diff --git a/africa/ag.json b/africa/ag.json index 35fd8a6b..9a1825b6 100644 --- a/africa/ag.json +++ b/africa/ag.json @@ -926,13 +926,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "99.4% (2019)" + "text": "99.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99.6% (2019)" + "text": "99.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "97% (2019)" + "text": "99.2% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/ao.json b/africa/ao.json index c079af9c..f512ed3c 100644 --- a/africa/ao.json +++ b/africa/ao.json @@ -934,14 +934,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 18 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "43% (2019)" + "text": "48.2% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "61% (2019)" + "text": "74.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "6% (2019)" + "text": "7.3% (2018)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/bc.json b/africa/bc.json index 4b53e928..ae6e8555 100644 --- a/africa/bc.json +++ b/africa/bc.json @@ -932,13 +932,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "59% (2019)" + "text": "73.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "71% (2019)" + "text": "93% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "29% (2019)" + "text": "24.9% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/bn.json b/africa/bn.json index e07972db..6dc80cd6 100644 --- a/africa/bn.json +++ b/africa/bn.json @@ -933,14 +933,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 8 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "33% (2019)" + "text": "41.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "58% (2019)" + "text": "66.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "9% (2019)" + "text": "17.9% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1214,7 +1217,7 @@ "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 or secondhand French, Soviet-era, and US equipment (2023)" + "text": "the FAB is equipped with a small mix of mostly older or secondhand French, Soviet-era, and US equipment; in recent years, France has provided it with limited amounts of newer military hardware such as armored vehicles and helicopters (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "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)" diff --git a/africa/by.json b/africa/by.json index 5a0aeed5..ebc03931 100644 --- a/africa/by.json +++ b/africa/by.json @@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ "text": "$285.105 million (2018 est.)" }, "Exports 2017": { - "text": "$270.686 million (2017 est.)" + "text": "$315 million (2017 est.)" }, "note": "note: Data are in current year dollars and do not include illicit exports or re-exports." }, @@ -928,14 +928,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 11 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "11% (2019)" + "text": "10.2% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "66% (2019)" + "text": "62.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "2% (2019)" + "text": "1.6% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1194,7 +1197,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "86,047 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" + "text": "86,673 (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 a759b53b..a8716ab0 100644 --- a/africa/cd.json +++ b/africa/cd.json @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 652-1312" }, "FAX": { - "text": "[1] (202) 265-1937" + "text": "[1] (202) 578-0431" }, "email address and website": { "text": "
info@chadembassy.us

https://chadembassy.us/" @@ -935,14 +935,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 15 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "9% (2019)" + "text": "11.2% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "32% (2019)" + "text": "43.2% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "1% (2019)" + "text": "1.3% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1198,7 +1201,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "159,060 (Sudan) (includes refugees since 15 April 2023), 126,252 (Central African Republic), 26,552 (Cameroon), 20,951 (Nigeria) (2023)" + "text": "159,060 (Sudan) (includes refugees since 15 April 2023), 127,934 (Central African Republic), 26,552 (Cameroon), 20,974 (Nigeria) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "381,289 (majority are in the east) (2023)" diff --git a/africa/cf.json b/africa/cf.json index 7f9ccf1b..7cb88cc4 100644 --- a/africa/cf.json +++ b/africa/cf.json @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ "text": "President Denis SASSOU-Nguesso (since 1997)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Clement MOUAMBA (since 2016); note - a constitutional referendum held in 2015 approved the change of the head of government from the president to the prime minister (2019)" + "text": "Prime Anatole Collinet MAKOSSO (since 12 May 2021)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president" @@ -959,14 +959,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 3 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "72% (2019)" + "text": "49.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "89% (2019)" + "text": "66.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "36% (2019)" + "text": "12.3% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1260,7 +1263,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "30,204 (Central African Republic), 27,445 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers)(2023)" + "text": "30,204 (Central African Republic), 22,413 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers)(2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "159,830 (multiple civil wars since 1992) (2022)" diff --git a/africa/cg.json b/africa/cg.json index 3e04995a..655625fd 100644 --- a/africa/cg.json +++ b/africa/cg.json @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ "text": "Ministers of State appointed by the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by simple majority vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 30 December 2018 (next to be held in December 2023); prime minister appointed by the president" + "text": "president directly elected by simple majority vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 30 December 2018 (next to be held on 20 December 2023); prime minister appointed by the president" }, "election results": { "text": "

2018: Felix TSHISEKEDI elected president; percent of vote - Felix TSHISEKEDI (UDPS) 38.6%, Martin FAYULU (Lamuka coalition) 34.8%, Emmanuel Ramazani SHADARY (PPRD) 23.9%, other 2.7%; note - election marred by serious voting irregularities

2011: Joseph KABILA reelected president; percent of vote - Joseph KABILA (PPRD) 49%, Etienne TSHISEKEDI (UDPS) 32.3%, other 18.7%; note - election marred by serious voting irregularities 

" @@ -976,14 +976,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 82 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "9% (2019)" + "text": "20.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "19% (2019)" + "text": "43.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "0.4% (2019)" + "text": "1% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/cm.json b/africa/cm.json index 8db25394..40670c8d 100644 --- a/africa/cm.json +++ b/africa/cm.json @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 387-3826" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "cs@cameroonembassyusa.org; mail@cameroonembassyusa.org

https://www.cameroonembassyusa.org/mainFolder/index.html" + "text": "cs@cameroonembassyusa.org

https://www.cameroonembassyusa.org/mainFolder/index.html" } }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { @@ -983,14 +983,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 10 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "70% (2019)" + "text": "65.4% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "98% (2019)" + "text": "94.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "32% (2019)" + "text": "24.8% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1295,7 +1298,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "350,780 (Central African Republic), 115,847 (Nigeria) (2023)" + "text": "350,428 (Central African Republic), 116,183 (Nigeria) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "1.01 million (2023) (includes far north, northwest, and southwest)" diff --git a/africa/cn.json b/africa/cn.json index 9a4415bf..d5b97fef 100644 --- a/africa/cn.json +++ b/africa/cn.json @@ -529,10 +529,10 @@ "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by simple majority popular vote in 2 rounds for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 24 March 2019 (next to be held in 2024)" + "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 24 March 2019 (next to be held in 2024)" }, "election results": { - "text": "2019: AZALI Assoumani (CRC) elected president in first round - AZALI Assoumani (CRC) 60.8%, Ahamada MAHAMOUDOU (PJ) 14.6%, Mouigni Baraka Said SOILIHI (Independent) 5.6%, other 19%

2016: AZALI Assoumani (CRC) elected president in the second round; percent of vote in first round - Mohamed Ali SOILIHI (UPDC) 17.6%, Mouigni BARAKA (RDC) 15.1%, AZALI Assoumani (CRC) 15%, Fahmi Said IBRAHIM (PEC) 14.5%, other 37.8%; percent of vote in second round - AZALI Assoumani (CRC) 41.4%, Mohamed Ali SOILIHI (UPDC) 39.7%; Mouigni BARAKA (RDC) 19%" + "text": "2019: AZALI Assoumani (CRC) elected president in first round - AZALI Assoumani (CRC) 60.8%, Ahamada MAHAMOUDOU (PJ) 14.6%, Mouigni Baraka Said SOILIHI (independent) 5.6%, other 19%

2016: AZALI Assoumani (CRC) elected president in the second round; percent of vote in first round - Mohamed Ali SOILIHI (UPDC) 17.6%, Mouigni BARAKA (RDC) 15.1%, AZALI Assoumani (CRC) 15%, Fahmi Said IBRAHIM (PEC) 14.5%, other 37.8%; percent of vote in second round - AZALI Assoumani (CRC) 41.4%, Mohamed Ali SOILIHI (UPDC) 39.7%; Mouigni BARAKA (RDC) 19%" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -858,14 +858,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) less than 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "70% (2019)" + "text": "87.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "89% (2019)" + "text": "100% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "62% (2019)" + "text": "82.8% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/ct.json b/africa/ct.json index 6b49ef32..170bf4a1 100644 --- a/africa/ct.json +++ b/africa/ct.json @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 332-9893" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
pc@usrcaembassy.org; centrafricwashington@yahoo.com

https://www.usrcaembassy.org/" + "text": "
centrafricwashington@yahoo.com

https://www.usrcaembassy.org/" } }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { @@ -905,14 +905,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 5 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "3% (2019)" + "text": "15.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "7% (2019)" + "text": "34.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "0.4% (2019)" + "text": "1.5% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1181,7 +1184,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "6,632 (Democratic Republic of Congo), 15,335 (Sudan) (refugees since 15 April 2023) (2023)" + "text": "6,636 (Democratic Republic of Congo), 15,335 (Sudan) (refugees since 15 April 2023) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "474,822 (clashes between army and rebel groups since 2005; tensions between ethnic groups) (2023)" diff --git a/africa/cv.json b/africa/cv.json index 1f37aaa3..c9c21a80 100644 --- a/africa/cv.json +++ b/africa/cv.json @@ -882,13 +882,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "96% (2019)" + "text": "95.2% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99% (2019)" + "text": "94.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "89% (2019)" + "text": "96.8% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/dj.json b/africa/dj.json index 2932332c..e887b0a6 100644 --- a/africa/dj.json +++ b/africa/dj.json @@ -892,14 +892,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) less than 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "42% (2019)" + "text": "65.4% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "54% (2019)" + "text": "73.4% (2019)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "1% (2019)" + "text": "36.5% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1044,7 +1047,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "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)" + "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 (2023)" }, "domestic": { "text": "about 2 per 100 fixed-line teledensity and nearly 44 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021)" diff --git a/africa/eg.json b/africa/eg.json index 222f867e..cdad59b9 100644 --- a/africa/eg.json +++ b/africa/eg.json @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "70,021 (West Bank and Gaza Strip) (mid-year 2022); 52,446 (Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 20,970 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 21,105 (Eritrea) (refugees and asylum seekers), 15,585 (Ethiopia) (refugees and asylum seekers), 10,025 (Yemen) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,815 (Iraq) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,802 (Somalia) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022); 255,565 (Sudan) (refugees since 15 April 2023), 147,401 (Syria), (2023)" + "text": "70,021 (West Bank and Gaza Strip) (mid-year 2022); 52,446 (Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 20,970 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 21,105 (Eritrea) (refugees and asylum seekers), 15,585 (Ethiopia) (refugees and asylum seekers), 10,025 (Yemen) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,815 (Iraq) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,802 (Somalia) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2022); 255,565 (Sudan) (refugees since 15 April 2023), 147,999 (Syria) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "10 (2022)" diff --git a/africa/ek.json b/africa/ek.json index 8240d8d1..66c9d73f 100644 --- a/africa/ek.json +++ b/africa/ek.json @@ -853,13 +853,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "67% (2019)" + "text": "66.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "75% (2019)" + "text": "90.3% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "45% (2019)" + "text": "47% (2020)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/er.json b/africa/er.json index 1bbd4612..e95b0a00 100644 --- a/africa/er.json +++ b/africa/er.json @@ -873,14 +873,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 3 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "47% (2019)" + "text": "52.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "95% (2019)" + "text": "75.6% (2019)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "13% (2019)" + "text": "35.7% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1025,7 +1028,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "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)" + "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 of 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 (2022)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line subscribership is less than 2 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular is just over 50 per 100 (2021)" @@ -1035,7 +1038,7 @@ } }, "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)" + "text": "government controls broadcast media with private ownership prohibited; 1 state-owned TV station; 2 state-owned radio networks; purchases of satellite dishes and subscriptions to international broadcast media are permitted (2023)" }, "Internet country code": { "text": ".er" diff --git a/africa/et.json b/africa/et.json index 52146e16..f1cce0d0 100644 --- a/africa/et.json +++ b/africa/et.json @@ -996,14 +996,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 59 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "47% (2019)" + "text": "54.1% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "96% (2019)" + "text": "94.3% (2019)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "34% (2019)" + "text": "42.7% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1148,7 +1151,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "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)" + "text": "Ethio telecom is the major provider, but no longer has a complete monopoly on all telecom services; 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 (2023)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line subscriptions less than 1 per 100 while mobile-cellular stands at a little over 54 per 100 people (2021)" diff --git a/africa/ga.json b/africa/ga.json index f6fe70a6..2c15d0a3 100644 --- a/africa/ga.json +++ b/africa/ga.json @@ -920,14 +920,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) less than 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "49% (2019)" + "text": "63.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "69% (2019)" + "text": "82.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "16% (2019)" + "text": "31.2% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/gb.json b/africa/gb.json index 30ad1808..7e686587 100644 --- a/africa/gb.json +++ b/africa/gb.json @@ -905,14 +905,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) less than 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "92% (2019)" + "text": "91.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99% (2019)" + "text": "98.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "39% (2019)" + "text": "26.7% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/gh.json b/africa/gh.json index 78f2db04..dd366a2c 100644 --- a/africa/gh.json +++ b/africa/gh.json @@ -955,14 +955,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 5 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "85% (2019)" + "text": "86.3% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "93% (2019)" + "text": "95.2% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "75% (2019)" + "text": "74% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/gv.json b/africa/gv.json index cce7fb8e..b1ca7404 100644 --- a/africa/gv.json +++ b/africa/gv.json @@ -931,14 +931,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 7 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "46% (2019)" + "text": "46.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "84% (2019)" + "text": "89.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "24% (2019)" + "text": "21.2% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/iv.json b/africa/iv.json index f0bbb542..c28073d6 100644 --- a/africa/iv.json +++ b/africa/iv.json @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA (since 4 December 2010); Vice President Tiémoko Meyliet KONE (since 19 April 2022); note - Vice President Tiémoko Meyliet KONE was appointed by President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA before a Congressional meeting on 19 April 2022" + "text": "President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA (since 4 December 2010); Vice President Tiémoko Meyliet KONE (since 19 April 2022); note - Vice President Tiémoko Meyliet KONE appointed by President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA before a Congressional meeting on 19 April 2022" }, "head of government": { "text": "Prime Minister Patrick ACHI (since 19 April 2022); note - Prime Minister ACHI resigned on 13 April 2022 and was reappointed by President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA before a Congressional meeting on 19 April 2022" @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single renewable 5-year term ; election last held on 31 October 2020 (next to be held in 2025); vice president elected on same ballot as president; prime minister appointed by the president; note – because President OUATTARA promulgated the new constitution in 2016, he has claimed that the clock is reset on term limits, allowing him to run for up to two additional terms" + "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single renewable 5-year term; election last held on 31 October 2020 (next to be held in 2025); vice president elected on same ballot as president; prime minister appointed by the president; note – because President OUATTARA promulgated the new constitution in 2016, he has claimed that the clock is reset on term limits, allowing him to run for up to two additional terms" }, "election results": { "text": "

2020: Alassane OUATTARA reelected president; percent of vote - Alassane OUATTARA (RDR) 94.3%, Kouadio Konan BERTIN (PDCI-RDA) 2.0%, other 3.7%

2015: Alassane OUATTARA reelected president; percent of vote - Alassane OUATTARA (RDR) 83.7%, Pascal Affi N'GUESSAN (FPI) 9.3%, Konan Bertin KOUADIO (independent) 3.9%, other 3.1% 

" @@ -960,14 +960,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 6 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "76% (2019)" + "text": "71.1% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99% (2019)" + "text": "94.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "51% (2019)" + "text": "45.1% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/ke.json b/africa/ke.json index 6998f44a..9266ef2e 100644 --- a/africa/ke.json +++ b/africa/ke.json @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "281,319 (Somalia), 157,402 (South Sudan), 55,805 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 21,847 (Ethiopia), 8,392 (Burundi), 5,756 (Sudan) (2023)" + "text": "281,319 (Somalia), 157,402 (South Sudan), 56,582 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 21,847 (Ethiopia), 8,392 (Burundi), 5,756 (Sudan) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "190,000 (election-related violence, intercommunal violence, resource conflicts, al-Shabaab attacks in 2017 and 2018) (2021)" diff --git a/africa/mi.json b/africa/mi.json index da5ee534..256ffd2f 100644 --- a/africa/mi.json +++ b/africa/mi.json @@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "32,891 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) 10,953 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,488 (Rwanda) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" + "text": "33,121 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) 10,953 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers), 6,488 (Rwanda) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/africa/mz.json b/africa/mz.json index f00a510e..c58196a3 100644 --- a/africa/mz.json +++ b/africa/mz.json @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "12,107 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,261 (Burundi) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" + "text": "12,178 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,261 (Burundi) (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 1cd1d2e4..b448225d 100644 --- a/africa/ng.json +++ b/africa/ng.json @@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Nigerien Armed Forces (Forces Armees Nigeriennes, FAN): Army, Nigerien Air Force, Niger Gendarmerie (GN); Ministry of Interior: Niger National Guard (GNN), National Police (2023)", + "text": "Nigerien Armed Forces (Forces Armees Nigeriennes, FAN): Army, Nigerien Air Force, Niger Gendarmerie (GN)

Ministry of Interior: Niger National Guard (GNN), National Police (2023)", "note": "note 1: the Gendarmerie (GN) and the National Guard (GNN) are paramilitary forces; the GN has primary responsibility for rural security while the GNN is responsible for domestic security and the protection of high-level officials and government buildings; the GNN was formerly known as the National Forces of Intervention and Security

note 2: the National Police includes the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance, which is charged with border management" }, "Military expenditures": { @@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ "text": "information varies; approximately 12,000 active FAN troops (8,000 Army; 200 Air Force; 4,000 Gendarmerie); approximately 3,000 National Guard (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "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 (2023)" + "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, led by the US (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for selective compulsory or voluntary military service for unmarried men and women; 24-month service term (2023)" @@ -1233,7 +1233,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "181,239 (Nigeria), 66,5020 (Mali) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" + "text": "183,328 (Nigeria), 66,5020 (Mali) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "376,809 (includes the regions of Diffa, Tillaberi, and Tahoua; unknown how many of the 11,000 people displaced by clashes between government forces and the Tuareg militant group, Niger Movement for Justice, in 2007 are still displaced; inter-communal violence; Boko Haram attacks in southern Niger, 2015) (2022)" diff --git a/africa/ni.json b/africa/ni.json index a1518047..376dba66 100644 --- a/africa/ni.json +++ b/africa/ni.json @@ -1230,8 +1230,8 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Nigerian Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force; Ministry of Interior: Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) (2023)", - "note": "note 1: the NSCDC a paramilitary agency commissioned to assist the military in the management of threats to internal security, including attacks and natural disasters

note 2: the Office of the National Security Advisor is responsible for coordinating all security and enforcement agencies, including the Department of State Security (DSS), the NSCDC, the Ministry of Justice, and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF); border security responsibilities are shared among the NPF, the DSS, the NSCDC, Customs, Immigration, and the Nigerian military

note 3: some states have created local security forces in response to increased violence, insecurity, and criminality that have exceeded the response capacity of government security forces" + "text": "

Nigerian Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force

Ministry of Interior: Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Police Force (NPF)

(2023)", + "note": "note 1: the NSCDC a paramilitary agency commissioned to assist the military in the management of threats to internal security, including attacks and natural disasters

note 2: the Office of the National Security Advisor is responsible for coordinating all security and enforcement agencies, including the Department of State Security (DSS), the NSCDC, the Ministry of Justice, and the NPF; border security responsibilities are shared among the NPF, the DSS, the NSCDC, Customs, Immigration, and the Nigerian military

note 3: some states have created local security forces in response to increased violence, insecurity, and criminality that have exceeded the response capacity of government security forces" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ "text": "information varies; approximately 135,000 active-duty armed forces personnel (100,000 Army; 20,000 Navy/Coast Guard; 15,000 Air Force); approximately 80,000 Security and Civil Defense Corps (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory consists of a wide variety of imported weapons systems of Chinese, European, Middle Eastern, Russian (including Soviet-era), and US origin; the military is undergoing a considerable modernization program, and in recent years has received equipment from some 20 countries with China, Russia, and the US as the leading suppliers; Nigeria is also developing a defense-industry capacity, including small arms, armored personnel vehicles, and small-scale naval production (2023)" + "text": "the military's inventory consists of a wide variety of imported weapons systems of Chinese, European, Middle Eastern, Russian (including Soviet-era), and US origin; the military is undergoing a considerable modernization program, and in recent years has received equipment from nearly 20 countries with China and Russia as the leading suppliers; Nigeria is also developing a defense-industry capacity, including small arms, armored personnel vehicles, and small-scale naval production (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-26 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; no conscription (2022)" diff --git a/africa/od.json b/africa/od.json index f74f4aaf..1fb27202 100644 --- a/africa/od.json +++ b/africa/od.json @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "139,912 (Sudan) (refugees since 15 April 2023), 11,455 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2023)" + "text": "139,912 (Sudan) (refugees since 15 April 2023), 11,503 (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 4725b47e..728dd95c 100644 --- a/africa/pu.json +++ b/africa/pu.json @@ -871,14 +871,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "28% (2019)" + "text": "35.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "56% (2019)" + "text": "60.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "7% (2019)" + "text": "15.8% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/rw.json b/africa/rw.json index 6a021e1a..c8c7a701 100644 --- a/africa/rw.json +++ b/africa/rw.json @@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "76,379 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 48,788 (Burundi) (2023)" + "text": "77,467 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 48,788 (Burundi) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "9,500 (2022)" diff --git a/africa/sl.json b/africa/sl.json index 5705ffab..33c0cca5 100644 --- a/africa/sl.json +++ b/africa/sl.json @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ "text": "last held on 24 June 2023 (next to be held in 2028)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party - n/a; seats by party - APC 68, SLPP 49, C4C 8, other 7; composition - NA" + "text": "percent of vote by party - n/a; seats by party - SLPP 81, APC 54; composition - men 94, women 41, percent of women 30.3%" } }, "Judicial branch": { diff --git a/africa/su.json b/africa/su.json index 2f94c199..bc139212 100644 --- a/africa/su.json +++ b/africa/su.json @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "Sudan emerged as a poorer country when South Sudan separated from it in 2011; although Sudan has about four times the population of South Sudan, the latter benefits from its control of the majority of known oil reserves; the Sudanese economy has been affected by hyperinflation in recent years, partly the result of the loss of oil revenue but also due to domestic volatility and social unrest; the difficult economic conditions have meant that for several years telcos have reported revenue under hyper inflationary reporting standards; pressure on revenue has made it difficult for operators to invest in infrastructure upgrades, and so provide improved services to customers; despite this, the number of mobile subscribers increased 7.% in 20201, year-on-year; this level of growth is expected to have been maintained in 2022, though could slow from 2023 as the acute influences resulting the pandemic begin to wane; the country’s poor fixed-line infrastructure has helped the development of mobile broadband services (2022)" + "text": "Sudan emerged as a poorer country when South Sudan separated from it in 2011; although Sudan has about four times the population of South Sudan, the latter benefits from its control of the majority of known oil reserves; the Sudanese economy has been affected by hyperinflation in recent years, partly the result of the loss of oil revenue but also due to domestic volatility and social unrest; the difficult economic conditions have meant that for several years telcos have reported revenue under hyper inflationary reporting standards; pressure on revenue has made it difficult for operators to invest in infrastructure upgrades, and so provide improved services to customers; despite this, the number of mobile subscribers increased 7% in 2021, year-on-year; this level of growth is expected to have been maintained in 2022, though could slow from 2023; the country’s poor fixed-line infrastructure has helped the development of mobile broadband services (2023)" }, "domestic": { "text": "teledensity fixed-line is 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular is 37 telephones per 100 persons (2021)" @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ } }, "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)" + "text": "Following the establishment of Sudan’s 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)" }, "Internet country code": { "text": ".sd" @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ "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 Armed Forces (SAF) is large and relatively well-equipped military; its primary focuses are internal security, border issues, and potential external threats from its neighbors; the SAF is often supported by militia and paramilitary forces, particularly the Rapid Support Forces (RSF); in the Spring of 2023, heavy fighting broke out between the SAF and the paramilitary RSF; 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 SAF 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 SAF 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 RSF is a lightly-armed ground force reportedly organized into brigades of varying size and makeup   

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 2,800 personnel deployed as of early 2023

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 December 2020; 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 June 2021

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 September 2022, the first 2,000 members of the JSKF completed training (2023)" + "text": "

the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) is a large and relatively well-equipped military; its primary focuses are internal security, border issues, and potential external threats from its neighbors; the SAF is often supported by militia and paramilitary forces, particularly the Rapid Support Forces (RSF); in the Spring of 2023, heavy fighting broke out between the SAF and the paramilitary RSF amid disputes over an internationally-backed plan for a transition towards civilian rule, particularly around the capital Khartoum and in some outlying areas; 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 SAF 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 SAF 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 RSF is a lightly-armed ground force reportedly organized into brigades of varying size and makeup   

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 2,800 personnel deployed as of early 2023

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 the UN African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force that operated in the war-torn region between 2007 and the end of its mandate in December 2020; 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 September 2022, the first 2,000 members of the JSKF completed training (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/to.json b/africa/to.json index 15ac422c..799d9ee9 100644 --- a/africa/to.json +++ b/africa/to.json @@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "8,395 (Ghana) (2023)" + "text": "8,450 (Ghana) (2023)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/africa/tz.json b/africa/tz.json index 6f62b0ef..8cb540b2 100644 --- a/africa/tz.json +++ b/africa/tz.json @@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "126,614 (Burundi), 82,612 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2023)" + "text": "126,614 (Burundi), 88,066 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2023)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/africa/ug.json b/africa/ug.json index 9cec7f84..b1245de0 100644 --- a/africa/ug.json +++ b/africa/ug.json @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "875,848 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 487,201 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 69,533 (Somalia), 41,382 (Burundi), 32,871 (Eritrea), 23,457 (Rwanda), 7,787 (Ethiopia) (2023)" + "text": "882,765 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 491,893 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 69,535 (Somalia), 41,863 (Burundi), 32,871 (Eritrea), 23,457 (Rwanda), 7,787 (Ethiopia) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "67,000 (2022)" diff --git a/africa/uv.json b/africa/uv.json index a29ee09b..b21eba0d 100644 --- a/africa/uv.json +++ b/africa/uv.json @@ -933,14 +933,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 16 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "22% (2019)" + "text": "18.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "69% (2019)" + "text": "67.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "2% (2019)" + "text": "4.7% (2014)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1191,7 +1194,7 @@ }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { "text": "approximately 14,000 personnel (8,500 Army; 500 Air Force; 5,000 National Gendarmerie) (2023)", - "note": "note: in 2022, the Burkina Faso Government announced a special recruitment for up to 6,000 additional soldiers to assist with its fight against terrorist groups operating in the country; it also put out a recruitment call for up to 50,000 VDF volunteers (the VDF's original recruited strength was 15,000)


" + "note": "note: in 2022, the Burkina Faso Government announced a special recruitment for up to 6,000 additional soldiers to assist with its fight against terrorist groups operating in the country; it also put out a recruitment call for up to 100,000 VDF volunteers (the VDF's original recruited strength was 15,000)


" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the FABF has a mix of mostly older or secondhand equipment from a mix of suppliers, including France, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the US (2023)" diff --git a/africa/wa.json b/africa/wa.json index 5e0cebcd..c4823fa8 100644 --- a/africa/wa.json +++ b/africa/wa.json @@ -1188,7 +1188,8 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Namibian Defense Force (NDF): Army, Navy, Air Force; Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security: Namibian Police Force (includes a paramilitary Special Field Force responsible for protecting borders and government installations) (2023)" + "text": "Namibian Defense Force (NDF): Army, Navy, Air Force (2023)", + "note": "note: the Namibian Police Force has a paramilitary Special Field Force responsible for protecting borders and government installations; the Police Force is under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { @@ -1211,7 +1212,7 @@ "text": "information varies; approximately 12,500 personnel (11,000 Army; 1,000 Navy; 500 Air Force) (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the NDF's inventory consists of a mix of Soviet-era and some more modern systems from a variety of countries, including Brazil, China, Germany, India, and South Africa; it has a small defense industry that produces items such as armored personnel carriers (2022)" + "text": "the NDF's inventory consists of a mix of Soviet-era and some more modern systems from a variety of countries, including Brazil, China, Germany, India, and South Africa; in recent years, China has been the leading supplier; Namibia has a small defense industry that produces items such as armored personnel carriers (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-25 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; no conscription (2022)", @@ -1227,7 +1228,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "6,269 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" + "text": "6,296 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" } } } diff --git a/africa/wz.json b/africa/wz.json index e2df1255..dfbd6d6e 100644 --- a/africa/wz.json +++ b/africa/wz.json @@ -894,14 +894,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) less than 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "90% (2019)" + "text": "82.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "98% (2019)" + "text": "94.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "87% (2019)" + "text": "79.1% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/africa/za.json b/africa/za.json index 8c7f15b8..61a8c73d 100644 --- a/africa/za.json +++ b/africa/za.json @@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "54,288 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 7,866 (Burundi) (2023)" + "text": "55,753 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 7,866 (Burundi) (2023)" } }, "Trafficking in persons": { diff --git a/africa/zi.json b/africa/zi.json index af8e2c46..871af141 100644 --- a/africa/zi.json +++ b/africa/zi.json @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "11,756 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,907 (Mozambique) (2023)" + "text": "11,781 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 9,907 (Mozambique) (2023)" } }, "Trafficking in persons": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/aq.json b/australia-oceania/aq.json index 01f08dfe..5f3337d5 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/aq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/aq.json @@ -646,6 +646,17 @@ } }, "Energy": { + "Electricity access": { + "electrification - total population": { + "text": "59% (2020)" + }, + "electrification - urban areas": { + "text": "60% (2020)" + }, + "electrification - rural areas": { + "text": "45% (2020)" + } + }, "Electricity": { "installed generating capacity": { "text": "47,000 kW (2020 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/as.json b/australia-oceania/as.json index c2e8be40..d8f8a1c0 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/as.json +++ b/australia-oceania/as.json @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/ck.json b/australia-oceania/ck.json index 1e9d97d0..28a7d730 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ck.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ck.json @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ "text": "King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia General David HURLEY (since 1 July 2019)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Acting Administrator Sarah VANDENBROEK (since 4 October 2022)" + "text": "Administrator Ms. Farzian ZAINAL (since 11 May 2023)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "NA" diff --git a/australia-oceania/cw.json b/australia-oceania/cw.json index 98666cb0..bc201ff0 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/cw.json +++ b/australia-oceania/cw.json @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Sir Tom J. MARSTERS (since 9 August 2013); New Zealand High Commissioner Ms Tui DEWES (since October 2020)" + "text": "King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Sir Tom J. MARSTERS (since 9 August 2013); New Zealand High Commissioner Ms. Tui DEWES (since October 2020)" }, "head of government": { "text": "Prime Minister Mark BROWN (since 1 October 2020)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/fj.json b/australia-oceania/fj.json index 21f8edaf..f3511bc2 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fj.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fj.json @@ -882,13 +882,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "99.6% (2018)" + "text": "92.1% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "100% (2018)" + "text": "96% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "99.2% (2018)" + "text": "86.7% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/gq.json b/australia-oceania/gq.json index 87437da9..03f64c6e 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/gq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/gq.json @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/kt.json b/australia-oceania/kt.json index f004c44d..77bb89cf 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/kt.json +++ b/australia-oceania/kt.json @@ -282,10 +282,10 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia General David HURLEY (since 1 July 2019)" + "text": "King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia General David HURLEY (since 1 July 2019)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Acting Administrator Sarah VANDENBROEK (since 4 October 2022)" + "text": "Administrator Ms. Farzian ZAINAL (since 11 May 2023)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "NA" diff --git a/australia-oceania/ws.json b/australia-oceania/ws.json index 9a44c568..8005876b 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ws.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ws.json @@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ } }, "Agricultural products": { - "text": "coconuts, taro, bananas, yams, tropical fruit, pineapples, mangoes/guavas, papayas, roots/tubers nes, pork" + "text": "coconuts, taro, bananas, yams, tropical fruit, pineapples, mangoes/guavas, papayas, roots/tubers, pork" }, "Industries": { "text": "food processing, building materials, auto parts" @@ -804,10 +804,10 @@ } }, "Exports - partners": { - "text": "American Samoa 21%, United States 13%, New Zealand 12%, Australia 10%, Tokelau 6%, Taiwan 5% (2019)" + "text": "US 20%, New Zealand 16%, American Samoa 11%, Brazil 8%, Australia 7% (2021)" }, "Exports - commodities": { - "text": "refined petroleum, fish, fruit juice, coconut oil, beer (2019)" + "text": "coconut oil, insulated wiring, refined petroleum, integrated circuits, sardines, air pumps, tuna, lemons, beer (2021)" }, "Imports": { "Imports 2021": { @@ -821,10 +821,10 @@ } }, "Imports - partners": { - "text": "New Zealand 22%, China 16%, Singapore 13%, United States 10%, Australia 9%, South Korea 8%, Fiji 5% (2019)" + "text": "New Zealand 24%, China 19%, Singapore 11%, US 8%, Australia 7% (2021)" }, "Imports - commodities": { - "text": "refined petroleum, iron products, poultry meats, cars, insulated wiring (2019)" + "text": "refined petroleum, poultry meats, iron, lumber, processed fish, cars (2021)" }, "Reserves of foreign exchange and gold": { "Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 31 December 2021": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json index 2076fc43..56816d98 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json index 23e4f619..9b105df6 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 362-5225" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
embantbar@aol.com" + "text": "
embantbar@aol.com

https://www.antigua-barbuda.org/Aghome01.htm
" }, "consulate(s) general": { "text": "Miami, New York" @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json index 1845675d..5dc7d3f8 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json @@ -658,6 +658,13 @@ } } }, + "Energy": { + "Electricity access": { + "electrification - total population": { + "text": "100% (2020)" + } + } + }, "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json index cf532f2c..2db61ffe 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ "text": "Cabinet appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "the president is elected by an electoral college of both Houses of Parliament for a four year renewable term; election last held 20 October 2021; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or leader of the majority coalition usually appointed prime minister by the president; the prime minister recommends the deputy prime minister" + "text": "president elected by an electoral college of both Houses of Parliament for a 4-year renewable term; election last held on 20 October 2021; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or leader of the majority coalition usually appointed prime minister by the president; the prime minister recommends the deputy prime minister" }, "election results": { "text": "Sandra MASON elected as first president on 20 October 2021" @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 332-7467" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
washington@foreign.gov.bb" + "text": "
washington@foreign.gov.bb

https://www.foreign.gov.bb/embassies-high-commissions-and-permanent-missions/" }, "consulate(s) general": { "text": "Miami, New York" @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json index cd634536..5b6a5065 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json index b14322b7..ca9d427c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json @@ -904,13 +904,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "99.5% (2018)" + "text": "97.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "98.2% (2018)" + "text": "98.4% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "100% (2018)" + "text": "97% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json index 07e46a25..f4f786db 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json index d579fafe..2fb55703 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json @@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json index e61ccc54..428c24fa 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ "text": "Council of Ministers proposed by the president and appointed by the National Assembly" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president and vice president indirectly elected by the National Assembly for a 5-year term (may be reelected for another 5-year term); election last held on 19 April 2023 (next to be held NA)" + "text": "president and vice president indirectly elected by the National Assembly for a 5-year term (eligible for a second  term); election last held on 19 April 2023 (next to be held NA)" }, "election results": { "text": "
2023: Miguel DIAZ-CANEL Bermudez (PCC) reelected president; percent of National Assembly vote - 97.7%; Salvador Antonio VALDES Mesa (PCC) reelected vice president; percent of National Assembly vote - 93.4%

2019: Miguel DIAZ-CANEL Bermudez (PCC) elected president; percent of National Assembly vote - 98.8%; Salvador Antonio VALDES Mesa (PCC) elected vice president; percent of National Assembly vote - 98.1%

2018: Miguel DIAZ-CANEL Bermudez (PCC) elected president; percent of National Assembly vote - 98.8%; Salvador Antonio VALDES Mesa (PCC) elected vice president; percent of National Assembly vote - 100%" @@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ } }, "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)" + "text": "government owns and controls all broadcast media: eight national TV channels (Cubavision, Cubavision Plus, Tele Rebelde, Multivision, Educational Channel 1 and 2, Canal Clave, Canal Habana), two international channels (Cubavision Internacional and Canal Caribe), multiple regional TV stations, 7 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 (2023)" }, "Internet country code": { "text": ".cu" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json index 89acc976..b74aac62 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json index 5fe3d35f..70590c23 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json @@ -948,8 +948,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) less than 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "98.1% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - urban areas": { + "text": "98.7% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - rural areas": { + "text": "94.8% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json index f1483827..4e042616 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json @@ -933,14 +933,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) less than 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "97% (2019)" + "text": "97.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99% (2019)" + "text": "99.2% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "93% (2019)" + "text": "94% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json index 987a18d5..df37396c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json @@ -812,7 +812,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "95.3% (2018)" + "text": "93.7% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - urban areas": { + "text": "93% (2020)" + }, + "electrification - rural areas": { + "text": "96% (2020)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json index 1cdd2caa..1a048c8f 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json @@ -945,13 +945,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "92% (2019)" + "text": "97.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99% (2019)" + "text": "97.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "85% (2019)" + "text": "98.1% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json index 742ce838..8a65b0d7 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json @@ -921,14 +921,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 7 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "39% (2019)" + "text": "47.1% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "60% (2019)" + "text": "81.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "12% (2019)" + "text": "3% (2020)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json index 920b89c2..ee2e7924 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json @@ -932,14 +932,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 1 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "81% (2019)" + "text": "94.1% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "91% (2019)" + "text": "100% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "68% (2019)" + "text": "85.6% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json index c9bcae9f..02f9c19c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json @@ -1150,8 +1150,8 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Army of Nicaragua (Ejercito de Nicaragua, EN): Land Forces (Fuerza Terrestre); Naval Forces (Fuerza Naval); Air Forces (Fuerza Aérea); Nicaraguan National Police (Policía Nacional de Nicaragua  or PNN)  (2023)", - "note": "note: both the military and the police report directly to the president; Parapolice, which are nonuniformed, armed, and masked units with marginal tactical training and loose hierarchical organization, act in coordination with government security forces and report directly to the National Police; they have been used to suppress anti-government protesters " + "text": "Army of Nicaragua (Ejercito de Nicaragua, EN): Land Forces (Fuerza Terrestre); Naval Forces (Fuerza Naval); Air Forces (Fuerza Aérea) (2023)", + "note": "note: both the military and the Nicaraguan National Police (Policía Nacional de Nicaragua or PNN) report directly to the president; Parapolice, which are nonuniformed, armed, and masked units with marginal tactical training and loose hierarchical organization, act in coordination with government security forces and report directly to the National Police; they have been used to suppress anti-government protesters" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json index f783f892..d5f32e38 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ "text": "Cabinet sworn-in by the governor" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "the monarch is hereditary; governor appointed by the monarch; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party usually elected prime minister by the Parliament of Curacao; last election 19 March 2021 (next to be held in 2025)" + "text": "the monarch is hereditary; governor appointed by the monarch; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party usually elected prime minister by the Parliament of Curacao; election last held on 19 March 2021 (next to be held in 2025)" } }, "Legislative branch": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json index d1b52b18..e1c4a050 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/central-asia/rs.json b/central-asia/rs.json index 8c51f505..bfc859a6 100644 --- a/central-asia/rs.json +++ b/central-asia/rs.json @@ -1276,8 +1276,8 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Troops (Sukhoputnyye Voyskia, SV), Navy (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, VMF), Aerospace Forces (Vozdushno-Kosmicheskiye Sily, VKS); Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska, VDV), and Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (Raketnyye Voyska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN) referred to commonly as Strategic Rocket Forces, are independent \"combat arms,\" not subordinate to any of the three branches

Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (National Guard (FSVNG), Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya): created in 2016 as an independent agency for internal/regime security, combating terrorism and narcotics trafficking, protecting important state facilities and government personnel, and supporting border security; forces under the National Guard include the Special Purpose Mobile Units (OMON), Special Rapid Response Detachment (SOBR), and Interior Troops (VV); these troops were originally under the command of the Interior Ministry (MVD); also nominally under the National Guard’s command are the forces of Chechen Republic head Ramzan KADYROV

Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2022)", - "note": "note: the Air Force and Aerospace Defense Forces were merged into the VKS in 2015; VKS responsibilities also include launching military and dual‐use satellites, maintaining military satellites, and monitoring and defending against space threats" + "text": "Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Troops (Sukhoputnyye Voyskia, SV), Navy (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, VMF), Aerospace Forces (Vozdushno-Kosmicheskiye Sily, VKS); Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska, VDV), and Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (Raketnyye Voyska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN) referred to commonly as Strategic Rocket Forces, are independent \"combat arms,\" not subordinate to any of the three branches

Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya)

Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2022)", + "note": "note 1: the Air Force and Aerospace Defense Forces were merged into the VKS in 2015; VKS responsibilities also include launching military and dual‐use satellites, maintaining military satellites, and monitoring and defending against space threats

note 2: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Federal Security Service, Investigative Committee, Office of the Prosecutor General, and National Guard are responsible for law enforcement; the Federal Security Service is responsible for state security, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism, as well as for fighting organized crime and corruption; the national police force, under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is responsible for combating all crime

note 3: the National Guard was created in 2016 as an independent agency for internal/regime security, combating terrorism and narcotics trafficking, protecting important state facilities and government personnel, and supporting border security; it also participates in armed defense of the country’s territory in coordination with the Armed Forces; forces under the National Guard include the Special Purpose Mobile Units (OMON), Special Rapid Response Detachment (SOBR), and Interior Troops (VV); these troops were originally under the command of the Interior Ministry (MVD); also nominally under the National Guard’s command are the forces of Chechen Republic head Ramzan KADYROV" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2021": { @@ -1297,7 +1297,7 @@ } }, "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)", + "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 350,000-plus Federal National Guard Troops (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": { @@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ "note": "note 1: in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with an estimated 150,000 troops; prior to the invasion, it maintained an estimated 30,000 troops in areas of Ukraine occupied since 2014

note 2: prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was assessed to have about 3,000-5,000 private military contractors conducting military and security operations in Africa and the Middle East, including in the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, Sudan, and Syria" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "as of 2023, Russian military forces continued to conduct active combat operations in Syria; Russia intervened in the Syrian civil war at the request of the ASAD government in September 2015; Russian assistance included air support, special operations forces, military advisors, private military contractors, training, arms, and equipment

Russia is the leading member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and contributes approximately 8,000 troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force (2023)" + "text": "as of 2023, Russian military forces continued to conduct active combat operations in Syria; Russia intervened in the Syrian civil war at the request of the ASAD government in September 2015; Russian assistance included air support, special operations forces, military advisors, private military contractors, training, arms, and equipment

Russia is the leading member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and has committed approximately 8,000 troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json index 6e8e3637..e837fc0f 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json @@ -642,13 +642,13 @@ "text": "2300 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008" }, "telephone": { - "text": "[1] (202) 332-3344; [1] (202) 332-4350" + "text": "[1] (202) 332-3344" }, "FAX": { "text": "[1] (202) 332-4351" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
pyi.thayar@verizon.net; washington-embassy@mofa.gov.mm

http://www.mewashingtondc.org" + "text": "
washington-embassy@mofa.gov.mm

https://www.mewashingtondc.org/" }, "consulate(s) general": { "text": "Los Angeles, New York" @@ -966,14 +966,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 26 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "51% (2019)" + "text": "72.4% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "76% (2019)" + "text": "93.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "39% (2019)" + "text": "62.7% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json index ebfb0fec..c6a3c97b 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 885-0560" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
info@bruneiembassy.org

http://www.bruneiembassy.org/index.html
" + "text": "
info@bruneiembassy.org

http://www.bruneiembassy.org/index.html" }, "consulate(s)": { "text": "New York" @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json index c566038b..e08bccd2 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json @@ -940,14 +940,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 4 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "75% (2019)" + "text": "82.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "100% (2019)" + "text": "98.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "67% (2019)" + "text": "77.1% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json index 170473c0..10e47361 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json @@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json index c793b05b..6400f118 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json @@ -464,7 +464,8 @@ }, "election results": { "text": "

percent of vote by bloc: pro-Beijing 93%, non-establishment 7%; seats by block/party - pro-Beijing 89 (DAB 19, FTU 8, BPA 7, NPP 5, Liberal Party 4, FEW 2, FLU 2, other 46), non-establishment 1 (Third Side); composition - men 73, women 17, percent of women 18.9%; voter turnout 30.2%; note - Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy political parties boycotted the 2021 election


 

" - } + }, + "note": "note: in July 2023, Hong Kong lawmakers reduced the proportion of directly elected seats on local district councils from some 90% to about 20%; under the new law, the majority of the 470 seats would be filled by members appointed by the chief executive, rural committee chairpersons, and others elected by local committees that are packed with pro-establishment figures" }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json index 0cad3c86..ad8593db 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Indonesian National Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, TNI): Army (TNI-Angkatan Darat (TNI-AD)), Navy (TNI-Angkatan Laut (TNI-AL); includes Marine Corps (Korps Marinir or KorMar)), Air Force (TNI-Angkatan Udara (TNI-AU)) (2023)", - "note": "note 1: in 2014, Indonesia created a Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) to coordinate the actions of all maritime security agencies, including the Navy, the Indonesian Sea and Coast Guard (Kesatuan Penjagaan Laut dan Pantai, KPLP), the Water Police (Polair), Customs (Bea Cukai), and Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries

note 2: the Indonesian National Police, which reports directly to the president, includes a paramilitary Mobile Brigade Corps (BRIMOB); following the Bali terror bombing in 2002, the National Police formed a special counterterrorism force called Detachment 88 (Densus or Detasemen Khusus 88 Antiteror); Detachment 88 often works with the TNI's Joint Special Operations Command, which has counterterrorism and counterinsurgency units" + "note": "note 1: in 2014, Indonesia created a Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) to coordinate the actions of all maritime security agencies, including the Navy, the Indonesian Sea and Coast Guard (Kesatuan Penjagaan Laut dan Pantai, KPLP), the Water Police (Polair), Customs (Bea Cukai), and Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries

note 2: the Indonesian National Police, which reports directly to the president, includes a paramilitary Mobile Brigade Corps (BRIMOB); following the Bali terror bombing in 2002, the National Police formed a special counterterrorism force called Detachment 88 (Densus or Detasemen Khusus 88 Antiteror); Detachment 88 often works with the TNI's Joint Special Operations Command, which has counterterrorism and counterinsurgency units; the National Police are also bolstered by the KAMRA \"People's Security\" police auxiliaries" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json index a777a7e0..70d6a26d 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json @@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ "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 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 have 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)" + "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; the current JSDF is a trained and professional military equipped with modern weaponry; its primary concerns are China and North Korea, as well as protecting the country’s territorial waters, countering piracy and terrorism, and conducting humanitarian operations; it exercises regularly with the US military and increasingly with other regional countries, such as Australia; the ground forces are organized into 10 divisions and 11 independent brigades, which include airborne, air assault, and amphibious rapid reaction forces; the maritime force is one of the largest and most modern navies in the world; its principal warships include four helicopter carriers (two are undergoing conversion to light aircraft carriers), nearly 50 destroyers and frigates/destroyer escorts, three landing platform/dock (LPD) amphibious assault ships, and more than 20 attack-type submarines; it also has a large force of maritime aircraft, including over 150 for anti-submarine warfare; the Air Self Defense Force has over 300 modern combat aircraft, as well as more than 200 other aircraft for surveillance, early warning, electronic warfare, search and rescue, transportation, and logistics

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 have 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

Article 9 of Japan’s 1947 constitution renounced the use of force as a means of settling international disputes; however, Japan has interpreted Article 9 to mean that it can maintain a military for national defense purposes and, since 1991, has allowed the JSDF to participate in noncombat roles overseas in a number of UN peacekeeping missions and in the US-led coalition in Iraq; in 2014-2015 the Japanese Government reinterpreted the constitution as allowing for \"collective self-defense,\" described as the use of force on others’ behalf if Japan’s security was threatened; in 2022, the government released three documents that provided a blueprint that could fundamentally reshape Japan’s approach to its security; the documents labeled China as an “unprecedented strategic challenge,” declared Japan’s intention to develop \"counterstrike” capabilities, including cruise missiles and armed drones, and outlined plans to increase Japan’s security-related expenditures to 2% of its national gross domestic product (GDP), in line with NATO standards; post-war Japan generally has limited defense spending to 1% of its GDP (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json index 85995a29..286f61f4 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "following years of isolationism and economic under-achievement, North Korea languishes near the bottom of the world’s telecom maturity index alongside Afghanistan and Turkmenistan (who also happen to be struggling under repressive political regimes); the obstacles to building a functioning telecom network are so numerous that a fixed-line segment barely exists; mobile communication is estimated to have eased up slightly to reach 19% in 2021, yet the high cost of ownership coupled with strict censorship makes mobile communications the exclusive domain of senior government officials and diplomats; for those citizens living close to China, it has been possible to obtain Chinese handsets and SIM cards, and to connect to towers (illegally) located just across the border; while this offers access to the outside world and at much lower prices than the state-controlled offerings, the risks are high including steep fines and the possibility of jail time; North Korea has been slightly more effective in building an IT sector and a nascent digital economy on the back of a concerted effort to grow a sizeable, well-trained IT workforce; but even here, its capabilities have been directed more towards nefarious activities such as cyber crime and hacking into Western countries’ computer systems; North Korea’s determination to put itself offside with the rest of the world in pursuit of its ideology can only lead to tighter controls on communications inside and outside of the country (2022)" + "text": "despite years of isolationism, economic under-achievement, and international sanctions, North Korea has improved its telecommunications infrastructure in the last decade; Inconsistent electric power supply and likely difficulties procuring new hardware, however, present enduring obstacles to building reliable high-speed telecom networks; mobile phone use is estimated to have increased to nearly 25% of the polulation as of 2018, yet the high cost of ownership makes mobile communications inaccessible to North Koreans of lower socioeconomic status; strict regime censorship and monitoring of telecom systems in North Korea restricts users from legally contacting anyone outside the country or accessing the global Internet; for those citizens living close to China, it has been possible to illegally obtain Chinese handsets and SIM cards, and to connect to towers located just across the border; while this offers access to the outside world and at much lower prices than the state-controlled offerings, the risks are high including steep fines and the possibility of jail time; North Korea has been effective in building an IT sector and a nascent digital economy on the back of a concerted effort to grow a sizeable, well-trained IT workforce; but even here, its capabilities have been directed more towards nefarious activities such as cyber crime and hacking into foreign countries’ computer and financial systems; North Korea’s determination to maintain ideological control of its populace by isolating itself from the rest of the world will probably lead to tighter controls on communications inside and outside of the country (2023)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-lines are approximately 5 per 100 and mobile-cellular 23 per 100 persons (2021)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json index 83f43142..92d9fe17 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json @@ -1229,20 +1229,20 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "approximately 555,000 active duty personnel (420,000 Army; 70,000 Navy, including about 30,000 Marines; 65,000 Air Force) (2022)" + "text": "approximately 555,000 active-duty personnel (420,000 Army; 70,000 Navy, including about 30,000 Marines; 65,000 Air Force) (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the South Korean military is equipped with a mix of domestically produced and imported weapons systems; South Korea has a robust defense industry and production includes armored fighting vehicles, artillery, aircraft, naval ships, and missiles; its weapons are designed to be compatible with US and NATO systems; in recent years the top foreign weapons supplier has been the US, and some domestically produced systems are built under US license (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18-35 years of age for compulsory military service for all men; minimum conscript service obligation varies by service - 18 months (Army, Marines), 20 months (Navy), 21 months (Air Force); 18-26 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women (2022)", + "text": "18-35 years of age for compulsory military service for all men; minimum conscript service obligation varies by service - 18 months (Army, Marines, auxiliary police), 20 months (Navy, conscripted firefighters), 21 months (Air Force, social service), 36 months for alternative service; 18-26 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women (2022)", "note": "note 1: women, in service since 1950, are able to serve in all branches, including as officers, and in 2020 comprised about 7.5% of the active duty military

note 2: in 2022, about 330,000 of the military's active personnel were conscripts; the military brings on over 200,000 conscripts each year" }, "Military deployments": { "text": "275 Lebanon (UNIFIL); 280 South Sudan (UNMISS); 170 United Arab Emirates; note - since 2009, South Korea has kept a naval flotilla with approximately 300 personnel in the waters off of the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the South Korean military is a professional and well-equipped force that trains regularly, including bilateral and multinational exercises; the military is primarily focused on the threat from North Korea but also deploys abroad for multinational missions, including peacekeeping and other security operations

South Korea's primary defense partner is the US, and the 1953 US-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty is a cornerstone of South Korea’s security; the Treaty committed the US to provide assistance in the event of an attack, particularly from North Korea; in addition, the Treaty gave the US permission to station land, air, and sea forces in and about the territory of South Korea as determined by mutual agreement; the US maintains approximately 28,000 military personnel in the country and conducts bilateral exercises with the South Korean military; South Korea 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; the South Korean military has assisted the US in conflicts in Afghanistan (5,000 troops; 2001-2014), Iraq (20,000 troops; 2003-2008), and Vietnam (325,000 troops; 1964-1973)

in 2016, South Korea concluded an agreement with the EU for participation in EU Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) missions and operations, such as the EU Naval Force Somalia – Operation Atalanta, which protects maritime shipping and conducts counter-piracy operations off the coast of East Africa

South Korea has been engaged with NATO through dialogue and security cooperation since 2005 and is considered by NATO to be a global partner; in 2022, South Korea established its Mission to NATO to further institutionalize its cooperative relationship; it has participated in NATO-led missions and exercises, including leading an integrated civilian-military reconstruction team in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, 2010-2013; it has also cooperated with NATO in countering the threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden by providing naval vessels as escorts

in addition to the invasion of South Korea and the subsequent Korean War (1950-53), North Korea from the 1960s to the 1980s launched a considerable number of limited military and subversive actions against South Korea using special forces and terrorist tactics; including aggressive skirmishes along the DMZ, overt attempts to assassinate South Korean leaders, kidnappings, the bombing of an airliner, and a failed effort in 1968 to foment an insurrection and conduct a guerrilla war in the South with more than 100 seaborne commandos; from the 1990s until 2010, the North lost two submarines and a semi-submersible boat attempting to insert infiltrators into the South (1996, 1998) and provoked several engagements in the Northwest Islands area along the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL), including naval skirmishes between patrol boats in 1999 and 2002, the torpedoing and sinking of a South Korean corvette, the Cheonan, in 2010, and the bombardment of a South Korean Marine Corps installation on Yeonpyeong Island, also in 2010; since 2010, further minor incidents continue to occur periodically along the DMZ, where both the North and the South Korean militaries maintain large numbers of troops

in 2018, North Korea and South Korea signed a tension reduction agreement known as the Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA), which established land, sea, and air buffer zones along the DMZ and the NLL; implementation of the CMA required the removal of some land mines and guard posts; the efforts led to a reduction of military activity within the DMZ, but North Korea has failed to uphold much of its side of the agreement (2023)" + "text": "the South Korean military is a mixed force of professionals and conscripts equipped largely with modern weapon systems that trains regularly, including bilateral and multinational exercises; the military is primarily focused on the threat from North Korea but also deploys abroad for multinational missions, including peacekeeping and other security operations

South Korea's primary defense partner is the US, and the 1953 US-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty is a cornerstone of South Korea’s security; the Treaty committed the US to provide assistance in the event of an attack, particularly from North Korea; in addition, the Treaty gave the US permission to station land, air, and sea forces in and about the territory of South Korea as determined by mutual agreement; the US maintains approximately 28,000 military personnel in the country and conducts bilateral exercises with the South Korean military; South Korea 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; the South Korean military has assisted the US in conflicts in Afghanistan (5,000 troops; 2001-2014), Iraq (20,000 troops; 2003-2008), and Vietnam (325,000 troops; 1964-1973)

in 2016, South Korea concluded an agreement with the EU for participation in EU Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) missions and operations, such as the EU Naval Force Somalia – Operation Atalanta, which protects maritime shipping and conducts counter-piracy operations off the coast of East Africa

South Korea has been engaged with NATO through dialogue and security cooperation since 2005 and is considered by NATO to be a global partner; in 2022, South Korea established its Mission to NATO to further institutionalize its cooperative relationship; it has participated in NATO-led missions and exercises, including leading an integrated civilian-military reconstruction team in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, 2010-2013; it has also cooperated with NATO in countering the threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden by providing naval vessels as escorts

in addition to the invasion of South Korea and the subsequent Korean War (1950-53), North Korea from the 1960s to the 1980s launched a considerable number of limited military and subversive actions against South Korea using special forces and terrorist tactics; including aggressive skirmishes along the DMZ, overt attempts to assassinate South Korean leaders, kidnappings, the bombing of an airliner, and a failed effort in 1968 to foment an insurrection and conduct a guerrilla war in the South with more than 100 seaborne commandos; from the 1990s until 2010, the North lost two submarines and a semi-submersible boat attempting to insert infiltrators into the South (1996, 1998) and provoked several engagements in the Northwest Islands area along the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL), including naval skirmishes between patrol boats in 1999 and 2002, the torpedoing and sinking of a South Korean corvette, the Cheonan, in 2010, and the bombardment of a South Korean Marine Corps installation on Yeonpyeong Island, also in 2010; since 2010, further minor incidents continue to occur periodically along the DMZ, where both the North and the South Korean militaries maintain large numbers of troops

in 2018, North Korea and South Korea signed a tension reduction agreement known as the Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA), which established land, sea, and air buffer zones along the DMZ and the NLL; implementation of the CMA required the removal of some land mines and guard posts; the efforts led to a reduction of military activity within the DMZ, but North Korea has failed to uphold much of its side of the agreement (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/europe/al.json b/europe/al.json index 4d0db763..68c7f458 100644 --- a/europe/al.json +++ b/europe/al.json @@ -1191,8 +1191,11 @@ "note": "note: the State Police are primarily responsible for internal security, including counterterrorism, while the Guard of the Republic protects senior state officials, foreign dignitaries, and certain state properties" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2021)" @@ -1202,9 +1205,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.5% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "1,948 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 44,396 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-May 2023)" + "note": "note: 45,082 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

a source country for cannabis and an active transshipment point for Albanian narco-trafficking organizations moving illicit drugs into European markets

" diff --git a/europe/an.json b/europe/an.json index c0fd09cd..49c31265 100644 --- a/europe/an.json +++ b/europe/an.json @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Refined petroleum products - production": { diff --git a/europe/au.json b/europe/au.json index 7badeda5..5c7e8564 100644 --- a/europe/au.json +++ b/europe/au.json @@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ }, "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); 99,590 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" + "text": "67,588 (Syria), 43,725 (Afghanistan), 10,110 (Iraq), 8,684 (Somalia), 7,294 (Iran), 6,124 (Russia) (mid-year 2022); 99,870 (Ukraine) (as of 3 July 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "3,219 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/be.json b/europe/be.json index ed3e14d5..99e16e22 100644 --- a/europe/be.json +++ b/europe/be.json @@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1225,6 +1225,9 @@ "note": "note: the Belgian Federal Police is the national police force and responsible for internal security and nationwide law and order, including migration and border enforcement; the force reports to the ministers of interior and justice " }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.13% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1236,9 +1239,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "0.9% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "0.9% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { diff --git a/europe/bk.json b/europe/bk.json index b8a76d4a..fc40e66d 100644 --- a/europe/bk.json +++ b/europe/bk.json @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "48 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 124,160 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" + "note": "note: 126,628 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-July 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets

" diff --git a/europe/bo.json b/europe/bo.json index 49c1c8f3..e7bbd365 100644 --- a/europe/bo.json +++ b/europe/bo.json @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/europe/bu.json b/europe/bu.json index 7266206c..2490c3ed 100644 --- a/europe/bu.json +++ b/europe/bu.json @@ -604,13 +604,13 @@ "text": "1621 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20008" }, "telephone": { - "text": "[1] (202) 387 5770; [1] (202) 387-0174; [1] (202) 299-0273, [1] (202) 483-1386" + "text": "[1] (202) 387 5770" }, "FAX": { "text": "[1] (202) 234-7973" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
office@bulgaria-embassy.org; 
Embassy.Washington@mfa.bg

https://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/en/homepage/" + "text": "
office@bulgaria-embassy.org

https://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/en/homepage/" }, "consulate(s) general": { "text": "Chicago, Los Angeles, New York" @@ -946,7 +946,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "99.8% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - urban areas": { + "text": "99.9% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - rural areas": { + "text": "99.5% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1232,6 +1238,9 @@ "note": "note: the GDMP includes the Gendarmerie, a special police force with military status deployed to secure important facilities, buildings and infrastructure, to respond to riots, and to counter militant threats" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1243,9 +1252,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "3.1% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.5% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1275,7 +1281,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "22,226 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 161,420 (Ukraine) (as of 12 June 2023)" + "text": "22,226 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 162,935 (Ukraine) (as of 27 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,129 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/cy.json b/europe/cy.json index a0ef9b95..9aeb2671 100644 --- a/europe/cy.json +++ b/europe/cy.json @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president; note - under the 1960 constitution, 3 of the ministerial posts reserved for Turkish Cypriots, appointed by the vice president; positions currently filled by Greek Cypriots" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term; election last held on held 5 February 2023 with a runoff on 12 February 2023 (next to be held in 2028)" + "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (limited to 2 consecutive terms); election last held on held 5 February 2023 with a runoff on 12 February 2023 (next to be held in 2028)" }, "election results": { "text": "2023: Nikos CHRISTODOULIDIS elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Nikos CHRISTODOULIDIS (independent) 32%, Andreas MAVROGIIANNIS (independent) 29.6%, Averof NEOFYTOU (DISY) 26.1%, Christos CHRISTOU (ELAM) 6%, other 6.3%; percent of vote in second round - Nikos CHRISTODOULIDS 52%, Andreas MAVROGIANNIS 48%

2018: Nikos ANASTASIADIS reelected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Nikos ANASTASIADIS (DISY) 35.5%, Stavros MALAS (AKEL) 30.2%, Nicolas PAPADOPOULOS (DIKO) 25.7%, other 8.6%; percent of vote in second round - Nikos ANASTASIADIS 56%, Stavros MALAS 44%

2013: Nikos ANASTASIADIS elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Nikos ANASTASIADIS 45.5% (DISY), Stavros  MALAS 26.9% (AKEL), Georgos LILLIKAS 24.9% (SP), other 2.7%; percent of vote in second round - Nikos ANASTASIADIS 57.5%, Savros MALAS 42.5%" @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "10,869 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 18,680 (Ukraine) (as of 4 June 2023)" + "text": "10,869 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 18,680 (Ukraine) (as of 25 June 2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "242,000 (both Turkish and Greek Cypriots; many displaced since 1974) (2021)" @@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "74 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 52,826 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-May 2023)" + "note": "note: 53,552 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

the ROC financial system is vulnerable to money laundering by domestic and foreign criminals; proceeds generated by illicit activity abroad pose a greater threat; primary sources of illicit proceeds are investment fraud, corruption, advance fee fraud, tax evasion, illegal drugs, and tobacco smuggling. Additionally, cybercrime, especially phishing, e-mail hacking, and ransomware use, continues to increase. Criminals have reportedly used ROC banks to launder proceeds, particularly from Russian and Ukrainian illicit activity.

 

" diff --git a/europe/da.json b/europe/da.json index 1b0e83cb..cb4636e7 100644 --- a/europe/da.json +++ b/europe/da.json @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1184,6 +1184,9 @@ "note": "note: the Danish military maintains a joint service Arctic Command with the mission of protecting the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark in the Arctic Region, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland; the command also conducts maritime pollution prevention, environmental monitoring, fishery inspections, search and rescue, hydrographical surveys, and provides support to governmental science missions" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1195,9 +1198,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "19,424 (Syria), 5,885 (Eritrea) (mid-year 2022); 42,325 (Ukraine) (as of 21 May 2023)" + "text": "19,424 (Syria), 5,885 (Eritrea) (mid-year 2022); 41,305 (Ukraine) (as of 29 May 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "11,644 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/ee.json b/europe/ee.json index be192ef2..a5f33383 100644 --- a/europe/ee.json +++ b/europe/ee.json @@ -658,6 +658,17 @@ } }, "Energy": { + "Electricity access": { + "electrification - total population": { + "text": "99.9% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - urban areas": { + "text": "99.9% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - rural areas": { + "text": "99.9% (2021)" + } + }, "Refined petroleum products - production": { "text": "11.66 million bbl/day (2016 est.)" }, @@ -753,7 +764,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "

the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) provides the civilian, military, and political structures for EU crisis management and security issues; the highest bodies are:

the Political and Security Committee (PSC), which meets at the ambassadorial level as a preparatory body for the Council of the EU; it assists with defining policies and preparing a crisis response

the European Union Military Committee (EUMC) is the EU's highest military body; it is composed of the chiefs of defense (CHODs) of the Member States, who are regularly represented by their permanent Military Representatives; the EUMC provides the PSC with advice and recommendations on all military matters within the EU

the Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CIVCOM) provides advice and recommendations to the PSC in parallel with the EUMC on civilian aspects of crisis management

the Politico-Military Group (PMG) provides advice and recommendations to the PSC on political aspects of EU military and civil-military issues, including concepts, capabilities and operations and missions, and monitors implementation

other bodies set up under the CSDP include the Security and Defense Policy Directorate (SECDEFPOL), the Integrated approach for Security and Peace Directorate (ISP), the EU Military Staff (EUMS), the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC), the Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), the European Defense Agency, the European Security and Defense College (ESDC), the EU Institute for Security Studies, and the EU Satellite Center (2023)

", - "note": "note: in 2017, the EU set up the Permanent Structured Cooperation on Defense (PESCO), a mechanism for deepening defense cooperation amongst member states through binding commitments and collaborative programs on a variety of military-related capabilities such as cyber, maritime surveillance, medical support, operational readiness, procurement, and training; similar efforts to promote collaboration and cooperation that same year amongst members included the Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), the Coordinated Annual Review on Defense (CARD), and the European Defense Fund (EDF)" + "note": "note 1: Frontex is the European Border and Coast Guard Agency that supports EU Member States and Schengen-associated countries in the management of the EU’s external borders and the fight against cross-border crime; it has a standing corps of uniformed border guard officers directly employed by Frontex as staff members and regularly deployed to border guarding missions, plus thousands of other officers seconded by EU member states

note 2: in 2017, the EU set up the Permanent Structured Cooperation on Defense (PESCO), a mechanism for deepening defense cooperation amongst member states through binding commitments and collaborative programs on a variety of military-related capabilities such as cyber, maritime surveillance, medical support, operational readiness, procurement, and training; similar efforts to promote collaboration and cooperation that same year amongst members included the Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), the Coordinated Annual Review on Defense (CARD), and the European Defense Fund (EDF)" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { diff --git a/europe/en.json b/europe/en.json index 4a9de9bc..c4243e6b 100644 --- a/europe/en.json +++ b/europe/en.json @@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1190,20 +1190,20 @@ "text": "Estonian Defense Forces: Land Forces, Navy, Air Force, Estonian Defense League (Reserves)

Ministry of Interior: Police, Border Guard Board, Internal Security Service (2023)" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "2.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "2.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2.2% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "2% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { - "text": "2.4% of GDP (2020)" + "text": "2.3% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "2% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "2% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { diff --git a/europe/ez.json b/europe/ez.json index 68c49b40..642bcb44 100644 --- a/europe/ez.json +++ b/europe/ez.json @@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1189,8 +1189,11 @@ "text": "Czech Armed Forces: Land Forces, Air Forces, Cyber Forces, Special Forces (2023)" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2021)" @@ -1200,9 +1203,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.2% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.1% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "528,045 (Ukraine) (as of 18 June 2023)" + "text": "533,490 (Ukraine) (as of 2 July 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,625 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/fi.json b/europe/fi.json index 4f4c344a..9459674b 100644 --- a/europe/fi.json +++ b/europe/fi.json @@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1236,6 +1236,9 @@ "note": "note: the Border Guard (Rajavartiolaitos) and National Police are under the Ministry of the Interior; the Border Guard becomes part of the FDF in wartime" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1247,9 +1250,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.4% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "9,175 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 56,750 (Ukraine) (as of 23 May 2023)" + "text": "9,175 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 55,600 (Ukraine) (as of 4 July 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "3,546 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/fo.json b/europe/fo.json index 9816fcb8..ce1d9900 100644 --- a/europe/fo.json +++ b/europe/fo.json @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/europe/fr.json b/europe/fr.json index f3a79d24..a0c584d4 100644 --- a/europe/fr.json +++ b/europe/fr.json @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ }, "Economy": { "Economic overview": { - "text": "high-income, advanced and diversified EU economy and euro user; strong tourism, aircraft manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and industrial sectors; ongoing pension reform protests; high public debts and COVID-19 spending increases; global environmental leader" + "text": "high-income, advanced and diversified EU economy and euro user; strong tourism, aircraft manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and industrial sectors; strong US partner; ongoing pension reform protests and civil unrest; transitioning to a green economy via \"France 2030\" strategy" }, "Real GDP (purchasing power parity)": { "Real GDP (purchasing power parity) 2021": { @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ } }, "Exports - partners": { - "text": "Germany 14%, United States 8%, Italy 7%, Spain 7%, Belgium 7%, United Kingdom 7% (2019)" + "text": "Germany 13%, Italy 8%, Belgium 8%, United States 7%, Spain 7% (2021)" }, "Exports - commodities": { "text": "aircraft, packaged medicines, cars and vehicle parts, wine, beauty products, gas turbines (2021)" @@ -932,10 +932,10 @@ } }, "Imports - partners": { - "text": "Germany 18%, Belgium 9%, Italy 9%, Spain 7%, China 7%, Netherlands 6%, United Kingdom 5% (2019)" + "text": "Germany 17%, Italy 9%, Belgium 9%, Spain 8%, Netherlands 8% (2021)" }, "Imports - commodities": { - "text": "cars, crude petroleum, refined petroleum, packaged medicines, aircraft machinery (2019)" + "text": "cars and vehicle parts, refined petroleum, natural gas, packaged medicines, crude petroleum (2021)" }, "Reserves of foreign exchange and gold": { "Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 31 December 2021": { @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1287,6 +1287,9 @@ "note": "note: under the direction of the Ministry of the Interior, the civilian National Police and the National Gendarmerie maintain internal security; the National Gendarmerie is a paramilitary police force that is a branch of the Armed Forces and therefore part of the Ministry of Defense but under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior; it also has additional duties to the Ministry of Justice; the Gendarmerie includes the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale or GIGN), an elite national-level tactical police unit set up in 1973 in response to the 1972 Munich massacre" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1298,9 +1301,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.8% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.8% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "55,681 (Afghanistan), 39,091 (Syria), 33,834 (Sri Lanka), 33,148 (Russia), 31,935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 24,223 (Sudan), 21,225 (Guinea), 18,008 (Serbia and Kosovo), 17,032 (Turkey), 13,974 (Iraq), 12,286 (Cote d'Ivoire), 11,489 (Eritrea), 11,012 (Cambodia), 10,543 (China), 10,236 (Albania), 10,210 (Somalia), 8,858 (Bangladesh), 8,124 (Mauritania), 8,101 (Mali), 7,991 (Vietnam), 6,913 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 6,910 (Haiti), 6,808 (Angola), 6,498 (Laos), 6,417 (Armenia), 6,111 (Nigeria), 5,896 (Georgia) (mid-year 2022); 118,994 (Ukraine) (as of 31 October 2022)" + "text": "55,681 (Afghanistan), 39,091 (Syria), 33,834 (Sri Lanka), 33,148 (Russia), 31,935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 24,223 (Sudan), 21,225 (Guinea), 18,008 (Serbia and Kosovo), 17,032 (Turkey), 13,974 (Iraq), 12,286 (Cote d'Ivoire), 11,489 (Eritrea), 11,012 (Cambodia), 10,543 (China), 10,236 (Albania), 10,210 (Somalia), 8,858 (Bangladesh), 8,124 (Mauritania), 8,101 (Mali), 7,991 (Vietnam), 6,913 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 6,910 (Haiti), 6,808 (Angola), 6,498 (Laos), 6,417 (Armenia), 6,111 (Nigeria), 5,896 (Georgia) (mid-year 2022); 70,570 (Ukraine) (as of 31 December 2022)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "3,633 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/gi.json b/europe/gi.json index 6ac5aa86..ba361d7d 100644 --- a/europe/gi.json +++ b/europe/gi.json @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/europe/gk.json b/europe/gk.json index 7fe2853b..256d55e3 100644 --- a/europe/gk.json +++ b/europe/gk.json @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } } }, diff --git a/europe/gm.json b/europe/gm.json index 94fcfc9c..266add00 100644 --- a/europe/gm.json +++ b/europe/gm.json @@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1257,6 +1257,9 @@ "note": "note: responsibility for internal and border security is shared by the police forces of the 16 states, the Federal Criminal Police Office, and the Federal Police; the states’ police forces report to their respective interior ministries while the Federal Police forces report to the Federal Ministry of the Interior" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.6% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1269,9 +1272,6 @@ "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2019)" }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018)" - }, "note": "note: in 2022, the German Government said defense spending would reach 2% of GDP by 2025" }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ "note": "note: Germany in 2020 announced it planned to increase the size of the military to about 200,000 troops by 2025" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the German Federal Armed Forces inventory is comprised of weapons systems produced domestically or jointly with other European countries and Western imports, particularly from the US; in recent years, the US has been the leading foreign supplier; Germany's defense industry is capable of manufacturing the full spectrum of air, land, and naval military weapons systems, and is one of the world's leading arms exporters (2023)" + "text": "the German Federal Armed Forces inventory is comprised of weapons systems produced domestically or jointly with other European countries and Western imports, particularly from the US; in recent years, the US has been the leading foreign supplier; Germany's defense industry is capable of manufacturing the full spectrum of air, land, and naval military weapons systems, and is one of the world's leading arms exporters; it also participates in joint defense production projects with the US and European partners (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "17-23 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women (must have completed compulsory full-time education and have German citizenship); conscription ended July 2011; service obligation 7-23 months or 12 years; in July 2020, the government launched a new voluntary conscript initiative focused on homeland security tasks; volunteers serve for 7 months plus 5 months as reservists over a 6 year period (2023)", @@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "664,238 (Syria), 183,631 (Afghanistan), 151,254 (Iraq), 64,496 (Eritrea), 47,658 (Iran), 38,755 (Turkey), 32,155 (Somalia), 13,334 (Russia), 12,155 (Nigeria), 9,250 (Pakistan), 6,257 (Serbia and Kosovo), 6,912 (Ethiopia), 5,532 (Azerbaijan) (mid-year 2022); 958,590 (Ukraine) (as of 25 June 2023)" + "text": "664,238 (Syria), 183,631 (Afghanistan), 151,254 (Iraq), 64,496 (Eritrea), 47,658 (Iran), 38,755 (Turkey), 32,155 (Somalia), 13,334 (Russia), 12,155 (Nigeria), 9,250 (Pakistan), 6,257 (Serbia and Kosovo), 6,912 (Ethiopia), 5,532 (Azerbaijan) (mid-year 2022); 1,076,680 (Ukraine) (as of 25 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "28,941 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/gr.json b/europe/gr.json index 9a011d52..72113f7b 100644 --- a/europe/gr.json +++ b/europe/gr.json @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1188,20 +1188,20 @@ "note": "note 1: the police (under the Ministry of Citizen Protection) and the armed forces (Ministry of National Defense) share law enforcement duties in certain border areas; border protection is coordinated by a deputy minister for national defense; the Greek Coast Guard is under the Ministry of Shipping Affairs and Island Policy

note 2: the National Guard was established in 1982 as an official part of the Army to help protect Greece and provide reinforcements and support to the Army in peacetime and in times of mobilization and war; members undergo weekly training run by the Army, which also provides weapons and ammunition" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "3% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "3.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "3.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "3.6% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "3.7% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "2.9% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { - "text": "2.3% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "2.5% of GDP (2018)" + "text": "2.5% of GDP (2019)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1234,12 +1234,12 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "41,594 (Syria), 33,549 (Afghanistan), 14,228 (Iraq), 6,366 (West Bank and Gaza) (mid-year 2022); 24,985 (Ukraine) (as of 30 April 2023)" + "text": "41,594 (Syria), 33,549 (Afghanistan), 14,228 (Iraq), 6,366 (West Bank and Gaza) (mid-year 2022); 23,780 (Ukraine) (as of 30 April 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "4,488 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 1,240,020 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" + "note": "note: 1,241,248 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-July 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 657a1ca7..9d754d70 100644 --- a/europe/hr.json +++ b/europe/hr.json @@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1207,20 +1207,20 @@ "note": "note: the Ministry of the Interior is responsible for internal security, including law enforcement (Croatia Police) and border security" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.8% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.9% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2.2% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "2% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "1.7% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.6% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.6% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1247,12 +1247,12 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "23,305 (Ukraine) (as of 23 June 2023)" + "text": "22,550 (Ukraine) (as of 30 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "2,889 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 807,324 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-May 2023)" + "note": "note: 813,368 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets

 

" diff --git a/europe/hu.json b/europe/hu.json index ae61c59a..0a33e873 100644 --- a/europe/hu.json +++ b/europe/hu.json @@ -1217,20 +1217,20 @@ "note": "note: the National Police are under the Ministry of Interior and responsible for maintaining order nationwide; the Ministry of Interior also has the Counterterrorism Center, a special police force responsible for protecting the president and the prime minister and for preventing, uncovering, and detecting terrorist acts" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "1.8% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "1.7% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "1.8% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1% of GDP (2018)" + "text": "1.4% of GDP (2019)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "36,315 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" + "text": "36,330 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "130 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/it.json b/europe/it.json index f53d3dfd..31f29397 100644 --- a/europe/it.json +++ b/europe/it.json @@ -1217,20 +1217,20 @@ "note": "note 1: the National Police and Carabinieri (gendarmerie or military police) maintain internal security; the National Police reports to the Ministry of Interior while the Carabinieri reports to the Ministry of Defense but is also under the coordination of the Ministry of Interior; the Carabinieri is primarily a domestic police force organized along military lines, with some overseas responsibilities

note 2: the Financial Guard (Guardia di Finanza) under the Ministry of Economy and Finance is a force with military status and nationwide remit for financial crime investigations, including narcotics trafficking, smuggling, and illegal immigration" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022)" + "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "1.5% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "1.6% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "1.6% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.2% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.2% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1263,12 +1263,12 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "21,441 (Nigeria), 17,706 (Afghanistan), 17,619 (Pakistan), 11,193 (Mali), 8,405 (Somalia), 6,324 (Gambia), 5,768 (Bangladesh), 5,463 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 175,107 (Ukraine) (as of 19 May 2023)" + "text": "21,441 (Nigeria), 17,706 (Afghanistan), 17,619 (Pakistan), 11,193 (Mali), 8,405 (Somalia), 6,324 (Gambia), 5,768 (Bangladesh), 5,463 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 183,685 (Ukraine) (as of 2 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "3,000 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 757,022 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" + "note": "note: 767,851 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-July 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/lg.json b/europe/lg.json index cc5ae7a0..213fb35f 100644 --- a/europe/lg.json +++ b/europe/lg.json @@ -1187,13 +1187,13 @@ }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2023": { - "text": "2.25% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "2.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "2.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2.2% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "2.1% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "2.2% of GDP (2020)" diff --git a/europe/lh.json b/europe/lh.json index 754c90b0..f9e154c7 100644 --- a/europe/lh.json +++ b/europe/lh.json @@ -1212,20 +1212,20 @@ "note": "note 1: the National Rifleman's Union is a civilian paramilitary organization supported by the Lithuanian Government that cooperates with the military but is not part of it; however, in a state of war, its armed formations would fall under the armed forces

note 2: the Lithuanian Police and State Border Guard Service are under the Ministry of Interior; in wartime, the State Border Guard Service becomes part of the armed forces" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "2.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2% of GDP (2021 est.)" + "text": "2% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "2.1% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "2% of GDP (2019) (approximately $1.7 billion)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "2% of GDP (2018) (approximately $1.59 billion)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "77,490 (Ukraine) (as of 2 June 2023)" + "text": "78,405 (Ukraine) (as of 4 July 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "2,720 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/lo.json b/europe/lo.json index 35cb3129..0b266fb5 100644 --- a/europe/lo.json +++ b/europe/lo.json @@ -1179,6 +1179,9 @@ "text": "Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic (Ozbrojene Sily Slovenskej Republiky): Land Forces (Slovenské Pozemné Sily), Air Forces (Slovenské Vzdušné Sily), Special Operations Forces (Sily Pre Speciálne Operácie) (2022)" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1186,13 +1189,10 @@ "text": "1.7% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { - "text": "2% of GDP (2020)" + "text": "1.9% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.7% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.2% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "119,505 (Ukraine) (as of 25 June 2023)" + "text": "119,505 (Ukraine) (as of 2 July 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "2,940 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/lu.json b/europe/lu.json index fcfdc52c..287a715c 100644 --- a/europe/lu.json +++ b/europe/lu.json @@ -1149,6 +1149,9 @@ "note": "note: the Grand Ducal Police maintain internal security and report to the Ministry of Internal Security" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "0.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "0.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1159,10 +1162,7 @@ "text": "0.6% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { - "text": "0.5% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "0.5% of GDP (2018)" + "text": "0.6% of GDP (2019)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { diff --git a/europe/mj.json b/europe/mj.json index 4c953543..8c57e941 100644 --- a/europe/mj.json +++ b/europe/mj.json @@ -1200,6 +1200,9 @@ "note": "note: the National Police Force, which includes Border Police, is responsible for maintaining internal security; it is organized under the Police Administration within the Ministry of Interior and reports to the police director and, through the director, to the minister of interior and prime minister" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1211,9 +1214,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.4% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1238,12 +1238,12 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "14,180 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" + "text": "38,540 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "468 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 31,218 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" + "note": "note: 31,515 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-July 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets

" diff --git a/europe/mk.json b/europe/mk.json index 7720b515..a2c2bf56 100644 --- a/europe/mk.json +++ b/europe/mk.json @@ -1138,6 +1138,9 @@ "note": "note: the Police of Macedonia maintain internal security, including migration and border enforcement, and report to the Ministry of the Interior" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1145,20 +1148,17 @@ "text": "1.5% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2020)" + "text": "1.2% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.2% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "0.9% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { "text": "approximately 6,000 active-duty personnel (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory consists mostly of Soviet-era equipment, although in recent years it has received small amounts of more modern equipment from countries such as Turkey and the US (2022)" + "text": "the military's inventory consists mostly of Soviet-era equipment, although in recent years it has received small amounts of more modern equipment from countries such as Turkey and the US (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2007 (2023)", @@ -1180,12 +1180,12 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "6,768 (Ukraine) (as of 8 May 2023)" + "text": "7,620 (Ukraine) (as of 11 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "521 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 554,793 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-May 2023)" + "note": "note: 556,191 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "major transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and hashish; minor transit point for South American cocaine destined for Europe; although not a financial center and most criminal activity is thought to be domestic, money laundering is a problem due to a mostly cash-based economy and weak enforcement" diff --git a/europe/nl.json b/europe/nl.json index d8f96847..3fc9d4d3 100644 --- a/europe/nl.json +++ b/europe/nl.json @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ "text": "King WILLEM-ALEXANDER (since 30 April 2013); Heir Apparent Princess CATHARINA-AMALIA (daughter of King WILLEM-ALEXANDER, born 7 December 2003)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Mark RUTTE (since 14 October 2010); Deputy Prime Ministers Sigrid KAAG and Wopke HOEKSTRA (since 10 January 2022) and Carola SCHOUTEN (since 26 October 2017); note - Mark RUTTE heads his fourth cabinet" + "text": "Prime Minister Mark RUTTE (since 14 October 2010); Deputy Prime Ministers Sigrid KAAG and Wopke HOEKSTRA (since 10 January 2022) and Carola SCHOUTEN (since 26 October 2017); note - Mark RUTTE's ruling coalition collapsed on 8 July 2023.  He is serving as Prime Minister in a caretaker status until new elections in November 2023." }, "cabinet": { "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the monarch" @@ -572,10 +572,10 @@ "text": "bicameral States General or Staten Generaal consists of:
Senate or Eerste Kamer (75 seats; members indirectly elected by the country's 12 provincial council members by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)
House of Representatives or Tweede Kamer (150 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by open-list proportional representation vote to serve up to 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "Senate - last held on 30 May 2023 (next to be held in May 2027)
House of Representatives - last held on 15-17 March 2021 (next to be held on 31 March 2025)" + "text": "Senate - last held on 30 May 2023 (next to be held in May 2027)
House of Representatives - last held on 15-17 March 2021 (next to be held in November 2023)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
Senate - percent of vote by party - BBB 21.3%, VVD 13.3%, GL 9.3%, PvdA 9.3%, CDA 8.0%, D66 6.7%, PVV 5.3%, SP 4.0%, CU 4.0%, PvdD 4.0%, JA21 4.0%, Volt 2.7%, SGP 2.7%,  FvD 2.7%, other 2.6%; seats by party - BBB 16, VVD 10, GL 7, PvdA 7, CDA 6, D66 5, PVV 4, SP 3, CU 3, PvdD 3, JA21 3, Volt 2, SGP 2, FvD 2 other 2; composition (as of May 2023) - men 45, women 30, percent of women 40%
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - VVD 21.9%, D66 15%, PVV 10.8%, CDA 9.5%, SP 9.1%, PvdA 5.7%, GL 5.2%, FvD 5%, PvdD 3.8%, CU 3.4%, other 13.7%; seats by party - VVD 34, D66 24, PVV 17, CDA 15, GL 8, FvD 8, PvdD 6, PvdA 9, SP 9, CU 5, Denk 3, SGP 3, 50 Plus 1, other 6; composition (as of September 2021) - men 89, women 61, percent of women 40.7%; note - total States General percent of women 37.3%" + "text": "
Senate - percent of vote by party - BBB 21.3%, VVD 13.3%, GL 9.3%, PvdA 9.3%, CDA 8.0%, D66 6.7%, PVV 5.3%, SP 4.0%, CU 4.0%, PvdD 4.0%, JA21 4.0%, Volt 2.7%, SGP 2.7%,  FvD 2.7%, other 2.6%; seats by party - BBB 16, VVD 10, GL 7, PvdA 7, CDA 6, D66 5, PVV 4, SP 3, CU 3, PvdD 3, JA21 3, Volt 2, SGP 2, FvD 2 other 2; composition (as of May 2023) - men 45, women 30, percent of women 40%
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - VVD 22.7%, D66 16%, PVV 11.3%, CDA 9.3%, SP 6%, PvdA 6%, GL 5.3%, FvD 3.3%, PvdD 4%, CU 3.3%, Denk 2%, SGP 2%, JA21 2%, other 5.3%; seats by party - VVD 34, D66 24, PVV 17, CDA 14, GL 8, PvdD 6, PvdA 9, SP 9, CU 5, FvD 5, Denk 3, SGP 3, JA21 3, other 8; composition (as of September 2021) - men 89, women 61, percent of women 40.7%; note - total States General percent of women 37.3%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Christian Democratic Appeal or CDA [Wopke HOEKSTRA]
Christian Union or CU [Mirjam BIKKER]
Correct Answer 2021 or JA21 [Joost EDERMANS]
Democrats 66 or D66 [Sigrid KAAG]
Denk [Farid AZARKAN]
Farmer-Citizen Movement or BBB [Caroline van der PLAS]
50Plus [Martin van ROOIJEN]
Forum for Democracy or FvD [Thierry BAUDET]
Green Left (GroenLinks) or GL [Jesse KLAVER]
Labor Party or PvdA (Attje KUIKEN)
Party for Freedom or PVV [Geert WILDERS]
Party for the Animals or PvdD [Esther OUWENHAND]
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy or VVD [Mark RUTTE]
Reformed Political Party or SGP [Kees VAN DER STAAIJ]
Socialist Party or SP [Lilian MARIJNISSEN]
Volt Netherlands or Volt [Laurens DASSEN]" + "text": "Christian Democratic Appeal or CDA [Wopke HOEKSTRA]
Christian Union or CU [Mirjam BIKKER]
Correct Answer 2021 or JA21 [Joost EDERMANS]
Democrats 66 or D66 [Sigrid KAAG]
Denk [Farid AZARKAN]
Farmer-Citizen Movement or BBB [Caroline van der PLAS]
50Plus [Martin van ROOIJEN]
Forum for Democracy or FvD [Thierry BAUDET]
Green Left (GroenLinks) or GL [Jesse KLAVER]
Labor Party or PvdA (Attje KUIKEN)
Party for Freedom or PVV [Geert WILDERS]
Party for the Animals or PvdD [Esther OUWENHAND]
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy or VVD [Mark RUTTE]
Reformed Political Party or SGP [Kees VAN DER STAAIJ]
Socialist Party or SP [Lilian MARIJNISSEN]
Together or BIJ1 [Sylvana Simons]
Volt Netherlands or Volt [Laurens DASSEN]" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, Benelux, BIS, CBSS (observer), CD, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-10, 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, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, Schengen Convention, SELEC (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNMISS, UNRWA, UN Security Council (temporary), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" @@ -1215,20 +1215,20 @@ "note": "note 1: the Netherlands Coast Guard and the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard are civilian in nature but managed by the Royal Netherlands Navy

note 2: the national police maintain internal security in the Netherlands and report to the Ministry of Justice and Security, which oversees law enforcement organizations, as do the justice ministries in Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "1.5% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "1.4% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.2% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "53,496 (Syria), 19,204 (Eritrea), 7,106 (Turkey), 5,593 (Iran), 5,152 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 94,380 (Ukraine) (as of 26 May 2023)" + "text": "53,496 (Syria), 19,204 (Eritrea), 7,106 (Turkey), 5,593 (Iran), 5,152 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 94,415 (Ukraine) (as of 26 May 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "4,570 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/no.json b/europe/no.json index 34e586af..57329c0d 100644 --- a/europe/no.json +++ b/europe/no.json @@ -1179,8 +1179,11 @@ "note": "note: the national police have primary responsibility for internal security; the National Police Directorate, an entity under the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, oversees the police force" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.7% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.6% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { "text": "1.7% of GDP (2021)" @@ -1189,10 +1192,7 @@ "text": "2% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { - "text": "1.9% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.7% of GDP (2018)" + "text": "1.8% of GDP (2019)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { diff --git a/europe/pl.json b/europe/pl.json index ada47a93..1f725053 100644 --- a/europe/pl.json +++ b/europe/pl.json @@ -1220,13 +1220,13 @@ }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2023": { - "text": "3% of GDP (2023 est.)" + "text": "3.9% of GDP (2023 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "2.4% of GDP (2022)" + "text": "2.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2.3% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "2.2% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "2.2% of GDP (2020)" @@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "1,618,785 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" + "text": "1,627,510 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,435 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/po.json b/europe/po.json index 8d7adc6d..2113d957 100644 --- a/europe/po.json +++ b/europe/po.json @@ -1183,24 +1183,24 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Portuguese Armed Forces: Portuguese Army (Exercito Portuguesa), Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa; includes Marine Corps), Portuguese Air Force (Forca Aerea Portuguesa, FAP); National Republican Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana, GNR) (2023)", - "note": "note: the GNR is a national gendarmerie force comprised of military personnel with law enforcement, internal security, civil defense, disaster response, and coast guard duties; it is responsible to the Ministry of Internal Administration and to the Ministry of National Defense; in the event of war or crisis, it may be placed under the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces; the GNR has law enforcement jurisdiction in rural areas, while the Public Security Police (also under the Ministry of Internal Administration) has jurisdiction in cities" + "text": "Portuguese Armed Forces (Forças Armadas): Portuguese Army (Exercito Portuguesa), Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa; includes Marine Corps, aka Corpo de Fuzileiros or Corps of Fusiliers), Portuguese Air Force (Forca Aerea Portuguesa, FAP); National Republican Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana, GNR) (2023)", + "note": "note: the Ministries of Internal Administration and Justice have primary responsibility for internal security; the Ministry of Internal Administration oversees the Foreigners and Borders Service, Public Security Police, and GNR; the Foreigners and Borders Service has jurisdiction over immigration and border matters, the Public Security Police has jurisdiction in cities, and the GNR has jurisdiction in rural areas; the GNR is a national gendarmerie force comprised of military personnel with law enforcement, internal security, civil defense, disaster response, and coast guard duties; it is responsible to both the Ministry of Internal Administration and to the Ministry of National Defense; it is not part of the Armed Forces, but may be placed under the operational command of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in the event of a national emergency; the GNR describes itself as a hinge between the Armed Forces and the police forces and other security services" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "1.6% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "1.5% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.4% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1214,8 +1214,8 @@ "note": "note: as of 2019, women made up about 12% of the military's full-time personnel" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "200 Central African Republic (MINUSCA/EUTM); up to 150 Lithuania (NATO); approximately 170 Romania (2022)", - "note": "note 1: in 2021, Portugal deployed about 80 troops to Mozambique to assist with the EU training mission
note 2: in response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, some NATO countries, including Portugal, have sent additional troops to the battlegroups deployed in NATO territory in eastern Europe
note 3: Portugal also participates in several NATO maritime and air policing operations, as well as some EU international missions" + "text": "200 Central African Republic (MINUSCA/EUTM); approximately 200 Lithuania (NATO); approximately 230 Romania (NATO) (2023)", + "note": "note 1: in 2021, Portugal deployed about 80 troops to Mozambique to assist with the EU training mission

note 2: in response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, some NATO countries, including Portugal, have sent additional troops to the battlegroups deployed in NATO territory in eastern Europe

note 3: Portugal also participates in several NATO maritime and air policing operations, as well as some EU international missions" }, "Military - note": { "text": "Portugal 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 (2023)" @@ -1233,7 +1233,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "58,275 (Ukraine) (as of 4 June 2023)" + "text": "56,995 (Ukraine) (as of 4 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "55 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/ri.json b/europe/ri.json index c08bd9bc..8fc95aa9 100644 --- a/europe/ri.json +++ b/europe/ri.json @@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "2,594 (includes stateless persons in Kosovo) (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 969,588 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2023)" + "note": "note: 977,342 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-July 2023)" }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { diff --git a/europe/ro.json b/europe/ro.json index c3bd0ff7..d2e6528d 100644 --- a/europe/ro.json +++ b/europe/ro.json @@ -1217,23 +1217,24 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Romanian Armed Forces: Land Forces, Naval Forces, Air Force; Ministry of Internal Affairs: Romanian Gendarmerie, Romanian Police, Romanian Border Police (2023)" + "text": "Romanian Armed Forces (Forțele Armate Române or Armata Română): Land Forces, Naval Forces, Air Force (2023)", + "note": "note: the Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police, the Romanian Gendarmerie (Jandarmeria Română), the border police, the General Directorate for Internal Protection, and the Directorate General for Anticorruption" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "1.9% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { "text": "2% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.8% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.8% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1264,7 +1265,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "136,075 (Ukraine) (as of 11 June 2023)" + "text": "137,130 (Ukraine) (as of 2 July b2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "297 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/si.json b/europe/si.json index c31a869e..42ea5056 100644 --- a/europe/si.json +++ b/europe/si.json @@ -1187,6 +1187,9 @@ "text": "Slovenian Armed Forces (Slovenska Vojska, SV): structured as a combined force with air, land, maritime, special operations, combat support, and combat service support elements (2023)" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.4% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1198,9 +1201,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.1% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1227,12 +1227,12 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "9,550 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" + "text": "8,790 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "10 (2020)" }, - "note": "note:  582,044 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-May 2023)" + "note": "note:  582,844 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-May 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/sp.json b/europe/sp.json index c124a1a0..95f458de 100644 --- a/europe/sp.json +++ b/europe/sp.json @@ -1223,6 +1223,9 @@ "note": "note: the Civil Guard is a military force with police duties (including coast guard) under both the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of the Interior; it also responds to the needs of the Ministry of Finance" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "1.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1234,9 +1237,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "0.9% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "0.9% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "6,489 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 290,931 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals, including Canary Islands (January 2015-June 2023)" + "note": "note: 292,458 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals, including Canary Islands (January 2015-July 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

a primary European transit point for cocaine from South America and for hashish from Morocco; cocaine is shipped in raw or liquid form with mixed cargo to avoid detection or altered to escape detection Spanish chemists reconstitute it and distribute to Europe; minor domestic drug production; synthetic drugs, including ketamine, new psychoactive substances (NPS), and MDMA transit from Spain to the United States

" diff --git a/europe/sw.json b/europe/sw.json index 3c1258c7..45586f2d 100644 --- a/europe/sw.json +++ b/europe/sw.json @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "113,213 (Syria), 26,857 (Afghanistan), 25,849 (Eritrea), 10,464 (Iraq), 9,315 (Somalia), 7,146 (Iran) (mid-year 2022); 55,288 (Ukraine) (as of 18 May 2023)" + "text": "113,213 (Syria), 26,857 (Afghanistan), 25,849 (Eritrea), 10,464 (Iraq), 9,315 (Somalia), 7,146 (Iran) (mid-year 2022); 56,165 (Ukraine) (as of 6 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "46,515 (2022); note - the majority of stateless people are from the Middle East and Somalia" diff --git a/europe/sz.json b/europe/sz.json index 47dc96bd..54dfe8ae 100644 --- a/europe/sz.json +++ b/europe/sz.json @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "14,726 (Eritrea), 11,441 (Afghanistan), 8,039 (Syria), (mid-year 2022); 84,775 (Ukraine) (as of 23 June 2023)" + "text": "14,726 (Eritrea), 11,441 (Afghanistan), 8,039 (Syria), (mid-year 2022); 65,435 (Ukraine) (as of 23 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "891 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/uk.json b/europe/uk.json index 6ac2d410..2dba8a7c 100644 --- a/europe/uk.json +++ b/europe/uk.json @@ -1221,20 +1221,20 @@ "note": "note: in 2021 the UK formed a joint service Space Command staffed by Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel, as well as civilians and key members of the commercial sector to manage space operations, training, and capabilities; it established a National Cyber Force comprised of military and intelligence personnel in 2020; in 2019, the UK formed the Strategic Command (formerly Joint Forces Command) to develop and manage the British military's medical services, training and education, defense intelligence, and information systems across the land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains; national-level special forces (UK Special Forces, UKSF) also fall under Strategic Command; in addition, the command manages joint overseas operations" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.1% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "2.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "2.5% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "2.3% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { - "text": "2.3% of GDP (2020)" + "text": "2.4% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "2.1% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "2.1% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ }, "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); 205,800 (Ukraine) (as of 16 May 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); 206,700 (Ukraine) (as of 26 June 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "5,483 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/up.json b/europe/up.json index 6608edf0..59b41233 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 overwhelmingly voted for independence in 1991 around the time of the dissolution of the USSR, democracy and prosperity remained elusive as the legacy of state control, patronage politics, 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 and early 2005 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 legislative (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 and fed up with blatant corruption 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 beginning an armed conflict with the Ukrainian Government. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the unrecognized Russian proxy republics signed the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum in September 2014 with the aim of ending 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 launching a full-scale invasion of 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 26 June 2023, there were 6.3 million Ukrainian refugees recorded globally, and 5.09 million people were internally displaced as of May 2023.  Almost 24,900 civilian casualties had been reported, as of 18 June 2023. The invasion of Ukraine remains one of the two largest displacement crises worldwide (the other is the conflict in Syria).

The Ukrainian people continue to fiercely resist Russia’s full-scale invasion, which has targeted civilian and critical infrastructure - including energy - to try to break the Ukrainian will. President ZELENSKYY has focused on the civic identity of Ukrainians, regardless of ethnic or linguistic background, to unite the country behind the goals of ending the war by regaining as much territory as possible and advancing Ukraine’s candidacy for membership in the European Union (EU). Support for joining the EU and NATO has grown significantly, overcoming the historical, and sometimes artificial, divide between eastern and western Ukraine.

" + "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 overwhelmingly voted for independence in 1991 around the time of the dissolution of the USSR, democracy and prosperity remained elusive as the legacy of state control, patronage politics, 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 and early 2005 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 legislative (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 and fed up with blatant corruption 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 beginning an armed conflict with the Ukrainian Government. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the unrecognized Russian proxy republics signed the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum in September 2014 with the aim of ending 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 launching a full-scale invasion of 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 4 July 2023, there were 6.3 million Ukrainian refugees recorded globally, and 5.09 million people were internally displaced as of May 2023.  Almost 24,900 civilian casualties had been reported, as of 18 June 2023. The invasion of Ukraine remains one of the two largest displacement crises worldwide (the other is the conflict in Syria).

The Ukrainian people continue to fiercely resist Russia’s full-scale invasion, which has targeted civilian and critical infrastructure - including energy - to try to break the Ukrainian will. President ZELENSKYY has focused on the civic identity of Ukrainians, regardless of ethnic or linguistic background, to unite the country behind the goals of ending the war by regaining as much territory as possible and advancing Ukraine’s candidacy for membership in the European Union (EU). Support for joining the EU and NATO has grown significantly, overcoming the historical, and sometimes artificial, divide between eastern and western Ukraine.

" } }, "Geography": { diff --git a/europe/vt.json b/europe/vt.json index aacb528a..35e24982 100644 --- a/europe/vt.json +++ b/europe/vt.json @@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } } }, diff --git a/middle-east/aj.json b/middle-east/aj.json index 7f1a84cd..586edc5a 100644 --- a/middle-east/aj.json +++ b/middle-east/aj.json @@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/middle-east/am.json b/middle-east/am.json index 801853c6..f5ae39e4 100644 --- a/middle-east/am.json +++ b/middle-east/am.json @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/middle-east/ba.json b/middle-east/ba.json index e3486487..d97ba823 100644 --- a/middle-east/ba.json +++ b/middle-east/ba.json @@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/middle-east/gg.json b/middle-east/gg.json index 756660ac..45252370 100644 --- a/middle-east/gg.json +++ b/middle-east/gg.json @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "24,182 (Ukraine) (as of 6 April 2023)" + "text": "24,180 (Ukraine) (as of 9 May 2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "305,000 (displaced in the 1990s as a result of armed conflict in the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia; displaced in 2008 by fighting between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia) (2021)" diff --git a/middle-east/gz.json b/middle-east/gz.json index b8cc826f..f6772172 100644 --- a/middle-east/gz.json +++ b/middle-east/gz.json @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2018)" + "text": "100% (2021)" }, "note": "note: data for Gaza Strip and West Bank combined" }, diff --git a/middle-east/is.json b/middle-east/is.json index 4b730238..a0cd0890 100644 --- a/middle-east/is.json +++ b/middle-east/is.json @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ }, "Economy": { "Economic overview": { - "text": "high-income, technology- and industrial-based economy; recent debt spikes; high inequality and poverty disparities persist; significant tariff and regulatory burdens, especially in agriculture; hard-hit by COVID-19; quantitative easing in effect" + "text": "high-income, technology- and industrial-based economy; highly dense, fast-growing labor force; recent debt spikes; persistent inequality and poverty; significant tariff and regulatory burdens, especially in agriculture;  quantitative easing in effect" }, "Real GDP (purchasing power parity)": { "Real GDP (purchasing power parity) 2021": { @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ } }, "Exports - partners": { - "text": "United States 26%, China 9%, United Kingdom 7% (2020)" + "text": "United States 27%, China 8%, India 4%, Germany 3%, Ireland 3% (2021)" }, "Exports - commodities": { "text": "diamonds, integrated circuits, refined petroleum, medical instruments, packaged medicines, measuring instruments (2021)" @@ -898,10 +898,10 @@ } }, "Imports - partners": { - "text": "United States 12%, China 11%, Germany 7.5%, Switzerland 7%, Turkey 6% (2020)" + "text": "China 14%, United States 11%, Turkey 7%, Germany 7%, Switzerland 5% (2021)" }, "Imports - commodities": { - "text": "diamonds, cars, crude petroleum, refined petroleum, broadcasting equipment (2019)" + "text": "diamonds, cars, broadcasting equipment, integrated circuits, refined petroleum, packaged medicines  (2021)" }, "Reserves of foreign exchange and gold": { "Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 31 December 2021": { diff --git a/middle-east/jo.json b/middle-east/jo.json index ddfde69b..d7d08314 100644 --- a/middle-east/jo.json +++ b/middle-east/jo.json @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "2,307,011 (Palestinian refugees) (2020); 12,866 (Yemen), 6,013 Sudan (2021); 33,951 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 660,022 (Syria) (2023)" + "text": "2,307,011 (Palestinian refugees) (2020); 12,866 (Yemen), 6,013 Sudan (2021); 33,951 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 659,457 (Syria) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "64 (2022)" diff --git a/middle-east/mu.json b/middle-east/mu.json index d8432bd2..bacac86b 100644 --- a/middle-east/mu.json +++ b/middle-east/mu.json @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF): Royal Army of Oman (RAO), Royal Navy of Oman (RNO), Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO), Royal Guard of Oman (RGO), Sultan's Special Forces; Royal Oman Police (ROP): Civil Defense, Immigration, Customs, Royal Oman Police Coast Guard (2023)", + "text": "Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF): Royal Army of Oman (RAO), Royal Navy of Oman (RNO), Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO), Royal Guard of Oman (RGO), Sultan's Special Forces

Royal Oman Police (ROP): Civil Defense, Immigration, Customs, Royal Oman Police Coast Guard, Special Task Force (2023)", "note": "note 1: the Sultan’s Special Forces and the ROP Special Task Force are Oman’s primary tactical counterterrorism response forces

note 2: in addition to its policing duties, the ROP conducts many administrative functions similar to the responsibilities of a Ministry of Interior in other countries" }, "Military expenditures": { @@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ "text": "approximately 40,000 active duty troops (25,000 Army, 5,000 Navy; 5,000 Air Force; 5,000 Royal Guard) (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the SAF's inventory includes a mix of older and some more modern weapons systems from a variety of suppliers, particularly Europe and the US; in recent years, the UK and the US have been the leading suppliers of arms to Oman (2022)" + "text": "the SAF's inventory includes a mix of older and some more modern weapons systems from a variety of suppliers, particularly Europe and the US; in recent years, the UK has been the leading supplier of arms to Oman (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-30 years of age for voluntary military service (women have been allowed to serve since 2011); no conscription (2022)" diff --git a/middle-east/tu.json b/middle-east/tu.json index 6b57a0b7..e08a3e14 100644 --- a/middle-east/tu.json +++ b/middle-east/tu.json @@ -1240,8 +1240,11 @@ "note": "note: the Gendarmerie (Jandarma) is responsible for the maintenance of the public order in areas that fall outside the jurisdiction of police forces (generally in rural areas); in wartime, the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard would be placed under the operational control of the Land Forces and Naval Forces, respectively" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.3% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "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)" @@ -1251,9 +1254,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.9% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.8% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "10,244 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 3,351,582 (Syria) (2023)" + "text": "10,244 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 3,344,092 (Syria), 45,820 (Ukraine) (as of 15 June 2023) (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/north-america/bd.json b/north-america/bd.json index 0e170dc8..5ca66b3e 100644 --- a/north-america/bd.json +++ b/north-america/bd.json @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/north-america/ca.json b/north-america/ca.json index e1a3ac24..a44a622a 100644 --- a/north-america/ca.json +++ b/north-america/ca.json @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1279,8 +1279,11 @@ "note": "note 1: the CAF is comprised of both a Regular Force and a Reserve Force; the Reserve Force is part of all three services (Army, Navy, and Air Force) and is considered an integral component of the CAF; reservists are primarily part-time service positions; they may volunteer for full-time employment or deployment on operations; they typically serve one or more evenings a week and/or during weekends at locations close to home; the Reserve Force is comprised of the Primary Reserve, Canadian Rangers, Cadet Organizations Administration and Training Service, and the Supplementary Reserve; the Canadian Rangers are part of the Army Reserve Force and provide a limited presence in Canada's northern, coastal, and isolated areas for sovereignty, public safety, and surveillance roles 

note 2: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP or \"Mounties\") are under the Department of Public Safety; only Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have provincial police forces, but the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary contracts policing in regions of the province to the RCMP; the RCMP and municipal forces provide coverage for other provinces and territories; some Indigenous reserves provide Indigenous policing; provincial and municipal police report to their respective provincial authorities" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "1.4% of GDP (2023)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2022 est.)" + "text": "1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { "text": "1.3% of GDP (2021)" @@ -1290,9 +1293,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "1.3% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { diff --git a/north-america/gl.json b/north-america/gl.json index c5f6bf66..2be69caf 100644 --- a/north-america/gl.json +++ b/north-america/gl.json @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/north-america/us.json b/north-america/us.json index 9250ef06..ce0d1cb0 100644 --- a/north-america/us.json +++ b/north-america/us.json @@ -1260,20 +1260,20 @@ "note": "note 1: the US Coast Guard is administered in peacetime by the Department of Homeland Security, but in wartime reports to the Department of the Navy

note 2: the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard are reserve components of their services and operate in part under state authority; the US military also maintains reserve forces for each branch (US Army Reserve, US Navy Reserve, US Air Force Reserve, and US Coast Guard Reserve)" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "3.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "3.5% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, "Military Expenditures 2021": { - "text": "3.6% of GDP (2021)" + "text": "3.5% of GDP (2021)" }, "Military Expenditures 2020": { - "text": "3.7% of GDP (2020)" + "text": "3.6% of GDP (2020)" }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { - "text": "3.4% of GDP (2019)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "3.3% of GDP (2018)" + "text": "3.5% of GDP (2019)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { diff --git a/south-america/ar.json b/south-america/ar.json index 3b920d2b..7ea81af3 100644 --- a/south-america/ar.json +++ b/south-america/ar.json @@ -955,13 +955,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "99% (2020)" - }, - "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99% (2020)" - }, - "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "85% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-america/bl.json b/south-america/bl.json index 39d1c441..a2086d54 100644 --- a/south-america/bl.json +++ b/south-america/bl.json @@ -962,14 +962,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 2 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "93% (2019)" + "text": "98.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "99.3% (2019)" + "text": "100% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "79% (2019)" + "text": "95.1% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-america/br.json b/south-america/br.json index c03be741..4bee7b2d 100644 --- a/south-america/br.json +++ b/south-america/br.json @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ "text": "Roman Catholic 64.6%, other Catholic 0.4%, Protestant 22.2% (includes Adventist 6.5%, Assembly of God 2.0%, Christian Congregation of Brazil 1.2%, Universal Kingdom of God 1.0%, other Protestant 11.5%), other Christian 0.7%, Spiritist 2.2%, other 1.4%, none 8%, unspecified 0.4% (2010 est.)" }, "Demographic profile": { - "text": "

Brazil's rapid fertility decline since the 1960s is the main factor behind the country's slowing population growth rate, aging population, and fast-paced demographic transition. Brasilia has not taken full advantage of its large working-age population to develop its human capital and strengthen its social and economic institutions but is funding a study abroad program to bring advanced skills back to the country. The current favorable age structure will begin to shift around 2025, with the labor force shrinking and the elderly starting to compose an increasing share of the total population. Well-funded public pensions have nearly wiped out poverty among the elderly, and Bolsa Familia and other social programs have lifted tens of millions out of poverty. More than half of Brazil's population is considered middle class, but poverty and income inequality levels remain high; the Northeast, North, and Center-West, women, and black, mixed race, and indigenous populations are disproportionately affected. Disparities in opportunities foster social exclusion and contribute to Brazil's high crime rate, particularly violent crime in cities and favelas (slums).

Brazil has traditionally been a net recipient of immigrants, with its southeast being the prime destination. After the importation of African slaves was outlawed in the mid-19th century, Brazil sought Europeans (Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, and Germans) and later Asians (Japanese) to work in agriculture, especially coffee cultivation. Recent immigrants come mainly from Argentina, Chile, and Andean countries (many are unskilled illegal migrants) or are returning Brazilian nationals. Since Brazil's economic downturn in the 1980s, emigration to the United States, Europe, and Japan has been rising but is negligible relative to Brazil's total population. The majority of these emigrants are well-educated and middle-class. Fewer Brazilian peasants are emigrating to neighboring countries to take up agricultural work.

" + "text": "

Brazil’s rapid fertility decline since the 1960s is the main factor behind the country's slowing population growth rate, aging population, and fast-paced demographic transition.  As of 2023, Brazil’s total fertility rate – the average number of children born per woman – was 1.75, below the 2.1 replacement rate needed to prevent a population decrease.   The 2022 national census showed that population growth had slowed more than expected.  Factors behind the decrease include fewer births as couples marry later and more women work, an increase in the mortality rate as the population ages, the Zika epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as economic troubles and the emigration of young people. The current window of opportunity to benefit from a demographic bonus – when the working-age population exceeds the number of children and the elderly combined – is expected to close around 2035, ten years earlier than expected. 

Well-funded public pensions have nearly wiped out poverty among the elderly, and Bolsa Familia and other social programs have lifted tens of millions out of poverty. More than half of Brazil’s population is considered middle class, but poverty and income inequality levels remain high; the Northeast, North, and Center-West, women, and black, mixed race, and indigenous populations are disproportionately affected. Disparities in opportunities foster social exclusion and contribute to Brazil’s high crime rate, particularly violent crime in cities and favelas.

Brazil has traditionally been a net recipient of immigrants, with its southeast being the prime destination. After abolishing slavery in 1888, the last country in the Americas to do so, Brazil sought Europeans (Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, and Germans) and later Asians (Japanese) to work in agriculture, especially coffee cultivation.  Lebanese and Syrian immigrants arrived at the end of the 19th century and focused on trade and later commerce. Between 2011 and 2020, the largest immigrant groups came from Venezuela, Haiti, Bolivia, Colombia, and the US. Since Brazil’s economic downturn in the 1980s, emigration to the United States, Paraguay, Europe, and Japan has been rising but is negligible relative to Brazil’s total population. The majority of these emigrants are well-educated and middle-class. Fewer Brazilian peasants are emigrating to neighboring countries to take up agricultural work. 

" }, "Age structure": { "0-14 years": { @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 238-2827" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "https://www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/embaixada-washington  " + "text": "
ambassador.dc@itamaraty.gov.br

https://www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/embaixada-washington" }, "consulate(s) general": { "text": "Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Hartford (CT), Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC" @@ -986,7 +986,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "99.4% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - urban areas": { + "text": "99.7% (2021)" + }, + "electrification - rural areas": { + "text": "97.3% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1151,7 +1157,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "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)" + "text": "Brazil is one of the largest mobile and broadband markets in Latin America with healthy competition and pricing; 5G services was provided to all capital cities in 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 (2022)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line connections stand at roughly 13 per 100 persons;  mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 102 per 100 persons (2021)" diff --git a/south-america/ci.json b/south-america/ci.json index 310e205a..c202f4bf 100644 --- a/south-america/ci.json +++ b/south-america/ci.json @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single 4-year term; election last held on 21 November 2021 with a runoff held on 19 December 2021 (next to be held on 23 November 2025 with runoff if needed on 20 December)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2021: Gabriel BORIC elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Jose Antonio KAST (FSC) 27.9%; Gabriel BORIC (AD) 25.8%; Franco PARISI (PDG) 12.8%; Sebastian SICHEL (ChP+) 12.8%; Yasna PROVOSTE (New Social Pact) 11.6%; other 9.1%; percent of vote in second round - Gabriel BORIC (AD) 55.9%; Jose Antonio KAST (FSC) 44.1%

2017: Sebastian PINERA Echenique elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique (independent) 36.6%; Alejandro GUILLIER (independent) 22.7%; Beatriz SANCHEZ (independent) 20.3%; Jose Antonio KAST (independent) 7.9%; Carolina GOIC (PDC) 5.9%; Marco ENRIQUEZ-OMINAMI (PRO) 5.7%; other 0.9%; percent of vote in second round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique 54.6%, Alejandro GUILLIER 45.4%" + "text": "
2021: Gabriel BORIC elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Jose Antonio KAST (FSC) 27.9%; Gabriel BORIC (AD) 25.8%; Franco PARISI (PDG) 12.8%; Sebastian SICHEL (ChP+) 12.8%; Yasna PROVOSTE (New Social Pact) 11.6%; other 9.1%; percent of vote in second round - Gabriel BORIC 55.9%; Jose Antonio KAST 44.1%

2017: Sebastian PINERA Echenique elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique (independent) 36.6%; Alejandro GUILLIER (independent) 22.7%; Beatriz SANCHEZ (independent) 20.3%; Jose Antonio KAST (independent) 7.9%; Carolina GOIC (PDC) 5.9%; Marco ENRIQUEZ-OMINAMI (PRO) 5.7%; other 0.9%; percent of vote in second round - Sebastian PINERA Echenique 54.6%, Alejandro GUILLIER 45.4%" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-america/co.json b/south-america/co.json index 9c9aaf44..c96d8d3c 100644 --- a/south-america/co.json +++ b/south-america/co.json @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ "text": "Christian 92.3% (predominantly Roman Catholic), other 1%, unspecified 6.7% (2020 est.)" }, "Demographic profile": { - "text": "

Colombia is in the midst of a demographic transition resulting from steady declines in its fertility, mortality, and population growth rates. The birth rate has fallen from more than 6 children per woman in the 1960s to just above replacement level today as a result of increased literacy, family planning services, and urbanization. However, income inequality is among the worst in the world, and more than a third of the population lives below the poverty line.

Colombia experiences significant legal and illegal economic emigration and refugee outflows. Large-scale labor emigration dates to the 1960s; the United States and, until recently, Venezuela have been the main host countries. Emigration to Spain picked up in the 1990s because of its economic growth, but this flow has since diminished because of Spain’s ailing economy and high unemployment. Colombia has been the largest source of Latin American refugees in Latin America, nearly 400,000 of whom live primarily in Venezuela and Ecuador. Venezuela’s political and economic crisis since 2015, however, has created a reverse flow, consisting largely of Colombians returning home.

Forced displacement continues to be prevalent because of violence among guerrillas, paramilitary groups, and Colombian security forces. Afro-Colombian and indigenous populations are disproportionately affected. Even with the Colombian Government’s December 2016 peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the risk of displacement remains as other rebel groups fill the void left by the FARC. Between 1985 and September 2017, nearly 7.6 million persons have been internally displaced, the highest total in the world. These estimates may undercount actual numbers because many internally displaced persons are not registered. Historically, Colombia also has one of the world’s highest levels of forced disappearances. About 30,000 cases have been recorded over the last four decades—although the number is likely to be much higher—including human rights activists, trade unionists, Afro-Colombians, indigenous people, and farmers in rural conflict zones.

Because of political violence and economic problems, Colombia received limited numbers of immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly from the Middle East, Europe, and Japan. More recently, growth in the oil, mining, and manufacturing sectors has attracted increased labor migration; the primary source countries are Venezuela, the US, Mexico, and Argentina. Colombia has also become a transit area for illegal migrants from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean -- especially Haiti and Cuba -- who are en route to the US or Canada.

" + "text": "

Colombia is in the midst of a demographic transition resulting from steady declines in its fertility, mortality, and population growth rates. The birth rate has fallen from more than 6 children per woman in the 1960s to just below replacement level today as a result of increased literacy, family planning services, and urbanization. However, income inequality is among the worst in the world, and almost one-third of the population lives below the poverty line.

Colombia experiences significant legal and illegal economic emigration and refugee outflows. Large-scale labor emigration dates to the 1960s; the United States and, until recently, Venezuela have been the main host countries.  Emigration to Spain picked up in the 1990s because of its economic growth, but this flow has since diminished because of Spain’s ailing economy and high unemployment. Venezuela’s political and economic crisis since 2015 has prompted many Colombians to return home. 

Forced displacement continues to be prevalent because of violence among guerrillas, paramilitary groups, and Colombian security forces. Afro-Colombian and indigenous populations are disproportionately affected.  Even with the Colombian Government’s December 2016 peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the risk of displacement remains as other rebel groups fill the void left by the FARC.  As of April 2023, almost 6.9 million people were internally displaced in Colombia. This estimate may undercount actual numbers because many internally displaced persons are not registered. Historically, Colombia also has one of the world’s highest levels of forced disappearances. The Colombian Truth Commission estimated than nearly 122,000 people were the victims of forced disappearances during the countries five-decade-long armed conflict—including human rights activists, trade unionists, Afro-Colombians, indigenous people, and farmers in rural conflict zones.

Because of political violence and economic problems, Colombia received limited numbers of immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly from the Middle East, Europe, and Japan.  More recently, growth in the oil, mining, and manufacturing sectors has attracted increased labor migration; the primary source countries are Venezuela, the US, Mexico, and Argentina.  Colombia has also become a transit area for illegal migrants from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean – especially Haiti and Cuba – who are en route to the US or Canada.  Between 2016 and October 2022, Colombia was host to the largest number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants, totaling almost 2.9 million. Ecuadorian migrants also go to Colombia, many of them attempting to transit the dense and dangerous jungles of the Darien Gap to enter Panama and head onward to the US.

" }, "Age structure": { "0-14 years": { @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single 4-year term; election last held on 29 May 2022 with a runoff held on 19 June 2022 (next to be held on 31 May 2026); note - political reform in 2015 eliminated presidential reelection" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2022: Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego (PHxC) 40.3%, Rodolfo HERNÁNDEZ Suárez (LIGA) 28.2%, Federico GUTIÉRREZ Zuluaga (Team for Colombia / CREEMOS) 23.9%, other 7.6%; percent of vote in second round - Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego (PHxC) 50.4%, Rodolfo HERNÁNDEZ Suarez (LIGA) 47.3%

2018: Iván DUQUE Márquez elected president in second round; percent of vote - Iván DUQUE Márquez (CD) 54%, Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego (Humane Colombia) 41.8%, other/blank/invalid 4.2%" + "text": "
2022: Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego elected president in second round; percent of vote in first round - Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego (PHxC) 40.3%, Rodolfo HERNÁNDEZ Suárez (LIGA) 28.2%, Federico GUTIÉRREZ Zuluaga (Team for Colombia / CREEMOS) 23.9%, other 7.6%; percent of vote in second round - Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego 50.4%, Rodolfo HERNÁNDEZ Suarez 47.3%, blank 2.3%

2018: Iván DUQUE Márquez elected president in second round; percent of vote - Iván DUQUE Márquez (CD) 54%, Gustavo Francisco PETRO Urrego (Humane Colombia) 41.8%, other/blank/invalid 4.2%" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -962,14 +962,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 2 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "97% (2019)" + "text": "99.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "100% (2019)" + "text": "100% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "86% (2019)" + "text": "99.9% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { @@ -1262,7 +1265,7 @@ "text": "275 Egypt (MFO) (2023)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Colombian military is responsible for defending and maintaining the country’s independence, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity but also has an internal security role, which includes protecting the civilian population, as well as private and state-owned assets, and ensuring a secure environment; the military’s primary focus is the conduct of counternarcotics, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency operations against drug traffickers, several factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the insurgent/terrorist group National Liberation Army (ELN); the Colombian Government signed a peace agreement with the FARC in 2016, but some former members (known as dissidents) have returned to fighting (note - these dissident groups include the US-designated foreign terrorist groups Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army or FARC-EP and Segunda Marquetalia; see Appendix T);  in 2017, the Colombian Government initiated formal peace talks with the ELN, but it officially ended the talks shortly after the ELN exploded a car bomb at the National Police Academy in Bogota in January 2019; operations against the FARC dissident groups and the ELN continued into 2023, although the Colombian Government resumed talks with the ELN in November 2022 and began exploratory talks with the FARC-EP and Segunda Marquetalia; a 6-month cease-fire agreement was reached with the ELN in June 2023; the military is also focused on the security challenges posed by its neighbor, Venezuela, where instability has attracted narcotics traffickers, and both the ELN and FARC dissidents operate openly; Colombia shares a 1,370-mile (2,200 km) border with Venezuela; ELN and FARC insurgents have also used neighboring Ecuador to rest, resupply, and shelter

the Colombian National Army is one of the largest and most experienced ground forces in the Western Hemisphere, having spent decades conducting operations against insurgents and terrorist groups; it has also kept a small battalion (about 250-300 troops) in the Sinai Peninsula with the Multinational Observer Force since 1980; the Army’s primary focus is ongoing operations against the ELN, FARC dissidents, and other illegal armed groups, which are challenged by difficult topography and long and porous land borders; the Air Force and Navy play a role in the counterinsurgency campaign but their participation is minor in comparison to the Army; the Army is largely configured for flexible and mobile counterinsurgency operations with 1 mechanized and 7 light infantry divisions; the light infantry divisions are not uniformly structured and typically include a mix of conventional infantry and specialized air mobile, counterinsurgency, jungle, mountain, and security brigades; some divisions may also have special task forces for anti-kidnapping, counternarcotics, or urban operations; the Army also has a special forces division, a rapid deployment force (Fuerza de Despliegue Rápido or FUDRA) comprised of special forces and counterinsurgency brigades, and an air assault division with aviation and light infantry/air mobile forces; the National Police works with the Army against illegal armed groups and has a variety of specialized forces, including commandos, quick reaction, counterterrorism, counternarcotics, motorized, and anti-riot (Escuadron Móvil Antidisturbios, or ESMAD) units 

the Navy is responsible for security in Colombia’s waters in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Oceans, the country’s extensive network of rivers, and a few small land areas under its direct jurisdiction; it takes part in multinational naval exercises, and over the past decade has undertaken efforts to modernize; its principal warships are 4 frigates, 6 corvettes, ocean-going, or offshore patrol ships, and 4 attack submarines, which are supplemented by dozens of coastal and riverine patrol craft; the Navy also has a 22,000-man marine force comprised of 5 marine/riverine infantry brigades and a special forces brigade, as well as a small aviation force; the Air Force has an air defense role, but also supports the Army’s counterinsurgency operations; it has a mix of about 50 fighters and ground attack combat aircraft, plus reconnaissance, electronic warfare, logistical, and training fixed-wing aircraft, as well as approximately 100 multirole helicopters 

Colombia has close security ties with the US, including joint training, military assistance, and designation in 2022 as a Major Non-NATO Ally, which provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense, trade, and security cooperation; it also has close ties with some regional neighbors, such as Argentina, Chile, and Peru; Colombian military and security forces have training programs with their counterparts from a variety of countries, mostly those from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; security ties with Ecuador and Venezuela have been challenged by the presence of narcotics traffickers, ELN, and FARC dissidents in the border regions (2023)" + "text": "the Colombian military is responsible for defending and maintaining the country’s independence, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity but also has an internal security role, which includes protecting the civilian population, as well as private and state-owned assets, and ensuring a secure environment; the military’s primary focus is the conduct of counternarcotics, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency operations against drug traffickers, several factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the insurgent/terrorist group National Liberation Army (ELN); the Colombian Government signed a peace agreement with the FARC in 2016, but some former members (known as dissidents) have returned to fighting (note - these dissident groups include the US-designated foreign terrorist groups Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army or FARC-EP and Segunda Marquetalia; see Appendix T);  in 2017, the Colombian Government initiated formal peace talks with the ELN, but it officially ended the talks shortly after the ELN exploded a car bomb at the National Police Academy in Bogota in January 2019; operations against the FARC dissident groups and the ELN continued into 2023, although the Colombian Government resumed talks with the ELN in November 2022 and began exploratory talks with the FARC-EP and Segunda Marquetalia; a 6-month cease-fire agreement was reached with the ELN in June 2023, which was scheduled to go into effect in August 2023; the military is also focused on the security challenges posed by its neighbor, Venezuela, where instability has attracted narcotics traffickers, and both the ELN and FARC dissidents operate openly; Colombia shares a 1,370-mile (2,200 km) border with Venezuela; ELN and FARC insurgents have also used neighboring Ecuador to rest, resupply, and shelter

the Colombian National Army is one of the largest and most experienced ground forces in the Western Hemisphere, having spent decades conducting operations against insurgents and terrorist groups; it has also kept a small battalion (about 250-300 troops) in the Sinai Peninsula with the Multinational Observer Force since 1980; the Army’s primary focus is ongoing operations against the ELN, FARC dissidents, and other illegal armed groups, which are challenged by difficult topography and long and porous land borders; the Air Force and Navy play a role in the counterinsurgency campaign but their participation is minor in comparison to the Army; the Army is largely configured for flexible and mobile counterinsurgency operations with 1 mechanized and 7 light infantry divisions; the light infantry divisions are not uniformly structured and typically include a mix of conventional infantry and specialized air mobile, counterinsurgency, jungle, mountain, and security brigades; some divisions may also have special task forces for anti-kidnapping, counternarcotics, or urban operations; the Army also has a special forces division, a rapid deployment force (Fuerza de Despliegue Rápido or FUDRA) comprised of special forces and counterinsurgency brigades, and an air assault division with aviation and light infantry/air mobile forces; the National Police works with the Army against illegal armed groups and has a variety of specialized forces, including commandos, quick reaction, counterterrorism, counternarcotics, motorized, and anti-riot (Escuadron Móvil Antidisturbios, or ESMAD) units 

the Navy is responsible for security in Colombia’s waters in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Oceans, the country’s extensive network of rivers, and a few small land areas under its direct jurisdiction; it takes part in multinational naval exercises, and over the past decade has undertaken efforts to modernize; its principal warships are 4 frigates, 6 corvettes, ocean-going, or offshore patrol ships, and 4 attack submarines, which are supplemented by dozens of coastal and riverine patrol craft; the Navy also has a 22,000-man marine force comprised of 5 marine/riverine infantry brigades and a special forces brigade, as well as a small aviation force; the Air Force has an air defense role, but also supports the Army’s counterinsurgency operations; it has a mix of about 50 fighters and ground attack combat aircraft, plus reconnaissance, electronic warfare, logistical, and training fixed-wing aircraft, as well as approximately 100 multirole helicopters 

Colombia has close security ties with the US, including joint training, military assistance, and designation in 2022 as a Major Non-NATO Ally, which provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense, trade, and security cooperation; it also has close ties with some regional neighbors, such as Argentina, Chile, and Peru; Colombian military and security forces have training programs with their counterparts from a variety of countries, mostly those from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; security ties with Ecuador and Venezuela have been challenged by the presence of narcotics traffickers, ELN, and FARC dissidents in the border regions (2023)" }, "Maritime threats": { "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reported no incidents in 2022 in the territorial waters of Colombia; there remains a risk for armed robbery against ships particularly in the main port of Cartagena while ships are berthed or at anchor" @@ -1283,7 +1286,7 @@ "text": "1,842,390 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or received alternative legal stay) (2022)" }, "IDPs": { - "text": "6,834,492 (conflict between government and illegal armed groups and drug traffickers since 1985) (2022)" + "text": "6,863,334 (conflict between government and illegal armed groups and drug traffickers since 1985) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "11 (2022)" diff --git a/south-america/ec.json b/south-america/ec.json index 10413710..b039527d 100644 --- a/south-america/ec.json +++ b/south-america/ec.json @@ -954,13 +954,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "97% (2019)" - }, - "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "100% (2019)" - }, - "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "93% (2019)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-america/gy.json b/south-america/gy.json index 7973b230..62ec18ec 100644 --- a/south-america/gy.json +++ b/south-america/gy.json @@ -904,13 +904,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "91.8% (2018)" + "text": "92.8% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "96.9% (2018)" + "text": "97.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "90% (2018)" + "text": "91.1% (2021.)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-america/ve.json b/south-america/ve.json index e6704f11..710bd8a5 100644 --- a/south-america/ve.json +++ b/south-america/ve.json @@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ "refugees (country of origin)": { "text": "39,185 (Colombia) (mid-year 2022)" }, - "note": "note: As of September 2022, host governments report more than 7.1 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants worldwide" + "note": "note: As of March 2023, host governments report more than 7.2 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants worldwide" }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { diff --git a/south-asia/af.json b/south-asia/af.json index 84f2c4df..34ace06b 100644 --- a/south-asia/af.json +++ b/south-asia/af.json @@ -904,13 +904,13 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "99% (2018)" + "text": "97.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "100% (2018)" + "text": "99.5% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "98% (2018)" + "text": "97% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-asia/bg.json b/south-asia/bg.json index 1f7a29d1..65502744 100644 --- a/south-asia/bg.json +++ b/south-asia/bg.json @@ -965,14 +965,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 11 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "83% (2019)" + "text": "98.9% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "93% (2019)" + "text": "99.7% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "77% (2019)" + "text": "98.5% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-asia/bt.json b/south-asia/bt.json index f1169a89..290254b2 100644 --- a/south-asia/bt.json +++ b/south-asia/bt.json @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ "Energy": { "Electricity access": { "electrification - total population": { - "text": "100% (2020)" + "text": "100% (2021)" } }, "Electricity": { diff --git a/south-asia/in.json b/south-asia/in.json index 9d1dac6c..21599600 100644 --- a/south-asia/in.json +++ b/south-asia/in.json @@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ "text": "1,900 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); 110 Golan Heights (UNDOF); 900 Lebanon (UNIFIL); 2,350 South Sudan (UNMISS); 310 Sudan (UNISFA) (2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Indian military is a large, experienced, professional, and well-equipped military that performs a variety of missions; it is primarily focused on China and Pakistan and territorial defense, while secondary missions include regional power projection, UN peacekeeping deployments, humanitarian operations, and support to internal security forces; it has fought in several significant conflicts and counterinsurgency operations since 1947 and regularly conducts large-scale exercises

the Army is organized into 14 operational corps; the basic field formations under the corps are approximately 40 armored, artillery, infantry, mechanized, or mountain infantry divisions; there are also a number of independent airborne, armored, and artillery brigades, as well as special operations forces; in 2023, the Army announced that it was reorganizing its operational corps and divisions into division-sized “integrated battle groups,” which the Army assessed would be more agile and flexible

the Navy is a blue water force that operates in seas stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Strait of Malacca and the western Pacific; it routinely conducts months-long deployments, exercises with other navies, and conducts a variety of missions such as counter-piracy, humanitarian, and naval diplomacy; its principal ships include 2 aircraft carriers, more than 50 destroyers, frigates, corvettes, and large patrol vessels, 16 attack submarines, and 2 nuclear-powered ballistic missile capable submarines; the Navy also has several combat aircraft and anti-submarine warfare helicopter squadrons, as well as a marine amphibious brigade and a marine commando force

the Air Force is one of the World’s largest with more than 600 British-, French-, Russian/Soviet-, and domestically produced combat aircraft, plus nearly 500 combat helicopters; the tri-service Strategic Forces Command manages all of India’s strategic missile forces 

the short 1962 Sino-India War left in place one of the world’s longest disputed international borders, resulting in occasional standoffs between Indian and Chinese security forces, including lethal clashes in 1975 and 2020; meanwhile, India and Pakistan have fought several conflicts since 1947, including the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 and the Indo-Pakistan and Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971, as well as two clashes over the disputed region of Kashmir (the First Kashmir War of 1947 and the 1999 Kargil Conflict); a fragile cease-fire in Kashmir was reached in 2003, revised in 2018, and reaffirmed in 2021, although the Line of Control remains contested, and India has accused Pakistan of backing armed separatists and terrorist organizations in Jammu and Kashmir where Indian forces have conducted counterinsurgency operations since the 1980s; in addition, India and Pakistan have battled over the Siachen Glacier of Kashmir, which was seized by India in 1984 with Pakistan attempting to retake the area at least three times between 1985 and 1995; despite a cease-fire, both sides continue to maintain a permanent military presence there with outposts at altitudes above 20,000 feet (over 6,000 meters) where most casualties are due to extreme weather and the hazards of operating in the high mountain terrain of the world’s highest conflict, including avalanches, exposure, and altitude sickness (2023)" + "text": "the Indian military is a large, experienced, professional, and well-equipped military that performs a variety of missions; it is primarily focused on China and Pakistan and territorial defense, while secondary missions include regional power projection, UN peacekeeping deployments, humanitarian operations, and support to internal security forces; it has fought in several significant conflicts and counterinsurgency operations since 1947 and regularly conducts large-scale exercises; the military may act internally under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) of 1958, an act of the Indian Parliament that granted special powers to put down separatist movements in \"disturbed areas\"; the AFSPA, 1958 and a virtually identical law, the Armed Forces (Jammu & Kashmir) Special Powers Act, 1990, have been in force since 1958 in parts of northeast India, and since 1990 in Jammu & Kashmir

the Army is organized into 14 operational corps; the basic field formations under the corps are approximately 40 armored, artillery, infantry, mechanized, or mountain infantry divisions; there are also a number of independent airborne, armored, and artillery brigades, as well as special operations forces; in 2023, the Army announced that it was reorganizing its operational corps and divisions into division-sized “integrated battle groups,” which the Army assessed would be more agile and flexible

the Navy is a blue water force that operates in seas stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Strait of Malacca and the western Pacific; it routinely conducts months-long deployments, exercises with other navies, and conducts a variety of missions such as counter-piracy, humanitarian, and naval diplomacy; its principal ships include 2 aircraft carriers, more than 50 destroyers, frigates, corvettes, and large patrol vessels, 16 attack submarines, and 2 nuclear-powered ballistic missile capable submarines; the Navy also has several combat aircraft and anti-submarine warfare helicopter squadrons, as well as a marine amphibious brigade and a marine commando force

the Air Force is one of the World’s largest with more than 600 British-, French-, Russian/Soviet-, and domestically produced combat aircraft, plus nearly 500 combat helicopters; the tri-service Strategic Forces Command manages all of India’s strategic missile forces 

the short 1962 Sino-India War left in place one of the world’s longest disputed international borders, resulting in occasional standoffs between Indian and Chinese security forces, including lethal clashes in 1975 and 2020; meanwhile, India and Pakistan have fought several conflicts since 1947, including the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 and the Indo-Pakistan and Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971, as well as two clashes over the disputed region of Kashmir (the First Kashmir War of 1947 and the 1999 Kargil Conflict); a fragile cease-fire in Kashmir was reached in 2003, revised in 2018, and reaffirmed in 2021, although the Line of Control remains contested, and India has accused Pakistan of backing armed separatists and terrorist organizations in Jammu and Kashmir where Indian forces have conducted counterinsurgency operations since the 1980s; in addition, India and Pakistan have battled over the Siachen Glacier of Kashmir, which was seized by India in 1984 with Pakistan attempting to retake the area at least three times between 1985 and 1995; despite a cease-fire, both sides continue to maintain a permanent military presence there with outposts at altitudes above 20,000 feet (over 6,000 meters) where most casualties are due to extreme weather and the hazards of operating in the high mountain terrain of the world’s highest conflict, including avalanches, exposure, and altitude sickness (2023)" }, "Maritime threats": { "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial waters of India are a risk for armed robbery against ships; in 2022, three attacks against commercial vessels were reported, an increase from the two attacks in 2021; all of these occurred in port while ships were berthed or at anchor" diff --git a/south-asia/np.json b/south-asia/np.json index 257417b7..59001273 100644 --- a/south-asia/np.json +++ b/south-asia/np.json @@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Ministry of Defense: Nepali Army (includes Air Wing); Ministry of Home Affairs: Nepal Police, Nepal Armed Police Force (2023)", + "text": "Ministry of Defense: Nepali Army (includes Air Wing)

Ministry of Home Affairs: Nepal Police, Nepal Armed Police Force (2023)", "note": "note: the Nepal Police are responsible for enforcing law and order across the country; the Armed Police Force is responsible for combating terrorism, providing security during riots and public disturbances, assisting in natural disasters, and protecting vital infrastructure, public officials, and the borders; it also conducts counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations and would assist the Army in the event of an external invasion" }, "Military expenditures": { @@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ "text": "approximately 95,000 active troops (including a small air wing of about 500 personnel) (2022)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the Army's inventory includes a mix of mostly older equipment largely of British, Chinese, Indian, Russian, and South African origin; in recent years, Nepal has received limited amounts of newer hardware from several countries, including China, Italy, and Russia (2022)" + "text": "the Army's inventory includes a mix of mostly older equipment largely of British, Chinese, Indian, Russian, and South African origin; in recent years, Nepal has received limited amounts of newer hardware from several countries, including China, Italy, and Russia (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service (including women); no conscription (2022)", diff --git a/world/xx.json b/world/xx.json index dfb7d49a..16deccd4 100644 --- a/world/xx.json +++ b/world/xx.json @@ -640,14 +640,17 @@ }, "Energy": { "Electricity access": { + "population without electricity": { + "text": "(2020) 757 million" + }, "electrification - total population": { - "text": "90% (2019)" + "text": "91.4% (2021)" }, "electrification - urban areas": { - "text": "96% (2019)" + "text": "97.6% (2021)" }, "electrification - rural areas": { - "text": "85% (2019)" + "text": "84.4% (2021)" } }, "Electricity generation sources": {