a \"shiprider\" agreement with the US, which allows local maritime law enforcement officers to embark on US Coast Guard (USCG) and US Navy (USN) vessels, including to board and search vessels suspected of violating laws or regulations within Fiji's designated exclusive economic zone (EEZ) or on the high seas; \"shiprider\" agreements also enable USCG personnel and USN vessels with embarked USCG law enforcement personnel to work with host nations to protect critical regional resources (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/fm.json b/australia-oceania/fm.json
index 0ef887e2..563a3b78 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/fm.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/fm.json
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "88 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "74 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -736,6 +736,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "5.72% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.66% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "5.81% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$213.8 million (FY12/13 est.)"
@@ -935,8 +946,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 691; landing points for the Chuukk-Pohnpei Cable and HANTRU-1 submarine cable system linking the Federated States of Micronesia and the US; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "no TV broadcast stations; each state has a multi-channel cable service with TV transmissions carrying roughly 95% imported programming and 5% local programming; about a half-dozen radio stations (2009)"
@@ -966,9 +976,7 @@
"text": "V6"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "6 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "6 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/fp.json b/australia-oceania/fp.json
index df0878f3..81209a78 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/fp.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/fp.json
@@ -665,6 +665,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "10.19% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "9.69% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "9.48% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.891 billion (2012)"
@@ -874,18 +885,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "94,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "108,051 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "33 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "36 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "335,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "322,918 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "119 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "106 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -893,12 +904,11 @@
"text": "French Polynesia has one of the most advanced telecoms infrastructures in the Pacific Islands region; the remoteness of the country with its scattering of 130 islands and atolls has made connectivity vital for its inhabitants; the first submarine cable was deployed in 2010 and since then additional cables have been connected to the islands, vastly improving French Polynesia’s international connectivity; an additional domestic submarine cable, the Natitua Sud, will connect more remote islands by the end of 2022; French Polynesia is also a hub for satellite communications in the region; a considerable number of consumers access FttP-based services; with the first data center in French Polynesia on the cards, the quality and price of broadband services is expected to improve as content will be able to be cached locally, reducing costs for consumers; for 2022, fixed broadband subscriptions reached an estimated 22%; about 43% of the country’s mobile connections are on 3G networks, while LTE accounts for 12%; by 2025, LTE is expected to account for more than half of all connections; it is also estimated that 77% of mobile subscribers will have smart phones by 2025 (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscriptions nearly 33 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular density is roughly 119 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscriptions nearly 36 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular density is roughly 106 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 689; landing points for the NATITUA, Manatua, and Honotua submarine cables to other French Polynesian Islands, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and US; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "French public overseas broadcaster Reseau Outre-Mer provides 2 TV channels and 1 radio station; 1 government-owned TV station; a small number of privately owned radio stations (2019)"
@@ -936,9 +946,7 @@
"text": "F-OH"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "54 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "54 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/gq.json b/australia-oceania/gq.json
index 146c6ed3..bfe429d4 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/gq.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/gq.json
@@ -821,10 +821,10 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "70,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "70,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "41 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "41 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
@@ -844,8 +844,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-671; major landing points for Atisa, HANTRU1, HK-G, JGA-N, JGA-S, PIPE-1, SEA-US, SxS, Tata TGN-Pacific, AJC, GOKI, AAG, AJC and Mariana-Guam Cable submarine cables between Asia, Australia, and the US (Guam is a transpacific communications hub for major carriers linking the US and Asia); satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "about a dozen TV channels, including digital channels; multi-channel cable TV services are available; roughly 20 radio stations"
@@ -875,9 +874,7 @@
"text": "N"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "5 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "5 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/kr.json b/australia-oceania/kr.json
index 24cb9574..d2e921b7 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/kr.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/kr.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "92 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "76 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -750,6 +750,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "8.24% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "11.28% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "10.18% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$151.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1013,8 +1024,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 686; landing point for the Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable system from Australia, 7 Pacific Ocean island countries to the US; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multi-channel TV packages provide access to Australian and US stations; 1 government-operated radio station broadcasts on AM, FM, and shortwave (2017)"
@@ -1055,9 +1065,7 @@
"text": "T3"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "19 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "19 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/kt.json b/australia-oceania/kt.json
index 978b91bd..347ae24b 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/kt.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/kt.json
@@ -430,9 +430,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/nc.json b/australia-oceania/nc.json
index db94fb05..4844b8d8 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/nc.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/nc.json
@@ -660,6 +660,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "6.58% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "6.58% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "6.31% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.995 billion (2015 est.)"
@@ -900,8 +911,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 687; landing points for the Gondwana-1 and Picot-1 providing connectivity via submarine cables around New Caledonia and to Australia; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the publicly owned French Overseas Network (RFO), which operates in France's overseas departments and territories, broadcasts over the RFO Nouvelle-Calédonie TV and radio stations; a small number of privately owned radio stations also broadcast"
@@ -936,9 +946,7 @@
}
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "25 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "25 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/ne.json b/australia-oceania/ne.json
index 6a631c6f..204898cf 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/ne.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/ne.json
@@ -756,8 +756,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 683; landing point for the Manatua submarine cable linking Niue to several South Pacific Ocean Islands; expansion of satellite services (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 government-owned TV station with many of the programs supplied by Television New Zealand; 1 government-owned radio station broadcasting in AM and FM (2019)"
@@ -776,9 +775,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/nf.json b/australia-oceania/nf.json
index 7364b0fe..97c77e51 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/nf.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/nf.json
@@ -502,8 +502,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 672; submarine cable links with Australia and New Zealand; satellite earth station - 1"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 local radio station; broadcasts of several Australian radio and TV stations available via satellite (2009)"
@@ -522,9 +521,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/nh.json b/australia-oceania/nh.json
index 95369b47..da010516 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/nh.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/nh.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "72 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "94 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -765,6 +765,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "10.92% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "8.01% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "3.85% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$236.7 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1036,8 +1047,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 678; landing points for the ICN1 & ICN2 submarine cables providing connectivity to the Solomon Islands and Fiji; cables helped end-users with Internet bandwidth; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV station; multi-channel pay TV is available; state-owned Radio Vanuatu operates 2 radio stations; 2 privately owned radio broadcasters; programming from multiple international broadcasters is available"
@@ -1081,9 +1091,7 @@
"text": "YJ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "31 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "31 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/nr.json b/australia-oceania/nr.json
index 8fc2fba8..ae41ad96 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/nr.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/nr.json
@@ -694,6 +694,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "5.27% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2017": {
+ "text": "9.46% of GDP (2017 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2016": {
+ "text": "11.77% of GDP (2016 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$103 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -945,8 +956,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 674; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 government-owned TV station broadcasting programs from New Zealand sent via satellite or on videotape; 1 government-owned radio station, broadcasting on AM and FM, utilizes Australian and British programs (2019)"
@@ -990,9 +1000,7 @@
"text": "C2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/nz.json b/australia-oceania/nz.json
index 02ff00a1..a1ea02ce 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/nz.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/nz.json
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
"text": "27.8 years"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "9 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -800,6 +800,14 @@
"text": "36.2 (1997)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "13.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "NA"
@@ -808,6 +816,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.01% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.07% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.22% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$74.11 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1077,8 +1096,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 64; landing points for the Southern Cross NEXT, Aqualink, Nelson-Levin, SCCN and Hawaiki submarine cable system providing links to Australia, Fiji, American Samoa, Kiribati, Samo, Tokelau, US and around New Zealand; satellite earth stations - 8 (1 Inmarsat - Pacific Ocean, 7 other) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned Television New Zealand operates multiple TV networks and state-owned Radio New Zealand operates 3 radio networks and an external shortwave radio service to the South Pacific region; a small number of national commercial TV and radio stations and many regional commercial television and radio stations are available; cable and satellite TV systems are available, as are a range of streaming services (2019)"
@@ -1122,9 +1140,7 @@
"text": "ZK"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "123 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "123 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/pc.json b/australia-oceania/pc.json
index a60f08e7..e8787915 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/pc.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/pc.json
@@ -492,8 +492,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 872; satellite earth station - 1 Inmarsat"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "satellite TV from Fiji-based Sky Pacific offering a wide range of international channels"
diff --git a/australia-oceania/ps.json b/australia-oceania/ps.json
index fd6bdf08..9887e405 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/ps.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/ps.json
@@ -753,6 +753,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.86% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.78% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.76% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$193 million (2012 est.)"
@@ -894,8 +905,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 680; landing point for the SEA-US submarine cable linking Palau, Philippines, Micronesia, Indonesia, Hawaii (US), Guam (US) and California (US); satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "no broadcast TV stations; a cable TV network covers the major islands and provides access to 4 local cable stations, rebroadcasts (on a delayed basis) of a number of US stations, as well as access to a number of real-time satellite TV channels; about a half dozen radio stations (1 government-owned) (2019)"
@@ -933,9 +943,7 @@
"text": "T8"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "3 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "3 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/rm.json b/australia-oceania/rm.json
index 8708722e..c17d482a 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/rm.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/rm.json
@@ -769,6 +769,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "12.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "13.55% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "14.34% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$116.7 million (2013 est.)"
@@ -905,8 +916,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 692; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); US Government satellite communications system on Kwajalein"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "no TV broadcast station; a cable network is available on Majuro with programming via videotape replay and satellite relays; 4 radio broadcast stations; American Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) provides satellite radio and television service to Kwajalein Atoll (2019)"
@@ -953,9 +963,7 @@
"text": "V7"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "15 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "15 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/tl.json b/australia-oceania/tl.json
index eb92ff24..aed38e54 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/tl.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/tl.json
@@ -568,8 +568,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 690; landing point for the Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable linking Australia, Tokelau, Samoa, Kiribati, Fiji, New Zealand and Los Angeles, CA (USA); radiotelephone service to Samoa; government-regulated telephone service (TeleTok); satellite earth stations - 3 (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Sky TV access for around 30% of the population; each atoll operates a radio service that provides shipping news and weather reports (2019)"
diff --git a/australia-oceania/tn.json b/australia-oceania/tn.json
index fbdff8f1..422bfd7b 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/tn.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/tn.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "52 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "126 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -776,6 +776,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "45.5% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "39.3% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "37.18% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$181.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1047,8 +1058,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 676; landing point for the Tonga Cable and the TDCE connecting to Fiji and 3 separate Tonga islands; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-owned TV station and 3 privately owned TV stations; satellite and cable TV services are available; 1 state-owned and 5 privately owned radio stations; Radio Australia broadcasts available via satellite (2019)"
@@ -1086,9 +1096,7 @@
"text": "A3"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "6 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "6 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/tv.json b/australia-oceania/tv.json
index 72b7f5e9..e1fc3a0d 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/tv.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/tv.json
@@ -697,6 +697,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.66% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "2% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$42.68 million (2013 est.)"
@@ -870,8 +881,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 688; international calls can be made by satellite"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "no TV stations; many households use satellite dishes to watch foreign TV stations; 1 government-owned radio station, Radio Tuvalu, includes relays of programming from international broadcasters (2019)"
@@ -901,9 +911,7 @@
"text": "T2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with unpaved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/um.json b/australia-oceania/um.json
index b300fa16..6a3bb7c5 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/um.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/um.json
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"2,438 to 3,047 m": {
- "text": "1 (2016) - Johnston Atoll;"
+ "text": "1 (2016) - Johnston Atoll"
},
"note": "note - abandoned but usable"
},
diff --git a/australia-oceania/wf.json b/australia-oceania/wf.json
index 5173cb9a..2a6925ae 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/wf.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/wf.json
@@ -656,8 +656,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 681; landing point for the Tui-Samoa submarine cable network connecting Wallis & Futuna, Samoa and Fiji (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the publicly owned French Overseas Network (RFO), which broadcasts to France's overseas departments, collectivities, and territories, is carried on the RFO Wallis and Fortuna TV and radio stations (2019)"
@@ -676,9 +675,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/wq.json b/australia-oceania/wq.json
index f40390e0..6452473e 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/wq.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/wq.json
@@ -295,8 +295,7 @@
"Telecommunication systems": {
"general assessment": {
"text": "satellite communications; 2 Defense Switched Network circuits off the Overseas Telephone System (OTS); located in the Hawaii area code - 808 (2018) (2018)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "American Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) provides satellite radio/TV broadcasts (2018)"
@@ -304,9 +303,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/australia-oceania/ws.json b/australia-oceania/ws.json
index 38db1866..efda6294 100644
--- a/australia-oceania/ws.json
+++ b/australia-oceania/ws.json
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "43 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "59 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -781,6 +781,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "29.44% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "23.5% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "17% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$237.3 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1043,8 +1054,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 685; landing points for the Tui-Samo, Manatua, SAS, and Southern Cross NEXT submarine cables providing connectivity to Samoa, Fiji, Wallis & Futuna, Cook Islands, Niue, French Polynesia, American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, Kiribati, Los Angeles (US), and Tokelau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned TV station privatized in 2008; 4 privately owned television broadcast stations; about a half-dozen privately owned radio stations and one state-owned radio station; TV and radio broadcasts of several stations from American Samoa are available (2019)"
@@ -1085,9 +1095,7 @@
"text": "5W"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json
index 1dea4df9..6f24a437 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json
@@ -630,6 +630,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.15% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.34% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.02% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$681.6 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -873,18 +884,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "35,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "35,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "33 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "33 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "141,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "140,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "132 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "130 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -892,12 +903,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "33 per 100 fixed-line telephone subscriptions and 132 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "33 per 100 fixed-line telephone subscriptions and 130 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 297; landing points for the PAN-AM, PCCS, Deep Blue Cable, and Alonso de Ojeda submarine telecommunications cable system that extends from Trinidad and Tobago, Florida, Puerto Ricco, Jamaica, Guyana, Sint Eustatius & Saba, Suriname, Dominican Republic, BVI, USVI, Haiti, Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, through Aruba to Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile; extensive interisland microwave radio relay links (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 commercial TV stations; cable TV subscription service provides access to foreign channels; about 19 commercial radio stations broadcast (2017)"
@@ -938,9 +948,7 @@
"text": "P4"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json
index b154579a..b4a63070 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@
"text": "0.89 male(s)/female (2023 est.)"
}
},
+ "Maternal mortality ratio": {
+ "text": "21 deaths/100,000 live births (2020)"
+ },
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
"text": "13.95 deaths/1,000 live births"
@@ -691,6 +694,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.41% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.65% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.19% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$298.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -934,18 +948,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "27,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "27,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "28 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "27 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "184,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "180,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "188 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "200 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -953,7 +967,7 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity roughly 28 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is about 188 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity roughly 27 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is about 200 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-268; landing points for the ECFS and Southern Caribbean Fiber submarine cable systems with links to other islands in the eastern Caribbean; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
@@ -1001,9 +1015,7 @@
"text": "V2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "3 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "3 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json
index 08e8af25..8f48e2f4 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json
@@ -664,18 +664,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "6,000 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "6,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "42 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "38 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "26,000 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "26,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "182 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "170 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -683,12 +683,11 @@
"text": "in the telecom sector, with declines seen in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services — the mainstay of short-term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis to a small extent as employees and students have resorted to working from home, but their contribution to the sector has been insufficient to offset steep falls in other areas of the market; one area of the telecom market that does not yet appear poised for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have little appetite for investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage; until the economies and markets stabilize, and overseas visitors return there is unlikely to be much momentum towards implementing 5G capabilities anywhere in the region (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity is about 42 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is roughly 182 per 100 persons (2018)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity is about 38 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is roughly 170 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-264; landing points for the SSCS, ECFS, GCN and Southern Caribbean Fiber with submarine cable links to Caribbean islands and to the US; microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 private TV station; multi-channel cable TV subscription services are available; about 10 radio stations, one of which is government-owned"
@@ -726,9 +725,7 @@
"text": "VP-A"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json
index 33e717d7..8940b981 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "27 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "39 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -761,6 +761,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.32% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.03% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "2.12% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.466 billion (2017 est.) (2013 est.)"
@@ -1046,9 +1057,7 @@
"text": "8P"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json
index 2367d5b5..e7f8ef74 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "70 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "77 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@
"text": "91,000 (2020 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "23 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "22 (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@
"text": "466,000 (2020 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "119 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "115 (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -980,12 +980,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "23 per 100 fixed-line, 119 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "22 per 100 fixed-line, 115 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-242; landing points for the ARCOS-1, BICS, Bahamas 2-US, and BDSN fiber-optic submarine cables that provide links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth stations - 2; the Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network links all of the major islands; (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "The Bahamas has 4 major TV providers that provide service to all major islands in the archipelago; 1 TV station is operated by government-owned, commercially run Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (BCB) and competes freely with 4 privately owned TV stations; multi-channel cable TV subscription service is widely available; there are 32 licensed broadcast (radio) service providers, 31 are privately owned FM radio stations operating on New Providence, Grand Bahama Island, Abaco Island, and on smaller islands in the country; the BCB operates a multi-channel radio broadcasting network that has national coverage; the sector is regulated by the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (2019)"
@@ -1029,9 +1028,7 @@
"text": "C6"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "54 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "54 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json
index 091c174e..134b4682 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "36 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "130 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -793,6 +793,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "5.43% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "5.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "4.01% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$553.5 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1042,18 +1053,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "19,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "19,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "5 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "5 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "264,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "260,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "66 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "66 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1061,12 +1072,11 @@
"text": "Belize’s fixed-line teledensity and mobile penetration remain lower than average for the region, a legacy of insufficient market competition and under investment in telecoms services; a significant investment in infrastructure, launching an LTE-A service at the end of 2016 and in mid-2017 completing a submarine cable to Ambergris Caye, enabling it to launch an FttP service in San Pedro; the nfrastructure has been updated from the legacy copper to fiber; investments have been made to provide high speed broadband to 80% of residences across Belize. (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "roughly 5 per 100 fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity of 66 per 100 persons; mobile sector accounting for over 90% of all phone subscriptions (2020)"
+ "text": "roughly 5 per 100 fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity of 66 per 100 persons; mobile sector accounting for over 90% of all phone subscriptions (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 501; landing points for the ARCOS and SEUL fiber-optic telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth station - 8 (Intelsat - 2, unknown - 6) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "8 privately owned TV stations; multi-channel cable TV provides access to foreign stations; about 25 radio stations broadcasting on roughly 50 different frequencies; state-run radio was privatized in 1998 (2019)"
@@ -1110,9 +1120,7 @@
"text": "V3"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "47 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "47 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1199,7 +1207,7 @@
"text": "the BDF's inventory is limited and consists mostly of UK- and US-origin equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; laws allow for conscription only if volunteers are insufficient, but conscription has never been implemented; volunteers typically outnumber available positions by 3:1; initial service obligation 12 years (2022)"
+ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; laws allow for conscription only if volunteers are insufficient, but conscription has never been implemented; initial service obligation is 12 years (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the BDF traces its history back to the Prince Regent Royal Honduras Militia, a volunteer force established in 1817; the BDF was established in 1978 from the disbanded Police Special Force and the Belize Volunteer Guard to assist the resident British forces with the defense of Belize against Guatemala
the British Army has maintained a presence in Belize since its independence; as of 2022, the presence consisted of a small training support unit that provides jungle training to troops from the UK and international partners
"
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json
index ccf2ce5e..b5bb37df 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json
@@ -620,6 +620,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.16% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.24% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.26% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$874.5 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -847,18 +858,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "36,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "36,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "55 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "53 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "100,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "152 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "150 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -866,12 +877,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "introduction of competition in the mobile-cellular market in 2004 boosted subscriptions; nearly 55 per 100 fixed-line and 152 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "53 per 100 fixed-line and 150 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-345; landing points for the Maya-1, Deep Blue Cable, and the Cayman-Jamaica Fiber System submarine cables that provide links to the US and parts of Central and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "4 TV stations; cable and satellite subscription services offer a variety of international programming; government-owned Radio Cayman operates 2 networks broadcasting on 5 stations; 10 privately owned radio stations operate alongside Radio Cayman"
@@ -909,9 +919,7 @@
"text": "VP-C"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "3 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "3 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json
index 6d403eec..7787ec3d 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "27 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "22 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -829,6 +829,14 @@
"text": "49.3 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "25.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.5%"
@@ -837,6 +845,17 @@
"text": "36.9% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.92% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.84% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.86% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$8.357 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1080,18 +1099,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "559,882 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "553,455 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "11 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "11 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "7,512,370 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,834,435 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "147 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "152 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1099,12 +1118,11 @@
"text": "the fixed broadband market is one of the few parts of Costa Rica’s telecom sector to experience solid growth in recent years, both in size and revenue; the country’s fiber network expanded by 56% in 2020, reaching about 176,200km; fixed-line broadband traffic volume also increased by more than 30%, year-on-year; other areas of the market have proven relatively lack luster, with slow or even negative growth; some of this can be attributed to the economic and social impacts of the pandemic, but the fixed-line and mobile sectors have both been struggling to produce decent results since well before the start of the crisis; the rollout of 5G network infrastructure in Costa Rica is unlikely to occur to any scale before 2023, but this may be one of the few remaining areas of opportunity open to investors outside of fixed-line internet and pay TV services (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "roughly 11 per 100 fixed-line and 148 per 100 mobile-cellular; point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available (2020)"
+ "text": "roughly 11 per 100 fixed-line and 152 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 506; landing points for the ARCOS-1, MAYA-1, and the PAC submarine cables that provide links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "over two dozen privately owned TV stations and 1 publicly owned TV station nationwide; cable network services are widely available; more than 100 privately owned radio stations and a public radio network (2022)"
@@ -1148,9 +1166,7 @@
"text": "TI"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "161 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "161 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json
index 69998f51..920da2cd 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "36 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "39 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -1059,18 +1059,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,502,230 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1,539,269 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "13 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "14 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "6,661,763 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,103,296 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "59 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "63 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1078,12 +1078,11 @@
"text": "internet availability has increased substantially over the past few years, but only about 64 percent of Cubans have Internet access, and even fewer Cubans--about 60 percent of the population--have access to cell phone service; in 2021 the Cuban Government passed a decree that strengthened its authority to censor Internet and telephonic communications; state control of the telecom sector hinders development; Cuba has the lowest mobile phone and Internet subscription rates in the region; fixed-line density is also very low; thaw of US-Cuba relations encouraged access to services, such as Wi-Fi hot spots; access to sites is controlled and censored; DSL and Internet are available in Havana, though costs are too high for most Cubans; international investment and agreement to improve Internet access through cost-free and direct connection between networks (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line density remains low at a little over 13 per 100 inhabitants; mobile-cellular service has expanded to about 59 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line density remains low at a little over 14 per 100 inhabitants; mobile-cellular service has expanded to about 63 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 53; the ALBA-1, GTMO-1, and GTMO-PR fiber-optic submarine cables link Cuba, Jamaica, and Venezuela; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government owns and controls all broadcast media: five national TV channels (Cubavision, Tele Rebelde, Multivision, Educational Channel 1 and 2), two international channels (Cubavision Internacional and Caribe), 16 regional TV stations, 6 national radio networks, and multiple regional stations; the Cuban Government beams over the Radio-TV Marti signal; although private ownership of electronic media is prohibited, several online independent news sites exist; those that are not openly critical of the government are often tolerated; the others are blocked by the government; there are no independent TV channels, but several outlets have created strong audiovisual content (El Toque, for example); a community of young Youtubers is also growing, mostly with channels about sports, technology and fashion; Christian denominations are creating original video content to distribute via social media (2019)"
@@ -1128,9 +1127,7 @@
"text": "CU"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "133 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "133 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1234,7 +1231,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is comprised of aging Russian and Soviet-era equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "17-28 years of age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; conscripts serve for two years (2022)"
+ "text": "17-28 years of age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; conscripts serve for 24 months (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the FAR has a large role in the Cuban economy through several military owned and operated conglomerates, including such sectors as banking, hotels, industry, retail, transportation, and tourism (2022)"
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json
index 14c6a72a..d4c351f2 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json
@@ -659,6 +659,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "10.38% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "13.48% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "7.77% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$227.8 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -901,18 +912,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,500 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "10 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "76,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "62,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "106 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "86 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -920,12 +931,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections continue to decline slowly with only two active operators providing about 4 fixed-line connections per 100 persons; subscribership among the three mobile-cellular providers is about 106 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "10 fixed-line connections per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscriptions are about 86 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-767; landing points for the ECFS and the Southern Caribbean Fiber submarine cables providing connectivity to other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad and to the US; microwave radio relay and SHF radiotelephone links to Martinique and Guadeloupe; VHF and UHF radiotelephone links to Saint Lucia (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "no terrestrial TV service available; subscription cable TV provider offers some locally produced programming plus channels from the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean; state-operated radio broadcasts on 6 stations; privately owned radio broadcasts on about 15 stations (2019)"
@@ -955,9 +965,7 @@
"text": "J7"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json
index 2ded6a2b..230946f6 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "95 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "107 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -834,6 +834,14 @@
"text": "39.6 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "26.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.9%"
@@ -842,6 +850,17 @@
"text": "37.4% (2013 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "11.4% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "10.57% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "8.34% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$11.33 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1084,18 +1103,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,155,493 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1,154,670 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "11 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "10 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "8,989,587 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "9,735,351 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "83 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "88 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1103,12 +1122,11 @@
"text": "the Dominican Republic’s telecom sector continued its solid form throughout 2020 and into 2021, shrugging off the economic turmoil unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic to maintain a decade-long run of low but positive growth across all areas of the market; the Dominican Republic remains behind most of its counterparts in the Latin American region, especially in terms of fixed-line network coverage; mobile subscriptions are on par with the regional average, but at subscription levels of around 88% there is still ample opportunity for growth; in terms of growth, the standout winner was once again the mobile broadband segment; the market is expected to see close to 8% growth in 2021, building further on the gains it already made in 2020 when lock downs and work-from-home rules encouraged many people to find ways to upgrade their internet access and performance; the limited coverage of fixed-line broadband networks makes mobile the first, if not only, choice for most people in the country (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity is about 11 per 100 persons; multiple providers of mobile-cellular service with a subscribership of nearly 83 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity is about 10 per 100 persons; mobile cellular subscriptions 88 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-809; 1-829; 1-849; landing point for the ARCOS-1, Antillas 1, AMX-1, SAm-1, East-West, Deep Blue Cable and the Fibralink submarine cables that provide links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and US; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "combination of state-owned and privately owned broadcast media; 1 state-owned TV network and a number of private TV networks; networks operate repeaters to extend signals throughout country; combination of state-owned and privately owned radio stations with more than 300 radio stations operating (2019)"
@@ -1146,9 +1164,7 @@
"text": "HI"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "36 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "36 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1254,10 +1270,10 @@
"text": "0.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "0.7% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $1.43 billion)"
+ "text": "0.7% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "0.7% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $1.33 billion)"
+ "text": "0.7% of GDP (2018 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json
index 30c494c2..db9aad44 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "46 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "43 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -815,6 +815,14 @@
"text": "38.8 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "26.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.2%"
@@ -823,6 +831,17 @@
"text": "32.3% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "26.06% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "24.15% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "21.04% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.886 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1075,18 +1094,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "894,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "856,090 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "14 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "14 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "9.949 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "11,071,073 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "153 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "175 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1094,12 +1113,11 @@
"text": "El Salvador is the smallest country in central America geographically, it has the fourth largest economy in the region; the country’s telecom sector has been restricted by poor infrastructure and unequal income distribution; there have been organizational delays which have slowed the development of telecom services; El Salvador’s fixed-line teledensity is substantially lower than the Latin American and Caribbean average; there has been a significant drop in the number of fixed lines since 2010, particularly in 2017, largely due to the substitution for mobile-only alternatives; about 94% of all telephony lines in the country are on mobile networks; mobile subscriptions are remarkably high considering El Salvador’s economic indicators, being about a third higher than average for Latin America and the Caribbean; the country was one of the last in the region to provide LTE services, mainly due to the inadequate provision of suitable spectrum; the multi-spectrum auction conducted at the end of 2019 has allowed MNOs to improve the reach and quality of their service offerings; El Salvador’s telecom legislation is one of the more liberal in Latin America, encouraging competition in most areas and permitting foreign investment; there are no regulations which promote wholesale broadband; the only effective cross-platform competition in the broadband market comes from the few cable operators; there has been some market consolidation in recent years (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line services, roughly 14 per 100, has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition now at 153 subscribers per 100 inhabitants (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line services, roughly 14 per 100, mobile-cellular competition now at 175 subscribers per 100 inhabitants (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple privately owned national terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV networks that carry international channels; hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stations and two known government-owned radio broadcast station; transition to digital transmission to begin in 2018 along with adaptation of the Japanese-Brazilian Digital Standard (ISDB-T) (2022)"
@@ -1143,9 +1161,7 @@
"text": "YS"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "68 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "68 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1233,13 +1249,13 @@
"text": "1.2% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.2% of GDP (2019) (approximately $570 million)"
+ "text": "1.2% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.1% of GDP (2018) (approximately $540 million)"
+ "text": "1.1% of GDP (2018)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1% of GDP (2017) (approximately $500 million)"
+ "text": "1% of GDP (2017)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1250,7 +1266,7 @@
"text": "the FAES is dependent on a mix of mostly older imported platforms, largely from the US; in recent years, the FAES has received small amounts of equipment from several countries, including Chile, Israel, Spain, and the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 16-22 years of age for voluntary male or female service; service obligation is 12 months, with 11 months for officers and non-commissioned officers (2022)",
+ "text": "18 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 16-22 years of age for voluntary male or female service; service obligation is 12 months, with 11 months for officers and non-commissioned officers (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2016, women made up about 6% of the active duty military"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json
index 44a19203..8b30bd8f 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "25 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "21 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -699,6 +699,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "6.59% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "6.75% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.22% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$288.4 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -941,18 +952,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "16,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "26,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "14 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "21 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "122,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "108 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "81 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -960,12 +971,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "14 per 100 for fixed-line and 108 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "21 per 100 for fixed-line and 81 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-473; landing points for the ECFS, Southern Caribbean Fiber and CARCIP submarine cables with links to 13 Caribbean islands extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad & Tobago including Puerto Rico and Barbados; SHF radiotelephone links to Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Vincent; VHF and UHF radio links to Trinidad (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple publicly and privately owned television and radio stations; Grenada Information Service (GIS) is government-owned and provides television and radio services; the Grenada Broadcasting Network, jointly owned by the government and the Caribbean Communications Network of Trinidad and Tobago, operates a TV station and 2 radio stations; Meaningful Television (MTV) broadcasts island-wide and is part of a locally-owned media house, Moving Target Company, that also includes an FM radio station and a weekly newspaper; multi-channel cable TV subscription service is provided by Columbus Communications Grenada (FLOW GRENADA) and is available island wide; approximately 25 private radio stations also broadcast throughout the country (2019)"
@@ -995,9 +1005,7 @@
"text": "J3"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "3 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "3 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json
index 510bdadc..36b0393e 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "95 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "96 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -827,6 +827,14 @@
"text": "48.3 (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "41.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.6%"
@@ -835,6 +843,17 @@
"text": "38.4% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "17.9% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "14.69% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "13.81% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$8.164 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1086,18 +1105,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "2,272,467 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "2,319,643 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "13 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "13 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "20,390,671 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "22,124,839 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "114 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "126 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1105,12 +1124,11 @@
"text": "Guatemala’s telecom infrastructure has suffered from years of under investment from state and provincial government; the poor state of fixed-line infrastructure has led to Guatemala having one of the lowest fixed-line teledensities in the region; in many rural regions of the country there is no fixed-line access available, and so mobile services are adopted by necessity; private investment has been supported by government and regulatory efforts, resulting in a steady growth in the number of fixed lines which has supported growth in the fixed broadband segment; delays in launching LTE services left the country lagging behind in the development of mobile broadband and the benefits which it can bring to the country's social and economic growth; two new submarine cables are due for completion by 2022; improved international connectivity should drive further uptake of both fixed and mobile broadband services; intense competition among the networks has helped to improve services and lower prices for end-users; given the commercial impetus of networks, insufficient government financial investment has resulted in many regional areas remaining with poor or non-existent services; the country benefits from one of the most open regulatory frameworks, with all telecom sectors having been open to competition since 1996; mobile subscriptions are on par with the regional average, though the slower growth in the mobile subscriber base suggests a level of market saturation, with the emphasis among networks being on generating revenue via mobile data services (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity roughly 13 per 100 persons; fixed-line investments are concentrating on improving rural connectivity; mobile-cellular teledensity about 114 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity roughly 13 per 100 persons; fixed-line investments are concentrating on improving rural connectivity; mobile-cellular teledensity about 126 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 502; landing points for the ARCOS, AMX-1, American Movil-Texius West Coast Cable and the SAm-1 fiber-optic submarine cable system that, together, provide connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "4 privately owned national terrestrial TV channels dominate TV broadcasting; multi-channel satellite and cable services are available; 1 government-owned radio station and hundreds of privately owned radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1154,9 +1172,7 @@
"text": "TG"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "291 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "291 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1250,10 +1266,10 @@
"text": "0.4% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "0.4% of GDP (2019) (approximately $530 million)"
+ "text": "0.4% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "0.4% of GDP (2018) (approximately $470 million)"
+ "text": "0.4% of GDP (2018)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1263,7 +1279,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is small and mostly comprised of older US equipment; in recent years, Guatemala has received small amounts of equipment from several countries, including the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 are eligible for military service; in practice, most of the force is volunteer, however, a selective draft system is employed, resulting in a small portion of 17-21 year-olds being conscripted; conscript service obligation varies from 1 to 2 years; women may volunteer (2022)",
+ "text": "all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 are eligible for military service; in practice, most of the force is volunteer, however, a selective draft system is employed, resulting in a small portion of 17-21 year-olds being conscripted; conscript service obligation varies from 12-24 months; women may volunteer (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2017, women comprised up to 10% of the active military"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json
index b8748d93..efca9ccf 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "480 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "350 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -823,6 +823,17 @@
"text": "47.7% (2001)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "20.04% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "23.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "20.47% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.567 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1071,15 +1082,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "6,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "6,000 (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
+ "text": "64 (2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "7.319 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7.3 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "64 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "64 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1087,12 +1101,11 @@
"text": "Haiti is in desperate need of maintaining effective communication services to enable it to keep going through the countless natural disasters, the country’s telecoms sector is really only surviving on the back of international goodwill to repair and replace the systems destroyed in the latest upheaval; Haiti’s fixed-line infrastructure is now practically non-existent, having been torn apart by Hurricane Matthew in 2016; what aid and additional investment has been forthcoming has been directed towards mobile solutions; over half of the country can afford a mobile handset or the cost of a monthly subscription; and mobile broadband subscriptions is half of that again – an estimated 28% in 2022; international aid continues to flow in to try and help the country’s telecoms sector recover – the World Bank has released a further $120 million to go on top of the $60 million grant provided after the last major 7.2 earthquake in August 2021 (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line is less than 1 per 100; mobile-cellular teledensity is nearly 64 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line is less than 1 per 100; mobile-cellular teledensity is nearly 64 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 509; landing points for the BDSNi and Fibralink submarine cables to 14 points in the Bahamas and Dominican Republic; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "per 2019 data released by Haitian telecommunications regulator CONATEL (Conseil National des Télécommunications), there are 398 legal sound broadcasting stations on the territory, including about 60 community radio stations, and 7 radio stations on the AM band; the FM band in Haiti is oversaturated by 158 percent; most radio stations broadcast 17 to 19 hours a day; there are 105 television stations operating in Haiti, including 36 TV stations in Port- au- Prince, 41 others in the provinces, and more than 40 radio-television stations; a large number of broadcasting stations operate irregularly and some stations operate with technical parameters that do not comply with established standards, thus causing harmful interference to existing telecommunications systems; VOA Creole Service broadcasts daily on 30 affiliate stations
(2019)"
@@ -1130,9 +1143,7 @@
"text": "HH"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "14 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "14 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json
index b2bb151c..2273f02a 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age a first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "65 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "72 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -818,6 +818,14 @@
"text": "48.2 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "32.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.2%"
@@ -826,6 +834,17 @@
"text": "38.4% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "25.29% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "23.45% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "21.53% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$4.658 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1074,18 +1093,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "531,763 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "465,521 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "5 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "5 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "6,960,654 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,560,710 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "70 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "74 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1093,12 +1112,11 @@
"text": "Honduras is among the poorest countries in Central America and has long been plagued by an unstable political framework which has rendered telecom sector reform difficult; this has created real difficulties for telcos as well as consumers; fixed-line teledensity, at only 4.9%, is significantly lower than the Latin American and Caribbean average; poor fixed-line infrastructure has been exacerbated by low investment and topographical difficulties which have made investment in rural areas unattractive or uneconomical; the internet has been slow to develop; DSL and cable modem technologies are available but are relatively expensive, while higher speed services are largely restricted to the major urban centers; the demand for broadband is steadily increasing and there has been some investment in network upgrades to fiber-based infrastructure
(2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "private sub-operators allowed to provide fixed lines in order to expand telephone coverage contributing to a fixed-line teledensity of slightly over 5 per 100; mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 70 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity of 5 per 100; mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 74 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 504; landing points for both the ARCOS and the MAYA-1 fiber-optic submarine cable systems that together provide connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple privately owned terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by multiple cable TV networks; Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network; roughly 300 privately owned radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1142,9 +1160,7 @@
"text": "HR"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "103 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "103 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json
index 22ad9cb6..15db5842 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "80 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "99 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -787,6 +787,17 @@
"text": "29.3% (2015)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "25.29% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "22.2% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "16.19% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$4.382 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1061,8 +1072,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-876 and 1-658; landing points for the ALBA-1, CFX-1, Fibralink, East-West, and Cayman-Jamaican Fiber System submarine cables providing connections to South America, parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "3 free-to-air TV stations, subscription cable services, and roughly 30 radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1097,9 +1107,7 @@
"text": "6Y"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "28 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "28 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1159,7 +1167,7 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Jamaica Defense Force (JDF): Jamaica Regiment (Ground Forces), Maritime-Air-Cyber Command (includes Coast Guard, Air Wing, Military Intelligence Unit, Special Activities Regiment, and Military Cyber Corps), Support Brigade (logistics, engineers, health service, and military police); Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC); Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) (2022)",
+ "text": "Jamaica Defense Force (JDF): Jamaica Regiment (Ground Forces), Maritime-Air-Cyber Command (includes Coast Guard, Air Wing, Military Intelligence Unit, Special Activities Regiment, and Military Cyber Corps), Support Brigade (logistics, engineers, health service, and military police); Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC); Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) (2023)",
"note": "note: the JNSC is a third category of service that military recruits can join as a preparatory phase for future careers; JNSC soldiers receive basic military, vocational, and life skills training; upon completion of 12 months of service, soldiers can continue on with the JDF or the JDF reserves or seek opportunities in other public sector entities such as the JCF, the Department of Correctional Services, the Jamaica Fire Brigade, the Jamaica Customs Agency, or the Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency"
},
"Military expenditures": {
@@ -1189,7 +1197,7 @@
"text": "no conscription; 18-23 for voluntary military service (17 with parental consent); 18-28 for the reserves; since 2017, the JDF's standard mode of recruitment is to enroll recruits ages 18-23 through the Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC); in the JNSC, soldiers receive basic military, vocational, and life skills training; upon completion of 12 months of service, soldiers can continue on with the JDF or seek other opportunities with other government agencies (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "as of 2022, the JDF’s primary missions were maritime/border and internal security, including support to police operations in combating crime and violence"
+ "text": "the JDF’s primary missions are maritime/border and internal security, including support to police operations in combating crime and violence (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json
index c64b5a8b..ffb247f4 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/mh.json
@@ -810,8 +810,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-664; landing point for the ECFS optic submarine cable with links to 14 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Radio Montserrat, a public radio broadcaster, transmits on 1 station and has a repeater transmission to a second station; repeater transmissions from the GEM Radio Network of Trinidad and Tobago provide another 2 radio stations; cable and satellite TV available (2007)"
@@ -849,9 +848,7 @@
"text": "VP-M"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json
index c736e542..9e3188d3 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nn.json
@@ -501,6 +501,17 @@
"text": "10.6% (2008 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "4.3% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2017": {
+ "text": "4.62% of GDP (2017 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2016": {
+ "text": "4.82% of GDP (2016 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Current account balance": {
"Current account balance 2021": {
"text": "-$294.32 million (2021 est.)"
@@ -592,8 +603,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-721; landing points for SMPR-1 and the ECFS submarine cables providing connectivity to the Caribbean; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Internet country code": {
"text": ".sx; note - IANA has designated .sx for Sint Maarten, but has not yet assigned it to a sponsoring organization
"
@@ -609,9 +619,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json
index 6e195c27..026812d7 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "198 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "78 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -808,6 +808,17 @@
"text": "47.1% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "15.35% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "14.74% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "13.39% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.871 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1080,8 +1091,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 505; landing point for the ARCOS fiber-optic submarine cable which provides connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region) and 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple terrestrial TV stations, supplemented by cable TV in most urban areas; nearly all are government-owned or affiliated; more than 300 radio stations, both government-affiliated and privately owned (2019)"
@@ -1119,9 +1129,7 @@
"text": "YN"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "147 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "147 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json
index ef74f695..07628f4d 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "52 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "50 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -820,6 +820,14 @@
"text": "49.8 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "15.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.1%"
@@ -828,6 +836,17 @@
"text": "38.9% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.89% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.84% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.87% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$12.43 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1101,8 +1120,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 507; landing points for the PAN-AM, ARCOS, SAC, AURORA, PCCS, PAC, and the MAYA-1 submarine cable systems that together provide links to the US and parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to the Central American Microwave System (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple privately owned TV networks and a government-owned educational TV station; multi-channel cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; more than 100 commercial radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1146,9 +1164,7 @@
"text": "HP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "117 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "117 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json
index 84ccd6ca..4d89a5c5 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json
@@ -476,8 +476,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 590; landing points for the SMPR-1, Southern Caribbean Fiber and the Saba, Statia Cable System submarine cables providing connectivity to numerous Caribbean islands (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 local TV station; access to about 20 radio stations, including RFO Guadeloupe radio broadcasts via repeater"
@@ -496,9 +495,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json
index 5b3f8e0b..dab78a79 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "21 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "34 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -909,8 +909,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-787, 939; landing points for the GTMO-PR, AMX-1, BRUSA, GCN, PCCS, SAm-1, Southern Caribbean Fiber, Americas-II, Antillas, ARCOS, SMPR-1, and Taino-Carib submarine cables providing connectivity to the mainland US, Caribbean, Central and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "more than 30 TV stations operating; cable TV subscription services are available; roughly 125 radio stations"
@@ -937,9 +936,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "29 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "29 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json
index eef9f79f..e4e886f0 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json
@@ -691,6 +691,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "4.32% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.57% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.82% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$307 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -956,8 +967,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-869; landing points for the ECFS, Southern Caribbean Fiber and the SSCS submarine cables providing connectivity for numerous Caribbean Islands (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the government operates a national TV network that broadcasts on 2 channels; cable subscription services provide access to local and international channels; the government operates a national radio network; a mix of government-owned and privately owned broadcasters operate roughly 15 radio stations (2019)"
@@ -987,9 +997,7 @@
"text": "V4"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json
index 51562877..208dec71 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "117 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "73 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -735,6 +735,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.7% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.93% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.06% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$398.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1006,8 +1017,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-758; landing points for the ECFS and Southern Caribbean Fiber submarine cables providing connectivity to numerous Caribbean islands; direct microwave radio relay link with Martinique and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; tropospheric scatter to Barbados (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "3 privately owned TV stations; 1 public TV station operating on a cable network; multi-channel cable TV service available; a mix of state-owned and privately owned broadcasters operate nearly 25 radio stations including repeater transmission stations (2019)"
@@ -1037,9 +1047,7 @@
"text": "J6"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json
index 1b7e6b68..2b379c10 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/tb.json
@@ -419,8 +419,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 590; landing points for the SSCS and the Southern Caribbean Fiber submarine cables providing voice and data connectivity to numerous Caribbean Islands (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 local TV broadcasters; 5 FM radio channels (2021)"
@@ -439,9 +438,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json
index 1c393e4c..845ba166 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "67 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "27 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
},
"Executive branch": {
"chief of state": {
- "text": "President Paula-Mae WEEKES (since 19 March 2018)"
+ "text": "President Christine KANGALOO (since 20 March 2023)"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "Prime Minister Keith ROWLEY (since 9 September 2015)"
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@
"text": "president indirectly elected by an electoral college of selected Senate and House of Representatives members for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 20 January 2023 (next to be held by February 2028); the president usually appoints the leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives as prime minister"
},
"election results": {
- "text": "Christine KANGALOO (PNM) elected president by the electoral college on 20 January 2023; Christine KANGALOO received 48 votes against 22 votes for opposition candidate Israel KHAN (UNC); the new president takes office on 21 March 2023"
+ "text": "Christine KANGALOO (PNM) elected president by the electoral college on 20 January 2023; Christine KANGALOO received 48 votes against 22 votes for opposition candidate Israel KHAN (UNC)"
}
},
"Legislative branch": {
@@ -746,6 +746,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.95% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.92% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.6% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.581 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1006,8 +1017,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-868; landing points for the EC Link, ECFS, Southern Caribbean Fiber, SG-SCS and Americas II submarine cable systems provide connectivity to US, parts of the Caribbean and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Barbados and Guyana (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "6 free-to-air TV networks, 2 of which are state-owned; 24 subscription providers (cable and satellite); over 36 radio frequencies (2019)"
@@ -1051,9 +1061,7 @@
"text": "9Y"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json
index 62262af7..13644f7b 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json
@@ -583,6 +583,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.81% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.62% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.67% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$247.3 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -787,8 +798,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-649; landing point for the ARCOS fiber-optic telecommunications submarine cable providing connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "no local terrestrial TV stations, broadcasts from the Bahamas can be received and multi-channel cable and satellite TV services are available; government-run radio network operates alongside private broadcasters with a total of about 15 stations"
@@ -810,9 +820,7 @@
"text": "VQ-T"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "8 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "8 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json
index d0be89c3..1c9a3fcb 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json
@@ -602,6 +602,17 @@
"text": "47.1% (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "5.24% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.88% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "5.14% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)": {
"text": "-0.4% (of GDP) (2012 est.)"
},
@@ -707,18 +718,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "54,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "53,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "33 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "28 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "182,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "170,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "111 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "88 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -726,12 +737,11 @@
"text": "fully automatic modern telecommunications system; telecom sector across the Caribbean region continues to be one of the growth areas; given the lack of economic diversity in the region, with a high dependence on tourism and activities such as fisheries and offshore financial services the telecom sector contributes greatly to the GDP (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "roughly 33 per 100 users for fixed-line and 111 per 100 users for cellular-mobile, majority of the islanders have Internet; market revenue has been affected in recent quarters as a result of competition and regulatory measures on termination rates and roaming tariffs (2020)"
+ "text": "roughly 28 per 100 users for fixed-line and 88 per 100 users for cellular-mobile (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - +599, PCCS submarine cable system to US, Caribbean and Central and South America (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government-run TeleCuracao operates a TV station and a radio station; 2 other privately owned TV stations and several privately owned radio stations (2019)"
@@ -769,9 +779,7 @@
"text": "PJ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json
index c8e1b2f4..5dce3e8d 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "98 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "62 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -715,6 +715,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "9.5% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "6.96% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "8.72% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$225.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -980,8 +991,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-784; landing points for the ECFS, CARCIP and Southern Caribbean Fiber submarine cables providing connectivity to US and Caribbean Islands; connectivity also provided by VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to Barbados; SHF radiotelephone to Grenada and Saint Lucia; access to Intelsat earth station in Martinique through Saint Lucia (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "St. Vincent and the Grenadines Broadcasting Corporation operates 1 TV station and 5 repeater stations that provide near total coverage to the multi-island state; multi-channel cable TV service available; a partially government-funded national radio service broadcasts on 1 station and has 2 repeater stations; about a dozen privately owned radio stations and repeater stations"
@@ -1019,9 +1029,7 @@
"text": "J8"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "6 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "6 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json
index b04331fe..38b603e7 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json
@@ -495,14 +495,17 @@
}
},
"GDP (official exchange rate)": {
- "text": "$1.028 billion (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "$1.38 billion (2018 est.)"
},
"Inflation rate (consumer prices)": {
- "Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2017": {
- "text": "1.1% (2017 est.)"
+ "Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2022": {
+ "text": "4.2% (2022 est.)"
},
- "Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2016": {
- "text": "1.1% (2016 est.)"
+ "Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2021": {
+ "text": "2.8% (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2020": {
+ "text": "0.4% (2020 est.)"
}
},
"GDP - composition, by sector of origin": {
@@ -770,18 +773,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "7,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "23 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "22 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "35,163 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "35,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "116 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -789,12 +792,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one major casualty may be the region’s second largest telco operator, Digicel; the company filed for bankruptcy in the US in April 2020; it continues to operate in all of its Caribbean markets as it seeks to refinance billions of dollars of debt; the other major telco, regional incumbent Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), is experiencing similar drops in subscriber numbers and revenue; CWC is expanding and enhancing its fixed and mobile networks in many of the countries it serves around the Caribbean, despite many locations being small islands with very small populations; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage. (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections exceed 23 per 100 persons and mobile cellular subscribership is roughly 116 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections exceed 22 per 100 persons and mobile cellular subscribership is roughly 110 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-284; landing points for PCCS, ECFS, CBUS, Deep Blue Cable, East-West, PAN-AM, Americas-1, Southern Caribbean Fiber, Columbus- IIb, St Thomas - St Croix System, Taino-Carib, and Americas I- North via submarine cable to Caribbean, Central and South America, and US (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 private TV station; multi-channel TV is available from cable and satellite subscription services; about a half-dozen private radio stations"
@@ -824,9 +826,7 @@
"text": "VP-L"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json
index 41396d6b..142708f9 100644
--- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json
+++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json
@@ -809,8 +809,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-340; landing points for the BSCS, St Thomas-ST Croix System, Southern Caribbean Fiber, Americas II, GCN, MAC, PAN-AM and SAC submarine cable connections to US, the Caribbean, Central and South America; satellite earth stations - NA (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "about a dozen TV broadcast stations including 1 public TV station; multi-channel cable and satellite TV services are available; 24 radio stations"
@@ -829,9 +828,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/central-asia/kg.json b/central-asia/kg.json
index e3e2d6fb..0659241f 100644
--- a/central-asia/kg.json
+++ b/central-asia/kg.json
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
"text": "22.6 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "60 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "50 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -819,6 +819,17 @@
"text": "22.9% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "32.69% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "31.14% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "27.17% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.169 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1087,8 +1098,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 996; connections with other CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, 9 members post-Soviet Republics in EU) countries by landline or microwave radio relay and with other countries by leased connections with Moscow international gateway switch and by satellite; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intersputnik, 1 Intelsat) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-funded public TV broadcaster KTRK has nationwide coverage; also operates Ala-Too 24 news channel which broadcasts 24/7 and 4 other educational, cultural, and sports channels; ELTR and Channel 5 are state-owned stations with national reach; the switchover to digital TV in 2017 resulted in private TV station growth; approximately 20 stations are struggling to increase their own content up to 50% of airtime, as required by law, instead of rebroadcasting primarily programs from Russian channels or airing unlicensed movies and music; 3 Russian TV stations also broadcast; state-funded radio stations and about 10 significant private radio stations also exist (2019)"
@@ -1129,9 +1139,7 @@
"text": "EX"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "28 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "28 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1217,7 +1225,7 @@
"text": "the Kyrgyz military inventory is comprised of mostly older Russian and Soviet-era equipment; Kyrgyzstan relies on donations of military equipment, which come mostly from Russia under a 2013 agreement between Bishkek and Moscow (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary male military service in the Armed Forces or Interior Ministry; 12-month service obligation (9 months for university graduates), with optional fee-based 3-year service in the call-up mobilization reserve; women may volunteer at age 19; 16-17 years of age for military cadets, who cannot take part in military operations (2022)"
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary service for men in the Armed Forces or Interior Ministry; 12-month service obligation (9 months for university graduates), with optional fee-based 3-year service in the call-up mobilization reserve; women may volunteer at age 19; 16-17 years of age for military cadets, who cannot take part in military operations (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "Kyrgyzstan has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994 and contributes troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force; it also started a relationship with NATO in 1992 and joined NATO's Partnership for Peace program in 1994 (2023)"
diff --git a/central-asia/kz.json b/central-asia/kz.json
index a911c720..66b17bf6 100644
--- a/central-asia/kz.json
+++ b/central-asia/kz.json
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
"text": "Kazakh (official, Qazaq) 83.1% (understand spoken language) and trilingual (Kazakh, Russian, English) 22.3% (2017 est.); Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the \"language of interethnic communication\") 94.4% (understand spoken language) (2009 est.)"
},
"major-language sample(s)": {
- "text": "
Әлемдік деректер кітабы, негізгі ақпараттың таптырмайтын көзі. (Kazakh)
Книга фактов о мире – незаменимый источник базовой информации. (Russian)
The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
+ "text": "
Әлемдік деректер кітабы, негізгі ақпараттың таптырмайтын көзі. (Kazakh)
Книга фактов о мире – незаменимый источник базовой информации. (Russian)
The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
}
},
"Religions": {
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"text": "28.9 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "10 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "13 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -828,6 +828,14 @@
"text": "27.8 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "44.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "4.2%"
@@ -836,6 +844,17 @@
"text": "23.3% (2016)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.16% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.22% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.28% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$35.48 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1104,8 +1123,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 7; international traffic with other former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay and with other countries by satellite and by the TAE fiber-optic cable; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the state owns nearly all radio and TV transmission facilities and operates national TV and radio networks; there are 96 TV channels, many of which are owned by the government, and 4 state-run radio stations; some former state-owned media outlets have been privatized; households with satellite dishes have access to foreign media; a small number of commercial radio stations operate along with state-run radio stations; recent legislation requires all media outlets to register with the government and all TV providers to broadcast in digital format by 2018; broadcasts reach some 99% of the population as well as neighboring countries (2018)"
@@ -1149,9 +1167,7 @@
"text": "UP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "96 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "96 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1267,7 +1283,7 @@
"text": "the Kazakh military's inventory is comprised of mostly older Russian and Soviet-era equipment; Russia continues to be the leading supplier of arms (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "all men 18-27 are required to serve in the military for 12-24 months (2022)"
+ "text": "all men 18-27 are required to serve in the military for 12-24 months (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "Kazakhstan has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994 and contributes troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force; it also has a relationship with NATO focused on democratic, institutional, and defense reforms; relations with NATO started in 1992, and Kazakhstan joined NATO's Partnership for Peace program in 1995 (2023)"
diff --git a/central-asia/rs.json b/central-asia/rs.json
index bbe5b5b3..f5d96607 100644
--- a/central-asia/rs.json
+++ b/central-asia/rs.json
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
"text": "25.2 years (2013 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "14 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -874,6 +874,14 @@
"text": "36 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "28% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.3%"
@@ -882,6 +890,17 @@
"text": "32.2% (2012 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.54% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.67% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.62% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$258.6 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1151,8 +1170,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 7; landing points for the Far East Submarine Cable System, HSCS, Sakhalin-Kuril Island Cable, RSCN, BCS North-Phase 2, Kerch Strait Cable and the Georgia-Russian submarine cable system connecting Russia, Japan, Finland, Georgia and Ukraine; satellite earth stations provide access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "13 national TV stations with the federal government owning 1 and holding a controlling interest in a second; state-owned Gazprom maintains a controlling interest in 2 of the national channels; government-affiliated Bank Rossiya owns controlling interest in a fourth and fifth, while a sixth national channel is owned by the Moscow city administration; the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian military, respectively, own 2 additional national channels; roughly 3,300 national, regional, and local TV stations with over two-thirds completely or partially controlled by the federal or local governments; satellite TV services are available; 2 state-run national radio networks with a third majority-owned by Gazprom; roughly 2,400 public and commercial radio stations"
@@ -1196,9 +1214,7 @@
"text": "RA"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1,218 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1,218 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1321,13 +1337,13 @@
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
"text": "prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, approximately 850,000 active-duty troops (300,000 Ground Troops; 40,000 Airborne Troops; 150,000 Navy; 160,000 Aerospace Forces; 70,000 Strategic Rocket Forces; approximately 20,000 special operations forces; approximately 100,000 other uniformed personnel (command and control, cyber, support, logistics, security, etc.); estimated 300,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2023)",
- "note": "note 1: in December 2022, the Russian Government announced a target level of 1.15 million total troops; in early 2023, it announced further plans to expand the size of the armed forces to 1.5 million but did not provide a timeline
note 2: Russia was estimated to have as many as 50,000 private military contractors fighting in Ukraine as of early 2023"
+ "note": "note 1: in December 2022, the Russian Government announced a target level of 1.15 million total troops and subsequently announced further plans to expand the size of the armed forces to 1.5 million, but did not provide a timeline
note 2: Russia was estimated to have as many as 50,000 private military contractors fighting in Ukraine as of early 2023"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported limited amounts of military hardware from several countries, including Czechia, France, Iran, Israel, Italy, Turkey, and Ukraine; the Russian defense industry is capable of designing, developing, and producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is the world's second largest exporter of military hardware (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory service for men; 18-40 for voluntary/contractual service; women and non-Russian citizens (18-30) may volunteer; men are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; 12-month service obligation (Russia offers the option of serving on a 24-month contract instead of completing a 12-month conscription period); reserve obligation for non-officers to age 50; enrollment in military schools from the age of 16 (2022)",
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory service for men; 18-40 for voluntary/contractual service; women and non-Russian citizens (18-30) may volunteer; men are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; 12-month service obligation (Russia offers the option of serving on a 24-month contract instead of completing a 12-month conscription period); reserve obligation for non-officers to age 50; enrollment in military schools from the age of 16 (2023)",
"note": "note 1: in May 2022, Russia's parliament approved a law removing the upper age limit for contractual service in the military; in November 2022, President Vladimir PUTIN signed a decree allowing dual-national Russians and those with permanent residency status in foreign countries to be drafted into the army for military service
note 2: the Russian military takes on about 260,000 conscripts each year in two semi-annual drafts (Spring and Fall); as of 2021, conscripts comprised an estimated 30% of the Russian military's active duty personnel and most reserve personnel were former conscripts; in April of 2019, the Russian Government pledged its intent to end conscription as part of a decade-long effort to shift from a large, conscript-based military to a smaller, more professional force; an existing law allows for a 21-month alternative civil service for conscripts in hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities for those who view military duty as incompatible with their beliefs, but military conscription offices reportedly often broadly ignore requests for such service
note 3: as of 2020, women made up about 5% of the active-duty military
note 4: since 2015, foreigners 18-30 with a good command of Russian have been allowed to join the military on 5-year contracts and become eligible for Russian citizenship after serving 3 years; in October 2022, the Interior Ministry opened up recruitment centers for foreigners to sign a 1-year service contract with the armed forces, other troops, or military formations participating in the invasion of Ukraine with the promise of simplifying the process of obtaining Russian citizenship"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/central-asia/ti.json b/central-asia/ti.json
index 8d84f939..1b3485b7 100644
--- a/central-asia/ti.json
+++ b/central-asia/ti.json
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
"text": "23.2 years (2017 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -823,6 +823,17 @@
"text": "(2009 est.) NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "33.41% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "26.88% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "27.97% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.269 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1088,8 +1099,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 992; linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; Dushanbe linked by Intelsat to international gateway switch in Ankara (Turkey); 3 satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat and 1 Orbita"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run TV broadcasters transmit nationally on 9 TV and 10 radio stations, and regionally on 4 stations; 31 independent TV and 20 radio stations broadcast locally and regionally; many households are able to receive Russian and other foreign stations via cable and satellite (2016)"
@@ -1133,9 +1143,7 @@
"text": "EY"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "24 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "24 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1219,7 +1227,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is comprised of older Russian and Soviet-era equipment; it has received limited quantities of weapons systems in recent years, most of which was secondhand material from Russia (2021)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service for men; women may volunteer; 24-month conscript service obligation; in August 2021, the Tajik Government began allowing men to pay a fee in order to avoid conscription (2022)"
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service for men; women may volunteer; 24-month conscript service obligation; in August 2021, the Tajik Government began allowing men to pay a fee in order to avoid conscription (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "Tajikistan has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994 and contributes troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force (2023)"
diff --git a/central-asia/tx.json b/central-asia/tx.json
index dbaabc5d..87b718c3 100644
--- a/central-asia/tx.json
+++ b/central-asia/tx.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"text": "24.2 years (2019)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -801,6 +801,14 @@
"text": "40.8 (1998)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "37.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.6%"
@@ -809,6 +817,17 @@
"text": "31.7% (1998)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2017": {
+ "text": "0.01% of GDP (2017 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.657 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1062,8 +1081,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 993; linked by fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; an exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat (2018)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "broadcast media is government controlled and censored; 7 state-owned TV and 4 state-owned radio networks; satellite dishes and programming provide an alternative to the state-run media; officials sometimes limit access to satellite TV by removing satellite dishes"
@@ -1107,9 +1125,7 @@
"text": "EZ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "26 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "26 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1209,7 +1225,7 @@
"text": "the inventory for Turkmenistan's military is comprised largely of older Russian and Soviet-era weapons systems; in recent years however, it has attempted to diversify and purchased equipment from more than a dozen countries, with Turkey as the top supplier (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory male military service; 24-month conscript service obligation (30 months for the Navy); 20 years of age for voluntary service (including females); males may enroll in military schools from age 15 (2022)"
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 24-month conscript service obligation (30 months for the Navy); 20 years of age for voluntary service for men and women; men may enroll in military schools from age 15 (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "Turkmenistan has a policy of permanent neutrality and has declined to participate in post-Soviet military groupings such as the Collective Security Treaty Organization military alliance (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO); however, in September 2020, it participated in a Russian-led multinational military exercise held in southern Russia’s Astrakhan region alongside the forces of more than a dozen other countries; Turkmenistan joined NATO's Partnership for Peace program in 1994 and officials from Turkmenistan participate in a range of courses provided by NATO and NATO member states, but it does not offer any armed forces units to NATO-led operations
in recent years, Turkmenistan has made efforts to improve its naval capabilities on the Caspian Sea, including expanding ship building capabilities and adding larger vessels to the Navy’s inventory; in 2018, it opened its first naval shipyard and in August 2021, the Navy commissioned its largest warship, a corvette that was jointly constructed with Turkey (2023)"
diff --git a/central-asia/uz.json b/central-asia/uz.json
index 00ab2407..d5618a84 100644
--- a/central-asia/uz.json
+++ b/central-asia/uz.json
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
"text": "23.7 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "29 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "30 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -806,6 +806,14 @@
"text": "36.8 (2003)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "30.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.8%"
@@ -814,6 +822,17 @@
"text": "29.6% (2003)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "13.28% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "11.65% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "14.26% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$15.22 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1079,8 +1098,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 998; linked by fiber-optic cable or microwave radio relay with CIS member states and to other countries by leased connection via the Moscow international gateway switch; the country also has a link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; Uzbekistan has supported the national fiber-optic backbone project of Afghanistan since 2008"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the government controls media; 17 state-owned broadcasters - 13 TV and 4 radio - provide service to virtually the entire country; about 20 privately owned TV stations, overseen by local officials, broadcast to local markets; privately owned TV stations are required to lease transmitters from the government-owned Republic TV and Radio Industry Corporation; in 2019, the Uzbek Agency for Press and Information was reorganized into the Agency of Information and Mass Communications and became part of the Uzbek Presidential Administration with recent appointment of the Uzbek President's elder daughter as it deputy director (2019)"
@@ -1124,9 +1142,7 @@
"text": "UK"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "53 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "53 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1219,7 +1235,8 @@
"text": "the Uzbek Armed Forces use mainly Soviet-era equipment; in recent years, Russia has been the leading supplier of arms, followed by China (2022)"
},
"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); Uzbek citizens who have completed their service terms in the armed forces have privileges in employment and admission to higher educational institutions (2022)"
+ "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)",
+ "note": "note: Uzbek citizens who have completed their service terms in the armed forces have privileges in employment and admission to higher educational institutions"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the Uzbek armed forces were established in January 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when the newly-established Ministry for Defense Affairs assumed jurisdiction over all former Soviet ground, air, and air defense units, formations, and installations then deployed on its soil; the building hosting the headquarters for the ex-Soviet Turkestan Military District became the headquarters for the Uzbek armed forces; all former Soviet troops departed Uzbekistan by 1995; Uzbekistan continues to maintain bilateral defense ties with Russia based on a 2005 mutual security agreement
Uzbekistan is not part of the Russian-sponsored Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that is comprised of former Soviet Republics; Uzbekistan joined in the 1990s but withdrew in 1999; it returned in 2006 but left again in 2012 (2023)"
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json
index 558d2407..0bddccf3 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "250 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "179 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -851,6 +851,14 @@
"text": "30.7 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "56.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.8%"
@@ -859,6 +867,17 @@
"text": "32.4% (1998)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.85% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.72% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "3.98% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$9.108 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1109,18 +1128,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "523,951 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "522,141 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "78,548,329 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "67,930,093 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "144 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "126 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1128,12 +1147,11 @@
"text": "Burma, one of the least developed telecom markets in Asia, saw growth in mobile and broadband services through foreign competition and roll out of 4G and 5G networks; infrastructure development challenged by flooding, unreliable electricity, inefficient bureaucracy, and corruption; digital divide affects rural areas; fixed broadband remains low due to number of fixed-lines and near saturation of the mobile platform; healthy m-banking platform; tests for NB-IoT; benefit from launch of regional satellite; government utilizes intermittent censorship and shut-down of Internet in political crisis (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line is just under 1 per 100, while mobile-cellular is roughly 144 per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line is just under 1 per 100, while mobile-cellular is roughly 126 per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 95; landing points for the SeaMeWe-3, SeaMeWe-5, AAE-1 and Singapore-Myanmar optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2, Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and ShinSat (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government controls all domestic broadcast media; 2 state-controlled TV stations with 1 of the stations controlled by the armed forces; 2 pay-TV stations are joint state-private ventures; access to satellite TV is limited; 1 state-controlled domestic radio station and 9 FM stations that are joint state-private ventures; transmissions of several international broadcasters are available in parts of Burma; the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia (RFA), BBC Burmese service, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), and Radio Australia use shortwave to broadcast in Burma; VOA, RFA, and DVB produce daily TV news programs that are transmitted by satellite to audiences in Burma; in March 2017, the government granted licenses to 5 private broadcasters, allowing them digital free-to-air TV channels to be operated in partnership with government-owned Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) and will rely upon MRTV’s transmission infrastructure; following the February 2021 military coup, the regime revoked the media licenses of most independent outlets, including the free-to-air licenses for DVB and Mizzima (2022)"
@@ -1177,9 +1195,7 @@
"text": "XY"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "64 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "64 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1262,7 +1278,7 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Burmese Defense Service (Tatmadaw): Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Navy (Tatmadaw Yay), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay); People’s Militia; Ministry of Home Affairs: People's Police Force; Border Guard Forces/Police (2022)",
+ "text": "Burmese Defense Service (aka Armed Forces of Burma, Myanmar Army, Royal Armed Forces, or the Tatmadaw): Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Navy (Tatmadaw Yay), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay); People’s Militia; Ministry of Home Affairs: People's Police Force; Border Guard Forces/Police (2022)",
"note": "note: under the 2008 constitution, the Tatmadaw controls appointments of senior officials to lead the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Border Affairs, and the Ministry of Home Affairs; in March 2022, a new law gave the commander-in-chief of the Tatmadaw the authority to appoint or remove the head of the police force"
},
"Military expenditures": {
@@ -1289,10 +1305,10 @@
"text": "the Burmese military inventory is comprised mostly of older Chinese and Russian/Soviet-era equipment with a smaller mix of more modern acquisitions; in recent years, China and Russia have been the leading suppliers of military hardware; Burma has a limited defense industry, including a growing shipbuilding capability and some production of ground force equipment that is largely based on Chinese and Russian designs (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-35 years of age (men) and 18-27 years of age (women) for voluntary military service; no conscription (a 2010 law reintroducing conscription has not yet entered into force); 2-year service obligation; male (ages 18-45) and female (ages 18-35) professionals (including doctors, engineers, mechanics) serve up to 3 years; service terms may be stretched to 5 years in an officially declared emergency (2021)"
+ "text": "18-35 years of age (men) and 18-27 years of age (women) for voluntary military service; no conscription (a 2010 law reintroducing conscription has not yet entered into force); 2-year service obligation; male (ages 18-45) and female (ages 18-35) professionals (including doctors, engineers, mechanics) serve up to 3 years; service terms may be stretched to 5 years in an officially declared emergency (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "since the country's founding, the armed forces have been heavily involved in domestic politics, running the country for five decades following a military coup in 1962; prior to the 2021 coup, the military already controlled three key security ministries (Defense, Border, and Home Affairs), one of two vice presidential appointments, 25% of the parliamentary seats, and had a proxy political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)
the military owns and operates two business conglomerates that have over 100 subsidiaries and close ties to other companies; the business activities of these conglomerates include banking and insurance, hotels, tourism, jade and ruby mining, timber, construction, real estate, and the production of palm oil, sugar, soap, cement, beverages, drinking water, coal, and gas; some of the companies supply goods and services to the military, such as food, clothing, insurance, and cellphone service; the military also managed a film industry, publishing houses, and television stations
the military's primary operational focus is internal security, particularly attempts to quell a growing armed insurgency against the 2021 coup and operations against ethnic-based separatist groups; these operations have resulted in numerous civilian casualties, human rights abuses, and internal displacement--ethnic-based armed groups have been fighting for self-rule against the Burmese Government since the country’s 1948 independence; as of 2022, there were approximately 20 such groups operating in Burma with strengths of a few hundred up to more than 20,000 estimated fighters; some were organized along military lines with \"brigades\" and \"divisions\" and armed with heavy weaponry, including artillery; they reportedly controlled an estimated one-third of the country’s territory, primarily in the border regions; key groups included the United Wa State Army, Karen National Union, Kachin Independence Army, Arakan Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army
Burma also has a large number of other armed militias which take many different forms and varied in allegiances and size; most are pro-military junta and associated with the Burmese military (Tatmadaw); some are integrated within the Tatmadaw’s command structure as Border Guard Forces (BGF); the BGF are organized as 325-man battalions, which include a mix of militia forces, ethnic armed groups, and government soldiers; they are armed, supplied, and paid by the Tatmadaw; other pro-military government militias are not integrated within the Tatmadaw command structure but receive direction from the military and are recognized as government militias; the amount of Tatmadaw support they receive varies depending on local security conditions; the third type of pro-government militias are small community-based units that are armed, coordinated, and trained by local Tatmadaw forces and activated as needed; as of 2022, the military junta government was raising new militia units to help combat the popular uprising
in mid-2022, the rebel National Unity Government claimed its armed wing, the People's Defense Force (PDF), had more than 60,000 fighters organized into battalions; in addition, several armed ethnic groups have added their support to anti-junta resistance groups or joined forces with local units of the PDF (2022)"
+ "text": "since the country’s founding, the Tatmadaw has been heavily involved in domestic politics and the national economy; it ran the country for five decades following a military coup in 1962; prior to the most recent coup in 2021, the military already controlled three key security ministries (Defense, Border, and Home Affairs), one of two vice presidential appointments, 25% of the parliamentary seats, and had a proxy political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP); it owns and operates two business conglomerates that have over 100 subsidiaries; the business activities of these conglomerates include banking and insurance, hotels, tourism, jade and ruby mining, timber, construction, real estate, and the production of palm oil, sugar, soap, cement, beverages, drinking water, coal, and gas; some of the companies supply goods and services to the military, such as food, clothing, insurance, and cellphone service; the military also manages a film industry, publishing houses, and television stations
the Tatmadaw's primary operational focus is internal security, and it is conducting widespread counterinsurgency operations against anti-regime forces that launched an armed rebellion following the 2021 coup and an array of ethnically-based separatist groups, some of which have considerable military capabilities; it has been accused of committing atrocities in the conduct of its campaign against the insurgency
the Army is the dominant service and largely configured for counterinsurgency operations, although it has some conventional warfare capabilities; its principal combat forces are organized into 10 centrally-commanded light infantry/rapid reaction divisions, approximately 20 regionally-based, divisional-sized “military operations commands,” and several brigade-sized “regional operations commands”; the Army’s insurgency operations are supported by the National Police, which has dozens of paramilitary combat police battalions; the Air Force also has a large counterinsurgency role with more than 100 combat-capable aircraft and helicopters, mostly ground attack aircraft and helicopter gunships, complemented by some multipurpose fighters; the Navy has traditionally been a coastal defense force, and the majority of the combat fleet consists of fast attack and patrol vessels; however, in recent years the Navy has expanded its blue water capabilities and has a small force of frigates and corvettes, as well as a landing platform docking (LPD) amphibious assault ship and 2 attack submarines acquired since 2020
the military is supported by hundreds of pro-government militias; some are integrated within the Tatmadaw’s command structure as Border Guard Forces, which are organized as battalions with a mix of militia forces, ethnic armed groups, and government soldiers that are armed, supplied, and paid by the Tatmadaw; other pro-military government militias are not integrated within the Tatmadaw command structure but receive direction and some support from the military and are recognized as government militias; a third type of pro-government militias are small community-based units that are armed, coordinated, and trained by local Tatmadaw forces and activated as needed; the military junta has raised new militia units to help combat the popular uprising
ethnic-based armed groups have been fighting for self-rule against the Burmese Government since 1948; there are approximately 20 such groups operating in Burma with strengths of a few hundred up to more than 20,000 estimated fighters; some are organized along military lines with \"brigades\" and \"divisions\" and armed with heavy weaponry, including artillery; they control large tracts of the country’s territory, primarily in the border regions; key groups include the United Wa State Army, Karen National Union, Kachin Independence Army, Arakan Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army
the rebel National Unity Government claims its armed wing, the People's Defense Force (PDF), has more than 60,000 fighters loosely organized into battalions; in addition, several armed ethnic groups have added their support to anti-junta resistance groups or joined forces with local units of the PDF (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
@@ -1301,7 +1317,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"IDPs": {
- "text": "1.7 million (government offensives against armed ethnic minority groups near its borders with China and Thailand, natural disasters, forced land evictions) (2023)"
+ "text": "1.72 million (government offensives against armed ethnic minority groups near its borders with China and Thailand, natural disasters, forced land evictions) (2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "600,000 (2022); note - Rohingya Muslims, living predominantly in Rakhine State, are Burma's main group of stateless people; the Burmese Government does not recognize the Rohingya as a \"national race\" and stripped them of their citizenship under the 1982 Citizenship Law, categorizing them as \"non-nationals\" or \"foreign residents;\" under the Rakhine State Action Plan drafted in October 2014, the Rohingya must demonstrate their family has lived in Burma for at least 60 years to qualify for a lesser naturalized citizenship and the classification of Bengali or be put in detention camps and face deportation; native-born but non-indigenous people, such as Indians, are also stateless; the Burmese Government does not grant citizenship to children born outside of the country to Burmese parents who left the country illegally or fled persecution, such as those born in Thailand; the number of stateless persons has decreased dramatically because hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since 25 August 2017 to escape violence"
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json
index 1c114e6a..4d234e04 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "31 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "44 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -758,6 +758,14 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.01% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.01% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.245 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1002,18 +1010,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "103,885 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "112,298 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "24 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "25 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "526,589 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "603,486 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "123 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "136 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1021,12 +1029,11 @@
"text": "Brunei’s mobile market experienced drop-off in subscriber numbers in 2020; in 2022 there was a concerted effort to build out the fixed-line infrastructure while progressing towards introducing 5G mobile services; Brunei’s fixed-line market is one of the few countries in the world to have displayed significant growth rather than a decline in teledensity in the last few years; this upward trend is set to continue as the new Unified National Network (UNN) works diligently to expand and enhance the fixed-line infrastructure around the country; strong growth was also seen in the fixed broadband space, on the back of those same infrastructure developments that are part of the Brunei Vision 2035 initiative; fixed broadband is starting from a relatively low base by international standards and is still only at 18%, leaving lots of room for growth; mobile and mobile broadband, on the other hand, are still suffering from the market contractions first felt in 2020; Brunei’s 2G GSM network is shut down, with the spectrum to be reallocated to 3G, 4G, and potentially 5G use (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "every service available; nearly 24 per 100 fixed-line, 120 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "25 per 100 fixed-line, 136 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 673; landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3, SJC, AAG, Lubuan-Brunei Submarine Cable via optical telecommunications submarine cables that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-controlled Radio Television Brunei (RTB) operates 5 channels; 3 Malaysian TV stations are available; foreign TV broadcasts are available via satellite systems; RTB operates 5 radio networks and broadcasts on multiple frequencies; British Forces Broadcast Service (BFBS) provides radio broadcasts on 2 FM stations; some radio broadcast stations from Malaysia are available via repeaters"
@@ -1070,9 +1077,7 @@
"text": "V8"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1155,7 +1160,7 @@
"note": "note: the Gurkha Reserve Unit (GRU) employs about 500 Gurkhas from Nepal, the majority of whom are veterans of the British Army and the Singapore Police Force who have joined the GRU as a second career"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the Royal Brunei Armed Forces were formed in 1961 with British support as the Brunei Malay Regiment; \"Royal\" was added as an honorary title in 1965; the military was given its current title in 1984
Brunei has a long-standing defense relationship with the United Kingdom and hosts a British Army garrison, which includes a Gurkha battalion and a jungle warfare school; Brunei also hosts a Singaporean military training base (2022)"
+ "text": "the Royal Brunei Armed Forces were formed in 1961 with British support as the Brunei Malay Regiment; \"Royal\" was added as an honorary title in 1965 and its current name was given in 1984; the military is a small and professional force responsible for ensuring the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as countering outside aggression, terrorism, and insurgency; the Army is comprised of a few infantry battalions and an armored reconnaissance squadron, while the Navy has several corvettes and patrol vessels for monitoring the country’s territorial waters; the small Air Force does not have any combat aircraft, but operates some maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters
Brunei has a long-standing defense relationship with the United Kingdom and hosts a British Army garrison, which includes a Gurkha battalion and a jungle warfare school; Brunei also hosts a Singaporean military training base (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json
index 5899b1db..3a46ee4e 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "160 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "218 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
"text": "Candlelight Party or CP (the latest incarnation of the Sam Rainsy Party or SRP and the former Human Rights Party or HRP, which joined to form the Cambodia National Rescue Party or CNRP in 2012; the CNRP was dissolved in 2017)
Cambodian People's Party or CPP [HUN SEN]
Khmer Will Party [KONG MONIKA]
Khmer National Unity Party or KNUP (an offshoot of FUNCINPEC) [NHEK BUN CHHAY]
League for Democracy Party or LDP [KHEM Veasna]
National United Front for Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [Prince NORODOM CHAKRAVUTH]
note - other minor parties that registered for the 2022 commune-level elections included: Cambodia National Love Party, Cambodia Nationality Party, Cambodian Youth Party, Cambodia Reform Party, Kampucheaniyum Party, Grassroots Democratic Party, Khmer United Party, Beehive Social Democratic Party, Cambodia Indigenous People's Democracy Party, Ekpheap Cheat Khmer Party, Reaksmey Khemara Party, Khmer Economic Development Party",
- "note": "note: following the 2017 commune election, the CPP-led government arrested the CNRP president Kem SOKHA for treason, dissolved the party on similar grounds, and forced most of its senior leadership into exile, where the party’s former president, Sam RAINSY, had been living since late 2015; as of 2022, opposition parties, particularly the Candlelight Party, continue to report, intimidation, harassment, and arrests by the Cambodian Government"
+ "note": "note: following the 2017 commune election, the CPP-led government arrested the CNRP president Kem SOKHA for treason, dissolved the party on similar grounds, and forced most of its senior leadership into exile, where the party’s former president, Sam RAINSY, had been living since late 2015; as of 2023, opposition parties, particularly the Candlelight Party, continue to report, intimidation, harassment, and arrests by the Cambodian Government"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "ADB, ARF, ASEAN, CICA, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, MINUSMA, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
@@ -824,6 +824,14 @@
"text": "37.9 (2008 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "42.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2%"
@@ -832,6 +840,17 @@
"text": "28% (2013 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "4.28% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "4.92% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.63% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.947 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1081,18 +1100,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "55,603 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "40,296 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "(2020 est.) less than 1"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "21,086,791 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "19,899,790 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "126 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "120 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1100,12 +1119,11 @@
"text": "Cambodia’s mobile-dominated telecoms sector spent much of 2020 battling two major challenges: the global pandemic, and the government’s retraction of trial licenses for the rollout of 5G; citing concerns about waste and inefficiency occurring if each operator built a separate 5G infrastructure in order to maximize their own network’s coverage (and, presumably, to capture greater market share), the regulator withdrew the licenses that the operators had been using for their 5G trials; this was despite all of the operators having already announced a successful completion of their trials; more than a year later, the market is still waiting on the government to release its 5G policy and roadmap, along with the allocation of spectrum and approvals to permit commercial operation; there is little expectation of any further progress happening before the start of 2022; the mobile network operators have maintained their focus and investment strategies on upgrading and expanding their existing LTE networks around the country, and to 5G-enable their base stations; when the 5G market eventually arrives, the underlying infrastructure will at least be ready to support a rapid adoption of the higher-value applications and services; the mobile market fell back slightly during 2020 and 2021 (in terms of total subscriber numbers) as the Covid-19 crisis wore on, but it remains in relatively good health as mobile users increased their data usage over the period; the mobile broadband market experienced a small but very rare contraction in 2020, although rates were already very high in this area; there is likely to be a quick rebound to previous levels once economic conditions stabilize, followed by a modest rates of growth over the next five years; the number of fixed telephony lines in service continues to fall sharply as customers migrate to mobile platforms for both voice and data; the lack of any widespread fixed-line infrastructure has had a flow-on effect in the fixed-line broadband market, a sector that also remains largely under-developed (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, aided by competition among service providers, is about 130 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, aided by competition among service providers, is about 120 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 855; landing points for MCT and AAE-1 via submarine cables providing communication to Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "mixture of state-owned, joint public-private, and privately owned broadcast media; 27 TV broadcast stations with most operating on multiple channels, including 1 state-operated station broadcasting from multiple locations, 11 stations either jointly operated or privately owned with some broadcasting from several locations; multi-channel cable and satellite systems are available (2019); 84 radio broadcast stations - 1 state-owned broadcaster with multiple stations and a large mixture of public and private broadcasters; one international broadcaster is available (2019) as well as one Chinese joint venture television station with the Ministry of Interior; several television and radio operators broadcast online only (often via Facebook) (2019)"
@@ -1149,9 +1167,7 @@
"text": "XU"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "16 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "16 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1253,14 +1269,14 @@
"note": "note: in December 2021, the US Government halted arms-related trade with Cambodia, citing deepening Chinese military influence, corruption, and human rights abuses by the government and armed forces; the policy of denial applied to licenses or other approvals for exports and imports of defense articles and defense services destined for or originating in Cambodia, with exceptions (on a case-by-case basis) related to conventional weapons destruction and humanitarian demining activities"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service (conscription only selectively enforced since 1993); women may volunteer (2022)",
- "note": "note: in 2018, women made up an estimated 6% of the active duty military and 88 women held the rank of general"
+ "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service (conscription only selectively enforced since 1993; service is for 18 months); women may volunteer (2023)",
+ "note": "note: in 2018, women made up an estimated 6% of the active-duty military and 88 women held the rank of general"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "225 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 180 Lebanon (UNIFIL); 290 Mali (MINUSMA) (May 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) was re-established in 1993 under the first coalition government from the merger of the Cambodian Government’s military forces (Cambodian People’s Armed Forces) and the two non-communist resistance forces (Sihanoukist National Army, aka National Army for Khmer Independence, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces); thousands of communist Khmer Rouge fighters began surrendering by 1994 under a government amnesty program and the last of the Khmer Rouge forces (National Army of Democratic Kampuchea) were demobilized or absorbed into the RCAF in 1999
Cambodia was once one of the most land mined countries in the world; by the early 1990s, various aid organizations estimated there were 8 to 10 million landmines scattered throughout the country; the mines were laid during Cambodia’s decades-long war by the Cambodian army, the Vietnamese, the Khmer Rouge, the non-communist fighters, and US forces; part of Cambodia's defense policy is demining the territory with the intent of having the entire country cleared of unexploded ordnances by 2035; over 1 million landmines and over 3 million explosives were discovered and removed from 1992 to 2018 (2022)"
+ "text": "outside of periodic border skirmishes with Thailand, the RCAF’s primary responsibilities are internal, border, and coastal security; since 2016, the RCAF has conducted a small annual training exercise known as “Golden Dragon” with the military of China, except for 2021-2022 when it was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic; the Army has a few infantry divisions and an estimated 10-15 brigades, including about 5 rapid reaction “intervention,” a border security, and a prime minister’s bodyguard brigade, as well as an airborne/special operations brigade under a special forces command created in 2020; the Navy maintains a small force of patrol boats and a naval infantry brigade for coastal defense; the Air Force has a small number of combat and transport helicopters; the Royal Gendarmerie is reportedly organized into battalions and several mobile response units
the RCAF was re-established in 1993 under the first coalition government from the merger of the Cambodian Government’s military forces (Cambodian People’s Armed Forces) and the two non-communist resistance forces (Sihanoukist National Army, aka National Army for Khmer Independence, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces); thousands of communist Khmer Rouge fighters began surrendering by 1994 under a government amnesty program and the last of the Khmer Rouge forces (National Army of Democratic Kampuchea) were demobilized or absorbed into the RCAF in 1999
Cambodia continues to be one of the most densely landmine-contaminated countries in the world; by the early 1990s, various aid organizations estimated there were 8 to 10 million landmines scattered throughout the country, with a particularly heavy concentration along a 1,000-km strip along the northwest Thai-Cambodia border known as the \"K5 belt\"; the mines were laid during Cambodia’s decades-long war by the Cambodian army, the Vietnamese, the Khmer Rouge, the non-communist fighters, and US forces; part of Cambodia's defense policy is demining the territory with the intent of having the entire country cleared of unexploded ordnances by 2035; over 1 million landmines and over 3 million explosives were discovered and removed from 1992 to 2018 (2022)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json
index a518ca32..f0401c89 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "29 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "23 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -877,6 +877,14 @@
"text": "38.2 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "21.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.1%"
@@ -886,6 +894,17 @@
},
"note": "note: data are for urban households only"
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.13% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.13% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.13% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.553 trillion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1130,18 +1149,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "181.908 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "180,700,500 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "13 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "13 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1.72 billion (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1.73 billion (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "119 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "122 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1149,12 +1168,11 @@
"text": "China has the largest Internet market in the world with almost all subscribers accessing Internet through mobile devices; market is driven through government-allied investment; fast-developing data center market; government aims to provide universal and affordable broadband coverage through market competition and private investment in state-controlled enterprises; 3G and LTE subscribers will migrate to 5G aiming for 2 million 5G base stations by the end of 2022; government strengthens IoT policies to boost economic growth; China is pushing development of smart cities beyond Beijing; Beijing residents carry virtual card integrating identity, social security, health, and education documents; government controls gateways to global Internet through censorship, surveillance, and shut-downs; major exporter of broadcasting equipment world-wide (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "nearly 13 per 100 fixed line and 118 per 100 mobile-cellular; a domestic satellite system with several earth stations has been in place since 2018 (2020)"
+ "text": "nearly 13 per 100 fixed line and 122 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 86; landing points for the RJCN, EAC-C2C, TPE, APCN-2, APG, NCP, TEA, SeaMeWe-3, SJC2, Taiwan Strait Express-1, AAE-1, APCN-2, AAG, FEA, FLAG and TSE submarine cables providing connectivity to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US; satellite earth stations - 7 (5 Intelsat - 4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean; 1 Intersputnik - Indian Ocean region; and 1 Inmarsat - Pacific and Indian Ocean regions) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "all broadcast media are owned by, or affiliated with, the Chinese Communisty Party (CCP) or a government agency; no privately owned TV or radio stations; state-run Chinese Central TV, provincial, and municipal stations offer more than 2,000 channels; the Central Propaganda Department as well as local (provincial, municipal) sends directives to all domestic media outlets to guide its reporting with the government maintaining authority to approve all programming; foreign-made TV programs must be approved/censored prior to broadcast; increasingly, PRC nationals turn to online platforms (Bilibili, Tencent Video, iQiyi, etc) to access PRC and international films and television shows. Video platforms have to abide by regulations issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), which align with censorship policies from CCP propaganda authorities. (2022)"
@@ -1198,9 +1216,7 @@
"text": "B"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "507 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "507 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1323,14 +1339,14 @@
"note": "note: the PLA is in the midst of a decades-long modernization effort; in 2017, President XI set three developmental goals for the force - becoming a mechanized force with increased information and strategic capabilities by 2020, a fully modernized force by 2035, and a world-class military by mid-century"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-22 years of age for men for selective compulsory military service, with a 2-year service obligation; women 18-19 years of age who are high school graduates and meet requirements for specific military jobs are subject to conscription; women may also volunteer; all officers are volunteers (2022)",
- "note": "note: the PLA’s conscription system functions as a levy; the PLA establishes the number of conscripts needed, which produces quotas for the provinces; each province provides a set number of soldiers or sailors; if the number of volunteers fails to meet quotas, the local governments may compel individuals to enter military service "
+ "text": "18-22 years of age for men for selective compulsory military service, with a 2-year service obligation; women 18-19 years of age who are high school graduates and meet requirements for specific military jobs are subject to conscription (2022)",
+ "note": "note: the PLA’s conscription system functions as a levy; the PLA establishes the number of enlistees needed, which produces quotas for the provinces; each province provides a set number of soldiers or sailors; if the number of volunteers fails to meet quotas, the local governments may compel individuals to enter military service"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "425 Mali (MINUSMA); 225 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 420 Lebanon (UNIFIL); 1,050 South Sudan (UNMISS); up to 2,000 Djibouti (May 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "established in 1927, the PLA is the military arm of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which oversees the PLA through its Central Military Commission; the Central Military Commission is China’s top military decision making body
the PRC's internal security forces consist primarily of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the People’s Armed Police (PAP), and the militia; the PLA support the internal security forces as necessary:
the MPS controls the civilian national police, which serves as the first-line force for public order; its primary mission is domestic law enforcement and maintaining order, including anti-rioting and anti-terrorism
the MSS is the PRC’s main civilian intelligence and counterintelligence service
the PAP is a paramilitary component (or adjunct) of the PLA; its primary missions include internal security, maintaining public order, maritime security, and assisting the PLA in times of war; it is under the command of the Central Military Commission (CMC); the China Coast Guard (CCG) administratively falls under the PAP; the CCG has a variety of missions, such as maritime sovereignty enforcement, surveillance, resource protection, anti-smuggling, and general law enforcement; as of 2023, it was the largest maritime law enforcement fleet in the world
the militia is an armed reserve of civilians which serves as an auxiliary and reserve force for the PLA upon mobilization, although it is distinct from the PLA’s reserve forces; militia units are organized around towns, villages, urban sub-districts, and enterprises, and vary widely in composition and mission; they have dual civilian-military command structures; a key component of the militia are the local maritime forces, commonly referred to as the People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia (PAFMM); the PAFMM consists of mariners (and their vessels) who receive training, equipment, and other forms of support from the Navy and CCG (although the PAFMM remains separate from both) to perform tasks such as maritime patrolling, surveillance and reconnaissance, emergency/disaster response, transportation, search and rescue, and auxiliary tasks in support of naval operations in wartime; the PAFMM’s tasks are often conducted in conjunction or coordination with the Navy and the CCG; it has been used to assert Beijing's maritime claims in the Sea of Japan and South China Sea (2023)"
+ "text": "established in 1927, the PLA is the military arm of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which oversees the PLA through its Central Military Commission; the Central Military Commission is China’s top military decision making body
the PLA is the World’s largest military; its primary responsibility is external security but it also has some domestic security duties; China’s stated defense policy includes safeguarding sovereignty, security, and development interests while emphasizing a greater global role for the PLA; the PLA conducts air, counterspace, cyber, electronic warfare, joint, land, maritime, missile, nuclear, and space operations; it is a professional force that trains regularly, including multinational and multiservice exercises, deploys overseas, and participates in international peacekeeping missions
the majority of the Ground Forces are organized into 13 group armies with approximately 80 subordinate combined arms brigades that serve as the primary ground maneuver forces; each group army also controls artillery, air defense, aviation/air assault, special operations, engineer, and logistics brigades; there are also a several independent mechanized and motorized infantry divisions
the Navy is numerically the largest in the World with an overall battle force of some 340 ships and submarines, including 2 aircraft carriers (with a third in trials), 4 cruisers, more than 80 destroyers and frigates, and approximately 60 submarines; it also has a large naval aviation force, as well as a growing Marine Corps comprised of 6 amphibious brigades supplemented by aviation and special operations forces
the combined aviation forces of the Air Force and Navy are the largest in the region and third largest in the World with nearly 3,000 total aircraft, of which more than 2,200 are combat aircraft, including fighter, bomber, ground attack, and multipurpose fighter aircraft; the Air Force also has an airborne/rapid reaction corps with a mix of airborne, air assault, special operations, and aviation brigades; the PLA Rocket Force manages the PRC’s land-based conventional and nuclear missile units
the PRC's internal security forces consist primarily of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the People’s Armed Police (PAP), and the militia; the PLA support the internal security forces as necessary:
--the MPS controls the civilian national police, which serves as the first-line force for public order; its primary mission is domestic law enforcement and maintaining order, including anti-rioting and anti-terrorism
--the MSS is the PRC’s main civilian intelligence and counterintelligence service
--the PAP is a paramilitary component (or adjunct) of the PLA; its primary missions include internal security, maintaining public order, maritime security, and assisting the PLA in times of war; it is under the command of the Central Military Commission; the China Coast Guard (CCG) administratively falls under the PAP; the CCG has a variety of missions, such as maritime sovereignty enforcement, surveillance, resource protection, anti-smuggling, and general law enforcement; as of 2023, it was the largest maritime law enforcement fleet in the world with approximately 130 large patrol craft
--the militia is an armed reserve of civilians which serves as an auxiliary and reserve force for the PLA upon mobilization, although it is distinct from the PLA’s reserve forces; militia units are organized around towns, villages, urban sub-districts, and enterprises, and vary widely in composition and mission; they have dual civilian-military command structures; a key component of the militia are the local maritime forces, commonly referred to as the People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia (PAFMM); the PAFMM consists of mariners (and their vessels) who receive training, equipment, and other forms of support from the Navy and CCG (although the PAFMM remains separate from both) to perform tasks such as maritime patrolling, surveillance and reconnaissance, emergency/disaster response, transportation, search and rescue, and auxiliary tasks in support of naval operations in wartime; the PAFMM’s tasks are often conducted in conjunction or coordination with the Navy and the CCG; it has been used to assert Beijing's maritime claims in the Sea of Japan and South China Sea (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json
index df593bee..f5d76e92 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json
@@ -684,6 +684,14 @@
"text": "53.9 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "14.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.8% NA"
@@ -692,6 +700,17 @@
"text": "38.1% (2016) NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.12% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.12% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$79.34 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -934,18 +953,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "3,900,599 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "3,856,180 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "52 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "51 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "21,865,215 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "23,939,650 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "292 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "319 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -953,12 +972,11 @@
"text": "Hong Kong’s telecommunications sector continues to stay near the top of world rankings for the industry; it has kept its #1 spot in the Asian region in terms of the maturity of its telecom market – a reflection of the high penetration rates across mobile, mobile broadband, and fixed broadband; even fixed-line teledensity in Hong Kong is impressive at over 50%, although it too has started a gradual decline in keeping with most other telecom markets around the world, as consumers slowly transition over to the mobile platform for all of their communication needs (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "microwave radio relay links and extensive fiber-optic network; fixed-line is over 52 per 100 and mobile-cellular is nearly 292 subscriptions per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line is over 51 per 100 and mobile-cellular is 319 subscriptions per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 852; landing points for the AAE-1, AAG, APCN-2, APG, ASE, FEA, FNAL, RNAL, H2HE, SeaMeWe-3, SJC and TGN-IA submarine cables that provide connections to Asia, US, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean); coaxial cable to Guangzhou, China (2022)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "34 commercial terrestrial TV networks each with multiple stations; multi-channel satellite and cable TV systems available; 3 licensed broadcasters of terrestrial radio, one of which is government funded, operate about 12 radio stations; note - 4 digital radio broadcasters operated in Hong Kong from 2010 to 2017, but all digital radio services were terminated in September 2017 due to weak market demand (2019)"
@@ -1002,9 +1020,7 @@
"text": "B-H"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json
index d6879b77..8aaacc3a 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@
}
},
"Natural resources": {
- "text": "petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber, bauxite, copper, fertile soils, coal, gold, silver"
+ "text": "petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber, bauxite, copper, fertile soils, coal, gold, silver",
+ "note": "note: Indonesia is the World's leading producer of nickel with an output of 1.6 million mt in 2022"
},
"Land use": {
"agricultural land": {
@@ -222,7 +223,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "177 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "173 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -317,7 +318,7 @@
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "dengue fever and malaria"
},
- "note": "note: a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Indonesia; as of 9 December 2022, Indonesia has reported a total of 6,695,010 cases of COVID-19 or 2,447.69 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 160,175 cumulative deaths or a rate 58.56 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 30 November 2022, 73.94% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine"
+ "note": "note 1: a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Indonesia; as of 9 December 2022, Indonesia has reported a total of 6,695,010 cases of COVID-19 or 2,447.69 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 160,175 cumulative deaths or a rate 58.56 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 30 November 2022, 73.94% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
note 2: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -477,7 +478,7 @@
"vectorborne diseases": {
"text": "dengue fever and malaria"
},
- "note": "note: a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Indonesia; as of 9 December 2022, Indonesia has reported a total of 6,695,010 cases of COVID-19 or 2,447.69 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 160,175 cumulative deaths or a rate 58.56 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 30 November 2022, 73.94% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine"
+ "note": "note 1: a new coronavirus is causing sustained community spread of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Indonesia; as of 9 December 2022, Indonesia has reported a total of 6,695,010 cases of COVID-19 or 2,447.69 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 160,175 cumulative deaths or a rate 58.56 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 30 November 2022, 73.94% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
note 2: on 22 March 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -860,6 +861,14 @@
"text": "37.9 (2021 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "31.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.4%"
@@ -868,6 +877,17 @@
"text": "28.2% (2010)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.79% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.91% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.04% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$131.7 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1119,18 +1139,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "9,662,135 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "8,998,814 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "4 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "3 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "355,620,388 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "365,872,608 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "130 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "134 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1138,12 +1158,11 @@
"text": "Indonesia faces more than the usual number of obstacles in terms of enabling widespread access to quality telecommunications services for its population of more than 270 million; the geographical challenges have been further compounded by a variety of social, political, and economic problems over the years that have kept the country’s wealth distributed very thinly; the fixed-line (fiber) and mobile operators have continued to expand and upgrade their networks across the country; Indonesia’s 18,000 islands (many of which, however, are sparsely populated) makes the deployment of fixed-line infrastructure on a broad scale difficult; there has been renewed activity in fiber optic cable, but the bundling of fixed-line telephony with TV and internet services will see the country’s teledensity stabilize; mobile subscriptions have reached more than 130% and is projected to exceed 150% by 2026; with 4G LTE universally available, the major mobile companies have been busy launching 5G services in selected areas; the rollout of 5G will be hampered by the lack of availability of suitable frequencies; the 4G had to be reallocated from broadcasting services, and indications are that the same process is going to have to be followed in order to allow the expansion of 5G into its core frequency bands (3.3 to 4.2GHz) (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscribership roughly 4 per 100 and mobile-cellular 130 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscribership roughly 3 per 100 and mobile-cellular 134 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 62; landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3 & 5, DAMAI, JASUKA, BDM, Dumai-Melaka Cable System, IGG, JIBA, Link 1, 3, 4, & 5, PGASCOM, B3J2, Tanjung Pandam-Sungai Kakap Cable System, JAKABARE, JAYABAYA, INDIGO-West, Matrix Cable System, ASC, SJJK, Jaka2LaDeMa, S-U-B Cable System, JBCS, MKCS, BALOK, Palapa Ring East, West and Middle, SMPCS Packet-1 and 2, LTCS, TSCS, SEA-US and Kamal Domestic Submarine Cable System, 35 submarine cable networks that provide links throughout Asia, the Middle East, Australia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "mixture of about a dozen national TV networks - 1 public broadcaster, the remainder private broadcasters - each with multiple transmitters; more than 100 local TV stations; widespread use of satellite and cable TV systems; public radio broadcaster operates 6 national networks, as well as regional and local stations; overall, more than 700 radio stations with more than 650 privately operated (2019)"
@@ -1187,9 +1206,7 @@
"text": "PK"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "673 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "673 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1306,13 +1323,13 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is a wide mix of Chinese, Russian, and Western (including US) equipment; in recent years, the top suppliers have included China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, the UK, and the US; the TNI has been engaged in a modernization program for more than a decade with uneven success; Indonesia has a growing defense industry fueled by technology transfers and cooperation agreements with several countries; in 2019, the Indonesian Government said that growing its domestic defense industry was a national priority over the following 10 years (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-45 years of age for voluntary military service, with selective conscription authorized (males, age 18), but not utilized; 2-year service obligation, with reserve obligation to age 45 (officers) (2021)"
+ "text": "18-45 years of age for voluntary military service, with selective conscription authorized (males, age 18), but not utilized; 24-month service obligation, with reserve obligation to age 45 (officers) (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "225 (plus about 140 police) Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 1,025 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 1,225 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (May 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "Indonesian military and other security forces are engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Papua against the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), the military wing of the Free Papua Organization (OPM), which has been fighting a low-level insurgency since the 1960s when Indonesia annexed the former Dutch colony; Papua was formally incorporated into Indonesia in 1969; in addition, the Indonesian military has been assisting police in Sulawesi in countering the Mujahideen Indonesia Timur (MIT; aka East Indonesia Mujahideen), a local militant group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS)
Indonesia is not a formal claimant in the South China Sea, although some of its waters lie within China's “nine-dash line” maritime claims, resulting in some stand offs in recent years; since 2016, the Indonesian military has bolstered its presence on Great Natuna Island (aka Pulau Natuna Besar), the main island of the Middle Natuna Archipelago, which is part of the Riau Islands Province, held military exercises in surrounding waters, and increased security cooperation (2023)"
+ "text": "the TNI’s primary missions are internal security, responding to natural disasters, and protecting the country’s territorial waters; it has undergone reforms since the 1990s to improve its professionalism and limit involvement in internal politics; the infantry-heavy Army is the largest service and deployed throughout the country in 14 area (KODAM) and 3 joint area (KOGABWILHAN) defense commands, as well as a special forces command (KOPASSUS) and 3 strategic reserve (KOSTRAD) infantry division headquarters; as of 2023, it was conducting counter-insurgency operations in Papua against the West Papua Liberation Army, the military wing of the Free Papua Organization, which has been fighting a low-level insurgency since Indonesia annexed the former Dutch colony in the 1960s; it has also been assisting police in Sulawesi in countering the Mujahideen Indonesia Timur (MIT; aka East Indonesia Mujahideen), a local militant group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS); the Navy is organized and equipped for coastal defense and patrolling Indonesia’s territorial waters where it faces such issues as piracy, transnational crime, illegal fishing, and incursions by Chinese vessels; it has more than 30 frigates and corvettes, several attack-type submarines, and a force of coastal patrol vessels and maritime patrol aircraft; it also has an amphibious force with several marine infantry brigades and landing platform dock (LPD) amphibious assault ships; the Air Force has more than 100 combat aircraft
Indonesia is not a formal claimant in the South China Sea, although some of its waters lie within China's “nine-dash line” maritime claims, resulting in some stand offs in recent years; since 2016, the Indonesian military has bolstered its presence on Great Natuna Island (aka Pulau Natuna Besar), the main island of the Middle Natuna Archipelago, which is part of the Riau Islands Province, and held military exercises in the surrounding waters (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau continues to report the territorial and offshore waters in the Strait of Malacca and South China Sea as high risk for piracy and armed robbery against ships; the number of attacks decreased from 26 incidents in 2020 to nine in 2021 due to aggressive maritime patrolling by regional authorities; vessels continue to be boarded while anchored or berthed at Indonesian ports with seven vessels attacked; hijacked vessels are often disguised and cargo diverted to ports in East Asia"
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json
index 99054a04..7066fff3 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"text": "30.7 years (2018 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "4 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -818,6 +818,14 @@
"text": "32.9 (2013 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "16% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.7%"
@@ -826,6 +834,17 @@
"text": "24.8% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.11% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.1% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.09% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.714 trillion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1046,7 +1065,8 @@
},
"proven reserves": {
"text": "20.898 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)"
- }
+ },
+ "note": "note: Japan had been the largest global liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer until 2021 when it was exceeded by China; prior to 2021, Japan had been the largest importer of LNG for 51 years; Japan has the largest LNG storage tank capacity in the world, or about 643 million cubic feet (MMcf) as of early 2020; in 2019, Japan sourced 28% of its LNG imports from regional suppliers in Southeast Asia and 39% from Australia"
},
"Carbon dioxide emissions": {
"total emissions": {
@@ -1094,8 +1114,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 81; numerous submarine cables with landing points for HSCS, JIH, RJCN, APCN-2, JUS, EAC-C2C, PC-1, Tata TGN-Pacific, FLAG North Asia Loop/REACH North Asia Loop, APCN-2, FASTER, SJC, SJC2, Unity/EAC-Pacific, JGA-N, APG, ASE, AJC, JUPITER, MOC, Okinawa Cellular Cable, KJCN, GOKI, KJCN, and SeaMeWE-3, submarine cables provide links throughout Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and US; satellite earth stations - 7 Intelsat (Pacific and Indian Oceans), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region), 2 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions), and 8 SkyPerfect JSAT (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a mixture of public and commercial broadcast TV and radio stations; 6 national terrestrial TV networks including 1 public broadcaster; the large number of radio and TV stations available provide a wide range of choices; satellite and cable services provide access to international channels (2019)"
@@ -1139,9 +1158,7 @@
"text": "JA"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "175 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "175 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1225,7 +1242,7 @@
"text": "Kobe (2,823,774), Nagoya (2,725,597), Osaka (2,425,638), Tokyo (4,325,956), Yokohama (2,861,197) (2021)"
},
"LNG terminal(s) (import)": {
- "text": "Chita, Fukwoke, Futtsu, Hachinone, Hakodate, Hatsukaichi, Higashi Ohgishima, Higashi Niigata, Himeiji, Joetsu, Kagoshima, Kawagoe, Kita Kyushu, Mizushima, Nagasaki, Naoetsu, Negishi, Ohgishima, Oita, Sakai, Sakaide, Senboku, Shimizu, Shin Minato, Sodegaura, Tobata, Yanai, Yokkaichi"
+ "text": "Chita, Chita Midorihama, Fukuoka, Futtsu, Hachinone, Hakodate, Hatsukaichi, Higashi Ohgishima, Higashi Niigata, Himeiji, Hitachi, Ishikari, Joetsu, Kagoshima, Kawagoe, Hibiki, Mitzushima, Nagasaki, Naoetsu, Negishi, Ohgishima, Oita, Sakai, Sakaide, Senboku, Shin Minato, Shin-Sendai, Sodeshi Shimizu, Sodegaura, Soma, Tobata, Toyama Shinko, Yanai, Yokkaichi, Yoshinoura"
},
"note": "Okinawa - Nakagusuku"
},
@@ -1269,7 +1286,7 @@
"text": "approximately 180 Djibouti (2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "Japan was disarmed after its defeat in World War II; shortly after the Korean War began in 1950, US occupation forces in Japan created a 75,000-member lightly armed force called the National Police Reserve; the current Self Defense Force was founded in 1954
in addition to having one of the region’s largest and best equipped militaries, Japan’s alliance with the US (signed in 1951) is one of the cornerstones of the country’s security, as well as a large part of the US security role in Asia; as of 2023, approximately 55,000 US troops and other military assets, including aircraft and naval ships, were stationed in Japan and had exclusive use of more than 80 bases and facilities; in exchange for their use, the US guarantees Japan’s security; the Japanese Government provides about $2 billion per year to offset the cost of stationing US forces in Japan; in addition, it pays compensation to localities hosting US troops, rent for bases, and costs for new facilities to support the US presence
Japan has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US; MNNA is a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation; while MNNA status provides military and economic privileges, it does not entail any security commitments (2023)"
+ "text": "Japan was disarmed after its defeat in World War II; shortly after the Korean War began in 1950, US occupation forces in Japan created a 75,000-member lightly armed force called the National Police Reserve; the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) was founded in 1954
Japan’s alliance with the US (signed in 1951) is one of the cornerstones of the country’s security, as well as a large part of the US security role in Asia; approximately 55,000 US troops and other military assets, including aircraft and naval ships, are stationed in Japan and hav exclusive use of more than 80 bases and facilities; in exchange for their use, the US guarantees Japan’s security; the Japanese Government provides about $2 billion per year to offset the cost of stationing US forces in Japan; in addition, it pays compensation to localities hosting US troops, rent for bases, and costs for new facilities to support the US presence; Japan also has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation (2023)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json
index 5f1095cd..b59a5969 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "89 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "107 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -969,8 +969,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 850; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intelsat - Indian Ocean, 1 Russian - Indian Ocean region); other international connections through Moscow and Beijing"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "no independent media; radios and TVs are pre-tuned to government stations; 4 government-owned TV stations; the Korean Workers' Party owns and operates the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, and the state-run Voice of Korea operates an external broadcast service; the government prohibits listening to and jams foreign broadcasts (2019)"
@@ -998,9 +997,7 @@
"text": "P"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "82 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "82 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1098,7 +1095,7 @@
"note": "note: since 2006, the UN Security Council has passed nearly a dozen resolutions sanctioning North Korea for developing nuclear weapons and related activities, starting with Resolution 1718, which condemned the North's first nuclear test and placed sanctions on the supply of heavy weaponry (including tanks, armored combat vehicles, large calibre artillery, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, and missiles and missile launchers), missile technology and material, and select luxury goods; additional resolutions have expanded to include all arms, including small arms and light weapons; the US and other countries have also imposed unilateral sanctions"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "17 years of age for compulsory military service for men and women; service obligation up to 10 years for men and up to 8 years for women (2023)",
+ "text": "17 years of age for compulsory military service for men and women; service obligation up to 10 years for men and 5-8 years for women (2023)",
"note": "note: the bulk of the KPA is made up of conscripts; as many as 20% of North Korean males between the ages of 16 and 54 are in the military at a given time and possibly up to 30 percent of males between the ages of 18 and 27, not counting the reserves or paramilitary units; women comprise about 20% of the military by some estimates"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json
index 2d26ef1f..01017767 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
"text": "32.2 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "11 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -814,6 +814,14 @@
"text": "31.4 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "13.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "6.8%"
@@ -822,6 +830,17 @@
"text": "48.5% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.43% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.45% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.43% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$357.1 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1087,8 +1106,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 82; landing points for EAC-C2C, FEA, SeaMeWe-3, TPE, APCN-2, APG, FLAG North Asia Loop/REACH North Asia Loop, KJCN, NCP, and SJC2 submarine cables providing links throughout Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and US; satellite earth stations - 66 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple national TV networks with 2 of the 3 largest networks publicly operated; the largest privately owned network, Seoul Broadcasting Service (SBS), has ties with other commercial TV networks; cable and satellite TV subscription services available; publicly operated radio broadcast networks and many privately owned radio broadcasting networks, each with multiple affiliates, and independent local stations"
@@ -1132,9 +1150,7 @@
"text": "HL"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "111 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "111 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json
index 55592e96..bd63cf9d 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "185 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "126 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -826,6 +826,14 @@
"text": "38.8 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "50% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "10.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.3%"
@@ -834,6 +842,17 @@
"text": "30.3% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.22% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.58% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "1.32% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.099 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1105,8 +1124,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 856; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and a second to be developed by China"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "6 TV stations operating out of Vientiane - 3 government-operated and the others commercial; 17 provincial stations operating with nearly all programming relayed via satellite from the government-operated stations in Vientiane; Chinese and Vietnamese programming relayed via satellite from Lao National TV; broadcasts available from stations in Thailand and Vietnam in border areas; multi-channel satellite and cable TV systems provide access to a wide range of foreign stations; state-controlled radio with state-operated Lao National Radio (LNR) broadcasting on 5 frequencies - 1 AM, 1 SW, and 3 FM; LNR's AM and FM programs are relayed via satellite constituting a large part of the programming schedules of the provincial radio stations; Thai radio broadcasts available in border areas and transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are also accessible"
@@ -1150,9 +1168,7 @@
"text": "RDPL"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "41 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "41 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1236,7 +1252,7 @@
"text": "the LPAF is armed largely with Soviet-era weapons; in recent years, China and Russia have been the leading suppliers of military equipment to Laos (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; minimum 18-month service obligation (2022)"
+ "text": "18 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; minimum 18-month service obligation (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the LPAF’s primary missions are border and internal security, including counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
Vietnam is the Laotian military's primary security partner, although in recent years, Laos has expanded defense ties with China (2022)"
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json
index a9317479..0a11e7ff 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json
@@ -623,6 +623,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.08% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$14.71 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -890,8 +901,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 853; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe; HF radiotelephone communication facility; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "local government dominates broadcast media; 2 television stations operated by the government with one broadcasting in Portuguese and the other in Cantonese and Mandarin; 1 cable TV and 4 satellite TV services available; 3 radio stations broadcasting, of which 2 are government-operated (2019)"
@@ -935,9 +945,7 @@
"text": "B-M"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json
index 1cb3cdac..1dd28f97 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-24"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "45 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "39 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -832,6 +832,17 @@
"text": "5.7% (2017)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "4.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.95% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "3.34% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.967 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1103,8 +1114,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 976; satellite earth stations - 7 (2016)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "following a law passed in 2005, Mongolia's state-run radio and TV provider converted to a public service provider; also available are 68 radio and 160 TV stations, including multi-channel satellite and cable TV providers; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1148,9 +1158,7 @@
"text": "JU"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "44 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "44 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1247,7 +1255,7 @@
"text": "the MAF's inventory is comprised of Soviet-era equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service (can enter military schools at age 17); 12-month conscript service obligation for men in the army, air forces, or police (can be extended 3 months under special circumstances); conscription service can be exchanged for a 24‐month stint in the civil service or a cash payment determined by the Mongolian Government; after conscription, soldiers can contract into military service for 2 or 4 years; volunteer military service for men and women is 24 months, which can be extended for another two years up to the age of 31 (2022)"
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service (can enter military schools at age 17); 12-month conscript service obligation for men in the army, air forces, or police (can be extended 3 months under special circumstances); conscription service can be exchanged for a 24‐month stint in the civil service or a cash payment determined by the Mongolian Government; after conscription, soldiers can contract into military service for 2 or 4 years; volunteer military service for men and women is 24 months, which can be extended for another two years up to the age of 31 (2023)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "860 South Sudan (UNMISS) (May 2022)",
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json
index 3c9f1522..8be6008b 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "29 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "21 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -825,6 +825,14 @@
"text": "41.1 (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "21.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.8%"
@@ -833,6 +841,17 @@
"text": "34.7% (2009 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.42% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.42% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.44% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$51.25 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1102,8 +1121,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 60; landing points for BBG, FEA, SAFE, SeaMeWe-3 & 4 & 5, AAE-1, JASUKA, BDM, Dumai-Melaka Cable System, BRCS, ACE, AAG, East-West Submarine Cable System, SEAX-1, SKR1M, APCN-2, APG, BtoBe, BaSICS, and Labuan-Brunei Submarine and MCT submarine cables providing connectivity to Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Pacific Ocean); launch of Kacific-1 satellite in 2019 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned TV broadcaster operates 2 TV networks with relays throughout the country, and the leading private commercial media group operates 4 TV stations with numerous relays throughout the country; satellite TV subscription service is available; state-owned radio broadcaster operates multiple national networks, as well as regional and local stations; many private commercial radio broadcasters and some subscription satellite radio services are available; about 55 radio stations overall (2019)"
@@ -1147,9 +1165,7 @@
"text": "9M"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "114 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "114 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/pf.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/pf.json
index e3046b7b..cb3531a6 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/pf.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/pf.json
@@ -185,9 +185,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/pg.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/pg.json
index 3340cac6..037c1522 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/pg.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/pg.json
@@ -174,9 +174,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "8 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "8 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json
index a61780af..36515566 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age a first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "145 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "192 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -825,6 +825,17 @@
"text": "40.5% (1996)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.01% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.01% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.638 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1093,8 +1104,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 675; landing points for the Kumul Domestic Submarine Cable System, PNG-LNG, APNG-2, CSCS and the PPC-1 submarine cables to Australia, Guam, PNG and Solomon Islands; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "4 TV stations: 1 commercial station operating since 1987, 1 state-run station launched in 2008, 1 digital free-to-view network launched in 2014, and 1 satellite network Click TV (PNGTV) launched in 2015; the state-run National Broadcasting Corporation operates 3 radio networks with multiple repeaters and about 20 provincial stations; several commercial radio stations with multiple transmission points as well as several community stations; transmissions of several international broadcasters are accessible (2018)"
@@ -1138,9 +1148,7 @@
"text": "P2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "561 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "561 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json
index bf052eec..907f1454 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "121 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "78 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -844,6 +844,14 @@
"text": "42.3 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "42% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.2%"
@@ -852,6 +860,17 @@
"text": "29.5% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "9.31% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "9.64% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "9.33% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$49.07 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1123,8 +1142,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 63; landing points for the NDTN, TGN-IA, AAG, PLCN, EAC-02C, DFON, SJC, APCN-2, SeaMeWe, Boracay-Palawan Submarine Cable System, Palawa-Illoilo Cable System, NDTN, SEA-US, SSSFOIP, ASE and JUPITAR submarine cables that together provide connectivity to the US, Southeast Asia, Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple national private TV and radio networks; multi-channel satellite and cable TV systems available; more than 400 TV stations; about 1,500 cable TV providers with more than 2 million subscribers, and some 1,400 radio stations; the Philippines adopted Japan’s Integrated Service Digital Broadcast – Terrestrial standard for digital terrestrial television in November 2013 and is scheduled to complete the switch from analog to digital broadcasting by the end of 2023 (2019)"
@@ -1168,9 +1186,7 @@
"text": "RP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "247 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "247 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json
index 4f398e10..21f7edaa 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -795,6 +795,14 @@
"text": "45.9 (2017)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "6.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.6%"
@@ -803,6 +811,17 @@
"text": "27.5% (2017)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2017": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$50.85 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1073,8 +1092,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 65; landing points for INDIGO-West, SeaMeWe -3,-4,-5, SIGMAR, SJC, i2icn, PGASCOM, BSCS, IGG, B3JS, SAEx2, APCN-2, APG, ASC, SEAX-1, ASE, EAC-C2C, Matrix Cable System and SJC2 submarine cables providing links throughout Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 3, Bukit Timah, Seletar, and Sentosa; supplemented by VSAT coverage (2019 )"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state controls broadcast media; 6 domestic TV stations operated by MediaCorp which is wholly owned by a state investment company; broadcasts from Malaysian and Indonesian stations available; satellite dishes banned; multi-channel cable TV services available; a total of 19 domestic radio stations broadcasting, with MediaCorp operating 11, Singapore Press Holdings, also government-linked, another 5, 2 controlled by the Singapore Armed Forces Reservists Association and one owned by BBC Radio; Malaysian and Indonesian radio stations are available as is BBC; a number of Internet service radio stations are also available (2019)"
@@ -1118,9 +1136,7 @@
"text": "9V"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "9 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "9 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1202,8 +1218,8 @@
"text": "the SAF has a diverse and largely modern mix of domestically produced and imported weapons; in recent years, the US has been the chief supplier of arms; other significant suppliers include France, Germany, Israel, and Sweden; Singapore has the most developed arms industry in Southeast Asia and is also its largest importer of weapons (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-21 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 16.5 years of age for voluntary enlistment (with parental consent); 24-month conscript service obligation, with a reserve obligation to age 40 (enlisted) or age 50 (officers); women are not conscripted, but they are allowed to volunteer for all services and branches, including combat arms (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: under the Enlistment Act, all male Singaporean citizens and permanent residents, unless exempted, are required to enter National Service (NS) upon attaining the age of 18; most NS conscripts serve in the Armed Forces, but some go into the Police Force or Civil Defense Force; as of 2020, conscripts comprised over half of the defense establishment
note 2: as of 2019, women made up about 8% of the active force
note 3: members of the Gurkha Contingent (GC) of the Singapore Police Force are mostly recruited from a small number of hill tribes in Nepal; the GC was formed in 1949 originally from selected ex-British Army Gurkhas"
+ "text": "18-21 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 16.5 years of age for voluntary enlistment (with parental consent); 24-month conscript service obligation, with a reserve obligation to age 40 (enlisted) or age 50 (officers); women are not conscripted, but they are allowed to volunteer for all services and branches, including combat arms (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: under the Enlistment Act, all male Singaporean citizens and permanent residents, unless exempted, are required to enter National Service (NS) upon attaining the age of 18; most NS conscripts serve in the Armed Forces, but some go into the Police Force or Civil Defense Force; conscripts comprise over half of the defense establishment
note 2: as of 2019, women made up about 8% of the active force
note 3: members of the Gurkha Contingent (GC) of the Singapore Police Force are mostly recruited from a small number of hill tribes in Nepal; the GC was formed in 1949 originally from selected ex-British Army Gurkhas"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "maintains permanent training detachments of military personnel in Australia, France, and the US (2022)"
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json
index eb8385c7..03dfa815 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
"text": "23.3 years (2009 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "37 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "29 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
- "text": "Action Coalition of Thailand Party or ACT [ANEK Laothamatas]
Bhumjaithai Party (aka Phumchai Thai Party or PJT; aka Thai Pride Party) or BJT [ANUTIN Charnvirakul]
Chat Phatthana Party (National Development Party) [THEWAN Liptaphanlop]
Chat Thai Phatthana Party (Thai Nation Development Party) or CTP [VARAWUT Silpa-archa]
New Economics Party or NEP [MINGKHWAN Sangsuwan]
Move Forward Party or MFP [PHITHA Limcharoenrat] (formed in 2020 from the disbanded Future Forward Party or FPP)
Palang Pracharat Party (People's State Power Party) or PPRP [PRAWIT Wongsuwan] (a pro-military party formed in 2018 by members of the military junta’s cabinet)
Prachachat Party of PCC [WAN Muhamad NOOR Matha]
Prachathipat Party (Democrat Party) or DP [JURIN Laksanawisit]
Puea Chat Party (For Nation Party) or PCP [SARUNWUT Sarunket]
Puea Thai Party (For Thais Party) or PTP [CHONLANON Sikaew]
Puea Tham Party (For Dharma Party) [NALINI Thawisin]
Seri Ruam Thai Party (Thai Liberal Party or TLP) [SERIPHISUT Temiyawet]
Thai Civilized Party or TCL [MONGKOLKIT Suksintharanon]
Thai Local Power Party or TLP [CHATCHAWAI Kong-udom]
Thai People Power Party or TLPT [NIKHOM Bunwiset]
Thai Raksa Chat Party (Thai National Preservation Party) [PRICHAPHON Phongpanit]"
+ "text": "Action Coalition of Thailand Party or ACT [ANEK Laothamatas]
Bhumjaithai Party (aka Phumchai Thai Party or PJT; aka Thai Pride Party) or BJT [ANUTIN Charnvirakul]
Chat Phatthana Party (National Development Party) [THEWAN Liptaphanlop]
Chat Thai Phatthana Party (Thai Nation Development Party) or CTP [VARAWUT Silpa-archa]
New Economics Party or NEP [MINGKHWAN Sangsuwan]
Move Forward Party or MFP [PHITHA Limcharoenrat] (formed in 2020 from the disbanded Future Forward Party or FPP)
Palang Pracharat Party (People's State Power Party) or PPRP [PRAWIT Wongsuwan] (a pro-military party formed in 2018 by members of the military junta’s cabinet)
Prachachat Party of PCC [WAN Muhamad NOOR Matha]
Prachathipat Party (Democrat Party) or DP [JURIN Laksanawisit]
Puea Chat Party (For Nation Party) or PCP [SARUNWUT Sarunket]
Puea Thai Party (For Thais Party) or PTP [PAETHONGTARN Shinawatra]
Puea Tham Party (For Dharma Party) [NALINI Thawisin]
Seri Ruam Thai Party (Thai Liberal Party or TLP) [SERIPHISUT Temiyawet]
Thai Civilized Party or TCL [MONGKOLKIT Suksintharanon]
Thai Local Power Party or TLP [CHATCHAWAI Kong-udom]
Thai People Power Party or TLPT [NIKHOM Bunwiset]
Thai Raksa Chat Party (Thai National Preservation Party) [PRICHAPHON Phongpanit]"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "ADB, APEC, ARF, ASEAN, BIMSTEC, BIS, CD, CICA, CP, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE (partner), PCA, PIF (partner), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMOGIP, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
@@ -854,6 +854,14 @@
"text": "36.4 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "24.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.8%"
@@ -862,6 +870,17 @@
"text": "31.5% (2009 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.79% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.65% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.5% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$69.23 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1131,8 +1150,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 66; landing points for the AAE-1, FEA, SeaMeWe-3,-4, APG, SJC2, TIS, MCT and AAG submarine cable systems providing links throughout Asia, Australia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Pacific Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "26 digital TV stations in Bangkok broadcast nationally, 6 terrestrial TV stations in Bangkok broadcast nationally via relay stations - 2 of the stations are owned by the military, the other 4 are government-owned or controlled, leased to private enterprise, and all are required to broadcast government-produced news programs twice a day; multi-channel satellite and cable TV subscription services are available; radio frequencies have been allotted for more than 500 government and commercial radio stations; many small community radio stations operate with low-power transmitters (2017)"
@@ -1176,9 +1194,7 @@
"text": "HS"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "101 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "101 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1291,7 +1307,7 @@
"text": "the RTARF has a diverse array of foreign-supplied weapons systems, including a large amount of older US equipment; in recent years, Thailand has received arms from nearly 20 countries, including China, South Korea, Sweden, Ukraine, and the US; Thailand has been making efforts to increase its domestic defense production capabilities in such areas as armored vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, and other military technologies (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 21 years of age for compulsory military service for men; men register at 18 years of age; volunteer service obligation may be as short as 6 or 12 months, depending on educational qualifications; conscript service obligation also varies by educational qualifications, but is typically 24 months (2022)",
+ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 21 years of age for compulsory military service for men; men register at 18 years of age; volunteer service obligation may be as short as 6 or 12 months, depending on educational qualifications; conscript service obligation also varies by educational qualifications, but is typically 24 months (2023)",
"note": "note 1: serving in the armed forces is a national duty of all Thai citizens; conscription was introduced in 1905; it includes women, however, only men over the age of 21 who have not gone through reserve training are conscripted; conscripts are chosen by lottery (on draft day, eligible draftees can request volunteer service, or they may choose to stay for the conscription lottery); approximately 75-100,000 men are drafted for military service each year and conscripts reportedly comprise as much as 50% of the armed forces
note 2: as of 2020, women comprised about 8% of active-duty military personnel"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json
index a1667463..ec1245b4 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "142 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "204 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -795,6 +795,17 @@
"text": "27% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "7.2% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "4.95% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "6.16% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$300 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1065,8 +1076,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 670; international service is available; partnership with Australia telecom companies for potential deployment of a submarine fiber-optic link (NWCS); geostationary earth orbit satellite"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "7 TV stations (3 nationwide satellite coverage; 2 terrestrial coverage, mostly in Dili; 2 cable) and 21 radio stations (3 nationwide coverage) (2019)"
@@ -1104,9 +1114,7 @@
"text": "4W"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "6 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "6 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json
index e44116f1..586ccf45 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json
@@ -645,6 +645,14 @@
"text": "33.6 (2014)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "14.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "6.4% (2010)"
@@ -908,8 +916,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 886; landing points for the EAC-C2C, APCN-2, FASTER, SJC2, TSE-1, TPE, APG, SeaMeWe-3, FLAG North Asia Loop/REACH North Asia Loop, HKA, NCP, and PLCN submarine fiber cables provide links throughout Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "5 nationwide television networks operating roughly 22 TV stations; more than 300 satellite TV channels are available; about 60% of households utilize multi-channel cable TV; 99.9% of households subscribe to digital cable TV; national and regional radio networks with about 171 radio stations (2019)"
@@ -947,9 +954,7 @@
"text": "B"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "37 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "37 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json
index caa21625..7aaeef64 100644
--- a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json
+++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "43 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "124 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -835,6 +835,14 @@
"text": "35.7 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "38.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.7%"
@@ -843,6 +851,17 @@
"text": "26.8% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "4.96% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.08% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "5.16% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$54.59 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1109,8 +1128,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 84; landing points for the SeaMeWe-3, APG, SJC2, AAE-1, AAG and the TGN-IA submarine cable system providing connectivity to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government controls all broadcast media exercising oversight through the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC); government-controlled national TV provider, Vietnam Television (VTV), operates a network of several channels with regional broadcasting centers; programming is relayed nationwide via a network of provincial and municipal TV stations; law limits access to satellite TV but many households are able to access foreign programming via home satellite equipment; government-controlled Voice of Vietnam, the national radio broadcaster, broadcasts on several channels and is repeated on AM, FM, and shortwave stations throughout Vietnam (2018)"
@@ -1154,9 +1172,7 @@
"text": "VN"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "45 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "45 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1269,7 +1285,7 @@
"text": "the PAVN is armed largely with weapons and equipment from Russia and the former Soviet Union; in recent years, Russia has remained the most important supplier of newer PAVN military equipment, but Vietnam has diversified arms purchases to include more than a dozen other countries including Israel, South Korea, Ukraine, and the US; Vietnam has a limited domestic defense industry (2022)"
},
"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 (2022)"
+ "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)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the PAVN is the military arm of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and responsible to the Central Military Commission (CMC), the highest party organ on military policy; the CMC is led by the CPV General Secretary (2023)"
@@ -1289,10 +1305,10 @@
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
"tier rating": {
- "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Vietnam does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; efforts include providing trafficking victims the right to legal representation in judicial proceedings, increasing the amount of shelter time for victims by one month, providing financial support, continuing large-scale awareness campaigns in vulnerable communities and to workers going overseas, and training law enforcement; however, fewer victims were identified or assisted and procedures remained slow and ineffective; provincial officials unfamiliar with anti-trafficking law impede anti-trafficking efforts; labor recruitment firms extorted illegal high fees from workers looking for overseas employment putting them at risk for forced labor; no investigations, prosecutions, or convictions of officials complicit in trafficking offenses were made (2020)"
+ "text": "Tier 3 — Vietnam does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, therefore Vietnam was downgraded to Tier 3; the government took some steps to address trafficking, addressing inconsistencies in preexisting laws, increasing international cooperation, achieving the first modest increase in identifying victims in five years, and assisting more victims; however, fewer traffickers were convicted or prosecuted; officials did not hold accountable two Vietnamese diplomats who were allegedly complicit in trafficking abroad nor make sufficient effort to protect the victims; authorities reportedly harassed and pressured survivors and their families to silence allegations of official complicity (2022)"
},
"trafficking profile": {
- "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Vietnam, and traffickers exploit Vietnamese abroad; Vietnamese men and women who migrate abroad for work may be subject to exploitation and illegally high fees from recruiters trapping them in debt bondage; traffickers subject victims to forced labor in construction, fishing, agriculture, mining, maritime industries, logging, and manufacturing, primarily in Taiwan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Laos, Japan, and to a lesser extent, some parts of Europe and the UK; traffickers mislead Vietnamese women and children with fraudulent employment opportunities and sex traffick them to brothels on the borders of China, Cambodia, Laos, and elsewhere in Asia; traffickers use the Internet, gaming sites, and particularly social media to lure victims; domestic traffickers are sometimes family members or small-scale networks exploiting Vietnamese men, women, and children - including street children and children with disabilities - in forced labor as street beggars or in brick kilns and mines; child sex tourists from elsewhere in Asia and other countries exploit children; prisoners reportedly are forced to work in agriculture, manufacturing, and hazardous industries, such as cashew processing"
+ "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Vietnam, as well as Vietnamese abroad; Vietnamese men and women migrate abroad, using illicit brokerage networks operated by Vietnamese nationals based abroad or state-owned or state-regulated recruitment enterprises, are vulnerable to debt bondage or other forms of exploitation; victims are subjected to forced labor in construction, agriculture, mining, maritime industries, logging, and manufacturing primarily in Malaysia, South Korea, Laos, Japan, and—to a lesser extent—in parts of the Middle East, the United Kingdom and other countries in Europe; Vietnamese labor trafficking victims are reportedly in Taiwan, continental Europe, the Middle East, and in Pacific maritime industries; many Vietnamese are subjected to forced labor under the auspices of Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program and within agricultural education programs in Israel; other Vietnamese are exploited at Chinese-owned factories in the Balkan region; traffickers lure Vietnamese women and children with fraudulent job opportunities and send them to brothels on the borders of China, Cambodia, and Laos or elsewhere in Asia, West Africa, and Europe; sometimes family members or small-scale networks exploit Vietnamese men, women, and children—Including street children and children with disabilities—in forced labor; child sex tourists from Asia, the United Kingdom, other countries in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States exploit children in Vietnam (2022)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/europe/al.json b/europe/al.json
index 4483449b..28593581 100644
--- a/europe/al.json
+++ b/europe/al.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"text": "26.6 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "15 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -826,6 +826,17 @@
"text": "19.6% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "9.41% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "9.69% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "9.56% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.614 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1095,8 +1106,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 355; submarine cables for the Adria 1 and Italy-Albania provide connectivity to Italy, Croatia, and Greece; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system, provides additional connectivity to Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Turkey; international traffic carried by fiber-optic cable and, when necessary, by microwave radio relay from the Tirana exchange to Italy and Greece (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Albania has more than 65 TV stations, including several that broadcast nationally; Albanian TV broadcasts are also available to Albanian-speaking populations in neighboring countries; many viewers have access to Italian and Greek TV broadcasts via terrestrial reception; Albania's TV stations have begun a government-mandated conversion from analog to digital broadcast; the government has pledged to provide analog-to-digital converters to low-income families affected by this decision; cable TV service is available; 2 public radio networks and roughly 78 private radio stations; several international broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1137,9 +1147,7 @@
"text": "ZA"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "3 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "3 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/an.json b/europe/an.json
index abe4a122..05401b72 100644
--- a/europe/an.json
+++ b/europe/an.json
@@ -781,18 +781,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "40,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "50,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "52 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "63 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "94,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "89,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "122 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -800,12 +800,11 @@
"text": "Andorra has a modern telecommunications system with microwave radio relay connections between the exchanges and land line circuits to France and Spain (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "about 52 per 100 fixed-line, 122 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "about 63 per 100 fixed-line, 110 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 376; landline circuits to France and Spain; modern system with microwave radio relay connections between exchanges (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 public TV station and 2 public radio stations; about 10 commercial radio stations; good reception of radio and TV broadcasts from stations in France and Spain; upgraded to terrestrial digital TV broadcasting in 2007; roughly 25 international TV channels available (2019)"
diff --git a/europe/au.json b/europe/au.json
index 44337f67..6d6d4d07 100644
--- a/europe/au.json
+++ b/europe/au.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"text": "29.7 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -810,6 +810,14 @@
"text": "30.2 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "9.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.8%"
@@ -818,6 +826,17 @@
"text": "23.5% (2012 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.66% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.69% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.67% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$201.7 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1088,8 +1107,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 43; earth stations available in the Astra, Intelsat, Eutelsat satellite systems (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "worldwide cable and satellite TV are available; the public incumbent ORF competes with three other major, several regional domestic, and up to 400 international TV stations; TV coverage is in principle 100%, but only 90% use broadcast media; Internet streaming not only complements, but increasingly replaces regular TV stations (2019)"
@@ -1136,9 +1154,7 @@
"text": "OE"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "50 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "50 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1238,7 +1254,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory includes a mix of domestically produced and imported weapons systems from European countries and the US; the Austrian defense industry produces a range of equipment and partners with other countries (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "registration requirement at age 17, the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; men above the age of 18 are subject to compulsory military service; women may volunteer; compulsory service is for 6 months, or optionally, alternative civil/community service (Zivildienst) for 9 months (2022)",
+ "text": "registration requirement at age 17, the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; men above the age of 18 are subject to compulsory military service; women may volunteer; compulsory service is for 6 months, or optionally, alternative civil/community service (Zivildienst) for 9 months (2023)",
"note": "note 1: as of 2019, women made up about 4% of the military's full-time personnel
note 2: in a January 2013 referendum, a majority of Austrians voted in favor of retaining the system of compulsory military service (with the option of alternative/non-military service) instead of switching to a professional army system; approximately 40% of those liable to compulsory service have opted in favor of alternative civil/community service"
},
"Military deployments": {
@@ -1260,7 +1276,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "67,588 (Syria), 43,725 (Afghanistan), 10,110 (Iraq), 8,684 (Somalia), 7,294 (Iran), 6,124 (Russia) (mid-year 2022); 94,343 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)"
+ "text": "67,588 (Syria), 43,725 (Afghanistan), 10,110 (Iraq), 8,684 (Somalia), 7,294 (Iran), 6,124 (Russia) (mid-year 2022); 94,984 (Ukraine) (as of 20 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "3,219 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/ax.json b/europe/ax.json
index eca7d43a..acce5c34 100644
--- a/europe/ax.json
+++ b/europe/ax.json
@@ -220,9 +220,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"2,438 to 3,047 m": {
diff --git a/europe/be.json b/europe/be.json
index 051a15e3..66ceb7c2 100644
--- a/europe/be.json
+++ b/europe/be.json
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
"text": "Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%"
},
"major-language sample(s)": {
- "text": "
Het Wereld Feitenboek, een omnisbare bron van informatie. (Dutch)
The World Factbook, une source indispensable d'informations de base. (French)
The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
+ "text": "
Het Wereld Feitenboek, een onmisbare bron van informatie. (Dutch)
The World Factbook, une source indispensable d'informations de base. (French)
The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
}
},
"Religions": {
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
"text": "29.2 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -801,6 +801,14 @@
"text": "27.2 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "13.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.4%"
@@ -809,6 +817,17 @@
"text": "28.4% (2006)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.67% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.42% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.27% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$253.5 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1079,8 +1098,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 32; landing points for Concerto, UK-Belgium, Tangerine, and SeaMeWe-3, submarine cables that provide links to Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat - 3) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a segmented market with the three major communities (Flemish, French, and German speaking) each having responsibility for their own broadcast media; multiple TV channels exist for each community; additionally, in excess of 90% of households are connected to cable and can access broadcasts of TV stations from neighboring countries; each community has a public radio network coexisting with private broadcasters"
@@ -1124,9 +1142,7 @@
"text": "OO"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "41 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "41 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1253,7 +1269,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "20,086 (Syria), 7,049 (Afghanistan), 5,769 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 68,869 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)"
+ "text": "20,086 (Syria), 7,049 (Afghanistan), 5,769 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 69,727 (Ukraine) (as of 20 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "1,190 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/bk.json b/europe/bk.json
index f9fdf987..c1d1d58f 100644
--- a/europe/bk.json
+++ b/europe/bk.json
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
"text": "27.7 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "10 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "6 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -803,6 +803,14 @@
"text": "33 (2011 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "30.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "9.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.9%"
@@ -811,6 +819,17 @@
"text": "25.8% (2011 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "10.16% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "9.58% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "11.55% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$7.993 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1058,18 +1077,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "706,135 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "689,295 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "22 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "21 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "3,509,674 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "3,728,775 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "107 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "114 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1077,12 +1096,11 @@
"text": "the telecom market has been liberalized and a regulatory framework created based on the EU’s regulatory framework for communications; although Bosnia-Herzegovina remains an EU candidate country, in July 2017 it applied amended mobile roaming charges to fit in with changes introduced across the Union; further roaming agreements were made in 2019 with other western Balkan countries; the fixed-line broadband network is comparatively underdeveloped, with the result that investments made in mobile upgrades to facilitate broadband connectivity in the country to a greater extent than is common elsewhere in Europe; internet services are available; DSL and cable are the main platforms for fixed-line connectivity, while fiber broadband as yet has only a small market presence; the three MNOs, each affiliated with one of the incumbent fixed-line operators, provide national coverage with 3G, though LTE coverage is only about 89%; their upgraded networks are helping to support broadband in rural areas where fixed-line infrastructure is insufficient; mobile data and mobile broadband offers will provide future revenue growth given the limited potential of mobile voice services; the MNOs tested LTE services under trial licenses from 2013, commercial launches were delayed until the award of spectrum in early 2019; the regulator stipulated that licenses must provide national coverage within five years; trials of 5G technology have been undertaken, though there are no plans to launch services commercially in the short term, given that the MNOs can continue to exploit the capacity of their existing LTE networks (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity roughly 22 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular subscribership stands at 107 telephones per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity roughly 21 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular subscribership stands at 114 telephones per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 387; no satellite earth stations"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "3 public TV broadcasters: Radio and TV of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federation TV (operating 2 networks), and Republika Srpska Radio-TV; a local commercial network of 5 TV stations; 3 private, near-national TV stations and dozens of small independent TV broadcasting stations; 3 large public radio broadcasters and many private radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1126,9 +1144,7 @@
"text": "T9"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "24 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "24 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1238,16 +1254,13 @@
"text": "Bosnia and Herzegovina-Serbia: Serbia delimited about half of the boundary with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute.
Bosnia and Herzegovina-Croatia: none identified
Bosnia and Herzegovina-Montenegro: none identified
"
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
- "refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "5,112 (Croatia) (2020)"
- },
"IDPs": {
"text": "92,000 (Bosnian Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks displaced by inter-ethnic violence, human rights violations, and armed conflict during the 1992-95 war) (2021)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "48 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 116,264 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 116,941 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets
"
diff --git a/europe/bo.json b/europe/bo.json
index ef860857..480106ea 100644
--- a/europe/bo.json
+++ b/europe/bo.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"Introduction": {
"Background": {
- "text": "After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than have any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place and current negotiations on further integration have been contentious. Since his election in July 1994 as the country's first and only directly elected president, Alyaksandr LUKASHENKA has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means and a centralized economic system. Government restrictions on political and civil freedoms, freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion have remained in place. Restrictions on political freedoms have grown increasingly strained following the disputed presidential election in August 2020. The election results sparked largescale protests as members of the opposition and civil society criticized the election’s validity. Alyaksandr LUKASHENKA has remained in power as the disputed winner of the presidential election after quelling protests in late 2020.
"
+ "text": "After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than have any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place and negotiations on further integration have been contentious. Since his election in July 1994 as the country's first and only directly elected president, Alyaksandr LUKASHENKA has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means and a centralized economic system. Government restrictions on political and civil freedoms, freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion have remained in place. Restrictions on political freedoms have grown increasingly strained following the disputed presidential election in August 2020. The election results sparked largescale protests as members of the opposition and civil society criticized the election’s validity. Alyaksandr LUKASHENKA has remained in power as the disputed winner of the presidential election after quelling protests in late 2020.
"
}
},
"Geography": {
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
},
"Languages": {
"Languages": {
- "text": "Russian (official) 70.2%, Belarusian (official) 23.4%, other 3.1% (includes small Polish- and Ukrainian-speaking minorities), unspecified 3.3% (2009 est.)"
+ "text": "Russian (official) 71.4%, Belarusian (official) 26%, other 0.3% (includes small Polish- and Ukrainian-speaking minorities), unspecified 2.3% (2009 est.)"
},
"major-language sample(s)": {
"text": "
Книга фактов о мире – незаменимый источник базовой информации. (Russian)
The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
"text": "26.8 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "2 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "1 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -811,6 +811,14 @@
"text": "24.4 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "32.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.8%"
@@ -819,6 +827,17 @@
"text": "21.9% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.67% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.65% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.2% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$22.15 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1088,8 +1107,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 375; Belarus is landlocked and therefore a member of the Trans-European Line (TEL), Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line, and has access to the Trans-Siberia Line (TSL); 3 fiber-optic segments provide connectivity to Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine; worldwide service is available to Belarus through this infrastructure; additional analog lines to Russia; Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik earth stations; almost 31,000 base stations in service in 2019 (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "7 state-controlled national TV channels; Polish and Russian TV broadcasts are available in some areas; state-run Belarusian Radio operates 5 national networks and an external service; Russian and Polish radio broadcasts are available (2019)"
@@ -1133,9 +1151,7 @@
"text": "EW"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "65 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "65 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1241,7 +1257,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is comprised mostly of Russian/Soviet-origin equipment, and in recent years Russia has continued to be the leading provider of arms; Belarus's defense industry manufactures some equipment (mostly modernized Soviet designs), including vehicles, guided weapons, and electronic warfare systems (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory military or alternative service; conscript service obligation is 12-18 months, depending on academic qualifications, and 24-36 months for alternative service, also depending on academic qualifications; 17-year-olds are eligible to become cadets at military higher education institutes, where they are classified as military personnel (2022)",
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory military or alternative service; conscript service obligation is 12-18 months, depending on academic qualifications, and 24-36 months for alternative service, also depending on academic qualifications; 17-year-olds are eligible to become cadets at military higher education institutes, where they are classified as military personnel (2023)",
"note": "note: conscripts can be assigned to the military, to the Ministry of Interior as internal or border troops, or to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (alternative service); as of 2020, conscripts comprised an estimated 40% of the military"
},
"Military - note": {
@@ -1254,7 +1270,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "20,983 (Ukraine) (as of 28 February 2023)"
+ "text": "21,547 (Ukraine) (as of 14 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "5,626 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/bu.json b/europe/bu.json
index db4821e3..2b333dd4 100644
--- a/europe/bu.json
+++ b/europe/bu.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"text": "26.4 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "10 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -814,6 +814,14 @@
"text": "40.3 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "19.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.9%"
@@ -822,6 +830,17 @@
"text": "31.2% (2017)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.94% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.36% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.4% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$20.35 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1069,18 +1088,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "872,757 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "787,637 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "13 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "11 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "7,945,739 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7,902,756 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "114 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "115 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1088,12 +1107,11 @@
"text": "Bulgaria’s telecom market was for some years affected by the difficult macroeconomic climate, as well as by relatively high unemployment and a shrinking population; these factors continue to slow investments in the sector, though revenue growth has returned since 2019; there still remains pressure on revenue growth, with consumers migrating from fixed-line voice telephony to mobile and VoIP alternatives, while the volume of SMS and MMS traffic has been affected by the growing use of alternative OTT messaging services; investing in network upgrades and its development of services based on 5G have stimulated other market players to invest in their own service provision; by the end of 2022 about 70% of the population is expected to be covered by 5G; the broadband market in Bulgaria enjoys excellent cross-platform competition; the share of the market held by DSL has fallen steadily as a result of customers being migrated to fiber networks; by early 2021 about 65% of fixed-line broadband subscribers were on fiber infrastructure; Bulgaria joins the U.S. State Department’s Clean Network initiative in a bid to protect its 5G communications networks
(2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line over 13 per 100 persons, mobile-cellular teledensity, fostered by multiple service providers, is over 114 telephones per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line over 11 per 100 persons, mobile-cellular teledensity, fostered by multiple service providers, is over 115 telephones per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 359; Caucasus Cable System via submarine cable provides connectivity to Ukraine, Georgia and Russia; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system provides connectivity to Italy, Albania, and Macedonia; satellite earth stations - 3 (1 Intersputnik in the Atlantic Ocean region, 2 Intelsat in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "4 national terrestrial TV stations with 1 state-owned and 3 privately owned; a vast array of TV stations are available from cable and satellite TV providers; state-owned national radio broadcasts over 3 networks; large number of private radio stations broadcasting, especially in urban areas"
@@ -1137,9 +1155,7 @@
"text": "LZ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "68 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "68 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1215,7 +1231,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.7% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.6% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1256,12 +1272,12 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "22,226 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 50,112 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)"
+ "text": "22,226 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 49,610 (Ukraine) (as of 14 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "1,129 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 84,937 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2022); Bulgaria is predominantly a transit country"
+ "note": "note: 87,908 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-January 2023); Bulgaria is predominantly a transit country"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "source country for amphetamine tablets"
diff --git a/europe/cy.json b/europe/cy.json
index 04adf758..2b1f7602 100644
--- a/europe/cy.json
+++ b/europe/cy.json
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents only government-controlled areas"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "6 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "68 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -819,6 +819,17 @@
"text": "28.8% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.34% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.13% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.06% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$8.663 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1066,18 +1077,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "311,439 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "304,581 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "35 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "34 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,239,960 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1,320,794 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "140 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "149 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1085,12 +1096,11 @@
"text": "Cyprus suffered from the effects of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, when the tourism sector was essentially closed; during 2022, there have been adverse effects caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has resulted in a dramatic drop in the number of Russian tourists entering the country; the mobile market is served by four mobile network operators; the number of mobile subscribers fell in 2020, largely the result of subscribers scaling back on multiple SIM cards as an economic measure; the broadband market continues to develop steadily, providing the country with one of the highest broadband penetration rates in the region; DSL remains the dominant access platform, accounting for about two-thirds of fixed broadband connections; although fiber infrastructure in Cyprus is minimal (supported by the government and regulator) to extend an FttP service to about 200,000 premises; as a result, the number of DSL subscribers is set to fall steadily in coming years as customers are migrated to the fiber platform (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line about 35 per 100 and about 140 per 100 for mobile-cellular teledensity; open-wire, fiber-optic cable, and microwave radio relay (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line about 34 per 100 and about 149 per 100 for mobile-cellular teledensity (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 357 (area administered by Turkish Cypriots uses the country code of Turkey - 90); a number of submarine cables, including the SEA-ME-WE-3, CADMOS, MedNautilus Submarine System, POSEIDON, TE North/TGN-Eurasia/SEACOM/Alexandros/Medes, UGARIT, Aphrodite2, Hawk, Lev Submarine System, and Tamares combine to provide connectivity to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Southeast Asia; Turcyos-1 and Turcyos-2 submarine cable in Turkish North Cyprus link to Turkey; tropospheric scatter; satellite earth stations - 8 (3 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 2 Eutelsat, 2 Intersputnik, and 1 Arabsat) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "mixture of state and privately run TV and radio services; the public broadcaster operates 2 TV channels and 4 radio stations; 6 private TV broadcasters, satellite and cable TV services including telecasts from Greece and Turkey, and a number of private radio stations are available; in areas administered by Turkish Cypriots, there are 2 public TV stations, 4 public radio stations, and 7 privately owned TV and 21 radio broadcast stations plus 6 radio and 4 TV channels of local universities, plus 1 radio station of military, security forces and 1 radio station of civil defense cooperation, as well as relay stations from Turkey (2019)"
@@ -1134,9 +1144,7 @@
"text": "5B"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "15 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "15 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1226,7 +1234,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era and some more modern weapons systems from several countries, including France, Israel, Russia, and Serbia (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "Cypriot National Guard (CNG): 18-50 years of age for compulsory military service for all Greek Cypriot males; 17 years of age for voluntary service; 14-month service obligation (2022)",
+ "text": "Cypriot National Guard (CNG): 18-50 years of age for compulsory military service for all Greek Cypriot males; 17 years of age for voluntary service; 14-month service obligation (2023)",
"note": "note: the CNG accepts all foreign nationals of at least partial Cypriot descent under age 32 as volunteers; dual citizenship Cypriot origin citizens, who were born in Cyprus or abroad, have the obligation to serve in the CNG on repatriation, regardless of whether or not they possess a foreign citizenship; a person is considered as having Cypriot origin where a grandparent or parent was/is a Cypriot citizen"
},
"Military - note": {
@@ -1245,7 +1253,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "10,869 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 15,992 (Ukraine) (as of 19 February 2023)"
+ "text": "10,869 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 16,281 (Ukraine) (as of 12 March 2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "242,000 (both Turkish and Greek Cypriots; many displaced since 1974) (2021)"
@@ -1253,7 +1261,7 @@
"stateless persons": {
"text": "74 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 49,113 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-January 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 50,136 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "vulnerable to money laundering from illegal drugs
"
diff --git a/europe/da.json b/europe/da.json
index 4dbbbc13..3860a5be 100644
--- a/europe/da.json
+++ b/europe/da.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"text": "29.8 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "4 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -796,6 +796,14 @@
"text": "27.7 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "11.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "9%"
@@ -804,6 +812,17 @@
"text": "23.4% (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.37% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.42% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.42% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$172.5 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1070,8 +1089,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 45; landing points for the NSC, COBRAcable, CANTAT-3, DANICE, Havfrue/AEC-2, TAT-14m Denmark-Norway-5 & 6, Skagenfiber West & East, GC1, GC2, GC3, GC-KPN, Kattegat 1 & 2 & 3, Energinet Lyngsa-Laeso, Energinet Laeso-Varberg, Fehmarn Balt, Baltica, German-Denmark 2 & 3, Ronne-Rodvig, Denmark-Sweden 15 & 16 & 17 & 18, IP-Only Denmark-Sweden, Scandinavian South, Scandinavian Ring North, Danica North, 34 series of fiber-optic submarine cables link Denmark with Canada, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, US, and UK; satellite earth stations - 18 (6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East)); note - the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for worldwide Inmarsat access (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "strong public-sector TV presence with state-owned Danmarks Radio (DR) operating 6 channels and publicly owned TV2 operating roughly a half-dozen channels; broadcasts of privately owned stations are available via satellite and cable feed; DR operates 4 nationwide FM radio stations, 10 digital audio broadcasting stations, and 14 web-based radio stations; 140 commercial and 187 community (non-commercial) radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1115,9 +1133,7 @@
"text": "OY"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "80 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "80 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1212,10 +1228,10 @@
"text": "1.4% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019) (approximately $5.02 billion)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018) (approximately $4.8 billion)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1225,7 +1241,7 @@
"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 (2022)"
},
"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 (2022)",
+ "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)",
"note": "note 1: women have been able serve in all military occupations, including combat arms, since 1988; as of 2019, they made up about 8% of the military's full-time personnel; conscientious objectors can choose to instead serve 6 months in a non-military position, for example in Beredskabsstyrelsen (dealing with non-military disasters like fires, flood, pollution, etc.) or overseas foreign aid work
note 2: foreigners who have lived in Denmark for at least 1 year or in another EU country for 6 years may apply to join the armed forces, provided they are fluent in Danish
note 2: Denmark has had compulsory military service since 1849"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/europe/ee.json b/europe/ee.json
index c98aa1e0..4a1d9030 100644
--- a/europe/ee.json
+++ b/europe/ee.json
@@ -558,6 +558,17 @@
"text": "23.8% (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.78% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.79% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.81% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)": {
"text": "-3% (of GDP) (2014)"
},
diff --git a/europe/ei.json b/europe/ei.json
index 2b5bc649..0490ebaa 100644
--- a/europe/ei.json
+++ b/europe/ei.json
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
"text": "30.9 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -786,6 +786,14 @@
"text": "30.6 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "5.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.9%"
@@ -794,6 +802,17 @@
"text": "27.2% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.06% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.15% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$86.04 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1063,8 +1082,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 353; landing point for the AEConnect -1, Celtic-Norse, Havfrue/AEC-2, GTT Express, Celtic, ESAT-1, IFC-1, Solas, Pan European Crossing, ESAT-2, CeltixConnect -1 & 2, GTT Atlantic, Sirius South, Emerald Bridge Fibres and Geo Eirgrid submarine cable with links to the US, Canada, Norway, Isle of Man and UK; satellite earth stations - 81 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "publicly owned broadcaster Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE) operates 4 TV stations; commercial TV stations are available; about 75% of households utilize multi-channel satellite and TV services that provide access to a wide range of stations; RTE operates 4 national radio stations and has launched digital audio broadcasts on several stations; a number of commercial broadcast stations operate at the national, regional, and local levels (2019)"
@@ -1108,9 +1126,7 @@
"text": "EI"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "40 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "40 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1238,7 +1254,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "75,260 (Ukraine) (as of 13 February 2023)"
+ "text": "78,121 (Ukraine) (as of 14 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "7 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/en.json b/europe/en.json
index 86e51444..d521da74 100644
--- a/europe/en.json
+++ b/europe/en.json
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
"text": "28.2 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "9 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -808,6 +808,14 @@
"text": "30.8 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "20.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.3%"
@@ -816,6 +824,17 @@
"text": "25.6% (2015)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.56% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.61% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.74% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$10.37 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1062,18 +1081,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "304,728 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "296,620 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "23 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "22 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,925,789 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1,980,838 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "145 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "149 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1081,12 +1100,11 @@
"text": "the competitive telecom market continues to progress with a range of regulatory measures which have enabled alternative operators to chip away at the fixed-line market share; fixed-line infrastructure upgrades have been focused on fiber, and the legacy DSL network has gradually been replaced; limited commercial 5G deployments have been made though an expansion of service availability awaits the delayed auction of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band, which is expected to be held later in 2021 (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "just under 23 per 100 for fixed-line subscribership and approximately 145 per 100 for mobile-cellular; substantial fiber-optic cable systems carry telephone, TV, and radio traffic in the digital mode; Internet services are widely available; schools and libraries are connected to the Internet, a large percentage of the population files income tax returns online, and online voting - in local and parliamentary elections - has climbed steadily since first being introduced in 2005; a large percent of Estonian households have broadband access (2020)"
+ "text": "22 per 100 for fixed-line subscribership and approximately 149 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 372; landing points for the EE-S-1, EESF-3, Baltic Sea Submarine Cable, FEC and EESF-2 fiber-optic submarine cables to other Estonia points, Finland, and Sweden; 2 international switches are located in Tallinn (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the publicly owned broadcaster, Eesti Rahvusringhaaling (ERR), operates 3 TV channels and 5 radio networks; growing number of private commercial radio stations broadcasting nationally, regionally, and locally; fully transitioned to digital television in 2010; national private TV channels expanding service; a range of channels are aimed at Russian-speaking viewers; in 2016, there were 42 on-demand services available in Estonia, including 19 pay TVOD and SVOD services; roughly 85% of households accessed digital television services"
@@ -1127,9 +1145,7 @@
"text": "ES"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "18 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "18 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1206,11 +1222,11 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Estonian Defense Forces: Land Forces, Navy, Air Force, Estonian Defense League (Reserves) (2022)"
+ "text": "Estonian Defense Forces: Land Forces, Navy, Air Force, Estonian Defense League (Reserves) (2023)"
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "2.35% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "2.3% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "2.2% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1219,21 +1235,21 @@
"text": "2.4% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "2% of GDP (2019) (approximately $850 million)"
+ "text": "2% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "2% of GDP (2018) (approximately $800 million)"
+ "text": "2% of GDP (2018)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
- "text": "approximately 7,000 active duty personnel; approximately 15,000 Defense League (2022)"
+ "text": "approximately 7,000 active-duty personnel; approximately 15,000 Defense League (2022)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the Estonian military has a mix of Soviet-era and more modern equipment, mostly from western European suppliers (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 for compulsory military or governmental service for men; conscript service requirement 8-11 months depending on education; non-commissioned officers, reserve officers, and specialists serve 11 months; women can volunteer, and as of 2018 could serve in any military branch (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: conscripts comprise approximately 3,000-3,300 of the Estonian military's 7,000 active duty personnel and serve in all branches, except for the Air Force, which does not have conscripts; after conscript service, reservists are called up for training every 5 years; Estonia has had conscription since 1991
note 2: the Estonian Defense Forces rely largely on reservists who have completed compulsory conscription in the previous 10 years to fill out its active duty and Territorial Defense units during a crisis; a total of approximately 230,000 Estonians are enrolled in the mobilization registry
note 3: in 2020, women comprised about 10% of the full-time professional military force"
+ "text": "18-27 for compulsory military or governmental service for men; conscript service requirement 8-11 months depending on education; non-commissioned officers, reserve officers, and specialists serve 11 months; women can volunteer, and as of 2018 could serve in any military branch (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: conscripts comprise approximately 3,000-3,300 of the Estonian military's 7,000 active-duty personnel and serve in all branches, except for the Air Force, which does not have conscripts; after conscript service, reservists are called up for training every 5 years; Estonia has had conscription since 1991
note 2: the Estonian Defense Forces rely largely on reservists who have completed compulsory conscription in the previous 10 years to fill out its active duty and Territorial Defense units during a crisis; a total of approximately 230,000 Estonians are enrolled in the mobilization registry
note 3: in 2020, women comprised about 10% of the full-time professional military force"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "Estonia became a member of NATO in 2004
since 2017, Estonia has hosted a UK-led multi-national NATO ground force battlegroup as part of the Alliance’s Enhanced Forward Presence initiative; NATO has provided air protection for Estonia since 2004 through its Air Policing mission; NATO member countries that possess air combat capabilities voluntarily contribute to the mission on 4-month rotations; NATO fighter aircraft have been hosted at Estonia’s Ämari Air Base since 2014 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/ez.json b/europe/ez.json
index 2588f68e..c4dbae76 100644
--- a/europe/ez.json
+++ b/europe/ez.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
"text": "28.5 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -802,6 +802,14 @@
"text": "25.3 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "16.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "4.1%"
@@ -810,6 +818,17 @@
"text": "21.7% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.56% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.7% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.53% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$87.37 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1053,18 +1072,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,335,224 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1,294,806 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "12 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "12 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "12,999,812 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "13,129,905 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "121 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "125 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1072,12 +1091,11 @@
"text": "the telecom market has attracted investment from among the key regional telcos; telcos in the Czech Republic have become multi-service providers, offering a full range of fixed and mobile services; the auction has enabled the licensees to expand the reach of their 5G networks; this process has also been assisted by them closing down 3G networks and reforming spectrum for 5G and LTE use (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "roughly 12 fixed-telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants and mobile telephone usage of about 121 per 100 inhabitants (2020)"
+ "text": "roughly 12 fixed-telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants and mobile telephone usage of 125 per 100 inhabitants (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 6 (2 Intersputnik - Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions, 1 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "22 TV stations operate nationally, with 17 of them in private hands; publicly operated Czech Television has 5 national channels; throughout the country, there are some 350 TV channels in operation, many through cable, satellite, and IPTV subscription services; 63 radio broadcasters are registered, operating over 80 radio stations, including 7 multiregional radio stations or networks; publicly operated broadcaster Czech Radio operates 4 national, 14 regional, and 4 Internet stations; both Czech Radio and Czech Television are partially financed through a license fee (2019)"
@@ -1121,9 +1139,7 @@
"text": "OK"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "128 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "128 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1194,7 +1210,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.4% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1234,7 +1250,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "497,217 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)"
+ "text": "501,540 (Ukraine) (as of 19 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "1,625 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/fi.json b/europe/fi.json
index aafcdec5..a9d827dd 100644
--- a/europe/fi.json
+++ b/europe/fi.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"text": "29.5 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -813,6 +813,14 @@
"text": "27.7 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "11.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "6.7%"
@@ -821,6 +829,17 @@
"text": "45.2% (2013)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.28% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.3% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.3% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$134.2 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1065,18 +1084,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "225,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "207,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "4 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "7.12 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7.15 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "129 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "129 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1084,12 +1103,11 @@
"text": "Finland’s telecom market is among the more progressive in Europe, with operators having been at the forefront in deploying technologies and with the regulator being among the first to auction spectrum for 5G use; these efforts have been supported by the government which is working towards its target of providing a broadband service of at least 100Mb/s by 2025; 5G services were available to more than 40% of the population by early 2021, and take-up among subscribers has been strong although most will remain with LTE in the short term; the country enjoys one of the highest broadband and mobile subscription rates in the region, with customers able to make use of the latest iterations of technologies including DOCSIS3.1, LTE-A, 5G, and GPON fiber infrastructure; Finland has emerged as one of the pioneers in 5G; the auction of spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.5GHh bands has enabled network operators to extend the availability of LTE services nationally and to prepare for 5G services; Spectrum in the 2.5GHz band was auctioned in mid-2020 and has since enabled the MNOs to widen their 5G footprint considerably; there is an ongoing shift away from DSL to fiber and mobile networks (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line 4 per 100 subscriptions and nearly 129 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line 4 per 100 subscriptions and nearly 129 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 358; landing points for Botnia, BCS North-1 & 2, SFL, SFS-4, C-Lion1, Eastern Lights, Baltic Sea Submarine Cable, FEC, and EESF-2 & 3 submarine cables that provide links to many Finland points, Estonia, Sweden, Germany, and Russia; satellite earth stations - access to Intelsat transmission service via a Swedish satellite earth station, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Finland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a mix of 3 publicly operated TV stations and numerous privately owned TV stations; several free and special-interest pay-TV channels; cable and satellite multi-channel subscription services are available; all TV signals are broadcast digitally; Internet television, such as Netflix and others, is available; public broadcasting maintains a network of 13 national and 25 regional radio stations; a large number of private radio broadcasters and access to Internet radio"
@@ -1134,9 +1152,7 @@
"text": "OH"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "148 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "148 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1243,7 +1259,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory consists of a wide mix of mostly modern US, European, and domestically-produced weapons systems; since 2010, the US has been the leading supplier; the Finnish defense industry produces a variety of military equipment, including wheeled armored vehicles and naval vessels (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "at age 18, all Finnish men are obligated to serve 5.5-12 months of service within a branch of the military or the Border Guard (length of service depends on the type of duty), and women 18-29 may volunteer for service; there is also an option to perform non-military service which lasts for 8.5 or 11.5 months; after completing their initial conscript obligation, individuals enter the reserves and remain eligible for mobilization until the age of 50 for rank-and-file and 60 for non-commissioned and commissioned officers (2022)",
+ "text": "at age 18, all Finnish men are obligated to serve 5.5-12 months of service within a branch of the military or the Border Guard (length of service depends on the type of duty), and women 18-29 may volunteer for service; there is also an option to perform non-military service which lasts for 8.5 or 11.5 months; after completing their initial conscript obligation, individuals enter the reserves and remain eligible for mobilization until the age of 50 for rank-and-file and 60 for non-commissioned and commissioned officers (2023)",
"note": "note 1: the military trains approximately 21,000 (20,000 Army) conscripts each year; as of 2019, women made up about 4% of the military's full-time personnel
note 2: Finland has had conscription since 1951"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/europe/fo.json b/europe/fo.json
index 8322c9f3..75583a5a 100644
--- a/europe/fo.json
+++ b/europe/fo.json
@@ -603,6 +603,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2017": {
+ "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$835.6 million (2014 est.)"
@@ -815,18 +826,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "15,341 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "15,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "31 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "29 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "59,213 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "59,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "121 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -834,12 +845,11 @@
"text": "the Faroe Islands have a highly developed communication network, which covers the whole country; from telecommunication and mobile phones to the internet and media, the Faroe Islands are at the forefront of modern communications technology; working within the special geographic circumstances of the Faroe Islands; companies have become world experts in providing digital communication solutions to remote and sparsely populated areas (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "roughly 31 per 100 teledensity for fixed-line and nearly 121 per 100 for mobile-cellular; both NMT (analog) and GSM (digital) mobile telephone systems are installed (2020)"
+ "text": "29 per 100 teledensity for fixed-line and nearly 110 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 298; landing points for the SHEFA-2, FARICE-1, and CANTAT-3 fiber-optic submarine cables from the Faroe Islands, to Denmark, Germany, UK and Iceland; satellite earth stations - 1 Orion; (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 publicly owned TV station; the Faroese telecommunications company distributes local and international channels through its digital terrestrial network; publicly owned radio station supplemented by 3 privately owned stations broadcasting over multiple frequencies"
@@ -877,9 +887,7 @@
"text": "OY-H"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/fr.json b/europe/fr.json
index 037e8d68..2e2f15b6 100644
--- a/europe/fr.json
+++ b/europe/fr.json
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
"text": "28.9 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -856,6 +856,14 @@
"text": "32.4 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "13.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.6%"
@@ -864,6 +872,17 @@
"text": "25.4% (2013)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.08% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.09% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.1% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.392 trillion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1110,18 +1129,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "37.759 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "38 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "58 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "59 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "72.751 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "73 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "111 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1129,15 +1148,14 @@
"text": "France's telecom market is one of the largest in Europe; there is a multi-year Engage 2025 plan which is focused on growth in the developing markets, and on the greater use of artificial intelligence and data; there are many MVNOs in the market; LTE networks provide near universal coverage, and carry about 95% of mobile data traffic; operators have launched 5G services, and these have been supported by the late-2020 auction of spectrum in the 3.5GHz range; France’s fixed broadband market is increasingly focused on fiber, which accounted for 71% of all fixed lines at the beginning of 2021; growth in the fiber sector has been stimulated by households securing faster data packages during the pandemic; the number of DSL lines has fallen sharply as customers migrate to fiber infrastructure (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "nearly 58 per 100 persons for fixed-line and over 111 per 100 for mobile-cellular subscriptions (2020)"
+ "text": "nearly 59 per 100 persons for fixed-line and over 110 per 100 for mobile-cellular subscriptions (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 33; landing points for Circe South, TAT-14, INGRID, FLAG Atlantic-1, Apollo, HUGO, IFC-1, ACE, SeaMeWe-3 & 4, Dunant, Africa-1, AAE-1, Atlas Offshore, Hawk, IMEWE, Med Cable, PEACE Cable, and TE North/TGN-Eurasia/SEACOM/Alexandros/Medex submarine cables providing links throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and US; satellite earth stations - more than 3 (2 Intelsat (with total of 5 antennas - 2 for Indian Ocean and 3 for Atlantic Ocean), NA Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat - Atlantic Ocean region); HF radiotelephone communications with more than 20 countries (2019)"
},
"overseas departments": {
"text": "country codes: French Guiana - 594; landing points for Ella Link, Kanawa, Americas II to South America, Europe, Caribbean and US; Guadeloupe - 590; landing points for GCN, Southern Caribbean Fiber, and ECFS around the Caribbean and US; Martinique - 596; landing points for Americas II, ECFS, and Southern Caribbean Fiber to South America, US and around the Caribbean; Mayotte - 262; landing points for FLY-LION3 and LION2 to East Africa and East African Islands in Indian Ocean; Reunion - 262; landing points for SAFE, METISS, and LION submarine cables to Asia, South and East Africa, Southeast Asia and nearby Indian Ocean Island countries of Mauritius, and Madagascar (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a mix of both publicly operated and privately owned TV stations; state-owned France television stations operate 4 networks, one of which is a network of regional stations, and has part-interest in several thematic cable/satellite channels and international channels; a large number of privately owned regional and local TV stations; multi-channel satellite and cable services provide a large number of channels; public broadcaster Radio France operates 7 national networks, a series of regional networks, and operates services for overseas territories and foreign audiences; Radio France Internationale, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is a leading international broadcaster; a large number of commercial FM stations, with many of them consolidating into commercial networks"
@@ -1181,9 +1199,7 @@
"text": "F"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "464 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "464 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1293,10 +1309,10 @@
"text": "2% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2019) (approximately $59.1 billion)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2018) (approximately $57 billion)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2018)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/europe/gi.json b/europe/gi.json
index 9758de80..de3c883e 100644
--- a/europe/gi.json
+++ b/europe/gi.json
@@ -733,18 +733,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "17,041 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "17,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "51 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "53 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "35,438 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "34,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "105 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -752,12 +752,11 @@
"text": "Gibraltar’s population is urban-based, served by a digital telephone exchange supported by a fiber optic and copper infrastructure; near universal mobile and Internet use (2019)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "automatic exchange facilities; over 51 per 100 fixed-line and 105 per 100 mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "53 per 100 fixed-line and 100 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 350; landing point for the EIG to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East via submarine cables; radiotelephone; microwave radio relay; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) provides TV and radio broadcasting services via 1 TV station and 4 radio stations; British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) operates 1 radio station; broadcasts from Spanish radio and TV stations are accessible"
@@ -787,9 +786,7 @@
"text": "VP-G"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/gk.json b/europe/gk.json
index 011df888..bdafc6bb 100644
--- a/europe/gk.json
+++ b/europe/gk.json
@@ -590,18 +590,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "33,940 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "33,930 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "54 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "53 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "43,824 (2009 est.)"
+ "text": "71,485 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "79 (2009 est.)"
+ "text": "112 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -609,12 +609,11 @@
"text": "fixed network broadband services are those delivered over physical copper connections, fiber connections and fixed wireless communications links (e.g. WiMax); they do not include services delivered over 2G, 3G and 4G mobile networks (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line 47 per 100 and mobile-cellular 112 per 100 persons (2021)"
+ "text": "fixed-line 53 per 100 and mobile-cellular 112 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 44; landing points for Guernsey-Jersey, HUGO, INGRID, Channel Islands -9 Liberty and UK-Channel Islands-7 submarine cable to UK and France (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple UK terrestrial TV broadcasts are received via a transmitter in Jersey with relays in Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney; satellite packages are available; BBC Radio Guernsey and 1 other radio station operating"
@@ -652,9 +651,7 @@
"text": "2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/gm.json b/europe/gm.json
index 40235577..656cc0c2 100644
--- a/europe/gm.json
+++ b/europe/gm.json
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
"text": "29.9 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "4 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -830,6 +830,14 @@
"text": "31.7 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "10.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.6%"
@@ -838,6 +846,17 @@
"text": "24% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.48% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.5% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.48% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.665 trillion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1081,18 +1100,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "38.3 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "38.6 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "46 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "46 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "107.4 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "106.4 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "128 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "128 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1100,12 +1119,11 @@
"text": "with one of Europe’s largest telecom markets, Germany hosts a number of significant operators which offer effective competition in the mobile and broadband sectors; the German mobile market is driven by mobile data, with the number of mobile broadband subscribers having increased rapidly in recent years; with LTE now effectively universally available, considerable progress has recently been made in building out 5G networks (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable, microwave radio relay, and a domestic satellite system; cellular telephone service is widely available, expanding rapidly, and includes roaming service to many foreign countries; approximately 46 per 100 for fixed-line and 128 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "46 per 100 for fixed-line and 128 per 100 for mobile-cellular subscriptions (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 49; landing points for SeaMeWe-3, TAT-14, AC-1, CONTACT-3, Fehmarn Balt, C-Lion1, GC1, GlobalConnect-KPN, and Germany-Denmark 2 & 3 - submarine cables to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia; as well as earth stations in the Inmarsat, Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a mixture of publicly operated and privately owned TV and radio stations; 70 national and regional public broadcasters compete with nearly 400 privately owned national and regional TV stations; more than 90% of households have cable or satellite TV; hundreds of radio stations including multiple national radio networks, regional radio networks, and a large number of local radio stations"
@@ -1149,9 +1167,7 @@
"text": "D"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "539 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "539 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1255,10 +1271,10 @@
"text": "1.5% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.4% of GDP (2019) (approximately $60.1 billion)"
+ "text": "1.4% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018) (approximately $55.4 billion)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018)"
},
"note": "note: in 2022, the German Government said defense spending would reach 2% of GDP by 2025"
},
diff --git a/europe/gr.json b/europe/gr.json
index c271c196..1e6f71dd 100644
--- a/europe/gr.json
+++ b/europe/gr.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
"text": "30.7 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -805,6 +805,14 @@
"text": "33.1 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "17.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.7%"
@@ -813,6 +821,17 @@
"text": "26.7% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.32% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.32% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.33% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$97.99 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1058,18 +1077,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "5,028,332 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4,913,036 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "48 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "47 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "11,412,995 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "11,494,008 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "109 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1077,12 +1096,11 @@
"text": "Greece’s telecom market is susceptible to the country’s volatile economy, and as a result revenue among the key networks has been variable; broadband subscriptions in Greece are developing steadily despite the difficult economic conditions; the main networks are concentrating investment on fiber-based next generation networks, enabling them to reach the European broadband targets for 2025; their work is also supported by government ultra-fast broadband projects, largely funded by the EC and aimed at delivering a service of at least 100Mb/s to under served areas; Greece’s well-developed mobile market is dominated by the three MNOs; Networks continue to invest in LTE infrastructure and technologies to provide networks capable of meeting customer demand for data services; after extensive trials of 5G, the MNOs were able to launch commercial services in early 2021 following the December 2020 allocation of frequencies in a range of bands; the rapid rollout of 5G encouraged the shut down of the 3G network (a process expected to be completed by the end of 2021) and reallocate for LTE and 5G. (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "microwave radio relay trunk system; extensive open-wire connections; submarine cable to offshore islands; nearly 46 per 100 subscribers for fixed-line and 110 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "47 per 100 subscribers for fixed-line and 110 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 30; landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3, Adria-1, Italy-Greece 1, OTEGLOBE, MedNautilus Submarine System, Aphrodite 2, AAE-1 and Silphium optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Asia and Australia; tropospheric scatter; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean, 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat - Indian Ocean region) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "broadcast media dominated by the private sector; roughly 150 private TV channels, about 10 of which broadcast nationwide; 1 government-owned terrestrial TV channel with national coverage; 3 privately owned satellite channels; multi-channel satellite and cable TV services available; upwards of 1,500 radio stations, all of them privately owned; government-owned broadcaster has 2 national radio stations"
@@ -1126,9 +1144,7 @@
"text": "SX"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "77 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "77 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1210,7 +1226,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "3.8% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "3.6% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "3.6% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1219,10 +1235,10 @@
"text": "2.9% of GDP (2020)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "2.3% of GDP (2019) (approximately $7.95 billion)"
+ "text": "2.3% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "2.5% of GDP (2018) (approximately $8.31 billion)"
+ "text": "2.5% of GDP (2018)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1233,7 +1249,7 @@
"note": "note: as of 2022, Greece was in the midst of a significant military modernization program which included major acquisitions of fighter aircraft and naval ships from France; it had also boosted purchases of US equipment, including fighter aircraft upgrades, helicopters, and naval patrol craft "
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "19-45 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 12-month obligation for all services (note - as an exception, the duration of the full military service is 9 instead of 12 months if conscripts, after the initial training, serve the entire remaining time in certain areas of the eastern borders, in Cyprus, or in certain military units); 18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women (2022)",
+ "text": "19-45 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 12-month obligation for all services (note - as an exception, the duration of the full military service is 9 instead of 12 months if conscripts, after the initial training, serve the entire remaining time in certain areas of the eastern borders, in Cyprus, or in certain military units); 18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women (2023)",
"note": "note 1: compulsory service applies to any individual whom the Greek authorities consider to be Greek, regardless of whether the individual considers himself Greek, has a foreign citizenship and passport, or was born or lives outside of Greece; Greek citizens living permanently outside of Greece have the right to postpone their conscription; they are permanently exempted from their military obligations when they reach the age of 45 years old
note 2: up to 50% of the Greek military is comprised of conscripts
note 3: as of 2019, women comprised approximately 19% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military deployments": {
@@ -1260,7 +1276,7 @@
"stateless persons": {
"text": "4,488 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 1,235,454 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 1,236,082 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis products and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is consumed in Greece; money laundering related to drug trafficking and organized crime"
diff --git a/europe/hr.json b/europe/hr.json
index aeaa3eb3..af4004b0 100644
--- a/europe/hr.json
+++ b/europe/hr.json
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
"text": "29 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -830,6 +830,14 @@
"text": "28.9 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "23% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.7%"
@@ -838,6 +846,17 @@
"text": "23% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "7.32% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "7.31% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "6.87% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$25.24 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1085,18 +1104,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1,299,329 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1,268,941 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "32 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "31 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "4,375,699 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4,402,213 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "107 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "108 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1104,12 +1123,11 @@
"text": "the mobile market is served by three MNOs, supplemented by a number of MVNOs; the network operators have focused on improving ARPU by encouraging prepaid subscribers to migrate to postpaid plans, and on developing revenue from mobile data services; 5G services are widely available, though the sector will only show its full potential later in 2021 following the award of licenses in several bands; this will contribute towards the government’s national broadband plan to 2027, which is tied to the EC’s two allied projects aimed at providing gigabit connectivity by the end of 2025; the broadband sector benefits from effective competition between the DSL and cable platforms, while there are also numerous fiber deployments in urban areas; the number of FttP subscribers broached 134,000 in March 2021. (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity has dropped somewhat to about 32 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions are about 107 per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity 31 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions are 108 per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 385; the ADRIA-1 submarine cable provides connectivity to Albania and Greece; digital international service is provided through the main switch in Zagreb; Croatia participates in the Trans-Asia-Europe fiber-optic project, which consists of 2 fiber-optic trunk connections with Slovenia and a fiber-optic trunk line from Rijeka to Split and Dubrovnik (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the national state-owned public broadcaster, Croatian Radiotelevision, operates 4 terrestrial TV networks, a satellite channel that rebroadcasts programs for Croatians living abroad, and 6 regional TV centers; 2 private broadcasters operate national terrestrial networks; 29 privately owned regional TV stations; multi-channel cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; state-owned public broadcaster operates 4 national radio networks and 23 regional radio stations; 2 privately owned national radio networks and 117 local radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1153,9 +1171,7 @@
"text": "9A"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "69 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "69 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1239,7 +1255,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "2% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "2.2% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1278,12 +1294,12 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "21,115 (Ukraine) (as of 3 March 2023)"
+ "text": "21,352 (Ukraine) (as of 20 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "2,889 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 771,932 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2022)"
+ "note": "note: 792,380 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets
"
diff --git a/europe/hu.json b/europe/hu.json
index b4665029..eb6fed4b 100644
--- a/europe/hu.json
+++ b/europe/hu.json
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
"text": "28.4 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "12 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "15 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -827,6 +827,14 @@
"text": "30 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "18.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.3%"
@@ -835,6 +843,17 @@
"text": "22.4% (2015)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.92% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.43% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.03% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$61.98 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1084,7 +1103,7 @@
"text": "2,955,979 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "27 (2021 est.)"
+ "text": "30 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
@@ -1100,12 +1119,11 @@
"text": "Hungary benefits from having a developed telecom infrastructure, with a focus among operators to develop the 5G sector and upgrade fixed networks to provide a 1Gb/s service; services based on 5G have been supported by the January 2021 multi-spectrum auction for spectrum in the 900MHz and 1800MHz bands; the number of fixed-lines continues to fall as subscribers migrate to the mobile platform for voice and data services; operators have looked to bundled packages to boost revenue and retain subscribers; the broadband market has effective infrastructure-based competition, with an extensive cable network competing against DSL services and a vibrant and rapidly expanding fiber sector; the regulator has also introduced a number of measures aimed at promoting market competition, which is pushing the drive for higher speed platforms and encouraging operators to invest in technology upgrades; as a result, Hungary now has the highest fixed broadband penetration rate in Eastern Europe; the number of super fast broadband connections (above 30Mb/s) accounted for 78% of all fixed broadband connections (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "competition among mobile-cellular service providers has led to a sharp increase in the use of mobile-cellular phones, and a decrease in the number of fixed-line connections, with just under 31 fixed per 100 persons and 107 mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections, with 30 fixed per 100 persons and 106 mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 36; Hungary has fiber-optic cable connections with all neighboring countries; the international switch is in Budapest; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Inmarsat, 1 (very small aperture terminal) VSAT system of ground terminals"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "mixed system of state-supported public service broadcast media and private broadcasters; the 5 publicly owned TV channels and the 2 main privately owned TV stations are the major national broadcasters; a large number of special interest channels; highly developed market for satellite and cable TV services with about two-thirds of viewers utilizing their services; 4 state-supported public-service radio networks; a large number of local stations including commercial, public service, nonprofit, and community radio stations; digital transition completed at the end of 2013; government-linked businesses have greatly consolidated ownership in broadcast and print media (2019)"
@@ -1146,9 +1164,7 @@
"text": "HA"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "41 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "41 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1229,7 +1245,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.7% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.8% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1274,7 +1290,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "34,248 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)"
+ "text": "34,248 (Ukraine) (as of 20 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "130 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/ic.json b/europe/ic.json
index 902937f4..084e3a87 100644
--- a/europe/ic.json
+++ b/europe/ic.json
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
"text": "28.7 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "4 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -791,6 +791,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.74% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.76% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.74% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$10.39 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1031,18 +1042,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "107,032 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100,482 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "31 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "27 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "421,384 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "437,270 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "123 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "118 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1050,12 +1061,11 @@
"text": "Iceland has one of the smallest yet most progressive telecom markets in Europe; the country in 2020 became the top in Europe for fiber penetration; it aims to provide a fixed broadband service of at least 100Mb/s to 99.9% of the population by the end of 2021, an ambitious target by international standards and one which it is likely to achieve given the progress which operators have made in extending the reach of fiber networks; there is effective competition in the mobile and broadband markets, with a number of players having emerged to challenge the dominance of the two leading operators which have interests across the telecom sectors; the telecom market has shown some resilience in recent years following the significant economic downturn a decade ago, supported by continuing investment in mobile and fixed-line broadband infrastructure by operators and well as by the government’s Telecommunications Fund which is supporting Next Generation Access networks, particularly in rural areas (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "31 per 100 for fixed line and nearing 123 per 100 for mobile-cellular subscriptions (2020)"
+ "text": "27 per 100 for fixed line and nearing 118 per 100 for mobile-cellular subscriptions (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 354; landing points for the CANTAT-3, FARICE-1, Greenland Connect and DANICE submarine cable system that provides connectivity to Canada, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, UK, Denmark, and Germany; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Iceland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned public TV broadcaster (RUV) operates 21 TV channels nationally (RUV and RUV 2, though RUV 2 is used less frequently); RUV broadcasts nationally, every household in Iceland is required to have RUV as it doubles as the emergency broadcast network; RUV also operates stringer offices in the north (Akureyri) and the east (Egilsstadir) but operations are all run out of RUV headquarters in Reykjavik; there are 3 privately owned TV stations; Stod 2 (Channel 2) is owned by Syn, following 365 Media and Vodafone merger, and is headquartered in Reykjavik; Syn also operates 4 sports channels under Stod 2; N4 is the only television station headquartered outside of Reykjavik, in Akureyri, with local programming for the north, south, and east of Iceland; Hringbraut is the newest station and is headquartered in Reykjavik; all of these television stations have nationwide penetration as 100% of households have multi-channel services though digital and/or fiber-optic connections RUV operates 3 radio stations (RAS 1, RAS2, and Rondo) as well as 4 regional stations (but they mostly act as range extenders for RUV radio broadcasts nationwide); there is 1 privately owned radio conglomerate, Syn (4 stations), that broadcasts nationwide, and 3 other radio stations that broadcast to the most densely populated regions of the country. In addition, there are upwards of 20 radio stations that operate regionally
(2019)"
@@ -1099,9 +1109,7 @@
"text": "TF"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "96 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "96 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/im.json b/europe/im.json
index c738456b..586d3837 100644
--- a/europe/im.json
+++ b/europe/im.json
@@ -707,8 +707,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 44; fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay, satellite earth station, submarine cable"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "national public radio broadcasts over 3 FM stations and 1 AM station; 2 commercial broadcasters operating with 1 having multiple FM stations; receives radio and TV services via relays from British TV and radio broadcasters"
@@ -722,9 +721,7 @@
"text": "M"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/it.json b/europe/it.json
index b717a533..f8ff6844 100644
--- a/europe/it.json
+++ b/europe/it.json
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
"text": "31.4 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "2 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -815,6 +815,14 @@
"text": "35.2 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "14.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.3%"
@@ -823,6 +831,17 @@
"text": "26.8% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.49% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.51% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.52% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$903.3 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1089,8 +1108,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 39; landing points for Italy-Monaco, Italy-Libya, Italy-Malta, Italy-Greece-1, Italy-Croatia, BlueMed, Janna, FEA, SeaMeWe-3 & 4 & 5, Trapani-Kelibia, Columbus-III, Didon, GO-1, HANNIBAL System, MENA, Bridge International, Malta-Italy Interconnector, Melita1, IMEWE, VMSCS, AAE-1, and OTEGLOBE, submarine cables that provide links to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and US; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (with a total of 5 antennas - 3 for Atlantic Ocean and 2 for Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "two Italian media giants dominate with 3 national terrestrial stations and privately owned companies with 3 national terrestrial stations; a large number of private stations, a satellite TV network; 3 AM/FM nationwide radio stations; about 1,300 commercial radio stations"
@@ -1134,9 +1152,7 @@
"text": "I"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "129 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "129 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1228,7 +1244,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.55% of GDP (2022)"
+ "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.5% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1278,7 +1294,7 @@
"stateless persons": {
"text": "3,000 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 710,889 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 716,615 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "important gateway for drug trafficking; organized crime groups allied with Colombian and Spanish groups trafficking cocaine to Europe"
diff --git a/europe/je.json b/europe/je.json
index 6ba2db58..5e3db0cc 100644
--- a/europe/je.json
+++ b/europe/je.json
@@ -655,18 +655,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "48,310 (2019 est.)"
+ "text": "48,122 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "44 (2019 est.)"
+ "text": "47 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "83,900 (2009 est.)"
+ "text": "124,083 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "95 (2009 est.)"
+ "text": "120 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -678,8 +678,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 44; landing points for the INGRID, UK-Channel Islands-8, and Guernsey-Jersey-4, submarine cable connectivity to Guernsey, the UK, and France (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "multiple UK terrestrial TV broadcasts are received via a transmitter in Jersey; satellite packages available; BBC Radio Jersey and 1 other radio station operating"
@@ -714,9 +713,7 @@
}
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/jn.json b/europe/jn.json
index ddbbc38d..2ef67586 100644
--- a/europe/jn.json
+++ b/europe/jn.json
@@ -205,9 +205,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with unpaved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/kv.json b/europe/kv.json
index 18a9dc1c..db93016e 100644
--- a/europe/kv.json
+++ b/europe/kv.json
@@ -678,6 +678,17 @@
"text": "22% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "17.95% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "18.61% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "15.81% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.054 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -937,8 +948,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 383"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Internet country code": {
"text": ".xk; note - assigned as a temporary code under UN Security Council resolution 1244/99
",
@@ -963,9 +973,7 @@
"text": "Z6"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "6 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "6 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/lg.json b/europe/lg.json
index 0d17a1a9..69bf91f9 100644
--- a/europe/lg.json
+++ b/europe/lg.json
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
"text": "27.3 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "19 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "18 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -813,6 +813,14 @@
"text": "34.5 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "17.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.2%"
@@ -821,6 +829,17 @@
"text": "26.3% (2015)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.31% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.15% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.33% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$11.39 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1087,8 +1106,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 371; the Latvian network is now connected via fiber-optic cable to Estonia, Finland, and Sweden"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "several national and regional commercial TV stations are foreign-owned, 2 national TV stations are publicly owned; system supplemented by privately owned regional and local TV stations; cable and satellite multi-channel TV services with domestic and foreign broadcasts available; publicly owned broadcaster operates 4 radio networks with dozens of stations throughout the country; dozens of private broadcasters also operate radio stations"
@@ -1132,9 +1150,7 @@
"text": "YL"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "42 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "42 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/lh.json b/europe/lh.json
index 9e7d3383..e2e801d3 100644
--- a/europe/lh.json
+++ b/europe/lh.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
"text": "28.2 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "9 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -819,6 +819,14 @@
"text": "35.3 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "21.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "5.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.2%"
@@ -827,6 +835,17 @@
"text": "28.8% (2015)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.17% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.39% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.38% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$15.92 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1096,8 +1115,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 370; landing points for the BCS East, BCS East-West Interlink and NordBalt connecting Lithuania to Sweden, and Latvia ; further transmission by satellite; landline connections to Latvia and Poland (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "public broadcaster operates 3 channels with the third channel - a satellite channel - introduced in 2007; various privately owned commercial TV broadcasters operate national and multiple regional channels; many privately owned local TV stations; multi-channel cable and satellite TV services available; publicly owned broadcaster operates 3 radio networks; many privately owned commercial broadcasters, with repeater stations in various regions throughout the country"
@@ -1138,9 +1156,7 @@
"text": "LY"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "61 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "61 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1247,7 +1263,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era and more modern European and US equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "19-26 years of age for conscripted military service for men; 9-month service obligation; in 2015, Lithuania reinstated conscription after having converted to a professional military in 2008; 18-38 for voluntary service for men and women (2022)",
+ "text": "19-26 years of age for conscripted military service for men; 9-month service obligation; in 2015, Lithuania reinstated conscription after having converted to a professional military in 2008; 18-38 for voluntary service for men and women (2023)",
"note": "note 1: Lithuania conscripts up to 4,000 males each year; conscripts are selected using an automated lottery system
note 2: as of 2019, women comprised about 12% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/europe/lo.json b/europe/lo.json
index 3466fe72..4a1eedd5 100644
--- a/europe/lo.json
+++ b/europe/lo.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
"text": "27.2 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -799,6 +799,14 @@
"text": "25.2 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "18.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.3%"
@@ -807,6 +815,17 @@
"text": "19.3% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.92% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.31% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.41% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$37.79 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1076,8 +1095,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 421; 3 international exchanges (1 in Bratislava and 2 in Banska Bystrica) are available; Slovakia is participating in several international telecommunications projects that will increase the availability of external services; connects to DREAM cable (2017)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned public broadcaster, Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS), operates 2 national TV stations and multiple national and regional radio networks; roughly 50 privately owned TV stations operating nationally, regionally, and locally; about 40% of households are connected to multi-channel cable or satellite TV; 32 privately owned radio stations"
@@ -1115,9 +1133,7 @@
"text": "OM"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "35 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "35 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1181,7 +1197,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "2% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.7% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1203,7 +1219,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory consists mostly of Soviet-era platforms; in recent years, it has imported limited quantities of more modern equipment, particularly from Italy and the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-30 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription in peacetime suspended in 2004 (2021)",
+ "text": "18-30 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription in peacetime suspended in 2004 (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2019, women made up around 12% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military deployments": {
@@ -1220,7 +1236,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "111,173 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)"
+ "text": "112,362 (Ukraine) (as of 19 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "2,940 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/ls.json b/europe/ls.json
index 2418e9a9..de66e906 100644
--- a/europe/ls.json
+++ b/europe/ls.json
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@
"international": {
"text": "country code - 423; linked to Swiss networks by cable and microwave radio relay"
},
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ "note": "n"
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "relies on foreign terrestrial and satellite broadcasters for most broadcast media services; first Liechtenstein-based TV station established August 2008; Radio Liechtenstein operates multiple radio stations; a Swiss-based broadcaster operates one radio station in Liechtenstein"
diff --git a/europe/lu.json b/europe/lu.json
index 75865d83..da387240 100644
--- a/europe/lu.json
+++ b/europe/lu.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
"text": "31 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "6 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -793,6 +793,17 @@
"text": "23.8% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.66% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.96% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.92% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$27.75 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1059,8 +1070,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 352"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Luxembourg has a long tradition of operating radio and TV services for pan-European audiences and is home to Europe's largest privately owned broadcast media group, the RTL Group, which operates 46 TV stations and 29 radio stations in Europe; also home to Europe's largest satellite operator, Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES); domestically, the RTL Group operates TV and radio networks; other domestic private radio and TV operators and French and German stations available; satellite and cable TV services available"
@@ -1104,9 +1114,7 @@
"text": "LX"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/md.json b/europe/md.json
index 66ce85b3..b73abe33 100644
--- a/europe/md.json
+++ b/europe/md.json
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
"text": "25.2 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "19 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "12 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -805,6 +805,17 @@
"text": "22.1% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "15.24% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "15.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "15.95% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.886 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1074,8 +1085,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 373; service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations - at least 3 - Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned national radio-TV broadcaster operates 1 TV and 1 radio station; a total of nearly 70 terrestrial TV channels and some 50 radio stations are in operation; Russian and Romanian channels also are available (2019)"
@@ -1119,9 +1129,7 @@
"text": "ER"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "7 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "7 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1214,7 +1222,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is limited and almost entirely comprised of older Russian and Soviet-era equipment; in recent years, it has received small amounts of donated material from other nations, including the US (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; male registration required at age 16; 12-month service obligation (2022)",
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; male registration required at age 16; 12-month service obligation (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2019, women made up about 20% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military - note": {
@@ -1227,7 +1235,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "107,728 (Ukraine) (as of 5 March 2023)"
+ "text": "107,277 (Ukraine) (as of 19 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "1,701 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/mj.json b/europe/mj.json
index 90cb9430..a4d2817c 100644
--- a/europe/mj.json
+++ b/europe/mj.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"text": "26.3 years (2010 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "6 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "6 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
"text": "Ministers act as cabinet"
},
"elections/appointments": {
- "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 15 April 2018 (next to be held on 19 March 2023); prime minister nominated by the president, approved by the Assembly"
+ "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 19 March 2023 (runoff to be held on 2 April 2023); prime minister nominated by the president, approved by the Assembly"
},
"election results": {
"text": "2018: Milo DJUKANOVIC elected president in the first round; percent of vote - Milo DJUKANOVIC (DPS) 53.9%, Mladen BOJANIC (independent) 33.4%, Draginja VUKSANOVIC (SDP) 8.2%, Marko MILACIC (PRAVA) 2.8%, other 1.7%
2013: Filip VUJANOVIC reelected president; percent of vote Filip VUJANOVIC (DPS) 51.2%, Miodrag LEKIC (independent) 48.8%"
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@
"text": "unicameral Assembly or Skupstina (81 seats; members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)"
},
"elections": {
- "text": "last held on 30 August 2020 (next to be held in 2024)"
+ "text": "last held on 30 August 2020 (next to be held on 11 June 2023)"
},
"election results": {
"text": "percent of vote by party/coalition - DPS 35.1%, ZBCG 32.6%, MNIM 12.5%, URA 5.5%, SD 4.1%, BS 3.9%, SDP 3.1%, AL 1.6%, Albanian Coalition 1.1%, other 0.4%; seats by party/coalition - DPS 30, ZBCG 27, MNIM 10, URA 4, BS 3, SD 3, SDP 2, AL 1, Albanian Coalition 1.; composition as of July 2022 - men 59, women 22, percent of women 27.2%"
@@ -840,6 +840,14 @@
"text": "36.8 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "27.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "6.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.5%"
@@ -848,6 +856,17 @@
"text": "25.7% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "13.54% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "12.59% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "10.54% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.78 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1114,8 +1133,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 382; 2 international switches connect the national system"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-funded national radio-TV broadcaster operates 2 terrestrial TV networks, 1 satellite TV channel, and 2 radio networks; 4 local public TV stations and 14 private TV stations; 14 local public radio stations, 35 private radio stations, and several on-line media (2019)"
@@ -1159,9 +1177,7 @@
"text": "4O"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "5 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "5 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1222,7 +1238,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.6% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1259,12 +1275,12 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "34,170 (Ukraine) (as of 27 February 2023)"
+ "text": "34,866 (Ukraine) (as of 20 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "468 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 29,642 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 29,776 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets
"
diff --git a/europe/mk.json b/europe/mk.json
index c7aa82eb..a7f6f158 100644
--- a/europe/mk.json
+++ b/europe/mk.json
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
"text": "26.9 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -793,6 +793,14 @@
"text": "33 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "30.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.7%"
@@ -801,6 +809,17 @@
"text": "25% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.54% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.34% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.52% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.295 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1067,8 +1086,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 389"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "public service TV broadcaster Macedonian Radio and Television operates 3 national terrestrial TV channels and 2 satellite TV channels; additionally, there are 10 regional TV stations that broadcast nationally using terrestrial transmitters, 54 TV channels with concession for cable TV, 9 regional TV stations with concessions for cable TV; 4 satellite TV channels broadcasting on a national level, 21 local commercial TV channels, and a large number of cable operators that offer domestic and international programming; the public radio broadcaster operates over 3 stations; there are 4 privately owned radio stations that broadcast nationally; 17 regional radio stations, and 49 local commercial radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1098,9 +1116,7 @@
"text": "Z3"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "10 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "10 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1151,7 +1167,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.6% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.5% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1192,7 +1208,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "6,514 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)"
+ "text": "6,538 (Ukraine) (as of 19 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "521 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/mn.json b/europe/mn.json
index 7a116cd7..1c192598 100644
--- a/europe/mn.json
+++ b/europe/mn.json
@@ -490,10 +490,10 @@
"text": "unicameral National Council or Conseil National (24 seats; 16 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 8 directly elected by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)"
},
"elections": {
- "text": "last held on 11 February 2018 (next to be held on 28 February 2023)"
+ "text": "last held on 5 February 2023 (next to be held in February 2028)"
},
"election results": {
- "text": "percent of vote by party - Priorite Monaco 57.7%, Horizon Monaco 26.1%, Union Monegasque 16.2%; seats by party - Priorite Monaco 21, Horizon Monaco 2, Union Monegasque 1; composition - men 16, women 8, percent of women 33.3%"
+ "text": "percent of vote by coalition - Monegasque National Union 100%; seats by coalition - Monegasque National Union 24; composition - men 13, women 11, percent of women 45.8%"
}
},
"Judicial branch": {
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
- "text": "Horizon Monaco [Laurent NOUVION]
Priorite Monaco or Primo! [Stephane VALERI]
Union Monegasque [Jean-Francois ROBILLON]"
+ "text": "Monegasque National Union [Brigitte BOCCONE-PAGES] (includes Horizon Monaco, Primo!, Union Monegasque)
Horizon Monaco[Laurent NOUVION]
Priorite Monaco or Primo! [Stephane VALERI]
Union Monegasque [Jean-Francois ROBILLON]"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "CD, CE, FAO, IAEA, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IFRCS, IHO, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ITSO, ITU, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Schengen Convention (de facto member), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO"
@@ -767,8 +767,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 377; landing points for the EIG and Italy-Monaco submarine cables connecting Monaco to Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia; no satellite earth stations; connected by cable into the French communications system (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "TV Monte-Carlo operates a TV network; cable TV available; Radio Monte-Carlo has extensive radio networks in France and Italy with French-language broadcasts to France beginning in the 1960s and Italian-language broadcasts to Italy beginning in the 1970s; other radio stations include Riviera Radio and Radio Monaco"
diff --git a/europe/mt.json b/europe/mt.json
index d9fee1e5..b440f82c 100644
--- a/europe/mt.json
+++ b/europe/mt.json
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
"note": "note: data refers to the average of the different childbearing ages of first-order births"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "6 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -791,6 +791,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.64% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.88% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.68% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.076 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1057,8 +1068,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 356; landing points for the Malta-Gozo Cable, VMSCS, GO-1 Mediterranean Cable System, Malta Italy Interconnector, Melita-1, and the Italy-Malta submarine cable connections to Italy; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 publicly owned TV stations, Television Malta broadcasting nationally plus an educational channel; several privately owned national television stations, 2 of which are owned by political parties; Italian and British broadcast programs are available; multi-channel cable and satellite TV services are available; publicly owned radio broadcaster operates 3 stations; roughly 20 commercial radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1102,9 +1112,7 @@
"text": "9H"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/nl.json b/europe/nl.json
index d0ff025d..47ab59df 100644
--- a/europe/nl.json
+++ b/europe/nl.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"text": "30.2 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "4 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -814,6 +814,14 @@
"text": "29.2 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "11.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.3%"
@@ -822,6 +830,17 @@
"text": "24.9% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.23% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.23% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.25% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$361.4 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1088,8 +1107,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 31; landing points for Farland North, TAT-14, Circe North, Concerto, Ulysses 2, AC-1, UK-Netherlands 14, and COBRAcable submarine cables which provide links to the US and Europe; satellite earth stations - 5 (3 Intelsat - 1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean, 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "more than 90% of households are connected to cable or satellite TV systems that provide a wide range of domestic and foreign channels; public service broadcast system includes multiple broadcasters, 3 with a national reach and the remainder operating in regional and local markets; 2 major nationwide commercial television companies, each with 3 or more stations, and many commercial TV stations in regional and local markets; nearly 600 radio stations with a mix of public and private stations providing national or regional coverage"
@@ -1133,9 +1151,7 @@
"text": "PH"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "29 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "29 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/no.json b/europe/no.json
index 20829a70..63c2f5ad 100644
--- a/europe/no.json
+++ b/europe/no.json
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
"note": "note: data is calculated based on actual age at first births"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "2 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "2 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -800,6 +800,14 @@
"text": "27.7 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "11.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.8%"
@@ -808,6 +816,17 @@
"text": "21.2% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.14% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.16% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.15% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$217.1 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1075,8 +1094,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 47; landing points for the Svalbard Undersea Cable System, Polar Circle Cable, Bodo-Rost Cable, NOR5KE Viking, Celtic Norse, Tempnet Offshore FOC Network, England Cable, Denmark-Norwary6, Havfrue/AEC-2, Skagerrak 4, and the Skagenfiber West & East submarine cables providing links to other Nordic countries, Europe and the US; satellite earth stations - Eutelsat, Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Norway shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned public radio-TV broadcaster operates 3 nationwide TV stations, 3 nationwide radio stations, and 16 regional radio stations; roughly a dozen privately owned TV stations broadcast nationally and roughly another 25 local TV stations broadcasting; nearly 75% of households have access to multi-channel cable or satellite TV; 2 privately owned radio stations broadcast nationwide and another 240 stations operate locally; Norway is the first country in the world to phase out FM radio in favor of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), a process scheduled for completion in late 2017 (2019)"
@@ -1114,9 +1132,7 @@
"text": "LN"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "95 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "95 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1217,7 +1233,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory includes a mix of modern, imported European, US, and domestically produced weapons systems and equipment; in recent years, the US has been the leading supplier of weapons systems to Norway (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "19-35 years of age for selective compulsory military service for men and women; 17 years of age for male volunteers; 18 years of age for women volunteers; 12-19 month service obligation; conscripts first serve 12 months between the ages of 19 and 28, and then up to 4-5 refresher training periods until age 35, 44, 55, or 60 depending on rank and function (2022)",
+ "text": "19-35 years of age for selective compulsory military service for men and women; 17 years of age for male volunteers; 18 years of age for women volunteers; 12-19 month service obligation; conscripts first serve 12 months between the ages of 19 and 28, and then up to 4-5 refresher training periods until age 35, 44, 55, or 60 depending on rank and function (2023)",
"note": "note 1: Norway conscripts about 8,000 individuals annually; it has had compulsory military service since 1907
note 2: Norway was the first NATO country to allow women to serve in all combat arms branches of the military (1985); it also has an all-female special operations unit known as Jegertroppen (The Hunter Troop), which was established in 2014; as of 2021, women comprised about 20% of the military's full-time personnel
note 3: beginning in 1995, the military began offering Icelandic citizens the opportunity to apply for admission to officer schools in Norway with an associated education and service contract under special reasons and based on recommendations from Icelandic authorities; as early as 1996, Norway and Iceland entered into a cooperation agreement on the voluntary participation of Icelandic personnel in Norwegian force contributions in foreign operations"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/europe/pl.json b/europe/pl.json
index 13707724..0b73062c 100644
--- a/europe/pl.json
+++ b/europe/pl.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"text": "27.9 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "2 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "2 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -840,6 +840,14 @@
"text": "30.2 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "16.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "5.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3%"
@@ -848,6 +856,17 @@
"text": "23.9% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.05% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.18% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$207.5 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1114,8 +1133,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 48; landing points for the Baltica and the Denmark-Poland2 submarine cables connecting Poland, Denmark and Sweden; international direct dialing with automated exchanges; satellite earth station - 1 with access to Intelsat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run public TV operates 2 national channels supplemented by 16 regional channels and several niche channels; privately owned entities operate several national TV networks and a number of special interest channels; many privately owned channels broadcasting locally; roughly half of all households are linked to either satellite or cable TV systems providing access to foreign television networks; state-run public radio operates 5 national networks and 17 regional radio stations; 2 privately owned national radio networks, several commercial stations broadcasting to multiple cities, and many privately owned local radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1159,9 +1177,7 @@
"text": "SP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "126 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "126 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1300,7 +1316,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "1,564,711 (Ukraine) (as of 7 February 2023)"
+ "text": "1,573,267 (Ukraine) (as of 21 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "1,435 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/po.json b/europe/po.json
index dc7afbeb..c2edcdc2 100644
--- a/europe/po.json
+++ b/europe/po.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
"text": "29.9 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "12 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -806,6 +806,14 @@
"text": "32.8 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "16.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.6%"
@@ -814,6 +822,17 @@
"text": "25.9% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.31% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.32% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.26% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$93.55 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1080,8 +1099,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 351; landing points for the Ella Link, BUGIO, EIG, SAT-3/WASC, SeaMeWe-3, Equino, MainOne, Tat TGN-Western Europe, WACS, ACE, Atlantis2 and Columbus-III submarine cables provide connectivity to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, South America and the US; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to Azores (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Radio e Televisao de Portugal, the publicly owned TV broadcaster, operates 4 domestic channels and external service channels to Africa; overall, roughly 40 domestic TV stations; viewers have widespread access to international broadcasters with more than half of all households connected to multi-channel cable or satellite TV systems; publicly owned radio operates 3 national networks and provides regional and external services; several privately owned national radio stations and some 300 regional and local commercial radio stations"
@@ -1125,9 +1143,7 @@
"text": "CR, CS"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "64 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "64 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1209,7 +1225,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.6% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1231,7 +1247,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory includes mostly European- and US-origin weapons systems along with a smaller mix of domestically produced equipment; in recent years, leading foreign suppliers have included Germany and the US; Portugal's defense industry is primarily focused on shipbuilding (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-30 years of age for voluntary or contract military service; no compulsory military service (abolished 2004) but conscription possible if insufficient volunteers available; women serve in the armed forces but are prohibited from serving in some combatant specialties; contract service lasts for an initial period from two to six years, and can be extended to a maximum of 20 years of service; initial voluntary military service lasts 12 months; reserve obligation to age 35 (2022)",
+ "text": "18-30 years of age for voluntary or contract military service; no compulsory military service (abolished 2004) but conscription possible if insufficient volunteers available; women serve in the armed forces but are prohibited from serving in some combatant specialties; contract service lasts for an initial period of 2-6 years, and can be extended to a maximum of 20 years of service; initial voluntary military service lasts 12 months; reserve obligation to age 35 (2022)",
"note": "note: as of 2019, women made up about 12% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/europe/ri.json b/europe/ri.json
index ab0cc357..a5bb57a3 100644
--- a/europe/ri.json
+++ b/europe/ri.json
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
"note": "note: data does not cover Kosovo or Metohija"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "12 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "10 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -838,6 +838,14 @@
"text": "36.2 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "25.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.2%"
@@ -846,6 +854,17 @@
"text": "23.8% (2011)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "7.29% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "7.25% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "8.23% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$17.69 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1109,8 +1128,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 381"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Internet country code": {
"text": ".rs"
@@ -1151,9 +1169,7 @@
"text": "YU"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "26 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "26 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1262,7 +1278,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "17,334 (Croatia), 7,997 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (mid-year 2022); 22,716 (Ukraine) (includes Ukrainian refugees in Kosovo; as of 22 November 2022)"
+ "text": "17,334 (Croatia), 7,997 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (mid-year 2022)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "196,995 (most are Kosovar Serbs, some are Roma, Ashkalis, and Egyptian (RAE); some RAE IDPs are unregistered) (2021)"
@@ -1270,7 +1286,7 @@
"stateless persons": {
"text": "2,594 (includes stateless persons in Kosovo) (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 944,634 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 7,271 migrants and asylum seekers as of November 2022"
+ "note": "note: 948,336 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 7,271 migrants and asylum seekers as of November 2022"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets
"
diff --git a/europe/ro.json b/europe/ro.json
index df78554b..c3201228 100644
--- a/europe/ro.json
+++ b/europe/ro.json
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
"text": "27.1 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "19 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "10 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -816,6 +816,14 @@
"text": "34.8 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "27.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "5.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "15.3%"
@@ -824,6 +832,17 @@
"text": "7.6% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.22% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.03% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.24% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$62.14 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1093,8 +1112,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 40; landing point for the Diamond Link Global submarine cable linking Romania with Georgia; satellite earth stations - 10; digital, international, direct-dial exchanges operate in Bucharest (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a mixture of public and private TV stations; there are 7 public TV stations (2 national, 5 regional) using terrestrial broadcasting and 187 private TV stations (out of which 171 offer local coverage) using terrestrial broadcasting, plus 11 public TV stations using satellite broadcasting and 86 private TV stations using satellite broadcasting; state-owned public radio broadcaster operates 4 national networks and regional and local stations, having in total 20 public radio stations by terrestrial broadcasting plus 4 public radio stations by satellite broadcasting; there are 502 operational private radio stations using terrestrial broadcasting and 26 private radio stations using satellite broadcasting"
@@ -1138,9 +1156,7 @@
"text": "YR"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "45 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "45 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1218,7 +1234,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "2% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "2% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1261,12 +1277,12 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "110,921 (Ukraine) (as of 5 March 2023)"
+ "text": "110,012 (Ukraine) (as of 19 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "297 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 12,367 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 12,730 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "a source country for cannabis
"
diff --git a/europe/si.json b/europe/si.json
index 99f63f43..c5fa46fd 100644
--- a/europe/si.json
+++ b/europe/si.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
"text": "29 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -796,6 +796,14 @@
"text": "24.2 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "14.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "5.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.8%"
@@ -804,6 +812,17 @@
"text": "20.1% (2016)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.21% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.22% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.22% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$21.07 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1070,8 +1089,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 386 (2016)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "public TV broadcaster, Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV), operates a system of national and regional TV stations; 35 domestic commercial TV stations operating nationally, regionally, and locally; about 60% of households are connected to multi-channel cable TV; public radio broadcaster operates 3 national and 4 regional stations; more than 75 regional and local commercial and non-commercial radio stations"
@@ -1115,9 +1133,7 @@
"text": "S5"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "16 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "16 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1186,7 +1202,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.2% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1225,12 +1241,12 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "9,061 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)"
+ "text": "9,119 (Ukraine) (as of 19 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "10 (2020)"
},
- "note": "note: 569,885 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-January 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 572,570 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "minor transit point for cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin bound for Western Europe, and for precursor chemicals"
diff --git a/europe/sm.json b/europe/sm.json
index efeedbb6..4fad5602 100644
--- a/europe/sm.json
+++ b/europe/sm.json
@@ -827,8 +827,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 378; connected to Italian international network"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned public broadcaster operates 1 TV station and 3 radio stations; receives radio and TV broadcasts from Italy (2019)"
@@ -872,7 +871,7 @@
"note": "note: the captains regent oversee the Gendarmerie and National Guard when they are performing duties related to public order and security; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs exercises control over such administrative functions as personnel and equipment, and the courts exercise control over the Gendarmerie when it acts as judicial police"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; no conscription; government has the authority to call up all San Marino citizens from 16-60 years of age to serve in the military (2022)"
+ "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; no conscription; government has the authority to call up all San Marino citizens from 16-60 years of age to serve in the military (2023)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "defense is the responsibility of Italy"
diff --git a/europe/sp.json b/europe/sp.json
index 2b49c07a..1242280f 100644
--- a/europe/sp.json
+++ b/europe/sp.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
"text": "31.2 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "4 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -829,6 +829,14 @@
"text": "34.7 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "12.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.5%"
@@ -837,6 +845,17 @@
"text": "24% (2011)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.28% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.23% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.23% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$498.1 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1105,8 +1124,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 34; landing points for the MAREA, Tata TGN-Western Europe, Pencan-9, SAT-3/WASC, Canalink, Atlantis-2, Columbus -111, Estepona-Tetouan, FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA), Balalink, ORVAL and PENBAL-5 submarine cables providing connectivity to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia, Southeast Asia and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "a mixture of both publicly operated and privately owned TV and radio stations; overall, hundreds of TV channels are available including national, regional, local, public, and international channels; satellite and cable TV systems available; multiple national radio networks, a large number of regional radio networks, and a larger number of local radio stations; overall, hundreds of radio stations
(2019)"
@@ -1150,9 +1168,7 @@
"text": "EC"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "135 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "135 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1237,7 +1253,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.1% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1283,12 +1299,12 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "14,994 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 418,200 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay) (2021); 168,654 (Ukraine) (as of 26 February 2023)"
+ "text": "14,994 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 418,200 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay) (2021); 170,973 (Ukraine) (as of 16 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "6,489 (2022)"
},
- "note": "note: 282,236 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals, including Canary Islands (January 2015-March 2023)"
+ "note": "note: 282,733 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals, including Canary Islands (January 2015-March 2023)"
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "primary transit point in Europe for cocaine from South America and for hashish from Morocco; cocaine is shipped in raw or liquid form with mixed cargo to avoid detection; traffickers ship methamphetamine via express mail; increasing indoor cannabis production; illegal labs cutting, mixing, and reconstituting cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine labs; synthetic drugs, including ketamine and MDMA (ecstasy) transit from Spain to the US"
diff --git a/europe/sv.json b/europe/sv.json
index 54b46b14..5350c144 100644
--- a/europe/sv.json
+++ b/europe/sv.json
@@ -409,8 +409,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 47-790; the Svalbard Undersea Cable System is a twin communications cable that connects Svalbard to mainland Norway; the system is the sole telecommunications link to the archipelago (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) began direct TV transmission to Svalbard via satellite in 1984; Longyearbyen households have access to 3 NRK radio and 2 TV stations"
@@ -421,9 +420,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/europe/sw.json b/europe/sw.json
index 8c1f6419..f4c6a1c4 100644
--- a/europe/sw.json
+++ b/europe/sw.json
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
"text": "29.7 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "4 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -804,6 +804,14 @@
"text": "28.8 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "12.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.4%"
@@ -812,6 +820,17 @@
"text": "24% (2012)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.52% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.57% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.6% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$271.2 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1081,8 +1100,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 46; landing points for Botina, SFL, SFS-4, Baltic Sea Submarine Cable, Eastern Light, Sweden-Latvia, BCS North-Phase1, EE-S1, LV-SE1, BCS East-West Interlink, NordBalt, Baltica, Denmark-Sweden-15,-17,-18, Scandinavian Ring -North,-South, IP-Only Denmark-Sweden, Donica North, Kattegate-1,-2, Energinet Laeso-Varberg and GC2 submarine cables providing links to other Nordic countries and Europe; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Sweden shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "publicly owned TV broadcaster operates 2 terrestrial networks plus regional stations; multiple privately owned TV broadcasters operating nationally, regionally, and locally; about 50 local TV stations; widespread access to pan-Nordic and international broadcasters through multi-channel cable and satellite TV; publicly owned radio broadcaster operates 3 national stations and a network of 25 regional channels; roughly 100 privately owned local radio stations with some consolidating into near national networks; an estimated 900 community and neighborhood radio stations broadcast intermittently"
@@ -1120,9 +1138,7 @@
"text": "SE"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "231 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "231 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1233,7 +1249,7 @@
"text": "the SAF's inventory is comprised of domestically produced and imported Western weapons systems; in recent years, the US has been the leading supplier of military hardware to Sweden; Sweden's defense industry produces a range of air, land, and naval systems (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-47 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; service obligation: 7.5 months (Army), 7-15 months (Navy), 8-12 months (Air Force); after completing initial service, soldiers have a reserve commitment until age 47; compulsory military service, abolished in 2010, was reinstated in January 2018; conscription is selective, includes both men and women (age 18), and requires 9-12 months of service (2022)",
+ "text": "18-47 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; service obligation: 7.5 months (Army), 7-15 months (Navy), 8-12 months (Air Force); after completing initial service, soldiers have a reserve commitment until age 47; compulsory military service, abolished in 2010, was reinstated in January 2018; conscription is selective, includes both men and women (age 18), and requires 9-12 months of service (2023)",
"note": "note 1: Sweden conscripts about 5,500 men and women each year; it plans to increase this number to 8,000 by 2025
note 2: as of 2021, women made up about 11% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/europe/sz.json b/europe/sz.json
index f839d6eb..c30735af 100644
--- a/europe/sz.json
+++ b/europe/sz.json
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
"text": "31.1 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "5 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -816,6 +816,14 @@
"text": "32.7 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "9.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "7.5%"
@@ -824,6 +832,17 @@
"text": "19% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.38% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.4% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.35% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$242.1 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1095,8 +1114,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 41; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the publicly owned radio and TV broadcaster, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG/SSR), operates 8 national TV networks, 3 broadcasting in German, 3 in French, and 2 in Italian; private commercial TV stations broadcast regionally and locally; TV broadcasts from stations in Germany, Italy, and France are widely available via multi-channel cable and satellite TV services; SRG/SSR operates 17 radio stations that, along with private broadcasters, provide national to local coverage )
(2019)"
@@ -1140,9 +1158,7 @@
"text": "HB"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "63 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "63 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1236,7 +1252,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory includes a mix of domestically produced and imported weapons systems; in recent years, the US has been the leading supplier of military armaments to Switzerland; the Swiss defense industry produces a range of military land vehicles (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-30 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; women may volunteer; every Swiss male has to serve at least 245 days in the armed forces; conscripts receive 18 weeks of mandatory training, followed by six 19-day intermittent recalls for training during the next 10 years (2022)",
+ "text": "18-30 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; women may volunteer; every Swiss male has to serve at least 245 days in the armed forces; conscripts receive 18 weeks of mandatory training, followed by six 19-day intermittent recalls for training during the next 10 years (2023)",
"note": "note: conscientious objectors can choose 390 days of community service instead of military service"
},
"Military deployments": {
@@ -1258,7 +1274,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "14,726 (Eritrea), 11,441 (Afghanistan), 8,039 (Syria), (mid-year 2022); 81,862 (Ukraine) (as of 3 March 2023)"
+ "text": "14,726 (Eritrea), 11,441 (Afghanistan), 8,039 (Syria), (mid-year 2022); 82,952 (Ukraine) (as of 17 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "891 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/uk.json b/europe/uk.json
index d5138aa8..96db3965 100644
--- a/europe/uk.json
+++ b/europe/uk.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents England and Wales only"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "10 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "Covid-19 (see note) (2020)"
},
- "note": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout the UK; as of 9 December 2022, the UK reported a total of 24,053,576 cases of COVID-19 or 35,432.3 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 197,723 cumulative deaths or a rate of 291.25 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 10 August 2022, 79.89% of the population received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine; the US Department of Homeland Security has issued instructions requiring US passengers who have been in the UK to travel through select airports where the US Government has implemented enhanced screening procedures
note: on 18 November 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note 1: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout the UK; as of 9 December 2022, the UK reported a total of 24,053,576 cases of COVID-19 or 35,432.3 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 197,723 cumulative deaths or a rate of 291.25 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 10 August 2022, 79.89% of the population received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine; the US Department of Homeland Security has issued instructions requiring US passengers who have been in the UK to travel through select airports where the US Government has implemented enhanced screening procedures
note 2: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
"respiratory diseases": {
"text": "Covid-19 (see note) (2020)"
},
- "note": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout the UK; as of 9 December 2022, the UK reported a total of 24,053,576 cases of COVID-19 or 35,432.3 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 197,723 cumulative deaths or a rate of 291.25 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 10 August 2022, 79.89% of the population received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine; the US Department of Homeland Security has issued instructions requiring US passengers who have been in the UK to travel through select airports where the US Government has implemented enhanced screening procedures
note: on 18 November 2022, 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"
+ "note": "note 1: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout the UK; as of 9 December 2022, the UK reported a total of 24,053,576 cases of COVID-19 or 35,432.3 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 197,723 cumulative deaths or a rate of 291.25 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 10 August 2022, 79.89% of the population received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine; the US Department of Homeland Security has issued instructions requiring US passengers who have been in the UK to travel through select airports where the US Government has implemented enhanced screening procedures
note 2: on 22 March 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"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@
}
},
"Political parties and leaders": {
- "text": "Alliance Party (Northern Ireland) [Naomi LONG]
Conservative and Unionist Party [Rishi SUNAK]
Democratic Unionist Party or DUP (Northern Ireland) [Jeffrey DONALDSON]
Green Party of England and Wales or Greens [Carla DENYER and Adrian RAMSAY]
Labor (Labour) Party [Sir Keir STARMER]
Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) [Sir Ed DAVEY]
Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Adam PRICE]
Scottish National Party or SNP [Nicola STURGEON]
Sinn Fein (Northern Ireland) [Mary Lou MCDONALD]
Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland) [Colum EASTWOOD]
UK Independence Party or UKIP [Neil HAMILTON]
Ulster Unionist Party or UUP (Northern Ireland) [Doug BEATTIE]"
+ "text": "Alliance Party (Northern Ireland) [Naomi LONG]
Conservative and Unionist Party [Rishi SUNAK]
Democratic Unionist Party or DUP (Northern Ireland) [Jeffrey DONALDSON]
Green Party of England and Wales or Greens [Carla DENYER and Adrian RAMSAY]
Labor (Labour) Party [Sir Keir STARMER]
Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) [Sir Ed DAVEY]
Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Adam PRICE]
Scottish National Party or SNP [Humza YUSAF]
Sinn Fein (Northern Ireland) [Mary Lou MCDONALD]
Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland) [Colum EASTWOOD]
UK Independence Party or UKIP [Neil HAMILTON]
Ulster Unionist Party or UUP (Northern Ireland) [Doug BEATTIE]"
},
"International organization participation": {
"text": "ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, C, CBSS (observer), CD, CDB, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-5, G-7, G-8, G-10, G-20, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), SELEC (observer), SICA (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNMISS, UNRWA, UN Security Council (permanent), UNSOM, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC"
@@ -817,6 +817,14 @@
"text": "34.8 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "8.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.7%"
@@ -825,6 +833,17 @@
"text": "31.1% (2012)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.11% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.15% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.028 trillion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1094,8 +1113,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 44; Landing points for the GTT Atlantic, Scotland-Northern Ireland -1, & -2, Lanis 1,-2, &-3, Sirius North, BT-MT-1, SHEFA-2, BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System, Northern Lights, FARICE-1, Celtic Norse, Tampnet Offshore FOC Network, England Cable, CC-2, E-LLan, Sirius South, ESAT -1 & -2, Rockabill, Geo-Eirgrid, UK-Netherlands-14, Circle North & South, Ulysses2, Conceto, Farland North, Pan European Crossing, Solas, Swansea-Bream, GTT Express, Tata TGN-Atlantic & -Western Europe, Apollo, EIG, Glo-1, TAT-14, Yellow, Celtic, FLAG Atlantic-1, FEA, Isle of Scilly Cable, UK-Channel Islands-8 and SeaMeWe-3 submarine cables providing links throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and US; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (7 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Eutelsat; at least 8 large international switching centers (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "public service broadcaster, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world; BBC operates multiple TV networks with regional and local TV service; a mixed system of public and commercial TV broadcasters along with satellite and cable systems provide access to hundreds of TV stations throughout the world; BBC operates multiple national, regional, and local radio networks with multiple transmission sites; a large number of commercial radio stations, as well as satellite radio services are available (2018)"
@@ -1142,9 +1160,7 @@
"text": "G"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "460 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "460 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1235,7 +1251,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "2.1% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "2.2% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "2.5% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1281,7 +1297,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "21,904 (Iran), 15,615 (Eritrea), 11,371 (Sudan), 12,155 (Syria), 10,259 (Afghanistan), 8,009 (Pakistan), 7,699 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 163,500 (Ukraine) (as of 23 February 2023)"
+ "text": "21,904 (Iran), 15,615 (Eritrea), 11,371 (Sudan), 12,155 (Syria), 10,259 (Afghanistan), 8,009 (Pakistan), 7,699 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 166,800 (Ukraine) (as of 13 March 2023)"
},
"stateless persons": {
"text": "5,483 (2022)"
diff --git a/europe/up.json b/europe/up.json
index 8c3b3cf0..4a304f9b 100644
--- a/europe/up.json
+++ b/europe/up.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"Introduction": {
"Background": {
- "text": "Ukraine was the center of the first eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and eventually into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The cultural and religious legacy of Kyivan Rus laid the foundation for Ukrainian nationalism through subsequent centuries. A new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate, was established during the mid-17th century after an uprising against the Poles. Despite continuous Muscovite pressure, the Hetmanate managed to remain autonomous for well over 100 years. During the latter part of the 18th century, most Ukrainian ethnographic territory was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, Ukraine achieved a short-lived period of independence (1917-20) but was reconquered and endured a brutal Soviet rule that engineered two forced famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for 7 to 8 million more deaths. Although Ukraine achieved independence in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy and prosperity remained elusive as the legacy of state control and endemic corruption stalled efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties.
A peaceful mass protest referred to as the \"Orange Revolution\" in the closing months of 2004 forced the authorities to overturn a rigged presidential election and to allow a new internationally monitored vote that swept into power a reformist slate under Viktor YUSHCHENKO. Subsequent internal squabbles in the YUSHCHENKO camp allowed his rival Viktor YANUKOVYCH to stage a comeback in parliamentary (Rada) elections, become prime minister in August 2006, and be elected president in February 2010. In October 2012, Ukraine held Rada elections, widely criticized by Western observers as flawed due to use of government resources to favor ruling party candidates, interference with media access, and harassment of opposition candidates. President YANUKOVYCH's backtracking on a trade and cooperation agreement with the EU in November 2013 - in favor of closer economic ties with Russia - and subsequent use of force against students, civil society activists, and other civilians in favor of the agreement led to a three-month protest occupation of Kyiv's central square. The government's use of violence to break up the protest camp in February 2014 led to all out pitched battles, scores of deaths, international condemnation, a failed political deal, and the president's abrupt departure for Russia. New elections in the spring allowed pro-West president Petro POROSHENKO to assume office in June 2014; he was succeeded by Volodymyr ZELENSKY in May 2019.
Shortly after YANUKOVYCH's departure in late February 2014, Russian President PUTIN ordered the invasion of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula falsely claiming the action was to protect ethnic Russians living there. Two weeks later, a \"referendum\" was held regarding the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation. The \"referendum\" was condemned as illegitimate by the Ukrainian Government, the EU, the US, and the UN General Assembly (UNGA). In response to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, 100 members of the UN passed UNGA resolution 68/262, rejecting the \"referendum\" as baseless and invalid and confirming the sovereignty, political independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. In mid-2014, Russia began supplying proxies in two of Ukraine's eastern provinces with manpower, funding, and materiel driving an armed conflict with the Ukrainian Government that continues to this day. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the unrecognized Russian proxy republics signed the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum in September 2014 to end the conflict. However, this agreement failed to stop the fighting or find a political solution. In a renewed attempt to alleviate ongoing clashes, leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany negotiated a follow-on Package of Measures in February 2015 to implement the Minsk agreements. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, the unrecognized Russian proxy republics, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also meet regularly to facilitate implementation of the peace deal. By early 2022, more than 14,000 civilians were killed or wounded as a result of the Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine.
On 24 February 2022, Russia escalated its conflict with Ukraine by invading the country on several fronts in what has become the largest conventional military attack on a sovereign state in Europe since World War II. The invasion has received near universal international condemnation, and many countries have imposed sanctions on Russia and supplied humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. Russia made substantial gains in the early weeks of the invasion but underestimated Ukrainian resolve and combat capabilities. By the end of 2022, Ukrainian forces had regained all territories in the north and northeast and made some advances in the east and south. Nonetheless, Russia in late September 2022 unilaterally declared its annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts - Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia - even though none was fully under Russian control. The annexations remain unrecognized by the international community.
The invasion has also created Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. As of 7 March, 2023, approximately 19.29 million people had fled Ukraine, and 5.35 million people were internally displaced as of January 2023. Nearly 21,800 civilian casualties had been reported, as of 5 March 2023. The invasion of Ukraine remains one of the two largest displacement crises worldwide (the other is the conflict in Syria).
"
+ "text": "Ukraine was the center of the first eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and eventually into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The cultural and religious legacy of Kyivan Rus laid the foundation for Ukrainian nationalism through subsequent centuries. A new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate, was established during the mid-17th century after an uprising against the Poles. Despite continuous Muscovite pressure, the Hetmanate managed to remain autonomous for well over 100 years. During the latter part of the 18th century, most Ukrainian ethnographic territory was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, Ukraine achieved a short-lived period of independence (1917-20) but was reconquered and endured a brutal Soviet rule that engineered two forced famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for 7 to 8 million more deaths. Although Ukraine achieved independence in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy and prosperity remained elusive as the legacy of state control and endemic corruption stalled efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties.
A peaceful mass protest referred to as the \"Orange Revolution\" in the closing months of 2004 forced the authorities to overturn a rigged presidential election and to allow a new internationally monitored vote that swept into power a reformist slate under Viktor YUSHCHENKO. Subsequent internal squabbles in the YUSHCHENKO camp allowed his rival Viktor YANUKOVYCH to stage a comeback in parliamentary (Rada) elections, become prime minister in August 2006, and be elected president in February 2010. In October 2012, Ukraine held Rada elections, widely criticized by Western observers as flawed due to use of government resources to favor ruling party candidates, interference with media access, and harassment of opposition candidates. President YANUKOVYCH's backtracking on a trade and cooperation agreement with the EU in November 2013 - in favor of closer economic ties with Russia - and subsequent use of force against students, civil society activists, and other civilians in favor of the agreement led to a three-month protest occupation of Kyiv's central square. The government's use of violence to break up the protest camp in February 2014 led to all out pitched battles, scores of deaths, international condemnation, a failed political deal, and the president's abrupt departure for Russia. New elections in the spring allowed pro-West president Petro POROSHENKO to assume office in June 2014; he was succeeded by Volodymyr ZELENSKY in May 2019.
Shortly after YANUKOVYCH's departure in late February 2014, Russian President PUTIN ordered the invasion of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula falsely claiming the action was to protect ethnic Russians living there. Two weeks later, a \"referendum\" was held regarding the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation. The \"referendum\" was condemned as illegitimate by the Ukrainian Government, the EU, the US, and the UN General Assembly (UNGA). In response to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, 100 members of the UN passed UNGA resolution 68/262, rejecting the \"referendum\" as baseless and invalid and confirming the sovereignty, political independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. In mid-2014, Russia began supplying proxies in two of Ukraine's eastern provinces with manpower, funding, and materiel driving an armed conflict with the Ukrainian Government that continues to this day. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the unrecognized Russian proxy republics signed the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum in September 2014 to end the conflict. However, this agreement failed to stop the fighting or find a political solution. In a renewed attempt to alleviate ongoing clashes, leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany negotiated a follow-on Package of Measures in February 2015 to implement the Minsk agreements, but this effort failed as well. By early 2022, more than 14,000 civilians were killed or wounded as a result of the Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine.
On 24 February 2022, Russia escalated its conflict with Ukraine by invading the country on several fronts in what has become the largest conventional military attack on a sovereign state in Europe since World War II. The invasion has received near universal international condemnation, and many countries have imposed sanctions on Russia and supplied humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. Russia made substantial gains in the early weeks of the invasion but underestimated Ukrainian resolve and combat capabilities. By the end of 2022, Ukrainian forces had regained all territories in the north and northeast and made some advances in the east and south. Nonetheless, Russia in late September 2022 unilaterally declared its annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts - Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia - even though none was fully under Russian control. The annexations remain unrecognized by the international community.
The invasion has also created Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. As of 20 March 2023, approximately 19.73 million people had fled Ukraine, and 5.35 million people were internally displaced as of January 2023. More than 21,900 civilian casualties had been reported, as of 12 March 2023. The invasion of Ukraine remains one of the two largest displacement crises worldwide (the other is the conflict in Syria).
"
}
},
"Geography": {
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
"text": "26.2 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "19 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -306,9 +306,6 @@
"HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "0.9% (2021 est.)"
},
- "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 Eastern Europe; Ukraine 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": "24.1% (2016)"
},
@@ -446,9 +443,6 @@
"Revenue from coal": {
"text": "0.42% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
- "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 Eastern Europe; Ukraine 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
"
- },
"Food insecurity": {
"widespread lack of access": {
"text": "due to conflict - planting of 2023 winter crops was completed by mid‑November 2022 and crops are currently in winter dormancy phase; the area sown with wheat amounts to about 3.8 million hectares, well below the 6.5 million hectares planted in 2021; overall, the area sown with the 2023 winter cereal crops is estimated to be 40 percent below the average level; despite decreased cereal production, food availability at the national level is reported to be adequate, but access remains a major challenge; the country had already been experiencing elevated levels of food price inflation in the past, due to the economic impact of the conflict in eastern parts of the country; according to the 2023 Humanitarian Needs Overview, at least 17.6 million people are estimated to be in need of multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance in 2023 due to the war, including over 11 million in need of food security and livelihood interventions (2023)"
@@ -832,6 +826,14 @@
"text": "26.1 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "42.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "7.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "4.2%"
@@ -840,6 +842,17 @@
"text": "21.6% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "9.03% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "9.71% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "10.26% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$29.82 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1110,8 +1123,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 380; landing point for the Kerch Strait Cable connecting Ukraine to Russia; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic TAE system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic TEL project that connects 18 countries; additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by an unknown number of earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Ukraine’s media landscape is dominated by oligarch-owned news outlets, which are often politically motivated and at odds with one another and/or the government; while polls suggest most Ukrainians still receive news from traditional media sources, social media is a crucial component of information dissemination in Ukraine; almost all Ukrainian politicians and opinion leaders communicate with the public via social media and maintain at least one social media page, if not more; this allows them direct communication with audiences, and news often breaks on Facebook or Twitter before being picked up by traditional news outlets Ukraine television serves as the principal source of news; the largest national networks are controlled by oligarchs: TRK Ukraina is owned by Rinat Akhmetov; Studio 1+1 is owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyy; Inter is owned by Dmytro Firtash and Serhiy Lyovochkin; and StarlightMedia channels (ICTV, STB, and Novyi Kanal) are owned by Victor Pinchuk; a set of 24-hour news channels also have clear political affiliations: pro-Ukrainian government Channel 5 and Pryamyi are linked to President Petro Poroshenko; 24 is owned by opposition, but not pro-Russian, politicians; UA: Suspilne is a public television station under the umbrella of the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine; while it is often praised by media experts for balanced coverage, it lags in popularity; Ukrainian Radio, institutionally linked to UA: Suspilne, is one of only two national talk radio networks, with the other being the privately owned Radio NV
(2021)"
@@ -1158,9 +1170,7 @@
"text": "UR"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "215 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "215 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1271,7 +1281,7 @@
"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": "the Ukrainian military is equipped mostly with Russian-origin and Soviet-era weapons systems; since the Russian invasion in February 2022, it has received considerable quantities of weapons, including 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 Soviet-era weapons systems, including armored vehicles, combat aircraft, missiles, and air defense systems (2022)"
+ "text": "the Ukrainian military is equipped mostly with Russian-origin and Soviet-era weapons systems, although it has a growing inventory of Western-origin equipment; since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, 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 its Russian/Soviet-era weapons systems, including armored vehicles, combat aircraft, missiles, and air defense systems (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
"text": "conscription abolished in 2012, but reintroduced in 2014; 20-27 years of age for compulsory military service; prior to the Russian invasion of February 2022, conscript service obligation was 12-18 months, depending on the service (2022)",
diff --git a/europe/vt.json b/europe/vt.json
index 41d9692d..06c8532c 100644
--- a/europe/vt.json
+++ b/europe/vt.json
@@ -499,8 +499,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 39; uses Italian system"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Vatican Television Center (CTV) transmits live broadcasts of the Pope's Sunday and Wednesday audiences, as well as the Pope's public celebrations; CTV also produces documentaries; Vatican Radio is the Holy See's official broadcasting service broadcasting via shortwave, AM and FM frequencies, and via satellite and Internet connections; Vatican News website partners with Vatican Radio and provides Catholic news provided by the Vatican (2021)"
diff --git a/middle-east/ae.json b/middle-east/ae.json
index 7320fe9a..ba644606 100644
--- a/middle-east/ae.json
+++ b/middle-east/ae.json
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "9 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -801,6 +801,14 @@
"text": "32.5 (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "13.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "NA"
@@ -1066,8 +1074,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 971; landing points for the FLAG, SEA-ME-WE-3 ,-4 & -5, Qater UAE Submarine Cable System, FALCON, FOG, Tat TGN-Gulf, OMRAN/EPEG Cable System, AAE-1, BBG, EIG, FEA, GBICS/MENA, IMEWE, Orient Express, TEAMS, TW1 and the UAE-Iran submarine cables, linking to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "except for the many organizations now operating in media free zones in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, most TV and radio stations remain government-owned; widespread use of satellite dishes provides access to pan-Arab and other international broadcasts; restrictions since June 2017 on some satellite channels and websites originating from or otherwise linked to Qatar (2018)"
@@ -1111,9 +1118,7 @@
"text": "A6"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "43 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "43 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1219,7 +1224,7 @@
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
"text": "18-30 years of age for compulsory military service for men (compulsory service initiated in 2014); 17 years of age for volunteers with parental approval; men can volunteer up to age 40; 24-month general service obligation, 16 months for secondary school graduates; women can volunteer to serve for 9 months regardless of education (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: compulsory service may be completed in the uniformed military, the Ministry of Interior, the State Security Service, or other institutions designated by the military leadership
note 2: the UAE military employs a considerable number—estimates range from a low of about 30% to as much as 70% of the force—of foreign personnel on contract; the UAE has also hired foreign mercenaries for some operations during its intervention in Yemen "
+ "note": "note 1: compulsory service may be completed in the uniformed military, the Ministry of Interior, the State Security Service, or other institutions designated by the military leadership
note 2: the UAE military employs a considerable number—estimates range from a low of about 30% to as much as 70% of the force—of foreign personnel on contract; the UAE has also hired foreign mercenaries for some operations during its intervention in Yemen"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "estimates vary; reportedly a few hundred remain in Yemen; has maintained some troops at military bases in Eritrea and Somalia (Somaliland) (2022)"
diff --git a/middle-east/aj.json b/middle-east/aj.json
index a1f3e1b5..0545eae3 100644
--- a/middle-east/aj.json
+++ b/middle-east/aj.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"text": "24 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "26 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "41 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -806,6 +806,14 @@
"text": "33.7 (2008)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "38.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.4%"
@@ -814,6 +822,17 @@
"text": "27.4% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.79% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.29% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.65% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$9.556 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1080,8 +1099,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 994; Azerbaijan’s largest mobile network operator (MNO) launched trial 5G mobile services in Baku on 27 December 2022 (2023)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "3 state-run and 1 public TV channels; 4 domestic commercial TV stations and about 15 regional TV stations; cable TV services are available in Baku; 1 state-run and 1 public radio network operating; a small number of private commercial radio stations broadcasting; local FM relays of Baku commercial stations are available in many localities; note - all broadcast media is pro-government, and most private broadcast media outlets are owned by entities directly linked to the government"
@@ -1125,9 +1143,7 @@
"text": "4K"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "23 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "23 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1219,7 +1235,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is comprised mostly of Russian and Soviet-era weapons systems with a small mix of equipment from other countries, including Israel and Turkey (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-35 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 17-35 years of age for voluntary service for men and women (2022)",
+ "text": "18-25 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 17-35 years of age for voluntary service for men and women (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2018, women made up an estimated 3% of the active duty military"
},
"Military - note": {
@@ -1237,6 +1253,9 @@
"text": "Local border forces struggle to control the illegal transit of goods and people across the porous, undemarcated Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Georgian borders.
Armenia-Azerbaijan: The dispute over the break-away Nagorno-Karabakh region and the Armenian military occupation of surrounding lands in Azerbaijan remains the primary focus of regional instability. Residents have evacuated the former Soviet-era small ethnic enclaves in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan-Georgia: A joint boundary commission agrees on most of the alignment, leaving only small areas at certain crossing points in dispute. Consequently, the two states have yet to agree on a delimitation or demarcation of their common boundary. One area of contention is where the international boundary should run through the 6th-13th Century David-Gareja monastery complex.
Azerbaijan-Iran: none identified
Azerbaijan-Russia: Russia complains of cross-border smuggling.
Azerbaijan-Turkey: none identified
Caspian Sea (Maritime Boundary): Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia ratified the Caspian seabed delimitation treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on a one-fifth slice of the sea. Bilateral talks continue with Turkmenistan on dividing the seabed and contested oilfields in the middle of the Caspian.
"
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
+ "refugees (country of origin)": {
+ "text": "5,031 (Ukraine) (as of 13 March 2023)"
+ },
"IDPs": {
"text": "655,000 (conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh; IDPs are mainly ethnic Azerbaijanis but also include ethnic Kurds, Russians, and Turks predominantly from occupied territories around Nagorno-Karabakh; includes IDPs' descendants, returned IDPs, and people living in insecure areas and excludes people displaced by natural disasters; around half the IDPs live in the capital Baku) (2021)"
},
diff --git a/middle-east/am.json b/middle-east/am.json
index e7f34e79..b30d9f37 100644
--- a/middle-east/am.json
+++ b/middle-east/am.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
"text": "25.2 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "26 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "27 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -812,6 +812,17 @@
"text": "25.7% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "11.62% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "10.5% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "11.22% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.644 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1078,8 +1089,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 374; Yerevan is connected to the Caucasus Cable System fiber-optic cable through Georgia and Iran to Europe; additional international service is available by microwave radio relay and landline connections to the other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, through the Moscow international switch, and by satellite to the rest of the world; satellite earth stations - 3 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Armenia’s government-run Public Television network operates alongside 100 privately owned TV stations that provide local to near nationwide coverage; three Russian TV companies are broadcast in Armenia under interstate agreements; subscription cable TV services are available in most regions; several major international broadcasters are available, including CNN; Armenian TV completed conversion from analog to digital broadcasting in late 2016; Public Radio of Armenia is a national, state-run broadcast network that operates alongside 18 privately owned radio stations
(2019)"
@@ -1117,9 +1127,7 @@
"text": "EK"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "7 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "7 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/middle-east/ba.json b/middle-east/ba.json
index 97f5342a..a030b87e 100644
--- a/middle-east/ba.json
+++ b/middle-east/ba.json
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "14 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "16 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -791,6 +791,14 @@
"Population below poverty line": {
"text": "NA"
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "13.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "NA"
@@ -1059,8 +1067,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 973; Bahrain’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has made part of the C-band spectrum available for 5G private networks, in line with the goals outlined in its Workplan for the 2022-23 period (2023)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation (BRTC) operates 5 terrestrial TV networks and several radio stations; satellite TV systems provide access to international broadcasts; 1 private FM station directs broadcasts to Indian listeners; radio and TV broadcasts from countries in the region are available (2019)"
@@ -1104,9 +1111,7 @@
"text": "A9C"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/middle-east/gg.json b/middle-east/gg.json
index 9a66a8f2..1c3390a8 100644
--- a/middle-east/gg.json
+++ b/middle-east/gg.json
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
"note": "note: data does not cover Abkhazia and South Ossetia"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "25 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "28 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -806,6 +806,14 @@
"text": "34.5 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "32.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2%"
@@ -814,6 +822,17 @@
"text": "31.3% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "14.19% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "13.32% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "12.93% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$4.352 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1079,12 +1098,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has been attempting for many years to overcome the decades of under-investment in its fixed-line infrastructure during the Soviet era; concerted efforts to privatize state-owned enterprises and open up the telecom market have been mostly successful, with a large number of networks now competing in both the fixed-line and the mobile segments; more needs to be done, however, to give investors the confidence to enter a market that has barely moved in terms of revenue growth over the last decade, and where regulatory overreach has sometimes come perilously close to arresting further development; Georgia’s government moved fast following the collapse of the Soviet Union to liberalize the country’s telecom market; this resulted in a relatively high number of networks competing in the under-developed fixed-line segment as well as in the emerging mobile market; both segments remain dominated by just a few companies (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscriptions over 9 per 100, cellular telephone networks cover the entire country; mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 128 per 100 persons; intercity facilities include a fiber-optic line between T'bilisi and K'ut'aisi; the mobile and mobile broadband segments have both demonstrated solid growth in 2021, (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscriptions 9 per 100, mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 137 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 995; landing points for the Georgia-Russia, Diamond Link Global, and Caucasus Cable System fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Russia, Romania and Bulgaria; international service is available by microwave, landline, and satellite through the Moscow switch; international electronic mail and telex service are available (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "The Tbilisi-based Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) includes Channel 1, Channel 2, and the Batumi-based Adjara TV, and the State Budget funds all three; there are also a number of independent commercial television broadcasters, such as Imedi, Rustavi 2, Pirveli TV, Maestro, Kavkasia, Georgian Dream Studios (GDS), Obiektivi, Mtavari Arkhi, and a small Russian language operator TOK TV; Tabula and Post TV are web-based television outlets; all of these broadcasters and web-based television outlets, except GDS, carry the news; the Georgian Orthodox Church also operates a satellite-based television station called Unanimity; there are 26 regional television broadcasters across Georgia that are members of the Georgian Association of Regional Broadcasters and/or the Alliance of Georgian Broadcasters; the broadcaster organizations seek to strengthen the regional media's capacities and distribution of regional products: a nationwide digital switchover occurred in 2015; there are several dozen private radio stations; GPB operates 2 radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1128,9 +1146,7 @@
"text": "4L"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "22 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "22 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1214,13 +1230,13 @@
"text": "1.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.8% of GDP (2019) (approximately $780 million)"
+ "text": "1.8% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.9% of GDP (2018) (approximately $760 million)"
+ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2018)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.9% of GDP (2017) (approximately $750 million)"
+ "text": "1.9% of GDP (2017)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
@@ -1231,7 +1247,7 @@
"text": "the majority of the military's inventory consists of Soviet-era weapons and equipment, although in recent years it has received armaments from a number of European countries, as well as Israel and the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-27 years of age for voluntary active duty military service; conscription abolished in 2016, but reinstated in 2017 for men 18 to 27 years of age; conscript service obligation is 12 months (2022)",
+ "text": "18-27 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription was abolished in 2016, but reinstated in 2017 for men 18-27 years of age; conscript service obligation is 12 months (2023)",
"note": "note 1: approximately 6-7,000 individuals are called up annually for conscription for service; approximately 25% enter the Defense Forces, while the remainder serve in the Ministry of Internal Affairs or as prison guards in the Ministry of Corrections
note 2: as of 2019, women made up about 6% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/middle-east/gz.json b/middle-east/gz.json
index 8d4db1e6..dc1c3569 100644
--- a/middle-east/gz.json
+++ b/middle-east/gz.json
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "27 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)",
+ "text": "20 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)",
"note": "note: data represent Gaza Strip and the West Bank"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
@@ -555,6 +555,17 @@
"text": "33.7 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "18.81% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "16.48% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "18.4% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"text": "see entry for the West Bank"
},
@@ -730,19 +741,19 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "466,283 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "485,829 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "9 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "9 (2021 est.)"
},
"note": "includes the West Bank"
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "4,274,119 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4,052,966 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "84 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "78 (2021 est.)"
},
"note": "includes the West Bank"
},
@@ -751,12 +762,11 @@
"text": "Israel, which controls Palestinian frequencies and telecom infrastructure, limits mobile internet speeds in the Palestinian territories to levels that are significantly lower than in Israel and Jewish West Bank settlements; the World Bank urged Israel to let Palestinian cellular companies set up more advanced networks, and to ease restrictions on the import of equipment needed to build and operate them; Israel is rolling out fifth generation technology for its citizens, while the West Bank operates on 3G and Gaza, 2G; Israeli mobile operators don’t officially service Palestinian areas, but many Palestinians use the faster Israeli networks with SIM cards; the Times of Israel reported in November that Israel tentatively agreed to let Palestinian operators launch 4G services
(2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "Israeli company BEZEQ and the Palestinian company PALTEL are responsible for fixed-line services; the Palestinian JAWWAL company provides cellular services; a slow 2G network allows calls and limited data transmission; fixed-line 9 per 100 and mobile-cellular 84 per 100 (includes West Bank) (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line 9 per 100 and mobile-cellular 28 per 100 (includes West Bank) (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code 970 or 972 (2018)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 TV station and about 10 radio stations; satellite TV accessible"
@@ -785,9 +795,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/middle-east/ir.json b/middle-east/ir.json
index ac19d071..adf90a6f 100644
--- a/middle-east/ir.json
+++ b/middle-east/ir.json
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "16 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "22 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -807,6 +807,14 @@
"text": "40.9 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "27.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.6%"
@@ -815,6 +823,17 @@
"text": "29.6% (2005)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.55% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.47% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.4% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$74.4 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1069,8 +1088,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 98; landing points for Kuwait-Iran, GBICS & MENA, FALCON, OMRAN/3PEG Cable System, POI and UAE-Iran submarine fiber-optic cable to the Middle East, Africa and India; (TAE) fiber-optic line runs from Azerbaijan through the northern portion of Iran to Turkmenistan with expansion to Georgia and Azerbaijan; HF radio and microwave radio relay to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; satellite earth stations - 13 (9 Intelsat and 4 Inmarsat) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run broadcast media with no private, independent broadcasters; Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the state-run TV broadcaster, operates 19 nationwide channels including a news channel, about 34 provincial channels, and several international channels; about 20 foreign Persian-language TV stations broadcasting on satellite TV are capable of being seen in Iran; satellite dishes are illegal and, while their use is subjectively tolerated, authorities confiscate satellite dishes from time to time; IRIB operates 16 nationwide radio networks, a number of provincial stations, and an external service; most major international broadcasters transmit to Iran (2019)"
@@ -1114,9 +1132,7 @@
"text": "EP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "319 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "319 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1208,8 +1224,8 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "the military forces of Iran are divided between the Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (Artesh) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah)
Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces or Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Artesh): Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Air Force, Air Defense Forces; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Sepah): Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Aerospace Force (controls strategic missile force), Qods Force (aka Quds Force; special operations), Cyber Electronic Command, Basij Paramilitary Forces; Law Enforcement Forces (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: the Artesh Navy operates Iran’s larger warships and operates in the Gulf of Oman, the Caspian Sea, and deep waters in the region and beyond; the IRGC Navy has responsibility for the closer-in Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz
note 2: the Basij is a volunteer paramilitary group under the IRGC with local organizations across the country, which sometimes acts as an auxiliary law enforcement unit; it is formally known as the Organization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed; it is also known as the Popular Mobilization Army
note 3: Law Enforcement Forces include border and security troops"
+ "text": "the military forces of Iran are divided between the Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (Artesh) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah)
Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces or Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Artesh): Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Air Force, Air Defense Forces; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Sepah): Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Aerospace Force (controls strategic missile force), Qods Force (aka Quds Force; special operations), Cyber Electronic Command, Basij Paramilitary Forces; Internal security forces (2022)",
+ "note": "note 1: the Artesh Navy operates Iran’s larger warships and operates in the Gulf of Oman, the Caspian Sea, and deep waters in the region and beyond; the IRGC Navy has responsibility for the closer-in Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz
note 2: the Basij is a volunteer paramilitary group under the IRGC with local organizations across the country, which sometimes acts as an auxiliary law enforcement unit for the IRGC; it is formally known as the Organization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed; it is also known as the Popular Mobilization Army
note 3: the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and law enforcement forces under the Interior Ministry, which report to the president, and the IRGC, which reports to the supreme leader, share responsibility for law enforcement and maintaining order; law enforcement forces include border and other security troops"
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
@@ -1235,8 +1251,8 @@
"text": "the Iranian military's inventory includes a mix of domestically produced and mostly older foreign equipment largely of Chinese, Russian, Soviet, and US origin (US equipment acquired prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979); Iran has also received some military equipment from North Korea, including midget submarines and ballistic missiles; Iran has a defense industry with the capacity to develop, produce, support, and sustain air, land, missile, and naval weapons programs (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for men for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for volunteers; 17 years of age for Law Enforcement Forces; 15 years of age for Basij Forces (Popular Mobilization Army); conscript military service obligation is 18-24 months, depending on the location of service (soldiers serving in places of high security risk and deprived areas serve shorter terms); women exempt from military service (2021)",
- "note": "note: as of 2019, approximately 80% of Artesh ground forces personnel were conscripts, while Navy and Air/Air Defense Force personnel were primarily volunteers; conscripts reportedly comprised more than 50% of the IRGC"
+ "text": "military service is compulsory for all Iranian males 18/19 to approximately age 40; 16 for voluntary military service (may be as low as 15 for the Basij); conscript military service obligation is 18-24 months, depending on the location of service (soldiers serving in places of high security risk and deprived areas serve shorter terms); women exempt from military service (2023)",
+ "note": "note: conscripts serve in the Artesh, IRGC, and Law Enforcement; approximately 80% of Artesh ground forces personnel are conscripts, while Navy and Air/Air Defense Force personnel are primarily volunteers; conscripts reportedly comprise more than 50% of the IRGC"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "estimated to have up to 3,000 military personnel in Syria (2022)",
diff --git a/middle-east/is.json b/middle-east/is.json
index 52864881..160cf80e 100644
--- a/middle-east/is.json
+++ b/middle-east/is.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"Introduction": {
"Background": {
- "text": "Israel has emerged as a regional economic and military powerhouse, leveraging its booming high-tech sector, massive defense industry, and concerns about Iran to foster partnerships around the world. The State of Israel was established in 1948. The UN General Assembly had proposed to partition the British Mandate for Palestine into an Arab and Jewish state. Arab states rejected the UN plan and were subsequently defeated militarily in the 1948 war that followed the withdrawal of the British on 14 May 1948. Israel was admitted as a member of the UN in 1949 and saw rapid population growth, primarily due to migration from Europe and the Middle East, over the following years. Israel and its Arab neighbors fought wars in 1967 and 1973 and Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the course of the 1967 war, and subsequently administered those territories through military authorities. Israel and Palestinian officials signed interim agreements in the 1990s that created an interim period of Palestinian self-rule in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. While the most recent formal efforts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to negotiate final status issues occurred in 2013-2014, the US continues its efforts to advance peace. Immigration to Israel continues, with more than 20,000 new immigrants, mostly Jewish, in 2020.
The Israeli economy has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last 25 years, led by cutting-edge, high-tech sectors. Offshore gas discoveries in the Mediterranean, most notably in the Tamar and Leviathan gasfields, place Israel at the center of a potential regional natural gas market. However, longer-term structural issues such as low labor force participation among minority populations, low workforce productivity, high costs for housing and consumer staples, and a lack of competition, remain a concern for many Israelis and an important consideration for Israeli politicians. Former Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHU dominated Israel's political landscape from 2009 to June 2021, becoming Israel's longest serving prime minister before he was unseated by Naftali BENNETT, after Israel's fourth election in two years. BENNETT formed the most ideologically diverse coalition in Israel's history, including the participation of an Arab-Israeli party. He served as prime minister for a year before stepping down on 1 July 2022 in favor of Yair LAPID, who was in office for only six months before himself being succeeded by Benjamin NETANYAHU in late 2022. Israel signed normalization agreements – brokered by the US – with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Morocco in late 2020 and reached an agreement with Sudan in early 2021."
+ "text": "Israel has emerged as a regional economic and military powerhouse, leveraging its booming high-tech sector, large defense industry, and concerns about Iran to foster partnerships around the world. The State of Israel was established in 1948. The UN General Assembly had proposed to partition the British Mandate for Palestine into an Arab and Jewish state. Arab states rejected the UN plan and were subsequently defeated militarily in the 1948 war that followed the withdrawal of the British on 14 May 1948. Israel was admitted as a member of the UN in 1949 and saw rapid population growth, primarily due to migration from Europe and the Middle East, over the following years. Israel and its Arab neighbors fought wars in 1967 and 1973 and Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the course of the 1967 war, and subsequently administered those territories through military authorities. Israel and Palestinian officials signed interim agreements in the 1990s that created an interim period of Palestinian self-rule in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. While the most recent formal efforts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to negotiate final status issues occurred in 2013-2014, the US continues its efforts to advance peace. Immigration to Israel continues, with more than 20,000 new immigrants, mostly Jewish, in 2020.
The Israeli economy has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last 25 years, led by cutting-edge, high-tech sectors. Offshore gas discoveries in the Mediterranean, most notably in the Tamar and Leviathan gasfields, place Israel at the center of a potential regional natural gas market. However, longer-term structural issues such as low labor force participation among minority populations, low workforce productivity, high costs for housing and consumer staples, and a lack of competition, remain a concern for many Israelis and an important consideration for Israeli politicians. Former Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHU dominated Israel's political landscape from 2009 to June 2021, becoming Israel's longest serving prime minister before he was unseated by Naftali BENNETT, after Israel's fourth election in two years. BENNETT formed the most ideologically diverse coalition in Israel's history, including the participation of an Arab-Israeli party. He served as prime minister for a year before stepping down on 1 July 2022 in favor of Yair LAPID, who was in office for only six months before himself being succeeded by Benjamin NETANYAHU in late 2022. Israel signed normalization agreements – brokered by the US – with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Morocco in late 2020 and reached an agreement with Sudan in early 2021."
}
},
"Geography": {
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
"text": "27.7 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "3 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
}
},
"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; 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
"
+ "text": "note: on 22 March 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)"
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@
"text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"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; 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
"
+ "text": "note: on 22 March 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
"
},
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
@@ -817,6 +817,14 @@
"text": "38.6 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "16.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.7%"
@@ -825,6 +833,17 @@
"text": "31.3% (2010)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.25% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.28% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.24% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$93.11 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1096,8 +1115,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 972; landing points for the MedNautilus Submarine System, Tameres North, Jonah and Lev Submarine System, submarine cables that provide links to Europe, Cyprus, and parts of the Middle East; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Israel Broadcasting Corporation (est 2015) broadcasts on 3 channels, two in Hebrew and the other in Arabic; multi-channel satellite and cable TV packages provide access to foreign channels; the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts on 8 radio networks with multiple repeaters and Israel Defense Forces Radio broadcasts over multiple stations; about 15 privately owned radio stations; overall more than 100 stations and repeater stations (2019)"
@@ -1141,9 +1159,7 @@
"text": "4X"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "42 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "42 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1247,8 +1263,8 @@
"text": "the majority of the IDF's inventory is comprised of weapons that are domestically produced or imported from Europe and the US; the US has been the leading supplier of arms; Israel has a broad defense industrial base that can develop, produce, support, and sustain a wide variety of weapons systems for both domestic use and export, particularly armored vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, air defense, and guided missiles (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for compulsory military service; 17 years of age for voluntary military service; Jews and Druze can be conscripted; Christians, Circassians, and Muslims may volunteer; both sexes are obligated to military service; conscript service obligation is 32 months for enlisted men and about 24 months for enlisted women (varies based on military occupation); officers serve 48 months; pilots commit to 9 years of service; reserve obligation to age 41-51 (men), age 24 (women) (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: women have served in the Israeli military since its establishment in 1948; as of 2021, women made up about 35% of IDF personnel; more than 90% of military specialties, including combat specialties, were open to women and more than 3,000 women were serving in combat units; the IDF's first mixed-gender infantry unit, the Caracal Battalion, was established in 2004
note 2: as of 2021, conscripts comprised about 70% of the IDF ground forces
note 3: the IDF recruits non-Israeli Jews and non-Jews with a minimum of one Jewish grandparent, as well as converts to Judaism; each year the IDF brings in about 800-1,000 foreign recruits from around the world"
+ "text": "18 years of age for compulsory military service; 17 years of age for voluntary military service; Jews and Druze can be conscripted; Christians, Circassians, and Muslims may volunteer; both sexes are obligated to military service; conscript service obligation is 32 months for enlisted men and about 24 months for enlisted women (varies based on military occupation); officers serve 48 months; Air Force pilots commit to 9 years of service; reserve obligation to age 41-51 (men), age 24 (women) (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: women have served in the Israeli military since its establishment in 1948; as of 2021, women made up about 35% of IDF personnel; more than 90% of military specialties, including combat specialties, were open to women and more than 3,000 women were serving in combat units; the IDF's first mixed-gender infantry unit, the Caracal Battalion, was established in 2004
note 2: conscripts comprise about 70% of the IDF active-duty ground forces
note 3: the IDF recruits non-Israeli Jews and non-Jews with a minimum of one Jewish grandparent, as well as converts to Judaism; each year the IDF brings in about 800-1,000 foreign recruits from around the world"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has operated in the Golan between Israel and Syria since 1974 to monitor the ceasefire following the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and supervise the areas of separation between the two countries; as of 2022, UNDOF consisted of about 1,000 military personnel
since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has routinely carried out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian, Iranian-backed militia and Hizballah forces, and some Syrian Government military positions; over the same period, the IDF has carried out numerous strikes against Hizballah in Lebanon in response to attacks on Israeli territory; Israel fought a month-long war in Lebanon with Hizballah in 2006 (see Appendix T for details on Hizballah)
the IDF also conducts frequent operations against the HAMAS and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist groups operating out of the Gaza Strip; since seizing control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, HAMAS has claimed responsibility for numerous rocket attacks into Israel and organized protests at the border between Gaza and Israel, resulting in violent clashes, casualties, and reprisal military actions by the IDF; HAMAS and Israel fought an 11-day conflict in May of 2021, which ended in an informal truce; sporadic clashes continued into 2022, including incendiary balloon attacks from Palestinian territory and retaliatory IDF strikes; PIJ has conducted numerous attacks on Israel since the 1980s, including a barrage of mortar and rocket strikes in February 2020 (see Appendix-T for more details on HAMAS and Palestine Islamic Jihad)
Israel has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US; MNNA is a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation; while MNNA status provides military and economic privileges, it does not entail any security commitments (2022)"
diff --git a/middle-east/iz.json b/middle-east/iz.json
index b8b564ff..e514e3e6 100644
--- a/middle-east/iz.json
+++ b/middle-east/iz.json
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "79 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "76 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -833,6 +833,14 @@
"text": "29.5 (2012 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "30.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.6%"
@@ -841,6 +849,17 @@
"text": "25.7% (2007 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.35% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.37% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.33% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$68.71 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1109,8 +1128,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 964; landing points for FALCON, and GBICS/MENA submarine cables providing connections to the Middle East, Africa and India; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean, 1 Intersputnik - Atlantic Ocean region, and 1 Arabsat (inoperative)); local microwave radio relay connects border regions to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the number of private radio and TV stations has increased rapidly since 2003; government-owned TV and radio stations are operated by the publicly funded Iraqi Media Network; private broadcast media are mostly linked to political, ethnic, or religious groups; satellite TV is available to an estimated 70% of viewers and many of the broadcasters are based abroad; transmissions of multiple international radio broadcasters are accessible (2019)"
@@ -1154,9 +1172,7 @@
"text": "YI"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "102 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "102 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1269,7 +1285,7 @@
"note": "note: service in the armed forces was mandatory in Iraq from 1935 up until 2003"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "as of 2022, Iraqi security forces (ISF) continued to conduct counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group, particularly in northern and western Iraq; Kurdish Security Forces (KSF, aka Peshmerga) also conducted operations against ISIS
the KSF were formally recognized as a legitimate Iraqi military force under the country’s constitution and have operated jointly with the Iraqi military against ISIS militants, but they also operate outside of Iraqi military command structure; since 2021, the ISF and the KSF have conducted joint counter-ISIS operations in an area known as the Kurdish Coordination Line (KCL), a swath of disputed territory in northern Iraq claimed by both the Kurdistan Regional Government and the central Iraqi Government; the KSF/Peshmerga report to the Kurdistan Regional Government or Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan parties instead of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense
Popular Mobilization Commission and Affiliated Forces (PMF or PMC), also known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, or al-Hashd al-Sha’abi in Arabic), tribal militia units have fought alongside the Iraqi military against ISIS since 2014, but the majority of these forces continue to largely ignore the 2016 Law of the Popular Mobilization Authority, which mandated that armed militias must be regulated in a fashion similar to Iraq’s other security forces and act under the Iraqi Government’s direct control; the Iraqi Government funds the PMF, and the prime minister legally commands it, but many of the militia units take orders from associated political parties and/or other government officials, including some with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and some that have been designated as terrorist organizations by the US; the PMF/PMU is an umbrella organization comprised of many different militias, the majority of which are Shia:
--Shia militias backed by Iran; they are considered the most active and capable, and include such groups as the Badr Organization (Saraya al-Sala), Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and Kataib Hizballah
--Shia militias affiliated with Shia political parties, but not aligned with Iran, such as the Peace Brigades (Saray al-Salam)
--Shia militias not connected with political parties, but affiliated with the Najaf-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-SISTANI (Iraq’s supreme Shia cleric), such as the Hawza militias
--other PMF/PMU militias include Sunni Tribal Mobilization militias, or Hashd al-Asha’iri; some of these militias take orders from the ISF and local authorities while others respond to orders from the larger Shia PMU militias; still other militias include Yazidi and Christian militias and the Turkmen brigades; the links of these forces to the PMU is not always clear-cut and may be loosely based on financial, legal, or political incentives
at the request of the Iraqi government, NATO agreed to establish an advisory, training and capacity-building mission for the Iraqi military in October 2018; as of 2022, the NATO Mission Iraq (NMI) had about 500 troops; in December 2021, the task force that leads the defeat ISIS mission in Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), transitioned from a combat role to an advise, assist, and enable role (2022)"
+ "text": "Iraqi security forces (ISF), including conventional air and ground forces, are primarily focused on internal security duties; they are actively conducting counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group, particularly in northern and western Iraq; the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS), a highly regarded force comprised of 3 special forces brigades, is the ISF's principal operational unit against ISIS
Kurdish Security Forces (KSF, aka Peshmerga) also conducted operations against ISIS; the KSF were formally recognized as a legitimate Iraqi military force under the country’s constitution and have operated jointly with the Iraqi military against ISIS militants, but they also operate outside of Iraqi military command structure; since 2021, the ISF and the KSF have conducted joint counter-ISIS operations in an area known as the Kurdish Coordination Line (KCL), a swath of disputed territory in northern Iraq claimed by both the Kurdistan Regional Government and the central Iraqi Government; the KSF/Peshmerga report to the Kurdistan Regional Government or Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan parties instead of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense
Popular Mobilization Commission and Affiliated Forces (PMF or PMC), also known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, or al-Hashd al-Sha’abi in Arabic), tribal militia units have fought alongside the Iraqi military against ISIS since 2014, but the majority of these forces continue to largely ignore the 2016 Law of the Popular Mobilization Authority, which mandated that armed militias must be regulated in a fashion similar to Iraq’s other security forces and act under the Iraqi Government’s direct control; the Iraqi Government funds the PMF, and the prime minister legally commands it, but many of the militia units take orders from associated political parties and/or other government officials, including some with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and some that have been designated as terrorist organizations by the US; the PMF/PMU is an umbrella organization comprised of many different militias, the majority of which are Shia:
--Shia militias backed by Iran; they are considered the most active and capable, and include such groups as the Badr Organization (Saraya al-Sala), Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and Kataib Hizballah
--Shia militias affiliated with Shia political parties, but not aligned with Iran, such as the Peace Brigades (Saray al-Salam)
--Shia militias not connected with political parties, but affiliated with the Najaf-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-SISTANI (Iraq’s supreme Shia cleric), such as the Hawza militias
--other PMF/PMU militias include Sunni Tribal Mobilization militias, or Hashd al-Asha’iri; some of these militias take orders from the ISF and local authorities while others respond to orders from the larger Shia PMU militias; still other militias include Yazidi and Christian militias and the Turkmen brigades; the links of these forces to the PMU is not always clear-cut and may be loosely based on financial, legal, or political incentives
at the request of the Iraqi government, NATO agreed to establish an advisory, training and capacity-building mission for the Iraqi military in October 2018; as of 2022, the NATO Mission Iraq (NMI) had about 500 troops; in December 2021, the task force that leads the defeat ISIS mission in Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), transitioned from a combat role to an advise, assist, and enable role (2023)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
@@ -1284,7 +1300,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "13,344 (Turkey), 7,864 (West Bank and Gaza Strip) (mid-year 2022); 260,341 (Syria) (2023)"
+ "text": "7,864 (West Bank and Gaza Strip) (mid-year 2022); 260,341 (Syria), 8,423 (Iran), 8,191 (Turkey) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "1.17 million (displacement in central and northern Iraq since January 2014) (2023)"
diff --git a/middle-east/jo.json b/middle-east/jo.json
index 0304dbec..55c3cecd 100644
--- a/middle-east/jo.json
+++ b/middle-east/jo.json
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "46 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "41 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -830,6 +830,14 @@
"text": "33.7 (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "29.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.4%"
@@ -838,6 +846,17 @@
"text": "28.7% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "11.29% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "11.05% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "10.34% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$9.462 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1104,8 +1123,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 962; landing point for the FEA and Taba-Aqaba submarine cable networks providing connectivity to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Asia; satellite earth stations - 33 (3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "radio and TV dominated by the government-owned Jordan Radio and Television Corporation (JRTV) that operates a main network, a sports network, a film network, and a satellite channel; first independent TV broadcaster aired in 2007; international satellite TV and Israeli and Syrian TV broadcasts are available; roughly 30 radio stations with JRTV operating the main government-owned station; transmissions of multiple international radio broadcasters are available"
@@ -1149,9 +1167,7 @@
"text": "JY"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "18 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "18 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1216,7 +1232,7 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF): Royal Jordanian Army (includes Special Operations Forces, Border Guards, Royal Guard), Royal Jordanian Air Force, Royal Jordanian Coast Guard; Ministry of Interior: Public Security Directorate (includes national police, the Gendarmerie, and the Civil Defense Directorate) (2022)",
+ "text": "Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF): Royal Jordanian Army (includes Special Operations Forces, Border Guards, Royal Guard), Royal Jordanian Air Force, Royal Jordanian Coast Guard; Ministry of Interior: Public Security Directorate (includes national police, the Gendarmerie, and the Civil Defense Directorate) (2023)",
"note": "note: the armed forces report administratively to the minister of defense and have a support role for internal security; the prime minister serves as defense minister, but there is no separate ministry of defense"
},
"Military expenditures": {
@@ -1243,7 +1259,7 @@
"text": "the JAF inventory is comprised of a wide mix of imported equipment from Europe, some Gulf States, Russia, and the US; in recent years, the Netherlands and the US have been the leading suppliers (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "17 years of age for voluntary military service for men (women can volunteer to serve in noncombat military positions in the Royal Jordanian Arab Army Women's Corps and RJAF); initial service term 2 years, with option to reenlist for up to 18 years; conscription was abolished in 1991, but in 2020 Jordan announced the reinstatement of compulsory military service for jobless men aged between 25 and 29 with 12 months of service, made up of 3 months of military training and 9 months of professional and technical training; in 2019, Jordan announced a voluntary 4-month National Military Service program for men and women aged between 18-25 years who have been unemployed for at least 6 months; service would include 1 month for military training with the remaining 3 months dedicated to vocational training in the sectors of construction and tourism (2022)",
+ "text": "17 years of age for voluntary military service for men (women can volunteer to serve in noncombat military positions in the Royal Jordanian Arab Army Women's Corps and RJAF); initial service term is 24 months, with option to reenlist for up to 18 years; conscription was abolished in 1991, but in 2020 Jordan announced the reinstatement of compulsory military service for jobless men aged between 25 and 29 with 12 months of service, made up of 3 months of military training and 9 months of professional and technical training; in 2019, Jordan announced a voluntary 4-month National Military Service program for men and women aged between 18-25 years who have been unemployed for at least 6 months; service would include 1 month for military training with the remaining 3 months dedicated to vocational training in the sectors of construction and tourism (2023)",
"note": "note: most women serve in the medical service; outside the medical service, women comprised about 1.5% of the military as of 2019"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/middle-east/ku.json b/middle-east/ku.json
index acb21e14..d836cd1b 100644
--- a/middle-east/ku.json
+++ b/middle-east/ku.json
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "12 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "7 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -776,6 +776,14 @@
"Population below poverty line": {
"text": "NA"
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "19.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "NA"
@@ -784,6 +792,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$50.5 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1049,8 +1068,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 965; landing points for the FOG, GBICS, MENA, Kuwait-Iran, and FALCON submarine cables linking Africa, the Middle East, and Asia; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 6 (3 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1 Inmarsat - Atlantic Ocean, and 2 Arabsat) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned TV broadcaster operates 4 networks and a satellite channel; several private TV broadcasters have emerged; satellite TV available and pan-Arab TV stations are especially popular; state-owned Radio Kuwait broadcasts on a number of channels in Arabic and English; first private radio station emerged in 2005; transmissions of at least 2 international radio broadcasters are available (2019)"
@@ -1094,9 +1112,7 @@
"text": "9K"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "7 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "7 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1156,8 +1172,8 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Military and security forces": {
- "text": "Kuwaiti Armed Forces (KAF): Kuwaiti Land Forces (KLF), Kuwaiti Navy, Kuwaiti Air Force (Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya; includes Kuwaiti Air Defense Force, KADF), 25th Commando Brigade, and the Kuwait Emiri Guard Brigade; Kuwaiti National Guard (KNG); Coast Guard (Ministry of Interior) (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: the Kuwait Amiri Guard Authority and the 25th Commando Brigade exercise independent command authority within the Kuwaiti Armed Forces, although activities such as training and equipment procurement are often coordinated with the other services
note 2: the Kuwaiti National Guard reports directly to the prime minister and the amir and possesses an independent command structure, equipment inventory, and logistics corps separate from the Ministry of Defense, the regular armed services, and the Ministry of Interior; it is responsible for protecting critical infrastructure and providing support for the Ministries of Interior and Defense as required"
+ "text": "Kuwaiti Armed Forces (KAF): Kuwaiti Land Forces (KLF), Kuwaiti Navy, Kuwaiti Air Force (Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya; includes Kuwaiti Air Defense Force, KADF), 25th Commando Brigade, and the Kuwait Emiri Guard Authority; Kuwaiti National Guard (KNG); Coast Guard (Ministry of Interior) (2022)",
+ "note": "note 1: the Emiri Guard Authority and the 25th Commando Brigade exercise independent command authority within the Kuwaiti Armed Forces, although activities such as training and equipment procurement are often coordinated with the other services; the 25th Commando Brigade is Kuwait's leading special forces unit; the Emiri Guard Authority (aka Emiri Guard Brigade) is responsible for protecting Kuwait's heads of state
note 2: the Kuwaiti National Guard reports directly to the prime minister and the amir and possesses an independent command structure, equipment inventory, and logistics corps separate from the Ministry of Defense, the regular armed services, and the Ministry of Interior; it is responsible for protecting critical infrastructure and providing support for the Ministries of Interior and Defense as required"
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
@@ -1180,14 +1196,14 @@
"text": "approximately 17,000 active duty armed forces personnel (12,500 Army, including the Amiri Guard and 25th Commando Brigade; 2,000 Navy; 2,500 Air Force); approximately 6,500 National Guard (2022)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
- "text": "the military's inventory consists of weapons from a wide variety of sources, including Western Europe, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and the US; the US has been the leading supplier of arms to Kuwait (2022)"
+ "text": "the military's inventory consists of weapons from a wide variety of sources, including Western Europe, Russia, and the US; the US has been the leading supplier of arms to Kuwait (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-26 years of age for voluntary military service; Kuwait reintroduced 12-month mandatory service for men aged 18-35 in May 2017 after having suspended conscription in 2001; mandatory service is divided in two phases – 4 months for training and 8 months for military service; women were allowed to volunteer in 2021 (2022)",
+ "text": "18-26 years of age for voluntary military service; Kuwait reintroduced 12-month mandatory service for men aged 18-35 in May 2017 after having suspended conscription in 2001; mandatory service is divided in two phases – 4 months for training and 8 months for military service; women were allowed to volunteer in 2021 (2023)",
"note": "note: the National Guard is restricted to citizens, but in 2018, the Army began allowing non-Kuwaitis to join on contract or as non-commissioned officers; that same year, it also began allowing stateless people (Bidoon) to join"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "as of 2022, the US had approximately 13,000 military personnel based in Kuwait as part of a 1991 Defense Cooperation Agreement and a 2013 Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement
Kuwait has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US; MNNA is a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation; while MNNA status provides military and economic privileges, it does not entail any security commitments (2022)"
+ "text": "Kuwait's key security partner since the 1991 Gulf War has been the US; the US has approximately 13,500 military personnel as well as logistics and training facilities in Kuwait as part of a 1991 Defense Cooperation Agreement and a 2013 Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement; only Germany, Japan, and South Korea host more US forces than Kuwait does; the KAF conducts bilateral exercises with the US military; Kuwait also has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation (2023)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
diff --git a/middle-east/le.json b/middle-east/le.json
index 3c48eaf3..9a62cc2b 100644
--- a/middle-east/le.json
+++ b/middle-east/le.json
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "29 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "21 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -813,6 +813,14 @@
"text": "31.8 (2011 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "20.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "NA"
@@ -821,6 +829,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "20.92% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "14.26% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "12.71% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$11.62 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1087,8 +1106,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 961; landing points for the IMEWE, BERYTAR AND CADMOS submarine cable links to Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "7 TV stations, 1 of which is state owned; more than 30 radio stations, 1 of which is state owned; satellite and cable TV services available; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are accessible through partner stations (2019)"
@@ -1132,9 +1150,7 @@
"text": "OD"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "8 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "8 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1234,10 +1250,10 @@
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
"text": "17-25 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; no conscription (2022)",
- "note": "note: as of 2020, women comprised about 5% of the active duty military"
+ "note": "note: women were allowed to volunteer for military service in the 1980s; as of 2020, they comprised about 5% of the active duty military"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "as of 2022, the Lebanese military faced multiple challenges, including securing parts of the border with war-torn Syria from infiltrations of militants linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) and al-Qa’ida terrorist groups and maintaining stability along its volatile border with Israel, where the Iranian-backed and Lebanon-based terrorist group Hizballah conducted a war with Israel in 2006 and tensions remained high, including occasional armed skirmishes; the military also faced a financial crisis as government debt and national economic difficulties undercut its ability to fully pay and supply personnel, which has sparked domestic and international fears that the armed forces may disintegrate
the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) has operated in the country since 1978, originally under UNSCRs 425 and 426 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restore international peace and security, and assist the Lebanese Government in restoring its effective authority in the area; following the July-August 2006 war, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1701 enhancing UNIFIL and deciding that in addition to the original mandate, it would, among other things, monitor the cessation of hostilities, support the Lebanese Armed Forces as they deployed throughout the south of Lebanon, and provide assistance for humanitarian access for civilians and the return of displaced persons; UNIFIL had approximately 9,500 military personnel deployed in the country as of 2022 (2022)"
+ "text": "as of 2022, the Lebanese military faced multiple challenges, including securing parts of the border with war-torn Syria from infiltrations of militants linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) and al-Qa’ida terrorist groups and maintaining stability along its volatile border with Israel, where the Iranian-backed and Lebanon-based terrorist group Hizballah conducted a war with Israel in 2006 and tensions remained high, including occasional armed skirmishes; the military also faced a financial crisis as government debt and national economic difficulties undercut its ability to fully pay and supply personnel, which has sparked domestic and international fears that the armed forces may disintegrate
the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) has operated in the country since 1978, originally under UNSCRs 425 and 426 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restore international peace and security, and assist the Lebanese Government in restoring its effective authority in the area; following the July-August 2006 war, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1701 enhancing UNIFIL and deciding that in addition to the original mandate, it would, among other things, monitor the cessation of hostilities, support the Lebanese Armed Forces as they deployed throughout the south of Lebanon, and provide assistance for humanitarian access for civilians and the return of displaced persons; UNIFIL had approximately 9,500 military personnel deployed in the country as of 2022; UNIFIL includes a maritime task force (2022)"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
diff --git a/middle-east/mu.json b/middle-east/mu.json
index 252ad3b3..218201a2 100644
--- a/middle-east/mu.json
+++ b/middle-east/mu.json
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "19 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -782,6 +782,14 @@
"Population below poverty line": {
"text": "NA"
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "22.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "NA"
@@ -790,6 +798,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.05% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$22.14 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1062,8 +1081,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 968; landing points for GSA, AAE-1, SeaMeWe-5, Tata TGN-Gulf, FALCON, GBICS/MENA, MENA/Guld Bridge International, TW1, BBG, EIG, OMRAN/EPEG, and POI submarine cables providing connectivity to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "1 state-run TV broadcaster; TV stations transmitting from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, and Yemen available via satellite TV; state-run radio operates multiple stations; first private radio station began operating in 2007 and several additional stations now operating (2019)"
@@ -1107,9 +1125,7 @@
"text": "A4O"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "132 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "132 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/middle-east/qa.json b/middle-east/qa.json
index 249811cb..fcc80641 100644
--- a/middle-east/qa.json
+++ b/middle-east/qa.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "9 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "8 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -784,6 +784,14 @@
"text": "41.1 (2007 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "12.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.3%"
@@ -792,6 +800,17 @@
"text": "35.9% (2007)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.48% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.45% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.33% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$44.1 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1057,8 +1076,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 974; landing points for the Qatar-UAE Submarine Cable System, AAE-1, FOG, GBICS/East North Africa MENA and the FALCON submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and the UAE; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; retains full ownership of two commercial satellites, Es'hailSat 1 and 2 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "TV and radio broadcast licensing and access to local media markets are state controlled; home of the satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, which was originally owned and financed by the Qatari government but has evolved to independent corporate status; Al-Jazeera claims editorial independence in broadcasting; local radio transmissions include state, private, and international broadcasters on FM frequencies in Doha; in August 2013, Qatar's satellite company Es'hailSat launched its first communications satellite Es'hail 1 (manufactured in the US), which entered commercial service in December 2013 to provide improved television broadcasting capability and expand availability of voice and Internet; Es'hailSat launched its second commercial satellite in 2018 with aid of SpaceX (2019)"
@@ -1102,9 +1120,7 @@
"text": "A7"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "6 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "6 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1178,14 +1194,14 @@
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
- "text": "information varies; approximately 15,000 active duty personnel (10,000 Land Force, including Emiri Guard; 3,000 Navy; 2,000 Air Force) (2022)"
+ "text": "information varies; approximately 15,000 active-duty personnel (10,000 Land Force, including Emiri Guard; 3,000 Navy; 2,000 Air Force) (2022)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the Qatari military's inventory includes a broad mix of older and modern weapons systems, mostly from the US and Europe; in the 2010s, Qatar embarked on an extensive military expansion and modernization program with large air, ground, and naval equipment purchases; in recent years, France and the US have been the top suppliers (2023)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "conscription for men aged 18-35 introduced in 2013; compulsory service times range from 4-12 months, depending on educational and professional circumstances; since 2018, women have been permitted to serve as volunteers in the armed forces, including as uniformed officers and pilots (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: as of 2020, the military incorporated about 2,000 conscripts annually
note 2: Qatar recruits foreign contract soldiers to overcome manpower limitations; as of 2020, it was estimated that as much as 85% of the military was comprised of foreigners"
+ "text": "conscription for men aged 18-35 introduced in 2013; compulsory service times range from 4-12 months, depending on educational and professional circumstances; since 2018, women have been permitted to serve as volunteers in the armed forces, including as uniformed officers and pilots (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: the military incorporates about 2,000 conscripts annually
note 2: Qatar recruits foreign contract soldiers to overcome manpower limitations; it is estimated that as much as 85% of the military is comprised of foreigners"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "Qatar hosts the regional headquarters for the US Central Command (CENTCOM; established 1983) and more than 8,000 US military forces at various military facilities, including the large Al Udeid Air Base; Qatar also hosts as many as 5,000 Turkish military forces at two bases established in 2014 and 2019
Qatar has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US; MNNA is a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation; while MNNA status provides military and economic privileges, it does not entail any security commitments (2023)"
diff --git a/middle-east/sa.json b/middle-east/sa.json
index b35ef74a..586df19a 100644
--- a/middle-east/sa.json
+++ b/middle-east/sa.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "16 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -802,6 +802,14 @@
"text": "45.9 (2013 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "20.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "NA"
@@ -810,6 +818,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$181 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1075,8 +1094,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 966; landing points for the SeaMeWe-3, -4, -5, AAE-1, EIG, FALCON, FEA, IMEWE, MENA/Gulf Bridge International, SEACOM, SAS-1, -2, GBICS/MENA, and the Tata TGN-Gulf submarine cables providing connectivity to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia; microwave radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Sudan; coaxial cable to Kuwait and Jordan; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "broadcast media are state-controlled; state-run TV operates 4 networks; Saudi Arabia is a major market for pan-Arab satellite TV broadcasters; state-run radio operates several networks; multiple international broadcasters are available"
@@ -1123,9 +1141,7 @@
"text": "HZ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "214 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "214 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/middle-east/sy.json b/middle-east/sy.json
index 3e39a619..8d0c89b7 100644
--- a/middle-east/sy.json
+++ b/middle-east/sy.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "31 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "30 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -1033,8 +1033,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 963; landing points for the Aletar, BERYTAR and UGART submarine cable connections to Egypt, Lebanon, and Cyprus; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; participant in Medarabtel (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run TV and radio broadcast networks; state operates 2 TV networks and 5 satellite channels; roughly two-thirds of Syrian homes have a satellite dish providing access to foreign TV broadcasts; 3 state-run radio channels; first private radio station launched in 2005; private radio broadcasters prohibited from transmitting news or political content (2018)"
@@ -1078,9 +1077,7 @@
"text": "YK"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "90 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "90 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1215,7 +1212,7 @@
"stateless persons": {
"text": "160,000 (2022); note - Syria's stateless population consists of Kurds and Palestinians; stateless persons are prevented from voting, owning land, holding certain jobs, receiving food subsidies or public healthcare, enrolling in public schools, or being legally married to Syrian citizens; in 1962, some 120,000 Syrian Kurds were stripped of their Syrian citizenship, rendering them and their descendants stateless; in 2011, the Syrian Government granted citizenship to thousands of Syrian Kurds as a means of appeasement; however, resolving the question of statelessness is not a priority given Syria's ongoing civil war"
},
- "note": "note: the ongoing civil war has resulted in more than 5.4 million registered Syrian refugees - dispersed mainly in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey - as of March 2023"
+ "note": "note: the ongoing civil war has resulted in almost 5.4 million registered Syrian refugees - dispersed mainly in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey - as of March 2023"
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
"tier rating": {
diff --git a/middle-east/tu.json b/middle-east/tu.json
index f00323af..b726d49b 100644
--- a/middle-east/tu.json
+++ b/middle-east/tu.json
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
"text": "26.6 years (2020 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -837,6 +837,14 @@
"text": "41.9 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "21.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.1%"
@@ -845,6 +853,17 @@
"text": "30.3% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.09% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.11% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.11% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$172.8 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1113,8 +1132,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 90; landing points for the SeaMeWe-3 & -5, MedNautilus Submarine System, Turcyos-1 & -2 submarine cables providing connectivity to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia ; satellite earth stations - 12 Intelsat; mobile satellite terminals - 328 in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) operates multiple TV and radio networks and stations; multiple privately owned national television stations and 567 private regional and local television stations; multi-channel cable TV subscriptions available; 1,007 private radio broadcast stations
(2019)"
@@ -1158,9 +1176,7 @@
"text": "TC"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "98 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "98 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1251,7 +1267,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2022": {
- "text": "1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)"
+ "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "1.6% of GDP (2021)"
@@ -1273,8 +1289,8 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is mostly comprised of a mix of domestically produced and Western weapons systems, although in recent years, Turkey has also acquired some Chinese, Russian, and South Korean equipment; over the past decade, the US has been the leading provider of armaments to Turkey; other significant suppliers have included Germany, Italy, South Korea, and Spain; Turkey has a robust defense industry capable of producing a range of weapons systems for both export and internal use, including armored vehicles, naval vessels, and unmanned aerial platforms, although it is heavily dependent on Western technology; Turkey's defense industry also partners with other countries for defense production (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "mandatory military service for men, age 20-41; service can be delayed if in university or in certain professions (researchers, professionals, and athletic, or those with artistic talents have the right to postpone military service until the age of 35); 6-12 months service; women may volunteer (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: in 2019, a new law cut the men’s mandatory military service period in half, as well as making paid military service permanent; with the new system, the period of conscription was reduced from 12 months to six months for privates and non-commissioned soldiers (the service term for reserve officers chosen among university or college graduates remained 12 months); after completing six months of service, if a conscripted soldier wants to and is suitable for extending his military service, he may do so for an additional six months in return for a monthly salary; under the new law, all male Turkish citizens over the age of 20 are required to undergo a one month military training period, but they can obtain an exemption from the remaining five months of their mandatory service by paying 31,000 Turkish Liras
note 2: as of 2019, women made up about 0.3% of the military's full-time personnel"
+ "text": "mandatory military service for men at age 20; service can be delayed if in university or in certain professions (researchers, professionals, and athletic, or those with artistic talents have the right to postpone military service until the age of 35); 6-12 months service; women may volunteer (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: in 2019, a new law cut the men’s mandatory military service period in half, as well as making paid military service permanent; with the new system, the period of conscription was reduced from 12 months to 6 months for privates and non-commissioned soldiers (the service term for reserve officers chosen among university or college graduates remained 12 months); after completing 6 months of service, if a conscripted soldier wants to and is suitable for extending his military service, he may do so for an additional 6 months in return for a monthly salary; under the new law, all male Turkish citizens over the age of 20 are required to undergo a 1 month military training period, but they can obtain an exemption from the remaining 5 months of their mandatory service by paying a fee
note 2: as of 2019, women made up about 0.3% of the military's full-time personnel"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "approximately 150 (Azerbaijan; monitoring cease-fire, clearing mines); 250 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR); approximately 30,000 Cyprus; estimated 5,000 Iraq; 300 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); 110 Lebanon (UNIFIL); estimated 500 Libya; up to 5,000 Qatar; approximately 200 Somalia (training mission); estimated 5,000-10,000 Syria (2022)",
@@ -1296,7 +1312,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "10,244 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 3,500,964 (Syria) (2023); 95,874 (Ukraine) (as of 26 January 2023)"
+ "text": "10,244 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 3,443,219 (Syria) (2023); 95,874 (Ukraine) (as of 26 January 2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "1.099 million (displaced from 1984-2005 because of fighting between the Kurdish PKK and Turkish military; most IDPs are Kurds from eastern and southeastern provinces; no information available on persons displaced by development projects) (2021)"
diff --git a/middle-east/we.json b/middle-east/we.json
index 62bf34c7..ad036511 100644
--- a/middle-east/we.json
+++ b/middle-east/we.json
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "27 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)",
+ "text": "20 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)",
"note": "note: data represent Gaza Strip and the West Bank"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
@@ -608,6 +608,17 @@
},
"note": "note: includes Gaza Strip"
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "18.81% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "16.48% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "18.4% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.314 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -857,8 +868,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code 970 or 972; 1 international switch in Ramallah"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Palestinian Authority operates 1 TV and 1 radio station; about 20 private TV and 40 radio stations; both Jordanian TV and satellite TV are accessible"
@@ -887,9 +897,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/middle-east/ym.json b/middle-east/ym.json
index 0f5335db..7111f72b 100644
--- a/middle-east/ym.json
+++ b/middle-east/ym.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "164 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "183 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -809,6 +809,11 @@
"text": "30.3% (2008 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2016": {
+ "text": "12.04% of GDP (2016 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.821 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1071,8 +1076,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 967; landing points for the FALCON, SeaMeWe-5, Aden-Djibouti, and the AAE-1 international submarine cable connecting Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Southeast Asia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run TV with 2 stations; state-run radio with 2 national radio stations and 5 local stations; stations from Oman and Saudi Arabia can be accessed"
@@ -1116,9 +1120,7 @@
"text": "7O"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "57 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "57 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1221,7 +1223,7 @@
},
"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
"refugees (country of origin)": {
- "text": "20,306 (Ethiopia) (2022); 63,349 (Somalia) (2023)"
+ "text": "20,306 (Ethiopia) (2022); 63,649 (Somalia) (2023)"
},
"IDPs": {
"text": "4.52 million (conflict in Sa'ada Governorate; clashes between al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula and government forces) (2022)"
diff --git a/north-america/bd.json b/north-america/bd.json
index 57557dce..f886355b 100644
--- a/north-america/bd.json
+++ b/north-america/bd.json
@@ -687,6 +687,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "22.86% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "20.84% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "20.02% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$999.2 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -916,18 +927,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "25,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "25,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "39 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "39 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "68,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "68,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "103 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -935,12 +946,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "the system has a fixed-line teledensity of 39 per 100, coupled with a mobile-cellular teledensity of roughly 106 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "the system has a fixed-line teledensity of 39 per 100, coupled with a mobile-cellular teledensity of roughly 110 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1-441; landing points for the GlobeNet, Gemini Bermuda, CBUS, and the CB-1 submarine cables to the Caribbean, South America and the US; satellite earth stations - 3 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "3 TV stations; cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; roughly 13 radio stations operating"
@@ -970,9 +980,7 @@
"text": "VP-B"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/north-america/ca.json b/north-america/ca.json
index c13e0624..af457bba 100644
--- a/north-america/ca.json
+++ b/north-america/ca.json
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
"text": "29.4 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "10 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "11 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@
"HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate": {
"text": "NA"
},
+ "Major infectious diseases": {
+ "text": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in North America; Canada 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": "29.4% (2016)"
},
@@ -451,6 +454,9 @@
"Revenue from coal": {
"text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
+ "Major infectious diseases": {
+ "text": "note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in North America; Canada 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
"
+ },
"Waste and recycling": {
"municipal solid waste generated annually": {
"text": "25,103,034 tons (2014 est.)"
@@ -838,6 +844,14 @@
"text": "33.3 (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "9.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2.6%"
@@ -846,6 +860,17 @@
"text": "24.8% (2000)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.04% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.05% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.08% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$649.6 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1093,18 +1118,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "13.34 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "12.928 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "35 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "34 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "32.36 million (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "32.723 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "86 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "86 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1112,12 +1137,11 @@
"text": "the Canadian telecom market continues to show steady development as operators invest in network upgrades; much of the investment among telcos has been channelled into LTE infrastructure to capitalize on consumer demand for mobile data services, while there has also been further investment in 5G; investment programs have also been supported by regulatory efforts to ensure that operators have spectrum available to develop 5G services; an investment in fixed-line infrastructure, focused on FttP and, among cable broadband providers; government policy has encouraged the extension of broadband to rural and regional areas, with the result that services are almost universally available and the emphasis now is on improving service speeds to enable the entire population to benefit from the digital economy and society; cable broadband is the principal access platform, followed by DSL; the mobile rate remains comparatively low by international standards; Canadians have provided for LTE and LTE-A infrastructure; despite topographical challenges and the remoteness of many areas, the major players effectively offer 99% population coverage with LTE; operators now provide up to 70% population coverage with 5G (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "Nearly 37 per 100 fixed-line and 96 per 100 mobile-cellular teledensity; domestic satellite system with about 300 earth stations (2020)"
+ "text": "Nearly 34 per 100 fixed-line and 86 per 100 mobile-cellular teledensity (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1; landing points for the Nunavut Undersea Fiber Optic Network System, Greenland Connect, Persona, GTT Atlantic, and Express, KetchCan 1 Submarine Fiber Cable system, St Pierre and Miquelon Cable submarine cables providing links to the US and Europe; satellite earth stations - 7 (5 Intelsat - 4 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean, and 2 Intersputnik - Atlantic Ocean region) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 public TV broadcasting networks, 1 in English and 1 in French, each with a large number of network affiliates; several private-commercial networks also with multiple network affiliates; overall, about 150 TV stations; multi-channel satellite and cable systems provide access to a wide range of stations including US stations; mix of public and commercial radio broadcasters with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the public radio broadcaster, operating 4 radio networks, Radio Canada International, and radio services to indigenous populations in the north; roughly 1,119 licensed radio stations (2016)"
@@ -1161,9 +1185,7 @@
"text": "C"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1,467 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1,467 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1267,7 +1289,7 @@
},
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
- "text": "1.4% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2021 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2020": {
"text": "1.4% of GDP (2020)"
diff --git a/north-america/gl.json b/north-america/gl.json
index fb2be9cb..e93b2a83 100644
--- a/north-america/gl.json
+++ b/north-america/gl.json
@@ -863,10 +863,10 @@
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "65,958 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "66,605 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "116 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "118 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -874,12 +874,11 @@
"text": "adequate domestic and international service provided by satellite, cables, and microwave radio relay; the fundamental telecommunications infrastructure consists of a digital radio link from Nanortalik in south Greenland to Uummannaq in north Greenland; satellites cover north and east Greenland for domestic and foreign telecommunications; a marine cable connects south and west Greenland to the rest of the world, extending from Nuuk and Qaqortoq to Canada and Iceland; a contract has been awarded to build a 5G network in Greenland, initially covering three towns, with 10 towns, including Greenland's capital Nuuk to follow (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "nearly 11 per 100 for fixed-line subscriptions and 116 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2020)"
+ "text": "nearly 11 per 100 for fixed-line subscriptions and 118 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 299; landing points for Greenland Connect, Greenland Connect North, Nunavut Undersea Fiber System submarine cables to Greenland, Iceland, and Canada; satellite earth stations - 15 (12 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 2 Americom GE-2 (all Atlantic Ocean)) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Greenland Broadcasting Company provides public radio and TV services throughout the island with a broadcast station and a series of repeaters; a few private local TV and radio stations; Danish public radio rebroadcasts are available (2019)"
@@ -917,9 +916,7 @@
"text": "OY-H"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "15 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "15 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/north-america/mx.json b/north-america/mx.json
index b4bb0242..8be43593 100644
--- a/north-america/mx.json
+++ b/north-america/mx.json
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
"text": "21.3 years (2008 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "33 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "59 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -884,6 +884,14 @@
"text": "45.4 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "23.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2%"
@@ -892,6 +900,17 @@
"text": "40% (2014)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "4.25% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.93% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.07% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$261.4 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1158,8 +1177,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 52; Columbus-2 fiber-optic submarine cable with access to the US, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Spain, and Italy; the ARCOS-1 and the MAYA-1 submarine cable system together provide access to Central America, parts of South America and the Caribbean, and the U.S.; Pan-American Crossing (PAC) submarine cable system provides access to Panama, California, U.S., and Costa Rica; Lazaro Cardenas-Manzanillo Santiago submarines cable system (LCMSSCS) provides access to Michoacan, Guerrero, and Colima, Mexico; AMX-1 submarine cable system with access to Colombia, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Gulf of California Cable submarine cable systems that connects La Paz, Baja California Sur and Topolobambo, Sinaloa; and Aurora submarine cable system provides access to Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. satellite earth stations - 124 (36 Intelsat, 1 Solidaridad (giving Mexico improved access to South America, Central America, and much of the US as well as enhancing domestic communications), 9 Panamsat, numerous Inmarsat mobile earth stations); linked to Central American Microwave System of trunk connections (2022)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "telecom reform in 2013 enabled the creation of new broadcast television channels after decades of a quasi-monopoly; Mexico has 885 TV stations and 1,841 radio stations and most are privately owned; the Televisa group once had a virtual monopoly in TV broadcasting, but new broadcasting groups and foreign satellite and cable operators are now available; in 2016, Mexico became the first country in Latin America to complete the transition from analog to digital transmissions, allowing for better image and audio quality and a wider selection of programming from networks (2022)"
@@ -1203,9 +1221,7 @@
"text": "XA"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1,714 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1,714 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1330,7 +1346,7 @@
"text": "the Mexican military inventory includes a mix of domestically produced and imported equipment from a variety of mostly Western suppliers; the US has been the leading supplier of military hardware to Mexico; Mexico's defense industry produces naval vessels and light armored vehicles, as well as small arms and other miscellaneous equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for compulsory military service for males (selection for service determined by lottery); conscript service obligation is 12 months; those selected serve on Saturdays in a Batallón del Servicio Militar Nacional (National Military Service Battalion) composed entirely of 1-year Servicio Militar Nacional (SMN) conscripts; conscripts remain in reserve status until the age of 40; 16 years of age with consent for voluntary enlistment; cadets enrolled in military schools from the age of 15 are considered members of the armed forces; women are eligible for voluntary military service (2022)",
+ "text": "18 years of age for compulsory military service for males (selection for service determined by lottery); conscript service obligation is 12 months; those selected serve on Saturdays in a Batallón del Servicio Militar Nacional (National Military Service Battalion) composed entirely of 12-month Servicio Militar Nacional (SMN) conscripts; conscripts remain in reserve status until the age of 40; 16 years of age with consent for voluntary enlistment; cadets enrolled in military schools from the age of 15 are considered members of the armed forces; women are eligible for voluntary military service (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2022, women comprised about 15% of the active duty military"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/north-america/sb.json b/north-america/sb.json
index 2d6895fe..aa774fc8 100644
--- a/north-america/sb.json
+++ b/north-america/sb.json
@@ -767,8 +767,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 508; landing point for the St Pierre and Miquelon Cable connecting Saint Pierre & Miquelon and Canada; radiotelephone communication with most countries in the world; satellite earth station - 1 in French domestic satellite system (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "8 TV stations, all part of the French Overseas Network, and local cable provided by SPM Telecom; 3 of 4 radio stations on St. Pierre and on Miquelon are part of the French Overseas Network (2021)"
@@ -787,9 +786,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "2 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "2 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/north-america/us.json b/north-america/us.json
index b9aef706..69e1e1c0 100644
--- a/north-america/us.json
+++ b/north-america/us.json
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
"text": "27 years (2019 est.)"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "19 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "21 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -824,6 +824,14 @@
"text": "41.1 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "6.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "2%"
@@ -832,6 +840,17 @@
"text": "30% (2007 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.03% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.03% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.03% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$3.315 trillion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1104,8 +1123,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 1; landing points for the Quintillion Subsea Cable Network, TERRA SW, AU-Aleutian, KKFL, AKORN, Alaska United -West, & -East & -Southeast, North Star, Lynn Canal Fiber, KetchCar 1, PC-1, SCCN, Tat TGN-Pacific & -Atlantic, Jupiter, Hawaiki, NCP, FASTER, HKA, JUS, AAG, BtoBE, Currie, Southern Cross NEXT, SxS, PLCN, Utility EAC-Pacific, SEA-US, Paniolo Cable Network, HICS, HIFN, ASH, Telstra Endeavor, Honotua, AURORA, ARCOS, AMX-1, Americas -I & -II, Columbus IIb & -III, Maya-1, MAC, GTMO-1, BICS, CFX-1, GlobeNet, Monet, SAm-1, Bahamas 2, PCCS, BRUSA, Dunant, MAREA, SAE x1, TAT 14, Apollo, Gemini Bermuda, Havfrue/AEC-2, Seabras-1, WALL-LI, NYNJ-1, FLAG Atalantic-1, Yellow, Atlantic Crossing-1, AE Connect -1, sea2shore, Challenger Bermuda-1, and GTT Atlantic submarine cable systems providing international connectivity to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific, & Atlantic, and Indian Ocean Islands, Central and South America, Caribbean, Canada and US; satellite earth stations - 61 Intelsat (45 Atlantic Ocean and 16 Pacific Ocean), 5 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 4 Inmarsat (Pacific and Atlantic Ocean regions) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "4 major terrestrial TV networks with affiliate stations throughout the country, plus cable and satellite networks, independent stations, and a limited public broadcasting sector that is largely supported by private grants; overall, thousands of TV stations broadcasting; multiple national radio networks with many affiliate stations; while most stations are commercial, National Public Radio (NPR) has a network of some 900 member stations; satellite radio available; in total, over 15,000 radio stations operating (2018)"
@@ -1152,9 +1170,7 @@
"text": "N"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "13,513 (2022)"
- },
+ "text": "13,513 (2022)",
"note": "note - 24.5% of airports are public"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
@@ -1293,12 +1309,12 @@
"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 (2023)"
},
"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), 39 (Air 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, Marines, Coast Guard); all military occupations and positions open to women (2022)",
- "note": "note: in 2020, women comprised 17.2 % of the total US military (16.9% of enlisted; 18.9% officers; highest was Air Force with women comprising 21.1% of its total personnel); a small number of American women were involved in combat during the Revolutionary (1775-1783), Mexican (1846-1848), and Civil (1861-1865) Wars, but they had to disguise themselves as men and enlist under aliases; the first official US military organization for women was the US Army Nurse Corps, established in 1901; during World War I, the US Navy and Marine Corps allowed women to enlist; nearly 350,000 women served in the US military during World War II; the 1991 Gulf War was the first war where women served with men in integrated units within a war zone; in 2015, women were allowed to serve in direct combat roles
note 2: non-citizens living permanently and legally in the US may join as enlisted personnel; must have permission to work in the US, a high school diploma, and speak, read, and write English fluently; minimum age of 17 with parental consent or 18 without; maximum age 29-39, depending on the service; under the US Nationality Act, honorable service in the military may qualify individuals to obtain expedited citizenship; under the Compact of Free Association, citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands may volunteer; under the Jay Treaty, signed in 1794 between Great Britain and the US, and corresponding legislation, Native Americans/First Nations born in Canada are entitled to freely enter the US and join the US military"
+ "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), 39 (Air 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, Marines, Coast Guard); all military occupations and positions open to women (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: the US military has been all-volunteer since 1973, but an act of Congress can reinstate the draft in case of a national emergency
note 2: in 2020, women comprised 17.2 % of the total US military (16.9% of enlisted; 18.9% officers; highest was Air Force with women comprising 21.1% of its total personnel); a small number of American women were involved in combat during the Revolutionary (1775-1783), Mexican (1846-1848), and Civil (1861-1865) Wars, but they had to disguise themselves as men and enlist under aliases; the first official US military organization for women was the US Army Nurse Corps, established in 1901; during World War I, the US Navy and Marine Corps allowed women to enlist; nearly 350,000 women served in the US military during World War II; the 1991 Gulf War was the first war where women served with men in integrated units within a war zone; in 2015, women were allowed to serve in direct combat roles
note 3: non-citizens living permanently and legally in the US may join as enlisted personnel; must have permission to work in the US, a high school diploma, and speak, read, and write English fluently; minimum age of 17 with parental consent or 18 without; maximum age 29-39, depending on the service; under the US Nationality Act, honorable service in the military may qualify individuals to obtain expedited citizenship; under the Compact of Free Association, citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands may volunteer; under the Jay Treaty, signed in 1794 between Great Britain and the US, and corresponding legislation, Native Americans/First Nations born in Canada are entitled to freely enter the US and join the US military"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "5,000 Africa (mostly in Djibouti, with approximately 700-1,000 in other countries of East Africa and about 700 in West Africa); 1,700 Australia; 250 Diego Garcia; 150 Canada; 650 Cuba (Guantanamo Bay); 290 Egypt (MFO); approximately 100,000 Europe (Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK); 150 Greenland; 6,200 Guam; 370 Honduras; 56,000 Japan; approximately 15,000 Middle East (Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates); 125 Philippines; 28,000 South Korea; 200 Singapore; 100 Thailand (2022)",
- "note": "note: US military rotational policies affect deployment numbers; the US deploys ground and air units to select countries for 6-12 month rotational assignments on a continuous basis; in South Korea, for example, the US continuously rotates combat brigades (approximately 3,000 personnel) for 9 months at a time; contingencies also affect US troop deployments; in 2019-2020, the US deployed more than 15,000 additional military personnel to the Middle East for an extended period of time and in 2022, it sent more than 30,000 reinforcements to Europe in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; in addition, some overseas US naval bases, such as the headquarters of US Naval Forces Central Command (USNAVCENT) in Manama, Bahrain, are frequented by the crews of US ships on 6-9 month deployments; a US carrier strike group with an air wing and supporting ships typically includes over 6,000 personnel"
+ "note": "note: US military rotational policies affect deployment numbers; the US deploys ground and air units to select countries for 6-12 month rotational assignments on a continuous basis; in South Korea, for example, the US continuously rotates combat brigades (approximately 3,000 personnel) for 9 months at a time; contingencies also affect US troop deployments; in 2019-2020, the US deployed more than 15,000 additional military personnel to the Middle East for an extended period of time and has sent more than 30,000 reinforcements to Europe in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; in addition, some overseas US naval bases, such as the headquarters of US Naval Forces Central Command (USNAVCENT) in Manama, Bahrain, are frequented by the crews of US ships on 6-9 month deployments; a US carrier strike group with an air wing and supporting ships typically includes over 6,000 personnel"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "the US is a member of NATO and was one of the original 12 countries to sign the North Atlantic Treaty (also known as the Washington Treaty) in 1949
the US military has 11 regional- or functionally-based joint service \"combatant\" commands: Africa Command; Central Command, Cyber Command, European Command, Indo-Pacific Command, Northern Command, Southern Command, Space Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, and Transportation Command
Congress officially created the US military in September 1789; the US Army was established in June 1775 as the Continental Army; after the declaration of independence in July 1776, the Continental Army and the militia in the service of Congress became known collectively as the Army of the United States; when Congress ordered the Continental Army to disband in 1784, it retained a small number of personnel that would form the nucleus of the 1st American Regiment for national service formed later that year; both the US Navy and the US Marines were also established in 1775, but the Navy fell into disuse after the Revolutionary War, and was reestablished by Congress in 1794; the first US military unit devoted exclusively to aviation began operations in 1913 as part of the US Army; the Army Air Corps (AAC) was the US military service dedicated to aerial warfare between 1926 and 1941; the AAC became the US Army Air Forces in 1941 and remained as a combat arm of the Army until the establishment of the US Air Force in 1947"
diff --git a/oceans/zh.json b/oceans/zh.json
index 6291e130..eb311bd8 100644
--- a/oceans/zh.json
+++ b/oceans/zh.json
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
},
"Military and Security": {
"Maritime threats": {
- "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea;” South American ports in Brazil and Colombia, as well as Caribbean ports in Mexico and Haiti continue to be affected by the crime of armed robbery against ships with 15 incidents reported in 2021 compared to 17 in 2020 with most of these occurring while berthed or anchored
"
+ "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2022, there were 19 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a decrease from the total number of 34 incidents in 2021, it included the two hijackings and both ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; though crew kidnappings have decreased from 57 in 2021 to two in 2022, during the duration of the hijackings 29 crew were kept hostage; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2023-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 3 January 2023, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea;” South American ports in Brazil, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela as well as those in Mexico and Haiti continue to be affected by the crime of armed robbery; a decrease, in this region, has been noticed in 2022 with 24 incidents reported compared to 36 in 2021; the reduction is partially attributed to the decrease in reported incidents in Callao, Peru which saw a 33% decrease compared to 2021; the majority of the vessels boarded were anchored and occurred during the hours of darkness; during these incidents, seven crew were taken hostage and six each assaulted and threatened, making this region quite at risk for crew
"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
diff --git a/south-america/ar.json b/south-america/ar.json
index f1166bdf..7c204072 100644
--- a/south-america/ar.json
+++ b/south-america/ar.json
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "39 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "45 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -834,6 +834,14 @@
"text": "42.3 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "28.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.8%"
@@ -842,6 +850,17 @@
"text": "31% (2017 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.19% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.17% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.13% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$120.6 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1114,8 +1133,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 54; landing points for the UNISUR, Bicentenario, Atlantis-2, SAm-1, and SAC, Tannat, Malbec and ARBR submarine cable systems that provide links to Europe, Africa, South and Central America, and US; satellite earth stations - 112 (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government owns a TV station and radio network; more than two dozen TV stations and hundreds of privately owned radio stations; high rate of cable TV subscription usage (2022)"
@@ -1159,9 +1177,7 @@
"text": "LV"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "916 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "916 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1282,7 +1298,7 @@
"text": "the inventory of Argentina's armed forces is a mix of domestically-produced and mostly older imported weapons, largely from Europe and the US; in recent years, France and the US have been the leading suppliers of equipment; Argentina has an indigenous defense industry that produces air, land, and naval systems (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-24 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription suspended in 1995; citizens can still be drafted in times of crisis, national emergency, or war, or if the Defense Ministry is unable to fill all vacancies to keep the military functional (2022)",
+ "text": "18-24 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription suspended in 1995; citizens can still be drafted in times of crisis, national emergency, or war, or if the Defense Ministry is unable to fill all vacancies to keep the military functional (2023)",
"note": "note - as of 2021, women comprised over 21% of the active duty military"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/south-america/bl.json b/south-america/bl.json
index 9d71f9aa..a16263b0 100644
--- a/south-america/bl.json
+++ b/south-america/bl.json
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "155 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "161 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -845,6 +845,14 @@
"text": "43.6 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "29.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "0.9%"
@@ -853,6 +861,17 @@
"text": "36.1% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "3.51% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.08% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3.27% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$15.09 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1103,18 +1122,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "598,082 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "539,481 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "5 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "4 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "11,804,343 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "12,033,941 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "101 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1122,12 +1141,11 @@
"text": "the structure of Bolivia’s fixed telecom market is different from most other countries; local services are primarily provided by 15 telecom cooperatives; these are non-profit-making companies privately owned and controlled by their users; since the market was liberalized, the cooperatives have also provided long-distance telephony, while several also offer broadband and pay TV service; they have invested in network upgrades in a bid to improve services for customers, and to expand their footprints; Bolivia has a multi-carrier system wherein consumers can choose a long-distance carrier for each call by dialing the carrier’s prefix; several operators have also adopted fixed-wireless technologies, and some rent fiber-optic capacity; the fixed broadband services remain expensive, though the cost of bandwidth is only a fraction of what it was only a few years ago; services are still unavailable in many rural and remote areas, and even in some of the major urban areas; being a landlocked country, Bolivia had no direct access to submarine cable networks, and relies on satellite services or terrestrial links across neighboring countries; in September 2020 a new cable running via Peru, has increased capacity and contributed to a dramatic fall in end-user prices; fixed broadband services are fast migrating from DSL to fiber, while there are also cable broadband services available in some major cities; in 2007 the focus was on providing telecom services in rural areas under a project known as ‘Territory with Total Coverage’; this project aims to increase telecom coverage through mobile rather than through fixed networks; Bolivia has almost twenty times as many mobile phone subscribers as fixed line connections, and the trend towards fixed-mobile substitution continues; all the mobile companies offer 3G and LTE services; due to the poor quality, high cost, and poor reach of DSL, mobile networks have become the principal platform for voice services and data access; by early 2021 companies’ networks reached more than 95% of the population; about 92% of all internet accesses are via smartphones (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "5 per 100 fixed-line, mobile-cellular telephone use expanding rapidly and teledensity stands at 101 per 100 persons; most telephones are concentrated in La Paz, Santa Cruz, and other capital cities (2020)"
+ "text": "4 per 100 fixed-line, mobile-cellular telephone use expanding rapidly and teledensity stands at 100 per 100 persons; most telephones are concentrated in La Paz, Santa Cruz, and other capital cities (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 591; Bolivia has no direct access to submarine cable networks and must therefore connect to the rest of the world either via satellite or through terrestrial links across neighboring countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "large number of radio and TV stations broadcasting with private media outlets dominating; state-owned and private radio and TV stations generally operating freely, although both pro-government and anti-government groups have attacked media outlets in response to their reporting (2019)"
@@ -1171,9 +1189,7 @@
"text": "CP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "855 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "855 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1281,7 +1297,7 @@
"text": "the Bolivian Armed Forces are equipped with a mix of mostly older Brazilian, Chinese, European, and US equipment; in recent years, China and France have been the leading suppliers of military hardware to Bolivia (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "compulsory for all men between the ages of 18 and 22; men can volunteer from the age of 16, women from 18; service is for 12 months; Search and Rescue service can be substituted for citizens who have reached the age of compulsory military service; duration of this service is 24 months (2022)",
+ "text": "compulsory for all men between the ages of 18 and 22; men can volunteer from the age of 16, women from 18; service is for 12 months; Search and Rescue service can be substituted for citizens who have reached the age of compulsory military service; duration of this service is 24 months (2023)",
"note": "note: foreign nationals 18-22 residing in Bolivia may join the armed forces; joining speeds the process of acquiring Bolivian citizenship by naturalization"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/south-america/br.json b/south-america/br.json
index a8864d8e..73e8d695 100644
--- a/south-america/br.json
+++ b/south-america/br.json
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "60 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "72 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -872,6 +872,14 @@
"text": "48.9 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "15.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "0.8%"
@@ -880,6 +888,17 @@
"text": "43.4% (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.25% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.25% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.17% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$733.7 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1126,18 +1145,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "30,653,813 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "28,883,475 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "14 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "13 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "205,834,781 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "219,660,524 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "97 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "102 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1145,12 +1164,11 @@
"text": "Brazil is one of the largest mobile and broadband markets in Latin America with healthy competition and pricing; the development of 5G, was scheduled for March 2020 but was delayed due to interference issues with satellite TV broadcasts and the pandemic; the auction was completed November 2021; the licenses are obliged to provide 5G services to all capital cities by July 2022, as well as about 35,500km of the national highway network; the country also has one of the largest fixed line broadband markets in Latin America, though broadband subscriptions is only slightly above the regional average, trailing behind Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay; amendments to the licensing regime adopted in October 2019 also require that ISPs which have switched to authorizations invest money saved from lighter regulations in the expansion of broadband services; the fixed line broadband market has seen rapid growth for a number of years, with a growing focus on fiber broadband; in 2019 the number of fiber accesses overtook DSL connections; the country is a key landing point for a number of important submarine cables connecting to the US, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa; several new cable systems are due to come into service through to 2022, which will increase bandwidth and push down broadband prices for end-users; investments have also been made into terrestrial fiber cables between Brazil, Argentina, and Chile (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections stand at roughly 14 per 100 persons; less-expensive mobile-cellular technology has been a major impetus broadening telephone service to the lower-income segments of the population with mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 97 per 100 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections stand at roughly 13 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 102 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 55; landing points for a number of submarine cables, including Malbec, ARBR, Tamnat, SAC, SAm-1, Atlantis -2, Seabras-1, Monet, EllaLink, BRUSA, GlobeNet, AMX-1, Brazilian Festoon, Bicentenario, Unisur, Junior, Americas -II, SAE x1, SAIL, SACS and SABR that provide direct connectivity to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region east), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station; satellites is a major communication platform, as it is almost impossible to lay fiber optic cable in the thick vegetation (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-run Radiobras operates a radio and a TV network; more than 1,000 radio stations and more than 100 TV channels operating - mostly privately owned; private media ownership highly concentrated (2022)"
@@ -1194,9 +1212,7 @@
"text": "PP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "4,093 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "4,093 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1326,7 +1342,7 @@
"text": "the Brazilian military's inventory consists of a mix of domestically-produced and imported weapons, largely from Europe and the US; in recent years, the US and several European countries have been the leading suppliers of military equipment to Brazil; Brazil's defense industry is capable of designing and manufacturing equipment for all three military services and for export; it also jointly produces equipment with other countries (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-45 years of age for compulsory military service for men (women exempted); only 5-10% of those inducted are required to serve; conscript service obligation is 10-12 months; 17-45 years of age for voluntary service (2022)",
+ "text": "18-45 years of age for compulsory military service for men (women exempted); only 5-10% of those inducted are required to serve; conscript service obligation is 10-12 months; 17-45 years of age for voluntary service (2023)",
"note": "note: in 2020, women comprised approximately 9% of the Brazilian military"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/south-america/ci.json b/south-america/ci.json
index 10302462..d378569d 100644
--- a/south-america/ci.json
+++ b/south-america/ci.json
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "13 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "15 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -815,6 +815,14 @@
"text": "44.9 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "16% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.7%"
@@ -823,6 +831,17 @@
"text": "41.5% (2013 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.03% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$57.75 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1066,18 +1085,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "2,567,938 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "2,510,972 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "13 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "13 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "25,068,249 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "26,571,823 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "131 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "136 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1085,12 +1104,11 @@
"text": "the market for fixed and mobile telephony is highly competitive and rapidly evolving; the mobile rate is among the highest in South America; LTE infrastructure is extensive and 5G spectrum auctions which took place in February 2021 are expected to prompt the deployment of 5G networks by the end of the year, following extensive trials held by the MNOs; fixed broadband is relatively high for the region, with services among the fastest and least expensive in Latin America; government initiatives such as the National Fiber Optic project and Fibra Óptica Austral are providing high-capacity connectivity across the country and will further increase fixed-line broadband; there is a strong focus on fiber broadband, with the number of fiber subscribers having increased 61.7% in 2020, year-on-year; technological improvements have allowed operators to provide a variety of services via their networks, giving rise to a number of bundled packages at competitive prices, including access to video on demand services which in turn is increasing fixed-line broadband; traditional fixed-line teledensity continues to fall as consumers switch to mobile networks and to fixed broadband for voice and data connectivity; more than 8,300 schools receive free broadband as part of the ‘Connectivity for Education 2030’ project (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "number of fixed-line connections have dropped to about 13 per 100 in recent years as mobile-cellular usage continues to increase, reaching 131 telephones per 100 persons; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations (2020)"
+ "text": "number of fixed-line connections 13 per 100, mobile-cellular usage continues to increase, reaching 136 telephones per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 56; landing points for the Pan-Am, Prat, SAm-1, American Movil-Telxius West Coast Cable, FOS Quellon-Chacabuco, Fibra Optical Austral, SAC and Curie submarine cables providing links to the US, Caribbean and to Central and South America; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "national and local terrestrial TV channels, coupled with extensive cable TV networks; the state-owned Television Nacional de Chile (TVN) network is self-financed through commercial advertising revenues and is not under direct government control; large number of privately owned TV stations; about 250 radio stations"
@@ -1134,9 +1152,7 @@
"text": "CC"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "481 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "481 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1249,7 +1265,7 @@
"text": "the Chilean military inventory is comprised of a wide mix of mostly Western equipment and some domestically produced systems; in recent years, it has received military hardware from a variety of countries, with Germany and the US as the leading suppliers; Chile's defense industry has capabilities in military aircraft, ships, and vehicles (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-45 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; selective compulsory service (there are usually enough volunteers to make compulsory service unnecessary); service obligation is a minimum of 12 months for Army and 22 months for Navy and Air Force (2022)",
+ "text": "18-45 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; selective compulsory service (there are usually enough volunteers to make compulsory service unnecessary); service obligation is a minimum of 12 months for Army and 22 months for Navy and Air Force (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2021, women comprised approximately 18% of the armed forces"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/south-america/co.json b/south-america/co.json
index 35c6897c..7fd26d33 100644
--- a/south-america/co.json
+++ b/south-america/co.json
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "83 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "75 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -845,6 +845,14 @@
"text": "54.2 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "19.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.2%"
@@ -853,6 +861,17 @@
"text": "39.6% (2015 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.74% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "2.56% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.2% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$83.35 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1106,18 +1125,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "7,248,026 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "7.6 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "14 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "15 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "67,672,570 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "75 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "133 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "150 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1125,12 +1144,11 @@
"text": "the telecom sector had a solid year thanks to positive performances in the fixed-line broadband, mobile broadband, and mobile voice and data markets; the fixed-line penetration remained stable by the end of 2020, though began to increase into 2021 as a result of the particular demands on households resulting from government measures associated with addressing the pandemic; the mobile market reached a penetration rate of 136% (an increase of over three percentage points on 2019) and managed to keep the same upward growth trajectory that it has sustained over the last ten years; the fixed-line broadband market also expanded, with the number of subscribers increasing 11.4%, and with revenue increasing 9.9% thanks to increased data usage as many customers were forced to work or study from home during the year; the mobile broadband market was the standout performer in 2020, with a 13% increase in the number of subscribers year-on-year, the penetration rate is relatively low compared to other Latin American countries; most significant of all was the surge in mobile broadband traffic a 51% increase over the previous year (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line connections stand at about 14 per 100 persons; mobile cellular telephone subscribership is 133 per 100 persons; Partners Telecom Colombia's (WOM) market entrance in June 2021 increased competition among cellular service providers and is resulting in falling local and international calling rates and contributing to the steep decline in the market share of fixed-line services; domestic satellite system with 41 earth stations (2021)"
+ "text": "fixed-line connections stand at about 15 per 100 persons; mobile cellular telephone subscribership is 150 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 57; landing points for the SAC, Maya-1, SAIT, ACROS, AMX-1, CFX-1, PCCS, Deep Blue Cable, Globe Net, PAN-AM, SAm-1 submarine cable systems providing links to the US, parts of the Caribbean, and Central and South America; satellite earth stations - 10 (6 Intelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 3 fully digitalized international switching centers) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "combination of state-owned and privately owned broadcast media provide service; more than 500 radio stations and many national, regional, and local TV stations (2019)"
@@ -1174,9 +1192,7 @@
"text": "HJ, HK"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "836 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "836 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1295,8 +1311,8 @@
"text": "the military's inventory includes a wide mix of equipment from a variety of suppliers, including Canada, Europe, Israel, South Korea, and the US; Colombia's defense industry is active in producing air, land, and naval platforms (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-24 years of age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; conscript service obligation is 18 months; conscripted soldiers reportedly include regular soldiers (conscripts without a high school degree), drafted high school graduates (bachilleres), and rural (campesino) soldiers who serve in their home regions (2022)",
- "note": "note 1: in 2020, conscripts reportedly comprised about 50% of the Colombian military's active force with more than 50,000 conscripts brought into the military annually
note 2: as of 2022, women comprised about 1% of the military"
+ "text": "18-24 years of age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; conscript service obligation is 18 months; conscripted soldiers reportedly include regular soldiers (conscripts without a high school degree), drafted high school graduates (bachilleres), and rural (campesino) soldiers who serve in their home regions (2023)",
+ "note": "note 1: conscripts reportedly comprise about 50% of the Colombian military's active force with more than 50,000 conscripts brought into the military annually
note 2: as of 2022, women comprised about 1% of the military"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "275 Egypt (MFO) (2022)"
diff --git a/south-america/ec.json b/south-america/ec.json
index 6adc1487..0dcffdee 100644
--- a/south-america/ec.json
+++ b/south-america/ec.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "59 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "66 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -840,6 +840,14 @@
},
"note": "note: data are for urban households only"
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "26.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "0.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.4%"
@@ -849,6 +857,17 @@
},
"note": "note: data are for urban households only"
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "4.11% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.37% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "3% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$33.43 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1095,18 +1114,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "2,063,044 (2020)"
+ "text": "1,846,666 (2021)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "12 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "10 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "15,485,366 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "16,789,600 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "88 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "94 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1114,12 +1133,11 @@
"text": "Ecuador has a small telecom market dominated by the mobile sector; the evolution of the market has been influenced by the poor fixed-line infrastructure, which has stymied the development of fixed-line broadband services; to some extent poor infrastructure has been the result of topographical challenges which have rendered the cost of deploying networks to remote and mountainous areas prohibitive; although Ecuador has several fixed-line operators and a large number of ISPs, the state-owned incumbent leads the fixed-line market, and thus also the fixed broadband market; thus far the MVNO sector has been slow to develop, partly because the incumbent operators also have their low-cost brands and thus there is little business case for new market entrants; the government is keen to advance and improve teledensity; from 2022, additional revenue will be earmarked for programs aimed at expanding the reach of internet and mobile services in rural areas of the country; Ecuador lacks a national 5G roadmap; the mobile operators have conducted several 5G pilots, but no progress has been made on allocation spectrum for 5G, or on developing strategies to encourage investment in the sector (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "according to 2021 statistics from the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, 50 percent of Ecuadorian homes do not have access to fixed internet; Ecuador’s telecoms regulator is currently evaluating and reorganizing the 3.5GHz, 2.5 GHz, 700 MHz and AWS spectrum for future government tenders; 2G/3G technologies have a 91.11 percent of penetration and 4G technologies has 60.74 percent (2021); fixed-line teledensity is about 12 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular service with a subscribership of nearly 88 per 100 persons (2021)"
+ "text": "according to 2021 statistics from the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, 50 percent of Ecuadorian homes do not have access to fixed internet; fixed-line teledensity is about 10 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular service with a subscribership of nearly 94 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 593; landing points for the SPSC (Mistral Submarine Cable), Panamerican Cable System (PAN-AM), Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS), America Movil-Telxius West Coast Cable and SAm-1 submarine (SAm-1) cables that provide links to South and Central America, and extending onward to the Caribbean and the US; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "the Communication Council, an official entity, carried out a media registry in Ecuador in December 2020. It registered 956 media outlets, 89% are private, 5% are public and 6% belong to small communities. The government controls most of the 44 public media, this includes national media and multiple local radio stations. In addition, of the 956 registered media, 58% are radio and 18% print. Two provinces have the largest number of media outlets: Guayas has 172 media outlets and Pichincha has 130 media outlets. (2020) so also sent to the National Assembly a new regulation proposal that is still under discussion.
(2022)"
@@ -1164,9 +1182,7 @@
"text": "HC"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "432 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "432 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1261,13 +1277,13 @@
"text": "2.3% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "2.2% of GDP (2019) (approximately $2.98 billion)"
+ "text": "2.2% of GDP (2019)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "2.4% of GDP (2018) (approximately $3.14 billion)"
+ "text": "2.4% of GDP (2018)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "2.4% of GDP (2017) (approximately $3.1 billion)"
+ "text": "2.4% of GDP (2017)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/south-america/fk.json b/south-america/fk.json
index 05e62e84..889bada8 100644
--- a/south-america/fk.json
+++ b/south-america/fk.json
@@ -733,18 +733,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "2,000 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "2,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "65 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "53 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "5,000 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "6,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "163 (2018 est.)"
+ "text": "160 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
"text": "the replacement of the rural internet and phone system was delayed due to COVID; upgrades started at the end of 2019, this included the replacement of all Multi Service Access Nodes (MSANs), the technology used to connect larger settlements; in early 2020 a new system to replace the WiMAX system (the technology used to connect smaller settlements and households) had been delayed as well due to COVID-19; once the equipment is received it will be installed in the largest base stations on East Falklands: Malo, Bombilla, and Mt Pleasant peak
“We also have MSAN equipment and radio links due to arrive towards the end of this month, and these and will be installed at Chartres, New Island, Sea Lion Island, Onion Range, Sand Bay, and Mare Harbour enabling us to migrate additional customers from the existing WiMAX network and also releasing equipment for spares.” (2020)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscriptions approximately 65 per 100, 163 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2019)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscriptions approximately 53 per 100, 160 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 500; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) with links through London to other countries (2015)"
@@ -794,9 +794,7 @@
"text": "VP-F"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "7 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "7 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-america/gy.json b/south-america/gy.json
index d2e0a1d6..90c8f1d4 100644
--- a/south-america/gy.json
+++ b/south-america/gy.json
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "667 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "112 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -805,6 +805,17 @@
"text": "33.8% (1999)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "8.01% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "7.35% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "6.97% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.002 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1053,18 +1064,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "125,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "130,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "16 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "16 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "856,000 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "860,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "109 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "110 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1072,12 +1083,11 @@
"text": "after many years of delays and legal challenges, the 2016 Telecommunications Act was brought into force in October 2020 by the newly elected government of the People’s Party Progressive (PPP); the Telecommunications Act sets out a framework for enabling competition across all segments of the telecommunications sector in Guyana; the mobile market has been open to competition since 2001; the Telecommunications Act presents the country with the potential to benefit from a more level playing field that may attract new players, but nevertheless Guyana’s relatively small size and low GDP may restrict it from reaching its full potential for some more years to come (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line teledensity is about 16 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity about 83 per 109 persons (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line teledensity is about 16 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity about 110 per 100 persons (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 592; landing point for the SG-SCS submarine cable to Suriname, and the Caribbean; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government-dominated broadcast media; the National Communications Network (NCN) TV is state-owned; a few private TV stations relay satellite services; the state owns and operates 2 radio stations broadcasting on multiple frequencies capable of reaching the entire country; government limits on licensing of new private radio stations has constrained competition in broadcast media"
@@ -1107,9 +1117,7 @@
"text": "8R"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "117 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "117 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1179,13 +1187,13 @@
"text": "1.2% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
- "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $95 million)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
- "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $85 million)"
+ "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2017": {
- "text": "1.2% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $80 million)"
+ "text": "1.2% of GDP (2017 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
diff --git a/south-america/ns.json b/south-america/ns.json
index f5f88e9d..62a18e91 100644
--- a/south-america/ns.json
+++ b/south-america/ns.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "120 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "96 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -807,6 +807,17 @@
"text": "NA"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "4.95% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "4.26% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.39% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$560.7 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -1078,8 +1089,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 597; landing point for the SG-SCS submarine cable linking South America with the Caribbean; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "2 state-owned TV stations; 1 state-owned radio station; multiple private radio and TV stations (2019)"
@@ -1123,9 +1133,7 @@
"text": "PZ"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "55 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "55 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-america/pa.json b/south-america/pa.json
index b754d106..d0f9b8fb 100644
--- a/south-america/pa.json
+++ b/south-america/pa.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-29"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "84 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "71 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -824,6 +824,14 @@
"text": "43.5 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "31.7% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "4.2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.5%"
@@ -832,6 +840,17 @@
"text": "37.6% (2013 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.48% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.65% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.76% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.524 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1097,8 +1116,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 595; Paraguay's landlocked position means they must depend on neighbors for interconnection with submarine cable networks, making it cost more for broadband services; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "6 privately owned TV stations; about 75 commercial and community radio stations; 1 state-owned radio network (2019)"
@@ -1142,9 +1160,7 @@
"text": "ZP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "799 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "799 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1239,7 +1255,7 @@
"text": "the military's inventory is comprised of mostly older equipment from a variety of foreign suppliers, particularly Brazil and the US (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; conscript service obligation is 12 months for Army, 24 months for Navy; conscripts also serve in the National Police; volunteers for the Air Force must be younger than 22 years of age with a secondary school diploma (2022)",
+ "text": "18 years of age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; conscript service obligation is 12 months for Army, 24 months for Navy; conscripts also serve in the National Police; volunteers for the Air Force must be younger than 22 years of age with a secondary school diploma (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2021, women made up about 6% of the active military"
},
"Military - note": {
diff --git a/south-america/pe.json b/south-america/pe.json
index b6f634cb..abafb8bd 100644
--- a/south-america/pe.json
+++ b/south-america/pe.json
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "88 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "69 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -862,6 +862,14 @@
"text": "43.8 (2020 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "26.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.4%"
@@ -870,6 +878,17 @@
"text": "36.1% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "1.61% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "1.46% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "1.46% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$58.06 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1145,8 +1164,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 51; landing points for the SAM-1, IGW, American Movil-Telxius, SAC and PAN-AM submarine cable systems that provide links to parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "10 major TV networks of which only one, Television Nacional de Peru, is state owned; multi-channel cable TV services are available; in excess of 5,000 radio stations including a substantial number of indigenous language stations (2021)"
@@ -1190,9 +1208,7 @@
"text": "OB"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "191 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "191 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1318,7 +1334,7 @@
"text": "215 Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (May 2022)"
},
"Military - note": {
- "text": "the Peruvian security forces continue to conduct operations against remnants of the Shining Path terrorist group (aka Sendero Luminoso; see Appendix T), particularly in the Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro River Valleys (VRAEM) of eastern Peru; as of 2022, the military had approximately 8,000-10,000 troops in the VRAEM under a combined Special Command comprised of air, ground, naval, police, and special forces units (2022)"
+ "text": "the Peruvian security forces continue to conduct operations against remnants of the Shining Path terrorist group (aka Sendero Luminoso; see Appendix T), particularly in the Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro River Valleys (VRAEM) of eastern Peru; the military has several thousand troops in the VRAEM under a combined Special Command comprised of air, ground, naval, police, and special forces units (2023)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
"text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial waters of Peru are a risk for armed robbery against ships; in 2021, 18 attacks against commercial vessels were reported, a more than 50% increase over the eight attacks in 2020; all of these occurred in the main port of Callao while ships were berthed or at anchor"
diff --git a/south-america/uy.json b/south-america/uy.json
index 891398d5..b946b50c 100644
--- a/south-america/uy.json
+++ b/south-america/uy.json
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "17 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "19 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -824,6 +824,14 @@
"text": "39.7 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "18.6% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.3% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.9%"
@@ -832,6 +840,17 @@
"text": "30.8% (2014 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.21% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.21% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.18% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$17.66 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1101,8 +1120,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 598; landing points for the Unisor, Tannat, and Bicentenario submarine cable system providing direct connectivity to Brazil and Argentina; Bicentenario 2012 and Tannat 2017 cables helped end-users with Internet bandwidth; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "mixture of privately owned and state-run broadcast media; more than 100 commercial radio stations and about 20 TV channels; cable TV is available; many community radio and TV stations; adopted the hybrid Japanese/Brazilian HDTV standard (ISDB-T) in December 2010 (2019)"
@@ -1140,9 +1158,7 @@
"text": "CX"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "133 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "133 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1243,7 +1259,7 @@
"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 (2022)"
},
"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 (2022)",
+ "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 (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2017, women comprised about 19% of the active military"
},
"Military deployments": {
diff --git a/south-america/ve.json b/south-america/ve.json
index 40249910..b5d0a599 100644
--- a/south-america/ve.json
+++ b/south-america/ve.json
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "125 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "259 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -802,6 +802,14 @@
"text": "39 (2011)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "19.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "3.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "1.7%"
@@ -1067,8 +1075,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 58; landing points for the Venezuela Festoon, ARCOS, PAN-AM, SAC, GlobeNet, ALBA-1 and Americas II submarine cable system providing connectivity to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and US; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 PanAmSat (2020)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Venezuela has a mixture of state-run and private broadcast media that are subject to high levels of regime control, including the shuttering of opposition-leaning media outlets; 13 public service networks, 61 privately owned TV networks, a privately owned news channel with limited national coverage, and a regime-backed Pan-American channel; 3 regime-run radio networks officially control roughly 65 news stations and another 30 stations targeted at specific audiences; regime-sponsored community broadcasters include 235 radio stations and 44 TV stations; the number of private broadcast radio stations has been declining, but many still remain in operation (2021)"
@@ -1112,9 +1119,7 @@
"text": "YV"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "444 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "444 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1222,7 +1227,7 @@
"text": "the FANB inventory is mainly of Chinese and Russian origin with a smaller mix of equipment from Western countries, including the US; in recent years, Russia has been the top supplier of military hardware to Venezuela (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18-30 (25 for women) for voluntary service; the minimum service obligation is 24-30 months; all citizens of military service age (18-50) are obligated to register for military service and subject to military training, although “forcible recruitment” is forbidden (2022)",
+ "text": "18-30 (25 for women) for voluntary service; the minimum service obligation is 24-30 months; all citizens of military service age (18-50) are obligated to register for military service and subject to military training, although “forcible recruitment” is forbidden (2023)",
"note": "note: as of 2017, women made up more than 20% of the active duty military"
},
"Military - note": {
@@ -1250,10 +1255,10 @@
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
"tier rating": {
- "text": "Tier 3 — Venezuela does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government created a specialized prosecutor’s office to oversee trafficking investigations and prosecutions; authorities began legal proceedings against three complicit officials in a notable case; however, the government did not assist any victims or investigate, prosecute, or convict any traffickers; little effort was made to curb the forced recruitment of Venezuelan children by Colombian armed groups operating illegally in Venezuela; authorities made little effort to screen Cuban medical professionals for trafficking indicators as the Cuban Government may have forced them to work by withholding their documentation, and coercing them to falsify medical records (2020)"
+ "text": "Tier 3 — Venezuela does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making any efforts to do so, therefore Venezuela remained on Tier 3; the Maduro regime (which is not recognized by the United States) took some steps to address trafficking, arresting some complicit individuals and issuing a decree to develop a national action plan; however, the regime did not report assisting victims or prosecuting or convicting traffickers; the regime continued to provide support and a permissive environment to non-state armed groups that recruited and used child soldiers and engaged in sex trafficking and forced labor with impunity; representatives did not make sufficient efforts to curb forced recruitment of children by non-state armed groups (2022)"
},
"trafficking profile": {
- "text": "Venezuela is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor; Venezuelan women and girls are trafficked within the country for sexual exploitation, lured from the nation's interior to urban and tourist areas; women from Colombia, Peru, Haiti, China, and South Africa are also reported to have been sexually exploited in Venezuela; some Venezuelan women are transported to Caribbean islands, particularly Aruba, Curacao, and Trinidad & Tobago, where they are subjected to forced prostitution; some Venezuelan children are forced to beg on the streets or work as domestic servants, while Ecuadorian children, often from indigenous communities, are subjected to forced labor; the government provided support to FARC dissidents and the ELN, which grew through the recruitment of child soldiers and exploitation of children in sex trafficking and forced labor; Illegal armed groups lure children in vulnerable conditions and dire economic circumstances with gifts and promises of basic sustenance to later recruit them into their ranks"
+ "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Venezuela, as well as Venezuelans abroad; more than six million Venezuelans, facing deteriorating economic conditions at home, have fled to neighboring countries are at risk of human trafficking; traffickers exploit Venezuelans in Aruba, The Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Guyana, Haiti, Iceland, Macau, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuelan women and girls are at risk of sex trafficking in Colombia, Ecuador, and Trinidad and Tobago; women, including transgender women, have been lured to Spain and Germany with fraudulent employment offers and exploited in commercial sex; men are exploited in forced labor in other countries, including Aruba and Curacao; Venezuelan women and girls are subjected to sex trafficking and child sex tourism; children are exploited in sex trafficking and forced labor, including in farming, domestic service, construction, mining, and criminal groups; non-state armed groups—including illegal Colombian groups near border regions—force some Venezuelans into criminal acts, forced labor, sex trafficking, and use as child soldiers, which is reportedly tolerated by the Maduro regime; sex and labor trafficking victims from South America, Caribbean, Asian, and African countries have been reported in Venezuela; the Cuban government may be exploiting Cuban workers in medical missions in Venezuela (2022)"
}
},
"Illicit drugs": {
diff --git a/south-asia/af.json b/south-asia/af.json
index 2f3d53e3..3d3fdc50 100644
--- a/south-asia/af.json
+++ b/south-asia/af.json
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "638 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "620 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -831,6 +831,17 @@
"text": "24% (2008)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.92% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "4.38% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "4.36% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$2.276 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1077,18 +1088,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "145,787 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "150,000 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "(2020 est.) less than 1"
+ "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "22,678,024 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "23 million (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "58 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "57 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1096,12 +1107,11 @@
"text": "the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021 following the American-led withdrawal of security forces has thrown the telecom sector into disarray; Afghanistan was near the bottom of the world’s rankings in terms of its telecom market maturity, but it had been making some positive progress toward establishing widespread coverage over the prior decade under civilian administration; after the first Taliban regime was toppled in 2001, considerable foreign investment along with open competition in the telecom sector resulted in the transformation of the mobile market; the first mobile network was set up in 2002, and by 2020 coverage had reached 90%; mobile penetration rates, too, had climbed from zero to almost 100% by the time a new insurgency kicked off in 2019 that was closely followed by the start of the Covid-19 pandemic; both events caused a drop in subscriber numbers and in revenue for the mobile operators; it was additional costs involved with repairing and replacing network infrastructure destroyed by the Taliban in the build up to their takeover that put a strain on the operators’ finances; with increased levels of risk and uncertainty now associated with running a telecom company in the embattled state (2021)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "before 15 August 2021, less than 1 per 100 for fixed-line teledensity; 58 per 100 for mobile-cellular; an increasing number of Afghans utilize mobile-cellular phone networks (2021)"
+ "text": "before 15 August 2021, less than 1 per 100 for fixed-line teledensity; 57 per 100 for mobile-cellular subscriptions (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 93; multiple VSAT's provide international and domestic voice and data connectivity (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "since 15 August 2021, independent media outlets have decreased in number due to financial hardships, departure of staff from the country, and restrictions placed by the Taliban; media workers report self-censoring criticism of the Taliban; before 15 August 2021, the former Afghan Government-owned broadcaster, Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), operated a series of radio and television stations in Kabul and the provinces and the country had an estimated 174 private radio stations and 83 TV stations; television and radio are key media platforms; only about a fifth of Afghans in urban areas use the internet, mostly through smartphones, and young adults are significantly more likely to use the internet (2021)"
@@ -1145,9 +1155,7 @@
"text": "YA"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "46 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "46 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-asia/bg.json b/south-asia/bg.json
index 478f34c9..6fc53e7b 100644
--- a/south-asia/bg.json
+++ b/south-asia/bg.json
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "173 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "123 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -858,6 +858,14 @@
"text": "32.4 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "53.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.9% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "4%"
@@ -866,6 +874,17 @@
"text": "27% (2010 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "5.33% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "5.82% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "5.23% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$25.1 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1138,8 +1157,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 880; landing points for the SeaMeWe-4 and SeaMeWe-5 fiber-optic submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 6; international radiotelephone communications and landline service to neighboring countries (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned Bangladesh Television (BTV) broadcasts throughout the country. Some channels, such as BTV World, operate via satellite. The government also owns a medium wave radio channel and some private FM radio broadcast news channels. Of the 41 Bangladesh approved TV stations, 26 are currently being used to broadcast. Of those, 23 operate under private management via cable distribution. Collectively, TV channels can reach more than 50 million people across the country."
@@ -1183,9 +1201,7 @@
"text": "S2"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "18 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "18 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1307,7 +1323,7 @@
"text": "the military’s chief areas of focus are border, economic exclusion zone, and domestic security; the Army maintains a large domestic security presence in the Chittagong Hills area where it conducted counterinsurgency operations against tribal guerrillas from the 1970s until the late 1990s; since 2009, the military has been in a force-wide expansion and modernization program known as Forces Goal 2030 (2022)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
- "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial waters of Bangladesh remain a risk for armed robbery against ships; there were no attacks reported in 2021 as opposed to four ships that were boarded in 2020"
+ "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial waters of Bangladesh remain a risk for armed robbery against ships; there were seven attacks reported in 2022 as opposed to none in 2021"
}
},
"Terrorism": {
diff --git a/south-asia/bt.json b/south-asia/bt.json
index 505eb07d..4ec87df6 100644
--- a/south-asia/bt.json
+++ b/south-asia/bt.json
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
}
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "183 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "60 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -732,6 +732,17 @@
"text": "30.6% (2012)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.59% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.23% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "2.38% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$655.3 million (2017 est.)"
@@ -979,18 +990,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "22,987 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "19,680 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "3 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "3 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "745,137 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "778,008 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "97 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "100 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -998,12 +1009,11 @@
"text": "the small land-locked Kingdom of Bhutan has only recently emerged from decades of isolation from the modern world; that, and its mountainous terrain, left the country far back in the field in terms of teledensity as well as access to the Internet; over the last decade, the country has undergone a significant transformation due to the opening of its borders, liberalization of its telecom sector, and the active support from the government towards increased competition in the mobile, broadband, and ISP segments; the relatively widespread availability of the mobile platform has caused an explosion in mobile broadband subscriber numbers, growing from zero to over 100% penetration in just ten years (between 2010 and 2019).; the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 caused the subscription rates to drop back a little; growth is projected to return in 2022 (along with the broader mobile market) as the overall economy recovers; the government opens up more to foreign investment, trade, and tourism; and network expansion continues – the recent (December 2021) launch of 5G services by both of the country’s mobile operators being particularly noteworthy (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "approximately 3 to 100 fixed-line and 97 to 100 mobile cellular; domestic service inadequate, notably in rural areas (2020)"
+ "text": "approximately 3 to 100 fixed-line and 100 mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 people (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 975; international telephone and telegraph service via landline and microwave relay through India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned TV station established in 1999; cable TV service offers dozens of Indian and other international channels; first radio station, privately launched in 1973, is now state-owned; 5 private radio stations are currently broadcasting (2012)"
@@ -1047,9 +1057,7 @@
"text": "A5"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "3 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "3 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
@@ -1091,7 +1099,8 @@
"text": "India has provided most of the Royal Bhutan Army's equipment (2022)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
- "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; militia training is compulsory for males aged 20-25, over a 3-year period; in 2021, the Royal Bhutan Army graduated from a year-long training course the first batch of 150 women to be allowed to serve in combat roles; previously, women were allowed to serve in medical and other non-combat roles (2022)"
+ "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)",
+ "note": "note: in 2021, the Royal Bhutan Army graduated from a year-long training course the first batch of 150 women to be allowed to serve in combat roles; previously, women were allowed to serve in medical and other non-combat roles"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "India is responsible for military training, arms supplies, and the air defense of Bhutan (2022)"
diff --git a/south-asia/ce.json b/south-asia/ce.json
index 7803f553..e3548d86 100644
--- a/south-asia/ce.json
+++ b/south-asia/ce.json
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 30-34"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "36 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "29 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -835,6 +835,14 @@
"text": "39.8 (2016 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "28% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3%"
@@ -843,6 +851,17 @@
"text": "32.2% (2012 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "8.37% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "7.58% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2018": {
+ "text": "7.45% of GDP (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$12.07 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1109,8 +1128,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 94; landing points for the SeaMeWe -3,-5, Dhiraagu-SLT Submarine Cable Network, WARF Submarine Cable, Bharat Lanka Cable System and the Bay of Bengal Gateway submarine cables providing connectivity to Asia, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "government operates 5 TV channels and 19 radio channels; multi-channel satellite and cable TV subscription services available; 25 private TV stations and about 43 radio stations; 6 non-profit TV stations and 4 radio stations"
@@ -1154,9 +1172,7 @@
"text": "4R"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "18 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "18 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-asia/in.json b/south-asia/in.json
index dd1473f1..527d1a16 100644
--- a/south-asia/in.json
+++ b/south-asia/in.json
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "145 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "103 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -879,6 +879,14 @@
"text": "35.7 (2019 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "29.8% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "2.4% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "3.6%"
@@ -887,6 +895,17 @@
"text": "29.8% (2011)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "2.81% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "3.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "2.94% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$238.2 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1139,18 +1158,18 @@
"Communications": {
"Telephones - fixed lines": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "20,052,162 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "23,773,751 (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "1 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "2 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telephones - mobile cellular": {
"total subscriptions": {
- "text": "1.15 billion (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "1.15 billion (2021 est.)"
},
"subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": {
- "text": "84 (2020 est.)"
+ "text": "82 (2021 est.)"
}
},
"Telecommunication systems": {
@@ -1158,12 +1177,11 @@
"text": "India’s telecommunications sector has struggled for growth over the last five years; the sector’s lackluster performance has been in spite of concerted efforts by the government to bolster the underlying infrastructure in a bid to achieve universal coverage; instead, the country’s relatively liberal regulatory environment has encouraged fierce competition and price wars among the operators; State-owned as well as private operators have been forced to seek redress from the government in order to avoid bankruptcy; one particular area of contention has been the billions owed by the operators to the government in the form of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues – usage and licensing fees charged by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) – that have been the subject of long-standing court battles over what should be counted as revenue; the government won that battle in the Supreme Court in 2019, but the financial impairment of that decision has pushed a number of telcos to the brink; add the impact of the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 and 2021 to the mix, and the government had to come to the industry’s rescue by introducing a major reform package in September 2021; along with changes to the definition of AGR with regard to non-telecom revenue, the package includes a four-year moratorium on AGR dues and spectrum instalments; the government has also deferred the spectrum auctions for 5G until later in 2022; mobile spectrum in India is already in short supply in terms of providing the necessary capacity to reach universal coverage, but the cash-strapped MNOs may not yet be in a sufficiently strong financial position for which to make the 5G spectrum auction viable (2022)"
},
"domestic": {
- "text": "fixed-line subscriptions stands at roughly 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular at nearly 84 per 100 (2020)"
+ "text": "fixed-line subscriptions 2 per 100 and mobile-cellular at nearly 82 per 100 (2021)"
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 91; a number of major international submarine cable systems, including SEA-ME-WE-3 & 4, AAE-1, BBG, EIG, FALCON, FEA, GBICS, MENA, IMEWE, SEACOM/ Tata TGN-Eurasia, SAFE, WARF, Bharat Lanka Cable System, IOX, Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar Island Cable, SAEx2, Tata TGN-Tata Indicom and i2icn that provide connectivity to Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South East Asia, numerous Indian Ocean islands including Australia ; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; Indian Ocean region (2022)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "Doordarshan, India's public TV network, has a monopoly on terrestrial broadcasting and operates about 20 national, regional, and local services; a large and increasing number of privately owned TV stations are distributed by cable and satellite service providers; in 2020, 130 million households paid for cable and satellite television across India and as of 2018, cable and satellite TV offered over 850 TV channels; government controls AM radio with All India Radio operating domestic and external networks; news broadcasts via radio are limited to the All India Radio Network; since 2000, privately owned FM stations have been permitted and their numbers have increased rapidly (2020)"
@@ -1207,9 +1225,7 @@
"text": "VT"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "346 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "346 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-asia/io.json b/south-asia/io.json
index 0c78f599..433f016f 100644
--- a/south-asia/io.json
+++ b/south-asia/io.json
@@ -274,9 +274,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "1 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "1 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-asia/mv.json b/south-asia/mv.json
index b905ebce..23748a09 100644
--- a/south-asia/mv.json
+++ b/south-asia/mv.json
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "53 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "57 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
"text": "Cabinet of Ministers appointed by the president, approved by Parliament"
},
"elections/appointments": {
- "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 23 September 2018 (next to be held in 2023)"
+ "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 23 September 2018 (next to be held on 9 September 2023)"
},
"election results": {
"text": "2018: Ibrahim Mohamed SOLIH elected president (in single round); Ibrahim Mohamed SOLIH (MDP) 58.3%, Abdulla YAMEEN Abdul Gayoom (PPM) 41.7%"
@@ -771,6 +771,17 @@
"text": "33.3% (FY09/10)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.09% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.12% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.08% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$1.19 billion (2016 est.)"
@@ -1036,8 +1047,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 960; landing points for Dhiraagu Cable Network, NaSCOM, Dhiraagu-SLT Submarine Cable Networks and WARF submarine cables providing connections to 8 points in Maldives, India, and Sri Lanka; satellite earth station - 3 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state-owned radio and TV monopoly until recently; 4 state-operated and 7 privately owned TV stations and 4 state-operated and 7 privately owned radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1081,9 +1091,7 @@
"text": "8Q"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "9 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "9 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-asia/np.json b/south-asia/np.json
index 0a9a2b71..e3f16964 100644
--- a/south-asia/np.json
+++ b/south-asia/np.json
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "186 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "174 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@
},
"Executive branch": {
"chief of state": {
- "text": "President Bidhya Devi BHANDARI (since 29 October 2015); Vice President Nanda Bahadar PUN (since 31 October 2015)"
+ "text": "President Ram Chandra POUDEL (since 13 March 2023); Vice President Nanda Bahadar PUN (since 31 October 2015)"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "Prime Minister Sher Bahadur DEUBA (since 13 July 2021); deputy prime ministers Ishwar POKHREL, Upendra YADAV (since 1 June 2018) (an)"
@@ -824,6 +824,17 @@
"text": "29.5% (2011)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "22.61% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "24.25% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "24.12% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$5.925 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1095,8 +1106,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 977; Nepal, China and Tibet connected across borders with underground and all-dielectric self-supporting (ADSS) fiber-optic cables; radiotelephone communications; microwave and fiber landlines to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "state operates 3 TV stations, as well as national and regional radio stations; 117 television channels are licensed, among those 71 are cable television channels, three are distributed through Direct-To-Home (DTH) system, and four are digital terrestrial; 736 FM radio stations are licensed and at least 314 of those radio stations are community radio stations (2019)"
@@ -1140,9 +1150,7 @@
"text": "9N"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "47 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "47 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/south-asia/pk.json b/south-asia/pk.json
index 8fded49d..aef28121 100644
--- a/south-asia/pk.json
+++ b/south-asia/pk.json
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
"note": "note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49"
},
"Maternal mortality ratio": {
- "text": "140 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)"
+ "text": "154 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)"
},
"Infant mortality rate": {
"total": {
@@ -872,6 +872,14 @@
"text": "29.6 (2018 est.)"
}
},
+ "Average household expenditures": {
+ "On food": {
+ "text": "39.5% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ },
+ "On alcohol and tobacco": {
+ "text": "1.1% of household expenditures (2018 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Household income or consumption by percentage share": {
"lowest 10%": {
"text": "4%"
@@ -880,6 +888,17 @@
"text": "26.1% (FY2013)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "8.99% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "8.68% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "6.93% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$46.81 billion (2017 est.)"
@@ -1152,8 +1171,7 @@
},
"international": {
"text": "country code - 92; landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3, -4, -5, AAE-1, IMEWE, Orient Express, PEACE Cable, and TW1 submarine cable systems that provide links to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean); 3 operational international gateway exchanges (1 at Karachi and 2 at Islamabad); microwave radio relay to neighboring countries (2019)"
- },
- "note": "note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services"
+ }
},
"Broadcast media": {
"text": "television is the most popular and dominant source of news in Pakistan with over 120 satellite tv stations licensed by the country’s electronic media regulatory body, PEMRA ,and 40 media companies/channels with landing rights permission; state-run Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) is the largest television network in the country and serves over 90% of the population with the largest terrestrial infrastructure of the country; PTV consists of nine TV Channels and PTV networks give special coverage to Kashmir; Pakistanis have access to over 100 private cable and satellite channels; 6 channels are considered the leaders for news reporting and current affairs programing in the country; state-owned Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC or Radio Pakistan) has the largest radio audience in the country, particularly in the rural areas; Radio Pakistan’s AM/SW/FM stations cover 98 percent of the population and 80 percent of the total area in the country; all major newspapers have online editions and all major print publications operate websites; freedom of the press and freedom of speech in the country are fragile (2021)"
@@ -1197,9 +1215,7 @@
"text": "AP"
},
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "151 (2021)"
- }
+ "text": "151 (2021)"
},
"Airports - with paved runways": {
"total": {
diff --git a/world/xx.json b/world/xx.json
index 9dfd1e6a..6e4cf5d8 100644
--- a/world/xx.json
+++ b/world/xx.json
@@ -552,6 +552,17 @@
"text": "30.2% (2008 est.)"
}
},
+ "Remittances": {
+ "Remittances 2021": {
+ "text": "0.74% of GDP (2021 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2020": {
+ "text": "0.79% of GDP (2020 est.)"
+ },
+ "Remittances 2019": {
+ "text": "0.77% of GDP (2019 est.)"
+ }
+ },
"Budget": {
"revenues": {
"text": "$21.68 trillion (2017 est.)"
@@ -722,9 +733,7 @@
},
"Transportation": {
"Airports": {
- "total": {
- "text": "41,820 (2021)"
- },
+ "text": "41,820 (2021)",
"note": "top ten by passengers (2021): Atlanta (ATL) - 75,704,760; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) 62,465,756; Denver, CO (DEN) 58,828,552; Chicago, IL (ORD) 54,020,399; Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 48,007,284; Charlotte, NC (CLT) 43,302,230; Orlando, FL (MCO) 40,351,068; Guangzhou (CAN) 40,259,401; Chengdu (CTU) 40,117,496; Las Vegas, NV (LAS) 39,754,366 (2021)
top ten by passengers (2020): Guangzhou (CAN) 43,767,558; Atlanta (ATL) - 42,918,685; Chengdu (CTU) 40,741,509; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) 39,364,990; Shenzhen (SZX) 37,916,054; Beijing (PEK) - 34,513,827; Denver, CO (DEN) 33,741,129; Kunming (KMG) 32,990,805; Shanghai (PVG) 31,165,641; Xi'an (XIY) 31,073,924 (2020) note - 2020 numbers included to allow for a comparison with the effects of COVID-19 restrictions on international air travel in 2020
top ten by cargo (metric tons): Hong Kong (HKG) - 5,025,495; Memphis, TN (MEM) - 4,480,465; Shanghai (PVG) - 3,982,616; Anchorage, AK (ANC) - 3,555,160; Incheon (ICN) - 3,329,292; Louisville, KY (SDF) - 3,052,269; Taipei (TPE) - 2,812,065; Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 2,691,830; Tokyo (NRT) 2,644,074; Doha, Qatar (DOH) 2,620,095 (2021)"
},
"Heliports": {
@@ -781,7 +790,7 @@
"text": "there are about 75,000 uniformed UN peacekeepers deployed worldwide (2022)"
},
"Maritime threats": {
- "text": "the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) reports that 2021 saw a decrease in global pirate activities; in 2021, pirates attacked a total of 132 ships worldwide including boarding 115 ships, hijacking one ship, and firing on five; this activity is a decrease from 195 incidents in 2020 and the lowest number recorded since 1994; in 2021, the number of hostages taken was eight, and the number of seafarers kidnapped for ransom decreased to 57 compared with 135 in 2020, with all taken off West Africa
the EU naval mission, Operation ATALANTA, continues its operations in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean through 2022; naval units from Japan, India, and China also operate in conjunction with EU forces; China has established a logistical base in Djibouti to support its deployed naval units in the Horn of Africa
the Horn of Africa saw one incident of pirate activity in 2021, up from no attacks in 2020; the decrease in successful pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa since the peak in 2007 was due, in part, to anti-piracy operations by international naval forces, the hardening of vessels, and the increased use of armed security teams aboard merchant ships; despite these preventative measures, the assessed risk remains high
West Africa remains a dangerous area for piracy in the world, but saw a dramatic decrease in incidents with 34 attacks in 2021 compared to 81 in 2020, including one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon; Nigerian pirates are very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore and kidnapping 57 mariners in seven incidents accounting for all crew kidnappings world-wide; attacks against ships underway in the Singapore Straits increased 50% to 35 incidents in 2021; there were nine attacks in Indonesian waters in 2021 compared to 26 in 2020, primarily to ships anchored or berthed; the majority (71%) of global attacks against shipping have occurred in the offshore waters of eight countries - Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia/Singapore, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, and Sao Tome and Principe (2021)"
+ "text": "the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) received 115 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships in 2022 compared with 132 reports in 2021; the 2022 figures are broken down as 107 vessels boarded, five attempted attacks, two vessels hijacked and one fired upon; though the downward trend in reported incidents is welcomed, the risk to crew remains with 41 crew taken hostage, six each assaulted and threatened and two kidnapped; the continued and much needed reduction is attributed to an overall decrease of piratical activity within the Gulf of Guinea region – down from 35 incidents in 2021 to 19 in 2022; in 2022, incidents in these waters were reported at up to 260nm from the coast; though crew kidnappings have decreased from 57 in 2021 to two in 2022, during the duration of the hijackings 29 crew were kept hostage
the EU naval mission, Operation ATALANTA, continues its operations in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean through 2022; naval units from Japan, India, and China also operate in conjunction with EU forces; China has established a logistical base in Djibouti to support its deployed naval units in the Horn of Africa
the Horn of Africa saw no reported piracy attacks in 2022; although the opportunity for incidents has reduced, the Somali pirates continue to possess the capability and capacity to carry out incidents; the decrease in successful pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa since the peak in 2007 was due, in part, to anti-piracy operations by international naval forces, the hardening of vessels, and the increased use of armed security teams aboard merchant ships; despite these preventative measures, the assessed risk remains high
incidents in the Singapore Straits continue to increase year on year with 38 in 2022 compared to 35 in 2021; vessels were successfully boarded in all 38 incidents in 2022; while the majority of vessels boarded reported incidents as predominately low-level opportunistic thefts, four crew were taken hostage and a further two threatened during these incidents; the majority of incidents were reported during the hours of darkness and while vessels were underway; there were 10 attacks in Indonesian waters in 2022 compared to nine in 2021, primarily to ships anchored or berthed
South American ports in Brazil, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela as well as those in Mexico and Haiti continue to be affected by the crime of armed robbery; a decrease, in this region, has been noticed in 2022 with 24 incidents reported compared to 36 in 2021; the reduction is partially attributed to the decrease in reported incidents in Callao, Peru which saw a 33% decrease compared to 2021; the majority of the vessels boarded were anchored and occurred during the hours of darkness; during these incidents, seven crew were taken hostage and six each assaulted and threatened, making this region quite at risk for crew; the majority (64%) of global attacks against shipping have occurred in the offshore waters of five countries - Bangladesh, Ghana, Indonesia, Singapore Straits, and Peru (2021)"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {
@@ -793,12 +802,11 @@
},
"Trafficking in persons": {
"tier rating": {
- "text": "Tier 2 Watch List: (34 countries) Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kuwait, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Tier 3: Afghanistan, Belarus, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, People's Republic of China, Cuba, Curacao, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Russia, Sint Maarten, South Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Vietnam"
+ "text": "
Tier 2 Watch List: (34 countries) Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kuwait, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia, Zimbabwe (2022)
Tier 3: (22 countries) Afghanistan, Belarus, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, People's Republic of China, Cuba, Curacao, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Russia, Sint Maarten, South Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Vietnam (2022)"
},
"trafficking profile": {
"text": "approximately 800,000 people, mostly women and children, are trafficked annually across national borders, not including millions trafficked within their own countries; at least 80% of the victims are female and up to 50% are minors; 75% of all victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation; almost two-thirds of the global victims are trafficked intra-regionally within East Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia (170,000 to 210,000 people)"
- },
- "note": "Tier 2 Watch List: (44 countries) Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia
Tier 3: (19 countries) Afghanistan, Algeria, Belarus, Burma, Burundi, China, Comoros, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Lesotho, Nicaragua, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Venezuela (2020)"
+ }
},
"Illicit drugs": {
"text": "cocaine: worldwide coca cultivation in 2020 likely amounted to 373,000 hectares, potential pure cocaine production reached 2,100 metric tons in 2020
opiates: worldwide illicit opium poppy cultivation probably reached about 265,000 hectares in 2020, with potential opium production reaching 7,300 metric tons; Afghanistan is world's primary opium producer, accounting for 85% of the global supply; Southeast Asia was responsible for 7% of global opium; Latin America opium in 2020 was sufficient to produce about 61 metric tons of pure heroin
(2015)"