auto-update week 41

central-asia/tx.json

@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
       "text": "3.1% (2019)"
     },
     "Education expenditures": {
-      "text": "3.1% of GDP (2012)"
+      "text": "3.1% of GDP (2019)"
     },
     "Literacy": {
       "definition": {
@@ -973,16 +973,16 @@
     },
     "Airports - with paved runways": {
       "total": {
-        "text": "21 (2013)"
+        "text": "21"
       },
       "over 3,047 m": {
-        "text": "1 (2013)"
+        "text": "1"
       },
       "2,438 to 3,047 m": {
-        "text": "9 (2013)"
+        "text": "9"
       },
       "1,524 to 2,437 m": {
-        "text": "9 (2013)"
+        "text": "9"
       },
       "914 to 1,523 m": {
         "text": "2 (2013)"
@@ -990,10 +990,10 @@
     },
     "Airports - with unpaved runways": {
       "total": {
-        "text": "5 (2013)"
+        "text": "5"
       },
       "1,524 to 2,437 m": {
-        "text": "1 (2013)"
+        "text": "1"
       },
       "under 914 m": {
         "text": "4 (2013)"
@@ -1070,6 +1070,9 @@
     },
     "Military service age and obligation": {
       "text": "18-30 years of age for compulsory male military service; 2-year conscript service obligation (2.5 years for the Navy); 20 years of age for voluntary service; males may enroll in military schools from age 15 (2019)"
+    },
+    "Military - note": {
+      "text": "<p>as of 2021, Turkmenistan continued to pursue a nationalist and isolationist security policy and has declined to participate in post-Soviet military groupings such as the Collective Security Treaty Organization military alliance (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO); however, in September 2020, it participated in a Russian-led multinational military exercise held in southern Russia’s Astrakhan region alongside Russian, Chinese, Pakistani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek, Mongolian, Syrian, Iranian, Egyptian, Belarusian, Turkish, Armenian, and Azerbaijani contingents</p> <p>as of 2021, Turkmenistan was trying to improve its naval capabilities on the Caspian Sea by expanding ship building capabilities and adding larger vessels to the Navy’s inventory; in 2018, it opened its first naval shipyard and in August 2021, the Navy commissioned its largest warship, a corvette that was jointly constructed with Turkey</p>"
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {