major source of precursor chemicals used in the production of illicit narcotics
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/er.json b/africa/er.json index c1615f6c..79059659 100644 --- a/africa/er.json +++ b/africa/er.json @@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "210 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Nile (shared with Sudan, South Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania) - 6,650 km;" - }, "Population distribution": { "text": "density is highest in the center of the country in and around the cities of Asmara (capital) and Keren; smaller settlements exist in the north and south as shown in this population distribution map" }, @@ -425,9 +422,6 @@ "text": "726,957 tons (2011 est.)" } }, - "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Nile (shared with Sudan, South Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania) - 6,650 km;" - }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { "text": "31 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" @@ -920,18 +914,18 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "116,882" + "text": "66,170 (2017)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "1.94 (2019 est.)" + "text": "1.94 (2017 est.)" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,226,660" + "text": "695,000 (2017)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "20.36 (2019 est.)" + "text": "20.36 (2017 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { @@ -962,7 +956,7 @@ }, "Broadband - fixed subscriptions": { "total": { - "text": "600" + "text": "1,000 (2017 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "less than 1 (2017 est.)" diff --git a/africa/et.json b/africa/et.json index f25082be..9f4c66ec 100644 --- a/africa/et.json +++ b/africa/et.json @@ -86,12 +86,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "2,900 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Mediterranean Sea) Nile (3,254,853 sq km)" - }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "Ogaden-Juba Basin, Sudd Basin (Umm Ruwaba Aquifer)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Tana - 3,600 sq km; Abaya Hayk - 1,160 sq km; Ch'amo Hayk - 550 sq km" @@ -101,7 +95,13 @@ } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Blue Nile (shared with Sudan) - 1,600 km;" + "text": "Blue Nile river source (shared with Sudan [m]) - 1,600 kmin November 2021, long-simmering tensions between the Ethiopian Government and the state of Tigray’s ruling party (Tigray People’s Liberation Front, TPLF) led to armed clashes between ENDF and Tigrayan paramilitary forces; the Ethiopian Government sent large elements of the ENDF into Tigray to remove the TPLF and invited militia and paramilitary forces from the states of Afar and Amara, as well as the military forces of Eritrea, to assist; fighting continued through 2021 with heavy civilian and military casualties and widespread human rights abuses reported
the military forces of the Tigray regional government are known as the Tigray Defense Force (TDF); the TDF is comprised of state paramilitary forces, local militia, and troops that defected from the ENDF; it reportedly had up to 250,000 fighters at the start of the conflict; in August 2021, the TPLF struck an alliance with with the the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA); the OLA is a splinter rebel group of the Oromo Liberation Front, a formerly banned opposition group that returned from exile in 2018
as of 2021, the Ethiopian military consisted of approximately 22 Army divisions (approximately 14 light infantry, 6 mechanized, and 1 commando/special operations), while the Air Force had 2 fighter/ground attack and 2 mixed attack/transport helicopter squadrons
" + "text": "each of the nine states has a regional and/or a \"special\" paramilitary security forces that report to regional civilian authorities; local militias operate across the country in loose and varying coordination with these regional security and police forces, the Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP), and the Ethiopian military; the EFP reports to the Ministry of Peace, which was created in October of 2018
in November 2021, long-simmering tensions between the Ethiopian Government and the state of Tigray’s ruling party (Tigray People’s Liberation Front, TPLF) led to armed clashes between ENDF and Tigrayan paramilitary forces; the Ethiopian Government sent large elements of the ENDF into Tigray to remove the TPLF and invited militia and paramilitary forces from the states of Afar and Amara, as well as the military forces of Eritrea, to assist; fighting continued through 2021 with heavy civilian and military casualties and widespread human rights abuses reported
the military forces of the Tigray regional government are known as the Tigray Defense Force (TDF); the TDF is comprised of state paramilitary forces, local militia, and troops that defected from the ENDF; it reportedly had up to 250,000 fighters at the start of the conflict; in August 2021, the TPLF struck an alliance with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA)
as of 2021, the Ethiopian military consisted of approximately 22 Army divisions (approximately 14 light infantry, 6 mechanized, and 1 commando/special operations), while the Air Force had 2 fighter/ground attack and 2 mixed attack/transport helicopter squadrons
" } }, "Terrorism": { @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "378,423 (South Sudan), 215,300 (Somalia), 150,960 (Eritrea), 46,014 (Sudan) (2021)" + "text": "380,320 (South Sudan), 216,558 (Somalia), 150,960 (Eritrea), 46,014 (Sudan) (2021)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "1,990,168 (includes conflict- and climate-induced IDPs, excluding unverified estimates from the Amhara region; border war with Eritrea from 1998-2000; ethnic clashes; and ongoing fighting between the Ethiopian military and separatist rebel groups in the Somali and Oromia regions; natural disasters; intercommunal violence; most IDPs live in Sumale state) (2021)" diff --git a/africa/ga.json b/africa/ga.json index bd53757c..4736ab7a 100644 --- a/africa/ga.json +++ b/africa/ga.json @@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "50 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Gambia river mouth (shared with Senegal and Guinea [s]) - 1,094 km
a transit country for a variety of illicit drugs, including heroin and cocaine; transit location for precursor chemicals used to produce methamphetamine and other drugs; heroin from Southwest Asia enters Kenya destined for international markets, mainly Europe; cocaine transits through Kenya shipped through Ethiopia from South America; cultivates cannabis and miraa (khat) for both local use and export
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/li.json b/africa/li.json index c6fe80f3..1aaee865 100644 --- a/africa/li.json +++ b/africa/li.json @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for Southeast and Southwest Asian heroin and South American cocaine for the European and US markets; corruption, criminal activity, arms-dealing, and diamond trade provide significant potential for money laundering, but the lack of well-developed financial system limits the country's utility as a major money-laundering center" + "text": "not a significant transit country for illicit narcotics but proximity to major drug routes contribute to trafficking; not a significant producer of illicit narcotics; local drug use involves marijuana, heroin, cocaine, the synthetic opioid tramadol, and amphetamine-type stimulants
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/ly.json b/africa/ly.json index c9074965..ca127370 100644 --- a/africa/ly.json +++ b/africa/ly.json @@ -1036,13 +1036,13 @@ "text": "not available" }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "not available" + "text": "estimates not available" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "both the forces of the Government of National Accord and the Libyan National Army are largely equipped with weapons of Russian or Soviet origin; as of 2020, Russia, Turkey, and the UAE were reportedly providing weapons and military equipment to the forces in Libya (2020)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "as of late 2020, there were at least 10,000 foreign mercenaries and proxy forces estimated to be deployed in Libya to bolster both GNA- and LNA-aligned forces (2020)" + "text": "as of late 2020, there were at least 10,000 and as many as 20,000 foreign mercenaries and proxy forces estimated to be deployed in Libya to bolster both GNA- and LNA-aligned forces" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/ma.json b/africa/ma.json index d3c98341..998b25fd 100644 --- a/africa/ma.json +++ b/africa/ma.json @@ -343,13 +343,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "74.8%" + "text": "76.7%" }, "male": { - "text": "77.3%" + "text": "78.4%" }, "female": { - "text": "72.4% (2018)" + "text": "75.1% (2018)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { diff --git a/africa/ml.json b/africa/ml.json index 5ff4511e..4781e8a1 100644 --- a/africa/ml.json +++ b/africa/ml.json @@ -85,12 +85,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "3,780 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Niger (2,261,741 sq km), Senegal (456,397 sq km), Volta (410,991 sq km)" - }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "Lullemeden-Irhazer Basin, Taodeni-Tanezrouft Basin" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lac Faguibine - 590 sq kma transit point for illicit drugs trafficked to Europe; trafficking controlled by armed groups, criminal organizations, terrorist groups and government officials that facilitate, protect and profit from the activity
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/mo.json b/africa/mo.json index c9dbec29..5999c9d3 100644 --- a/africa/mo.json +++ b/africa/mo.json @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ "text": "Morocco protests Spain's control over the coastal enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, the islands of Penon de Alhucemas and Islas Chafarinas, and surrounding waters; both countries claim Isla Perejil (Leila Island); discussions have not progressed on a comprehensive maritime delimitation, setting limits on resource exploration and refugee interdiction, since Morocco's 2002 rejection of Spain's unilateral designation of a median line from the Canary Islands; Morocco serves as one of the primary launching areas of illegal migration into Spain from North Africa; Algeria's border with Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations, each nation accusing the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; the National Liberation Front's assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco is a dormant dispute
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "the world's largest producer and exporter of cannabis; total production for 2015-2016 growing season estimated to be 700 metric tons; shipments of hashish mostly directed to Western Europe; transit point for cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; significant consumer of cannabis" + "text": "one of the world’s largest cannabis-producing country with Europe as the main market; hashish is also smuggled to South America and the Caribbean where it is exchanged for cocaine which is distributed in Europe; MDMA (ecstasy), originating in Belgium and the Netherlands is smuggled into northern Morocco for sale on the domestic market
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/mp.json b/africa/mp.json index 5bc0a51a..f4576429 100644 --- a/africa/mp.json +++ b/africa/mp.json @@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "consumer and transshipment point for heroin from South Asia; small amounts of cannabis produced and consumed locally; significant offshore financial industry creates potential for money laundering, but corruption levels are relatively low and the government appears generally to be committed to regulating its banking industry" + "text": "consumer and transshipment point for heroin from South Asia; small amounts of cannabis produced and consumed locally; significant offshore financial industry creates potential for money laundering, but corruption levels are relatively low and the government appears generally to be committed to regulating its banking industry
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/mr.json b/africa/mr.json index 3ea611f5..6d30585b 100644 --- a/africa/mr.json +++ b/africa/mr.json @@ -96,15 +96,15 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "450 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Senegal (shared with Senegal and Mali) - 1,641 km; " + }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Niger (2,261,741 sq km), Senegal (456,397 sq km)" }, "Major aquifers": { "text": "Senegalo-Mauritanian Basin, Taodeni-Tanzerouft Basin" }, - "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Senegal (shared with Senegal and Mali) - 1,641 km; " - }, "Population distribution": { "text": "with most of the country being a desert, vast areas of the country, particularly in the central, northern, and eastern areas, are without sizeable population clusters; half the population lives in or around the coastal capital of Nouakchott; smaller clusters are found near the southern border with Mali and Senegal as shown in this population distribution map" }, diff --git a/africa/mz.json b/africa/mz.json index 150841c3..74a8d869 100644 --- a/africa/mz.json +++ b/africa/mz.json @@ -90,9 +90,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "1,180 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: Zambezi (1,332,412 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Malawi (shared with Malawi and Tanzania) - 22,490" @@ -101,6 +98,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Zambezi river mouth (shared with Zambia [s]), Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe) - 2,740 km; Limpopo river mouth (shared with South Africa [s], Botswana, and Zimbabwe) - 1,800 kmdifficult economic climate, with lack of fixed telecom infrastructure; mobile services stronger than fixed telecom; low broadband penetration; adopted free mobile roaming with other G5 Sahel countries; World Bank project to facilitate digital progress; government contributes to Trans-Sahara Backbone network, with aims to extend fiber-optic and international capacity; LTE license awarded; government substantially taxes telecom sector (2021)
(2020)" + "text": "difficult economic climate, with lack of fixed telecom infrastructure; mobile services stronger than fixed telecom; low broadband penetration; adopted free mobile roaming with other G5 Sahel countries; World Bank project to facilitate digital progress; government contributes to Trans-Sahara Backbone network, with aims to extend fiber-optic and international capacity; LTE license awarded; government substantially taxes telecom sector (2020)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line 1 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular teledensity remains 41 per 100 persons despite a rapidly increasing cellular subscribership base; small system of wire, radio telephone communications, and microwave radio relay links concentrated in southwestern Niger; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned (2019)" @@ -1185,6 +1185,9 @@ "IDPs": { "text": "291,061 (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) (2021)" } + }, + "Illicit drugs": { + "text": "a transit point for illicit drugs narcotics trafficked through the Sahara; drugs from South America, particularly cocaine, heroin, cannabis products, and synthetic drugs, transit en route to European and Middle Eastern markets; synthetic opioid tramadol is shipped from Nigeria through Niger to other African countries; hashish from Morocco is trafficked to Libya, Egypt, Europe, and the Middle East; traffickers are formalized networks of Arab, Tuareg, and Toubou transportation groups
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/ni.json b/africa/ni.json index fb3564df..5243b495 100644 --- a/africa/ni.json +++ b/africa/ni.json @@ -93,12 +93,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "2,930 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Niger (2,261,741 sq km)landlocked and war-torn with little infrastructure and electricity, Sudan has one of the least developed telecom and Internet systems in the world and one of the lowest mobile penetration rates in Africa; instability, widespread poverty, and low literacy rate all contribute to a struggling telecom sector; due to revenue losses, the few carriers in the market have reduced the areas in which they offer service; the government recognizes positive effects of ICT on development and is providing a range of investment incentives; international community provided billions in aid to help the young country; Chinese investment plays a growing role in the infrastructure build-out and energy sectors; by 2020, one operator had initiated e-money service; international fiber cable link from Juba to Mombasa will drive down costs of Internet; government utilizes unchecked power to conduct surveillance and monitor communications; importer of broadcasting equipment from China (2021)
(2020)" + "text": "landlocked and war-torn with little infrastructure and electricity, Sudan has one of the least developed telecom and Internet systems in the world and one of the lowest mobile penetration rates in Africa; instability, widespread poverty, and low literacy rate all contribute to a struggling telecom sector; due to revenue losses, the few carriers in the market have reduced the areas in which they offer service; the government recognizes positive effects of ICT on development and is providing a range of investment incentives; international community provided billions in aid to help the young country; Chinese investment plays a growing role in the infrastructure build-out and energy sectors; by 2020, one operator had initiated e-money service; international fiber cable link from Juba to Mombasa will drive down costs of Internet; government utilizes unchecked power to conduct surveillance and monitor communications; importer of broadcasting equipment from China (2020)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line less than 1 per 100 subscriptions, mobile-cellular 33 per 100 persons (2019)" diff --git a/africa/pu.json b/africa/pu.json index 3056ff7b..ae439d7b 100644 --- a/africa/pu.json +++ b/africa/pu.json @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "increasingly important transit country for South American cocaine en route to Europe; enabling environment for trafficker operations due to pervasive corruption; archipelago-like geography near the capital facilitates drug smuggling" + "text": "important transit country for South American cocaine en route to Europe; enabling environment for trafficker operations due to pervasive corruption; archipelago-like geography near the capital facilitates drug smuggling" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/rw.json b/africa/rw.json index 48ce8540..5393ff83 100644 --- a/africa/rw.json +++ b/africa/rw.json @@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "96 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Congo (3,730,881 sq km), (Mediterranean Sea) Nile (3,254,853 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Kivu (shared with Democratic Republic of Congo) - 2,220 sq km" @@ -96,6 +93,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Nile river source (shared with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt [m]) - 6,650 kmmajor transit point on the cocaine route from South America to Europe; the third-largest cannabis-producing country in West Africa
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/so.json b/africa/so.json index 9132419c..c658c048 100644 --- a/africa/so.json +++ b/africa/so.json @@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "the public telecom system was almost completely destroyed during years of civil war; private companies offer limited local fixed-line and wireless service in most major cities; early 2020 landing of DARE 1 submarine cables in Mogadishu and Bossaso eased dependence on expensive satellite dependency for Internet access; in 2019, Al Shabaab Islamic militant group forced closure of Internet services in some parts of the country; new telecom regulatory sector in place (2020)
(2020)" + "text": "the public telecom system was almost completely destroyed during years of civil war; private companies offer limited local fixed-line and wireless service in most major cities; early 2020 landing of DARE 1 submarine cables in Mogadishu and Bossaso eased dependence on expensive satellite dependency for Internet access; in 2019, Al Shabaab Islamic militant group forced closure of Internet services in some parts of the country; new telecom regulatory sector in place (2020)" }, "domestic": { "text": "seven networks compete for customers in the mobile sector; some of these mobile-service providers offer fixed-lines and Internet services; fixed-line less than 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular 49 per 100 (2019)" diff --git a/africa/su.json b/africa/su.json index ea285359..6ab0620d 100644 --- a/africa/su.json +++ b/africa/su.json @@ -94,15 +94,15 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "18,900 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Nile (shared with Rwanda [s], Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, and Egypt [m]) - 6,650 km; Blue Nile (shared with Ethiopia [s]) - 1,600 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
Nile (shared with Rwanda [s], Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, and Egypt [m]) - 6,650 km; Blue Nile (shared with Ethiopia [s]) - 1,600 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
well-equipped system by regional standards with ongoing upgrades; despite economic challenges, government continues to boost mobile infrastructure through build-out of fiber-broadband network across country; economic climate has not encouraged client growth in telecom, but some investment has been made to build mobile towers and expand LTE services; growth of e-money services; 2020 launch of Chinese-based satellite to develop space technology sector; interim constitution safeguards rights and freedoms, though some Internet users continue to face harassment for activities; importer of broadcasting equipment from UAE and China (2021)
(2020)" + "text": "well-equipped system by regional standards with ongoing upgrades; despite economic challenges, government continues to boost mobile infrastructure through build-out of fiber-broadband network across country; economic climate has not encouraged client growth in telecom, but some investment has been made to build mobile towers and expand LTE services; growth of e-money services; 2020 launch of Chinese-based satellite to develop space technology sector; interim constitution safeguards rights and freedoms, though some Internet users continue to face harassment for activities; importer of broadcasting equipment from UAE and China (2020)" }, "domestic": { "text": "consists of microwave radio relay, cable, fiber optic, radiotelephone communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations; teledensity fixed-line less than 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular 77 telephones per 100 persons (2019)" diff --git a/africa/to.json b/africa/to.json index c50a4599..5921155b 100644 --- a/africa/to.json +++ b/africa/to.json @@ -347,13 +347,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "63.7%" + "text": "66.5%" }, "male": { - "text": "77.3%" + "text": "80%" }, "female": { - "text": "51.2% (2015)" + "text": "55.1% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { diff --git a/africa/tz.json b/africa/tz.json index 043c8609..fcb3617b 100644 --- a/africa/tz.json +++ b/africa/tz.json @@ -91,9 +91,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "1,840 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Congo (3,730,881 sq km), (Mediterranean Sea) Nile (3,254,853 sq km)significant transit country for illicit drugs in East Africa; international drug trafficking organizations and courier networks transit through Tanzania to smuggle heroin from Southwest Asia; produces cannabis products and khat for domestic consumption and regional and international distribution; traffickers influence politicians, law enforcement, and others in positions of power with money
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/ug.json b/africa/ug.json index 5db34b88..1ba44b77 100644 --- a/africa/ug.json +++ b/africa/ug.json @@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "140 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Congo (3,730,881 sq km), (Mediterranean Sea) Nile (3,254,853 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Victoria (shared with Tanzania and Kenya) - 62,940 sq km; Lake Albert (shared with Democratic Republic of Congo) - 5,590 sq km; Lake Kyoga - 4,430 sq km; Lake Edward (shared with Democratic Republic of Congo) - 2,150 sq km" @@ -93,6 +90,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Nile (shared with Rwanda [s], Tanzania, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt [m]) - 6,650 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
Most of the population is located in the center and south. Nearly one-third of the population lives in cities. The capital and largest city is Ouagadougou (Ouaga), with a population of 1.8 million as shown in this population distribution map
(2019)" }, @@ -991,23 +991,23 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "75,291" + "text": "75,039 (2020)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "less than 1 (2019 est.)" + "text": "less than 1 (2020 est.)" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "20,364,508" + "text": "22,117,218 (2020)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "100.39 (2019 est.)" + "text": "105.8 (2020 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "Burkina Faso’s telecom services are some of the most expensive in the world, hindered by regulatory procedures, insufficient mobile spectrum, poor fixed-line networks; mobile telephony but below African average; Internet is provided by mobile operators; Internet penetration is low and expensive, despite improved international bandwidth via fiber links through submarine cables to adjacent countries; increased telecom tax; government infrastructure project largely completed; parliament launched inquiry on mobile network infrastructure coverage, pricing of services, and quality of service; government began computer subsidy program for university students; government progressed with large project to provide metropolitan fiber-optic infrastructure (2021)
(2020)" + "text": "Burkina Faso’s telecom services are some of the most expensive in the world, hindered by regulatory procedures, insufficient mobile spectrum, poor fixed-line networks; mobile telephony but below African average; Internet is provided by mobile operators; Internet penetration is low and expensive, despite improved international bandwidth via fiber links through submarine cables to adjacent countries; increased telecom tax; government infrastructure project largely completed; parliament launched inquiry on mobile network infrastructure coverage, pricing of services, and quality of service; government began computer subsidy program for university students; government progressed with large project to provide metropolitan fiber-optic infrastructure (2020)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage 100 per 100, with multiple providers there is competition and the hope for growth from a low base; Internet penetration is 11% countrywide, but higher in urban areas (2019)" @@ -1033,10 +1033,10 @@ }, "Broadband - fixed subscriptions": { "total": { - "text": "12,015" + "text": "13,979 (2020)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "less than 1 (2018 est.)" + "text": "less than 1 (2020 est.)" } } }, diff --git a/africa/wz.json b/africa/wz.json index 3b65b519..97e3ca5f 100644 --- a/africa/wz.json +++ b/africa/wz.json @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ "text": "88.3%" }, "female": { - "text": "88.5% (2015)" + "text": "88.5% (2018)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { diff --git a/africa/za.json b/africa/za.json index 7c8b1011..437b9468 100644 --- a/africa/za.json +++ b/africa/za.json @@ -85,12 +85,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "1,560 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Congo (3,730,881 sq km)Zambezi river source (shared with Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique [m]) - 2,740 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
Zambezi (shared with Zambia [s]), Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Mozambique [m]) - 2,740 km; Limpopo (shared with South Africa [s], Botswana, and Mozambique [m]) - 1,800 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
Zambezi (shared with Zambia [s]), Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Mozambique [m]) - 2,740 km; Limpopo (shared with South Africa [s], Botswana, and Mozambique [m]) - 1,800 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth
transit point for cannabis and South Asian heroin, methaqualone, and methamphetamines en route to South Africa
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/australia-oceania/as.json b/australia-oceania/as.json index 9674f3f1..e0cd7ae7 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/as.json +++ b/australia-oceania/as.json @@ -73,33 +73,27 @@ }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { - "text": "52.9% (2018 est.)" + "text": "46.65% (2018 est.)" }, "agricultural land: arable land": { - "text": "arable land: 11.6% (2018 est.)" + "text": "arable land: 4.03% (2018 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent crops": { - "text": "permanent crops: 0.09% (2018 est.)" + "text": "permanent crops: 0.04% (2018 est.)" }, "agricultural land: permanent pasture": { - "text": "permanent pasture: 88.4% (2018 est.)" + "text": "permanent pasture: 42.58% (2018 est.)" }, "forest": { - "text": "16.2% (2018 est.)" + "text": "17.42% (2018 est.)" }, "other": { - "text": "30.9% (2018 est.)" + "text": "33.42% (2018 est.)" } }, "Irrigated land": { "text": "25,460 sq km (2014)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: (Great Australian Bight) Murray-Darling (1,050,116 sq km)none
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "major offshore financial center; vulnerable to drug transshipment to the US and Europe" + "text": "major offshore financial center vulnerable to drug trafficking money laundering
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json index 14ced947..16a535e7 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json @@ -1141,14 +1141,14 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "29,820 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or received alternative legal stay) (2020)" + "text": "29,906 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or received alternative legal stay) (2021)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "199 (2020)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment country for cocaine and heroin from South America; illicit production of cannabis in remote areas; domestic cocaine consumption, particularly crack cocaine, is rising; significant consumption of amphetamines; seizures of smuggled cash in Costa Rica and at the main border crossing to enter Costa Rica from Nicaragua have risen in recent years" + "text": "
significant transit country for drugs entering the United States; a growing drug consumption problem; drugs warehoused in Costa Rica end up in the local market where criminal organizations use cocaine as payment for services.
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json index 71a63ffa..8d88ecab 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json @@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "territorial waters and air space serve as transshipment zone for US- and European-bound drugs; established the death penalty for certain drug-related crimes in 1999" + "text": "
Cuba is not a major consumer, producer, or transit point of illicit drugs; strict policing on smuggling, production and consumption; prescription drug abuse is increasing
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json index eb6b6fca..d40a3f74 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json @@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ "text": "Dominica is the only Caribbean state to challenge Venezuela's sovereignty claim over Aves Island and joins the other island nations in challenging whether the feature sustains human habitation, a criterion under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ and continental shelf claims over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe; minor cannabis producer" + "text": "a transit point for cocaine and marijuana destined for North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the Caribbean
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json index 5879c0b2..4d7c7cb4 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json @@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "114,050 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum or have received alternative legal stay) (2020)" + "text": "115,283 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum or have received alternative legal stay) (2021)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "133,770 (2016); note - a September 2013 Constitutional Court ruling revoked the citizenship of those born after 1929 to immigrants without proper documentation, even though the constitution at the time automatically granted citizenship to children born in the Dominican Republic and the 2010 constitution provides that constitutional provisions cannot be applied retroactively; the decision overwhelmingly affected people of Haitian descent whose relatives had come to the Dominican Republic since the 1890s as a cheap source of labor for sugar plantations; a May 2014 law passed by the Dominican Congress regularizes the status of those with birth certificates but will require those without them to prove they were born in the Dominican Republic and to apply for naturalization; the government has issued documents to thousands of individuals who may claim citizenship under this law, but no official estimate has been released" @@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; has become a transshipment point for ecstasy from the Netherlands and Belgium destined for US and Canada; substantial money laundering activity in particular by Colombian narcotics traffickers; significant amphetamine consumption" + "text": "a major transshipment point for cocaine transiting through the Caribbean" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json index 79022bba..b7ac2ccb 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json @@ -341,13 +341,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "88.5%" + "text": "89.1%" }, "male": { - "text": "90.6%" + "text": "91.3%" }, "female": { - "text": "86.7% (2017)" + "text": "87.3% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ "text": "International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of \"bolsones\" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, in 1992, with final agreement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca advocating Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not identified in the ICJ decision, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for cocaine; small amounts of marijuana produced for local consumption; significant use of cocaine" + "text": "a transit country for illicit drugs destined for the United States
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json index 51a9eb4f..97f01e05 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json @@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ "text": "none
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "small-scale cannabis cultivation; lesser transshipment point for marijuana and cocaine to US" + "text": "a transit point for cocaine and marijuana destined for North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the Caribbean
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json index d4d708a0..5e4efc87 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json @@ -346,13 +346,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "81.5%" + "text": "80.8%" }, "male": { - "text": "87.4%" + "text": "85.3%" }, "female": { - "text": "76.3% (2015)" + "text": "76.7% (2018)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "major transit country for cocaine and heroin; it is estimated that 1,000 mt of cocaine are smuggled through the country each year, primarily destined for the US market; in 2016, the Guatamalan government estimated that an average of 4,500 hectares of opium poppy were being cultivated; marijuana cultivation for mostly domestic consumption; proximity to Mexico makes Guatemala a major staging area for drugs (particularly for cocaine); money laundering is a serious problem; corruption is a major problem" + "text": "a major transit country for illegal drugs destined for the United States; farmers cultivate opium poppy and cannabis" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json index f30bbbc7..e6a7ec9d 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json @@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "Caribbean transshipment point for cocaine en route to the US and Europe; substantial bulk cash smuggling activity; Colombian narcotics traffickers favor Haiti for illicit financial transactions; pervasive corruption; significant consumer of cannabis" + "text": "a transit point for cocaine from South America and marijuana from Jamaica en route to the United States; not a producer or large consumer of illicit drugs; some cultivation of cannabis for local consumption
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json index a3e77380..31107cc2 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json @@ -350,13 +350,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "87.2%" + "text": "88.5%" }, "male": { - "text": "87.1%" + "text": "88.2%" }, "female": { - "text": "87.3% (2016)" + "text": "88.7% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for drugs and narcotics; illicit producer of cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local consumption; corruption is a major problem; some money-laundering activity" + "text": "transshipment point for cocaine destined for the United States and precursor chemicals used to produce illicit drugs; some experimental coca cultivation
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json index 6e2a5b45..1dc188df 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json @@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ "text": "none
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for cocaine from South America to North America and Europe; illicit cultivation and consumption of cannabis; government has an active manual cannabis eradication program; corruption is a major concern; substantial money-laundering activity; Colombian narcotics traffickers favor Jamaica for illicit financial transactions" + "text": "the largest Caribbean source of marijuana which is trafficked to other Caribbean countries for illegal weapons and other contraband; transit point for cocaine trafficked from South America to North America and other international markets" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json index 3aef9e04..f8681a3a 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought a civic-military coalition, spearheaded by the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas led by Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador prompted the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. After losing free and fair elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA was elected president in 2006, 2011, and most recently in 2016. Municipal, regional, and national-level elections since 2008 have been marred by widespread irregularities. Democratic institutions have weakened under the ORTEGA administration as the president has garnered full control over all branches of government, especially after cracking down on a nationwide antigovernment protest movement in 2018." + "text": "The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought a civic-military coalition, spearheaded by the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas led by Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador prompted the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. After losing free and fair elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA was elected president in 2006, 2011, 2016, and most recently in 2021. Municipal, regional, and national-level elections since 2008 have been marred by widespread irregularities. Democratic institutions have weakened under the ORTEGA administration as the president has garnered full control over all branches of government, especially after cracking down on a nationwide anti-government protest movement in 2018. In the lead-up to the 2021 presidential election, most of the prominent opposition candidates were either arrested or forced into exile leaving only five lesser-known candidates of mostly small parties allied to ORTEGA's Sandinistas to run against him." } }, "Geography": { @@ -553,10 +553,10 @@ "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot by qualified plurality vote for a 5-year term (no term limits as of 2014); election last held on 6 November 2016 (next to be held on 7 November 2021)" + "text": "president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot by qualified plurality vote for a 5-year term (no term limits as of 2014); election last held on 7 November 2021 (next to be held on 1 November 2026)" }, "election results": { - "text": "a transit route for drug traffickers smuggling cocaine from South America through Mexico into the United States via maritime and air routes
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json index 719da8f4..c82766de 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json @@ -344,13 +344,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "95.4%" + "text": "95.7%" }, "male": { - "text": "96%" + "text": "98.8%" }, "female": { - "text": "94.9% (2018)" + "text": "95.4% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "major cocaine transshipment point and primary money-laundering center for narcotics revenue; money-laundering activity is especially heavy in the Colon Free Zone; offshore financial center; negligible signs of coca cultivation; monitoring of financial transactions is improving; official corruption remains a major problem" + "text": "a prime sea and land passage for drugs, primarily cocaine from Colombia, from South America to North America and Europe; traffickers ship drugs in containers passing through the Panama Canal each year North America and Europe
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json index d8ba9dd4..887dfadb 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rn.json @@ -489,5 +489,10 @@ "Military - note": { "text": "defense is the responsibility of France" } + }, + "Transnational Issues": { + "Illicit drugs": { + "text": "
transshipment point for cocaine, heroin, and marijuana destined for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as Europe
" + } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json index c4a8f6df..236824f4 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json @@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ "text": "joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; some money-laundering activity" + "text": "a transit point for cocaine and marijuana destined for North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the Caribbean
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json index 74e53df3..21676d2c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ "text": "joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transit point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe" + "text": "a transit point for cocaine and marijuana destined for North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the Caribbean
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json index 0f921c7e..e5d64aa9 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json @@ -1033,11 +1033,11 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "24,200 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay) (2020)" + "text": "28,500 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay) (2021)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; producer of cannabis" + "text": "a transit point for illegal drugs destined for Europe, North America, and the rest of the Caribbean; drug trafficking organizations use proximity to Venezuela, porous borders, vulnerabilities at ports of entry, limited law enforcement capacity and resources, and law enforcement corruption to traffic illicit drugs; marijuana the only locally-produced illicit drug
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json index 88931b2d..af64d9da 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json @@ -846,6 +846,9 @@ "tier rating": { "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Curacao does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but it is making significant efforts to do so; the government prosecuted and convicted more traffickers than in the previous reporting period; however, authorities identified fewer victims, and assistance to victims was contingent upon their cooperation with law enforcement in prosecuting traffickers; victims who were in the country illegally, including Venezuelans, were at risk of deportation if they did not participate in trials against their traffickers; the government did not operate centers for trafficking victims but provided some funding to NGOs and international organizations to care for victims (2020)" } + }, + "Illicit drugs": { + "text": "
northbound transshipment points for cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela; cocaine is transported to the United States, other Caribbean islands, Africa, and Europe
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json index 63fef613..a1d7cfce 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ "text": "
joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; small-scale cannabis cultivation" + "text": "a transit point for cocaine and marijuana destined for North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the Caribbean
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-asia/kg.json b/central-asia/kg.json index ed51b420..e95c24dd 100644 --- a/central-asia/kg.json +++ b/central-asia/kg.json @@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "10,233 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: Tarim Basin (1,152,448 sq km), (Aral Sea basin) Amu Darya (534,739 sq km), Syr Darya (782,617 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Salt water lake(s)": { "text": "Ozero Issyk-Kul 6,240 sq kma prime transshipment location; illegal drugs move from Afghanistan to Russia, and sometimes into Europe
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-asia/kz.json b/central-asia/kz.json index d37d5540..d7c1386d 100644 --- a/central-asia/kz.json +++ b/central-asia/kz.json @@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "20,660 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: Tarim Basin (1,152,448 sq km), Amu Darya (534,739 sq km), Syr Darya (782,617 sq km), Lake Balkash (510,015 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Ozero Balkhash - 22,000 sq km; Ozero Zaysan - 1,800 sq km" @@ -99,6 +96,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Syr Darya (shared with Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan) - 3,078 km; " }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: Tarim Basin (1,152,448 sq km), Amu Darya (534,739 sq km), Syr Darya (782,617 sq km), Lake Balkash (510,015 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most of the country displays a low population density, particularly the interior; population clusters appear in urban agglomerations in the far northern and southern portions of the country" }, @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ "text": "99.8%" }, "female": { - "text": "99.8% (2015)" + "text": "99.7% (2018)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "significant illicit cultivation of cannabis for CIS markets, as well as limited cultivation of opium poppy and ephedra (for the drug ephedrine); limited government eradication of illicit crops; transit point for Southwest Asian narcotics bound for Russia and the rest of Europe; significant consumer of opiates" + "text": "
a transit country for Afghan opiates destined for Russia and Europe; increase in clandestine laboratories producing synthetic drugs; Synthetic drugs also trafficked from Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and Europe, and precursor chemicals shipped from Russia
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-asia/rs.json b/central-asia/rs.json index 7c816e05..404d8101 100644 --- a/central-asia/rs.json +++ b/central-asia/rs.json @@ -96,12 +96,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "43,000 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Arctic Ocean drainage: Kolyma (679,934 sq km), Lena (2,306,743 sq km), Ob (2,972,493 sq km), Pechora (289,532 sq km), Yenisei (2,554,388 sq km)a destination country for Afghan opium and heroin and other Afghan opiates; a transit country for cocaine from South America, especially Ecuador to Europe, Belgium and Netherlands; synthetic drugs are produced in clandestine drug laboratories throughout the country; cannabis cultivated in Russian Far East and the North Caucasus; the majority of hashish is smuggled in from Northern Africa
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-asia/ti.json b/central-asia/ti.json index fc314c6e..269ff63c 100644 --- a/central-asia/ti.json +++ b/central-asia/ti.json @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "7,420 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: Tarim Basin (1,152,448 sq km), (Aral Sea Basin) Amu Darya (534,739 sq km), Syr Darya (782,617 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Syr Darya (shared with Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan) - 3,078 km; Amu Darya (shared with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan) - 2,620 km; " }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: Tarim Basin (1,152,448 sq km), (Aral Sea Basin) Amu Darya (534,739 sq km), Syr Darya (782,617 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "the country's population is concentrated at lower elevations, with perhaps as much as 90% of the people living in valleys; overall density increases from east to west" }, @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "Tajikistan sits on one of the world's highest volume illicit drug trafficking routes, between Afghan opiate production to the south and the illicit drug markets of Russia and Eastern Europe to the north; limited illicit cultivation of opium poppy for domestic consumption; significant consumer of opiates" + "text": "Tajikistan is a major route for drug trafficking in Central Asia; opiates and cannabis travel from Afghanistan through Tajikistan to markets in Russia, Belarus, and Western and Central Europe" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-asia/tx.json b/central-asia/tx.json index 92c0890a..e519b3c0 100644 --- a/central-asia/tx.json +++ b/central-asia/tx.json @@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "19,950 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: (Aral Sea basin) Amu Darya (534,739 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Salt water lake(s)": { "text": "Caspian Sea (shared with Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Kazakhstan) - 374,000 sq km" @@ -96,6 +93,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Amu Darya (shared with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan) - 2,620 km; " }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: (Aral Sea basin) Amu Darya (534,739 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "the most densely populated areas are the southern, eastern, and northeastern oases; approximately 50% of the population lives in and around the capital of Ashgabat" }, @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and Western European markets; transit point for heroin precursor chemicals bound for Afghanistan" + "text": "transit country for Afghan opiates to Turkish, Russian, and European markets, either directly from Afghanistan or through Iran; not a major producer or source country for illegal drugs or precursor chemicals
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/central-asia/uz.json b/central-asia/uz.json index be1472a7..e9c89799 100644 --- a/central-asia/uz.json +++ b/central-asia/uz.json @@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "42,150 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: (Aral Sea basin) Amu Darya (534,739 sq km), Syr Darya (782,617 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Aral Sea (shared with Kazakhstan) - largely dried up" @@ -93,6 +90,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Syr Darya (shared with Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan) - 3,078 km; Amu Darya (shared with Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan) - 2,620 km; " }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Internal (endorheic basin) drainage: (Aral Sea basin) Amu Darya (534,739 sq km), Syr Darya (782,617 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most of the population is concentrated in the fertile Fergana Valley in the easternmost arm of the country; the south has significant clusters of people, while the central and western deserts are sparsely populated" }, @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ "text": "100%" }, "female": { - "text": "100% (2016)" + "text": "100% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and, to a lesser extent, Western European markets; limited illicit cultivation of cannabis and small amounts of opium poppy for domestic consumption; poppy cultivation almost wiped out by government crop eradication program; transit point for heroin precursor chemicals bound for Afghanistan" + "text": "
transit country for Afghan opium and heroin destined for Russia and the European Union; also transit country for hashish, marijuana, New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), and synthetic drugs; cannabis and poppy are cultivated in small amounts for personal use and local sale
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json index 25d2e453..7073daae 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json @@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "22,950 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: Brahmaputra (651,335 sq km), Ganges (1,016,124 sq km), Irrawaddy (413,710 sq km), Salween (271,914 sq km)a major source of illicit methamphetamine and opiates; illicit import of precursor chemicals from China increased production and trafficking of synthetic drugs; second-largest opium poppy cultivator in Asia, with an estimated 20,200 hectares grown in 2019; “Yaba,” a tablet containing methamphetamine, caffeine, and other stimulants, is produced in Burma and trafficked regionally; ethnic armed groups (EAGs), military-affiliated militias, and transnational criminal organizations oversee billion dollar a drug production and trafficking industry; drugs produced in Burma are trafficked beyond Southeast Asia to Australia, New Zealand, and Japan; not a major source or transit country for drugs entering the United States
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json index f18827a5..ae537213 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json @@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "3,540 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Pacific Ocean drainage: Mekong (805,604 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Tonle Sap - 2,700-16,000 sq km" @@ -107,6 +104,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Mekong (shared with Burma, Laos, Thailand, China, and Vietnam) - 4,350 km;" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Pacific Ocean drainage: Mekong (805,604 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "population concentrated in the southeast, particularly in and around the capital of Phnom Penh; further distribution is linked closely to the Tonle Sap and Mekong Rivers" }, @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "narcotics-related corruption reportedly involving some in the government, military, and police; limited methamphetamine production; vulnerable to money laundering due to its cash-based economy and porous borders" + "text": "
manufacture of methamphetamine expanding due to transnational crime syndicates moving from China to evade the law; drugs destined for Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea and the rest of East and South-East Asia
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json index 01064d22..fadf819a 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json @@ -96,12 +96,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "690,070 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Pacific Ocean drainage: Amur (1,929,955 sq km), Huang He (944,970 sq km), Mekong (805,604 sq km), Yangtze (1,722,193 sq km)a major source of precursor chemicals, new psychoactive substances (NPS), and synthetic drugs, including fentanyl precursors and methamphetamine; PRC criminal organizations and organizations from Mexico and Southeast Asia traffic illicit drugs within the PRC as well as to international markets; significant illicit drug consumption of methamphetamine and ketamine; a major destination and transit country for heroin produced in neighboring countries; the PRC remains a major source of NPS sold in North America and Europe
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json index 5bdac263..da6ec15b 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "despite strenuous law enforcement efforts, faces difficult challenges in controlling transit of heroin and methamphetamine to regional and world markets; modern banking system provides conduit for money laundering; rising indigenous use of synthetic drugs, especially among young people" + "text": "
modern banking system provides conduit for money laundering; groups involved in money laundering range from local street organizations to sophisticated international syndicates involved in assorted criminal activities, including drug trafficking; major source of precursor chemicals used in the production of illicit narcotics
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json index 4a5e72ed..396e2eb1 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json @@ -348,13 +348,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "95.7%" + "text": "96%" }, "male": { - "text": "97.3%" + "text": "97.4%" }, "female": { - "text": "94% (2018)" + "text": "94.6% (2020)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "illicit producer of cannabis largely for domestic use; producer of methamphetamine and ecstasy; President WIDODO's war on drugs has led to an increase in death sentences and executions, particularly of foreign drug traffickers" + "text": "a transit and destination point for illicit narcotics; consumer of crystal methamphetamine trafficked in Burma and Pakistan and also transit to Australia and New Zealand; significant consumer of ecstasy from China and the Netherlands and domestically grown cannabis
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json index 5cb1468e..a3090685 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json @@ -985,13 +985,13 @@ "text": "Korean People's Army (KPA): KPA Ground Forces, KPA Navy, KPA Air Force (includes air defense), KPA Strategic Forces (missile forces); Security Guard Command (protects the Kim family, other senior leadership figures, and government facilities); Ministry of Public Security: Border Guards, civil security forces (2021)" }, "Military expenditures": { - "text": "in 2019, it was assessed that North Korea spent between 22% and 24% of GDP (between US$3.7 billion and US$4.2bn in 2017 dollars) annually on the military between 2007 and 2017" + "text": "an estimated 20-30% of North Korea's GDP is allocated to the military" }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "assessments of the size of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) vary widely; approximately 1.1-1.2 million active troops (950,000-1.0 million Army; 110-120,000 Air Force; 60,000 Navy; 10,000 Strategic Missile Forces); est. 200,000 Public Security forces (2020)" + "text": "assessments of the size of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) vary widely; approximately 1.1-1.2 million active troops (950,000-1.0 million Army; 110-120,000 Air Force; 60,000 Navy; 10,000 Strategic Missile Forces); est. 200,000 Public Security forces (2021)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the KPA is equipped mostly with older weapon systems originally acquired from the former Soviet Union, Russia, and China; North Korea manufactures copies and provides some upgrades to these weapon systems; it also has a robust domestic ballistic missile program based largely on missiles acquired from the former Soviet Union; since 2010, there were no publicly-reported transfers of weapons to North Korea; between 2000 and 2010, Russia was the only recorded provider of arms (2020)" + "text": "the KPA is equipped mostly with older weapon systems originally acquired from the former Soviet Union, Russia, and China; North Korea manufactures copies and provides some upgrades to these weapon systems; it also has a robust domestic ballistic missile program based largely on missiles acquired from the former Soviet Union; since 2010, there were no publicly-reported transfers of weapons to North Korea; between 2000 and 2010, Russia was the only recorded provider of arms (2021)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "17 years of age for compulsory male and female military service; service obligation 10 years for men, to age 23 for women (reportedly reduced in 2021 to 8 years for men and 5 years for women) (2021)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json index 7c0c7e15..125572ad 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json @@ -311,15 +311,6 @@ "Literacy": { "definition": { "text": "age 15 and over can read and write (2019)" - }, - "total population": { - "text": "98% (2019)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "99.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "96.6%" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1145,6 +1136,9 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "203 (2020)" } + }, + "Illicit drugs": { + "text": "
precursor chemicals used for illicit drugs, such as acetic anhydride, pseudoephedrine, and ephedrine, imported from the United States, Japan, India, and China and then either resold within South Korea or smuggled into other countries
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json index 5c66ad32..b13d1c35 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "3,100 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Pacific Ocean drainage: Mekong (805,604 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Mekong (shared with Burma, China, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) - 4,350 km;" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Pacific Ocean drainage: Mekong (805,604 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most densely populated area is in and around the capital city of Vientiane; large communities are primarily found along the Mekong River along the southwestern border; overall density is considered one of the lowest in Southeast Asia" }, @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ "text": "
southeast Asian states have enhanced border surveillance to check the spread of avian flu; talks continue on completion of demarcation with Thailand but disputes remain over islands in the Mekong River; Cambodia and Laos have a longstanding border demarcation dispute; concern among Mekong River Commission members that China's construction of eight dams on the Upper Mekong River and construction of more dams on its tributaries will affect water levels, sediment flows, and fisheries; Cambodia and Vietnam are concerned about Laos' extensive plans for upstream dam construction for the same reasons
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "estimated opium poppy cultivation in 2015 was estimated to be 5,700 hectares, compared with 6,200 hectares in 2014; estimated potential production of between 84 and 176 mt of raw opium; unsubstantiated reports of domestic methamphetamine production; growing domestic methamphetamine problem" + "text": "Bokeo Province part of the “Golden Triangle,” a notorious drug production and transit area; remains a poppy cultivator and source of illicit opium and a transit hub for other illicit drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) and chemical precursors; estimate of 4,925 ha of opium poppy cultivated in Laos in 2018
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json index 7402b725..d39d176a 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for drugs going into mainland China; consumer of opiates and amphetamines" + "text": "asian organized crime groups involved in drug trafficking and money laundering
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json index 0d049d36..4adc95a2 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json @@ -331,13 +331,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "98.4%" + "text": "99.2%" }, "male": { - "text": "98.2%" + "text": "99.1%" }, "female": { - "text": "98.6% (2018)" + "text": "99.2% (2020)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json index 09d4ff96..304826bc 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json @@ -340,13 +340,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "93.7%" + "text": "95%" }, "male": { - "text": "96.3%" + "text": "96.2%" }, "female": { - "text": "91.1% (2016)" + "text": "93.6% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "drug trafficking prosecuted vigorously, including enforcement of the death penalty; heroin still primary drug of abuse, but synthetic drug demand remains strong; continued ecstasy and methamphetamine producer for domestic users and, to a lesser extent, the regional drug market" + "text": "methamphetamine is the most used and trafficked drug controlled by criminal organizations that produce it; crystal methamphetamine, MDMA (ecstasy), cannabis products, heroin, ketamine, and Erimin 5 (nimetazepam) are smuggled into the country; a transit point for trafficking cocaine and other drugs to the Australian market
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json index b434392a..1b465e96 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "major consumer of cannabis" + "text": "
transit point for smuggling drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine; major consumer of cannabis
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json index f8a5c2a2..55d69aed 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json @@ -347,13 +347,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "98.2%" + "text": "96.3%" }, "male": { - "text": "98.1%" + "text": "95.7%" }, "female": { - "text": "98.2% (2015)" + "text": "96.9% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json index ef16dab1..1bcce4bb 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json @@ -312,13 +312,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "97.3%" + "text": "97.5%" }, "male": { "text": "98.9%" }, "female": { - "text": "95.9% (2018)" + "text": "96.1% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "drug abuse limited because of aggressive law enforcement efforts, including carrying out death sentences; as a transportation and financial services hub, Singapore is vulnerable, despite strict laws and enforcement, as a venue for money laundering" + "text": "drug abuse limited because of aggressive law enforcement efforts, including carrying out death sentences; as a transportation and financial services hub, Singapore is vulnerable, despite strict laws and enforcement, as a venue for money laundering
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json index 35f0e0ef..507ab864 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json @@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "64,150 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: Salween (271,914 sq km)involved in complex dispute with Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam over the Spratly Islands, and with China and the Philippines over Scarborough Reef; the 2002 \"Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea\" has eased tensions but falls short of a legally binding \"code of conduct\" desired by several of the disputants; Paracel Islands are occupied by China, but claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam; in 2003, China and Taiwan became more vocal in rejecting both Japan's claims to the uninhabited islands of the Senkaku-shoto (Diaoyu Tai) and Japan's unilaterally declared exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea where all parties engage in hydrocarbon prospecting
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "regional transit point for heroin, methamphetamine, and precursor chemicals; transshipment point for drugs to Japan; major problem with domestic consumption of methamphetamine and heroin; rising problems with use of ketamine and club drugs" + "text": "major source of precursor chemicals used in the production of illicit narcotics
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json index b55af1fe..7fddbd8f 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json @@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "46,000 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Pacific Ocean drainage: Mekong (805,604 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Mekong (shared with Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and China) - 4,350 km; Pearl (shared with China) - 2,200 km; Red (shared with China) - 1,149 km" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Pacific Ocean drainage: Mekong (805,604 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "though it has one of the highest population densities in the world, the population is not evenly dispersed; clustering is heaviest along the South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin, with the Mekong Delta (in the south) and the Red River Valley (in the north) having the largest concentrations of people" }, @@ -347,13 +347,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "95%" + "text": "95.8%" }, "male": { - "text": "96.5%" + "text": "97%" }, "female": { - "text": "93.6% (2018)" + "text": "94.6% (2019)" } }, "Unemployment, youth ages 15-24": { @@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "minor producer of opium poppy; probable minor transit point for Southeast Asian heroin; government continues to face domestic opium/heroin/methamphetamine addiction problems despite longstanding crackdowns; enforces the death penalty for drug trafficking" + "text": "transshipment point for transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) trafficking traffic heroin, crystal methamphetamine, and ketamine throughout East Asia and the Pacific; approximately 90% of the illicit drugs in the country originate in Laos, Burma, and Thailand" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/au.json b/europe/au.json index bbefb42d..39b63aa5 100644 --- a/europe/au.json +++ b/europe/au.json @@ -85,16 +85,16 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "1,170 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Rhine-Maas (198,735 sq km), (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Constance (shared with Switzerland and Germany) - 540 sq km" } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Danube (shared with Germany, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km;" + "text": "Danube (shared with Germany [s], Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 kmvulnerable to money laundering from illegal drugs
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/en.json b/europe/en.json index 22d33017..d69ca1f3 100644 --- a/europe/en.json +++ b/europe/en.json @@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "growing producer of synthetic drugs; increasingly important transshipment zone for cannabis, cocaine, opiates, and synthetic drugs since joining the European Union and the Schengen Accord; potential money laundering related to organized crime and drug trafficking is a concern, as is possible use of the gambling sector to launder funds; major use of opiates and ecstasy" + "text": "producer of synthetic drugs; important transshipment zone for cannabis, cocaine, opiates, and synthetic drugs since joining the European Union and the Schengen Accord; potential money laundering related to organized crime and drug trafficking is a concern, as is possible use of the gambling sector to launder funds; major use of opiates and ecstasy" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/ez.json b/europe/ez.json index 7af2720b..961ad441 100644 --- a/europe/ez.json +++ b/europe/ez.json @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "320 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Danube (shared with Germany [s], Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 km; Elbe river source (shared with Germany [m]) - 1,252 km
manufacture of methamphetamine continues to be mostly based on pseudoephedrine from Poland or Turkey.
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/fr.json b/europe/fr.json index 4760e362..904e5b67 100644 --- a/europe/fr.json +++ b/europe/fr.json @@ -106,19 +106,19 @@ "text": "26,420 sq km 26,950 sq km (2012)", "note": "metropolitan France: 26,000 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Loire (115,282 sq km), Seine 78,919 sq km), Rhine-Maas (198,735 sq km), (Adriatic Sea) Po (76,997 sq km), (Mediterranean Sea) Rhone (100,543 sq km)" - }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "Paris Basin" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Geneva (shared with Switzerland) - 580 sq km" } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Rhine (shared with Switzerland, Germany, and Netherlands) - 1,233 km; Loire - 1,012 km;" + "text": "Rhine (shared with Switzerland [s], Germany, and Netherlands [m]) - 1,233 km; Loire - 1,012 km
metropolitan France: transshipment point for South American cocaine, Southwest Asian heroin, and European synthetics;
French Guiana: small amount of marijuana grown for local consumption; minor transshipment point to Europe;
Martinique: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for the US and Europe
" + "text": "metropolitan France: transshipment point for South American cocaine, Southwest Asian heroin, and European synthetics;
French Guiana: small amount of marijuana grown for local consumption; minor transshipment point to Europe;
Martinique: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for the US and Europe
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/gm.json b/europe/gm.json index 2f074739..49551abc 100644 --- a/europe/gm.json +++ b/europe/gm.json @@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "6,500 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Rhine-Maas (198,735 sq km), (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Constance (shared with Switzerland and Austria) - 540 sq km" @@ -107,6 +104,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Danube (shared with Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km; Elbe (shared with Czechia) - 1,252 km; Rhine (shared with Switzerland, France, and Netherlands) - 1,233 km;" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Rhine-Maas (198,735 sq km), (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most populous country in Europe; a fairly even distribution throughout most of the country, with urban areas attracting larger and denser populations, particularly in the far western part of the industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia" }, @@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "source of precursor chemicals for South American cocaine processors; transshipment point for and consumer of Southwest Asian heroin, Latin American cocaine, and European-produced synthetic drugs; major financial center" + "text": "maritime transshipment point for cocaine heading to Europe
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/gr.json b/europe/gr.json index 2300bade..7035c453 100644 --- a/europe/gr.json +++ b/europe/gr.json @@ -327,13 +327,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "97.7%" + "text": "97.9%" }, "male": { "text": "98.5%" }, "female": { - "text": "96.9% (2015)" + "text": "97.4% (2018)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "5,557 (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 1,211,626 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021); as of the end of December 2020, an estimated 119,700 migrants and refugees were stranded in Greece since 2015-16" + "note": "note: 1,212,193 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021); as of the end of December 2020, an estimated 119,700 migrants and refugees were stranded in Greece since 2015-16" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis 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 74fd31aa..5f1ff3cf 100644 --- a/europe/hr.json +++ b/europe/hr.json @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "240 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Danube (shared with Germany [s], Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 kmdrug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/hu.json b/europe/hu.json index c65e6e55..739ba921 100644 --- a/europe/hu.json +++ b/europe/hu.json @@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "1,721 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Balaton - 590 sq km" @@ -96,6 +93,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Danube (shared with Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km; " }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "a fairly even distribution throughout most of the country, with urban areas attracting larger and denser populations" }, diff --git a/europe/it.json b/europe/it.json index c4c851a0..341e86f2 100644 --- a/europe/it.json +++ b/europe/it.json @@ -1191,10 +1191,10 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "3,000 (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 574,521 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021)" + "note": "note: 579,651 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-November 2021)" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "important gateway for and consumer of Latin American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin entering the European market; money laundering by organized crime and from smuggling" + "text": "important gateway for drug trafficking; organized crime groups allied with Colombian and Spanish groups trafficking cocaine to Europe" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/lg.json b/europe/lg.json index 6b69abdf..810fbe44 100644 --- a/europe/lg.json +++ b/europe/lg.json @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ "text": "99.9%" }, "female": { - "text": "99.9% (2015)" + "text": "99.9% (2018)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { diff --git a/europe/lh.json b/europe/lh.json index bfa46c20..81eb7929 100644 --- a/europe/lh.json +++ b/europe/lh.json @@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment and destination point for cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, and opiates from Southwest Asia, Latin America, Western Europe, and neighboring Baltic countries; growing production of high-quality amphetamines, but limited production of cannabis, methamphetamines; susceptible to money laundering despite changes to banking legislation" + "text": "
source country for amphetamine tablets
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/lo.json b/europe/lo.json index 4abaebb4..fdda97a8 100644 --- a/europe/lo.json +++ b/europe/lo.json @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "869 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Danube (shared with Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km; " }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "a fairly even distribution throughout most of the country; slightly larger concentration in the west in proximity to the Czech border" }, diff --git a/europe/md.json b/europe/md.json index 14c7cc40..3385c0a3 100644 --- a/europe/md.json +++ b/europe/md.json @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "2,283 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Danube (shared with Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km; Dniester (shared with Ukraine) - 1,411 km" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "pockets of agglomeration exist throughout the country, the largest being in the center of the country around the capital of Chisinau, followed by Tiraspol and Balti" }, diff --git a/europe/mj.json b/europe/mj.json index 9d1a205c..d426e778 100644 --- a/europe/mj.json +++ b/europe/mj.json @@ -90,14 +90,14 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "24 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Scutari (shared with Albania) - 400 sq kmdrug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/mk.json b/europe/mk.json index 3e3a16f1..d3d12b2a 100644 --- a/europe/mk.json +++ b/europe/mk.json @@ -322,13 +322,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "97.8%" + "text": "98.4%" }, "male": { - "text": "98.8%" + "text": "99.1%" }, "female": { - "text": "96.8% (2015)" + "text": "97.6% (2020)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "558 (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 520,750 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-September 2021)" + "note": "note: 523,033 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021)" }, "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/mt.json b/europe/mt.json index 320f56b4..89b871a6 100644 --- a/europe/mt.json +++ b/europe/mt.json @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "11 (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 7,751 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals by sea (January 2015-September 2021)" + "note": "note: 7,800 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals by sea (January 2015-November 2021)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "minor transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Western Europe" diff --git a/europe/nl.json b/europe/nl.json index e1942587..c8fd9624 100644 --- a/europe/nl.json +++ b/europe/nl.json @@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "4,860 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Rhine-Maas (198,735 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Rhine (shared with Switzerland, Germany, and France) - 1,233 km; " }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Rhine-Maas (198,735 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "an area known as the Randstad, anchored by the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague, and Utrecht, is the most densely populated region; the north tends to be less dense, though sizeable communities can be found throughout the entire country" }, @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "major European producer of synthetic drugs, including ecstasy, and cannabis cultivator; important gateway for cocaine, heroin, and hashish entering Europe; major source of US-bound ecstasy and a significant consumer of ecstasy; a large financial sector vulnerable to money laundering" + "text": "a significant transit country for illicit drugs, especially cocaine from South America destined for Europe; one of the largest sources of synthetic drugs for international markets; numerous methamphetamine laboratories; traffickers use postage companies to send cocaine, ecstasy or methamphetamines distribute narcotics to global customers
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/pl.json b/europe/pl.json index 3d01a578..4bc7a4a5 100644 --- a/europe/pl.json +++ b/europe/pl.json @@ -90,9 +90,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "970 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Salt water lake(s)": { "text": "Zalew Szczecinski/Stettiner Haff (shared with Germany) - 900 sq km" @@ -101,6 +98,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Vistula (shared with Belarus and Ukraine) - 1,213 km" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "population concentrated in the southern area around Krakow and the central area around Warsaw and Lodz, with an extension to the northern coastal city of Gdansk" }, @@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "despite diligent counternarcotics measures and international information sharing on cross-border crimes, a major illicit producer of synthetic drugs for the international market; minor transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and Latin American cocaine to Western Europe" + "text": "source country for amphetamines
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/po.json b/europe/po.json index e63e9abc..ddf75dde 100644 --- a/europe/po.json +++ b/europe/po.json @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 24 January 2021 (next to be held on 24 January 2026); following legislative elections the leader of the majority party or majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the president" + "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 24 January 2021 (next to be held in January 2026); following legislative elections the leader of the majority party or majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the president" }, "election results": { "text": "Marcelo REBELO DE SOUSA reelected president in the first round; percent of vote - Marcelo REBELO DE SOUSA (PSD) 60.7%, Ana GOMES (independent) 12.97%, Andre VENTURA (CH) 11.9%, João FERREIRA (PCP-PEV) 4.32%, Marisa MATIAS (BE) 3.95%, other 6.16%" @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ "text": "unicameral Assembly of the Republic or Assembleia da Republica (230 seats; 226 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by closed-list proportional representation vote and 4 members - 2 each in 2 constituencies representing Portuguese living abroad - directly elected by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms) (e.g. 2019)" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 6 October 2019 (next to be held on 14 September 2023) (e.g. 2019)" + "text": "last held on 6 October 2019 (next to be held on 23 January 2022); note - early elections were called after parliament was dissolved on 3 November 2021 because of the 27 October 2021 rejection of the government's budget (e.g. 2019)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - PS 36.4%, PSD 27.8%, B.E. 9.5%, CDU 6.5%, other 20.8%; seats by party - PS 108, PSD 79, B.E. 19, CDU 12, other 12; composition (as of October 2021) - men 138, women 92, percent of women 40% (e.g. 2019)" @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "seizing record amounts of Latin American cocaine destined for Europe; a European gateway for Southwest Asian heroin; transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Europe; consumer of Southwest Asian heroin" + "text": "a European gateway for Southwest Asian heroin; transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Europe; consumer of Southwest Asian heroin
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/ri.json b/europe/ri.json index 31f0b117..ad2d121d 100644 --- a/europe/ri.json +++ b/europe/ri.json @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "950 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Danube (shared with Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km;" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "a fairly even distribution throughout most of the country, with urban areas attracting larger and denser populations" }, @@ -340,13 +340,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "98.3%" + "text": "99.5%" }, "male": { - "text": "99.1%" + "text": "99.9%" }, "female": { - "text": "97.5% (2016)" + "text": "99.1% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1171,10 +1171,10 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "2,144 (includes stateless persons in Kosovo) (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 797,027 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 5,255 migrants and asylum seekers as of May 2021" + "note": "note: 802,301 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 6,228 migrants and asylum seekers as of September 2021" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western Europe on the Balkan route; economy vulnerable to money laundering" + "text": "
drug trafficking groups are major players in the procurement and transportation of of large quantities of cocaine destined for European markets
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/ro.json b/europe/ro.json index 454be54d..607776fe 100644 --- a/europe/ro.json +++ b/europe/ro.json @@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "31,490 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Danube (shared with Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine) - 2,888 km;" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "urbanization is not particularly high, and a fairly even population distribution can be found throughout most of the country, with urban areas attracting larger and denser populations; Hungarians, the country's largest minority, have a particularly strong presence in eastern Transylvania" }, @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "275 (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 8,487 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021)" + "note": "note: 8,585 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-November 2021)" }, "Trafficking in persons": { "current situation": { @@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "major transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin transiting the Balkan route and small amounts of Latin American cocaine bound for Western Europe; although not a significant financial center, role as a narcotics conduit leaves it vulnerable to laundering, which occurs via the banking system, currency exchange houses, and casinos" + "text": "a source country for cannabis
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/si.json b/europe/si.json index 0436560d..2fea5b2f 100644 --- a/europe/si.json +++ b/europe/si.json @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "10 (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 525,153 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-September 2021)" + "note": "note: 533,174 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021)" }, "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 612375fa..c4e8be67 100644 --- a/europe/sp.json +++ b/europe/sp.json @@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "98.4%" + "text": "98.6%" }, "male": { - "text": "98.9%" + "text": "99%" }, "female": { - "text": "98% (2018)" + "text": "98.2% (2020)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1200,10 +1200,10 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "5,914 (2020)" }, - "note": "note: 193,685 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-October 2021)" + "note": "note: 194,127 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-November 2021)" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "despite rigorous law enforcement efforts, North African, Latin American, Galician, and other European traffickers take advantage of Spain's long coastline to land large shipments of cocaine and hashish for distribution to the European market; consumer for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish; destination and minor transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin; money-laundering site for Colombian narcotics trafficking organizations and organized crime" + "text": "primary transit point in Europe for cocaine from South America and for hashish from Morocco; cocaine is shipped in raw or liquid form with mixed cargo to avoid detection; traffickers ship methamphetamine via express mail; increasing number of indoor cannabis grow operations; illegal labs cutting, mixing, and reconstituting cocaine, and heroin and methamphetamine labs; synthetic drugs, including ketamine and MDMA (ecstasy) transit from Spain to the United States" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/sw.json b/europe/sw.json index 96249527..e23f57f9 100644 --- a/europe/sw.json +++ b/europe/sw.json @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Center Party (Centerpartiet) or C [Annie LOOF]consumer and transit country for illicit drugs; cocaine and heroin consumption rates among Europe’s highest; criminal organizations engage in domestic drug trafficking and financial crimes; drug use remains linked to serious violence; major source of precursor chemicals used in the production of illicit narcotics
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/europe/up.json b/europe/up.json index 9007bdc5..26b72f3d 100644 --- a/europe/up.json +++ b/europe/up.json @@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "21,670 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km), Don (458,694 sq km), Dnieper (533,966 sq km)" - }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Danube (shared with Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova) - 2,888 km; Dnieper (shared with Russia and Belarus) - 2,287 km; Don (shared with Russia) - 1,870 km; Dniester (shared with Moldova) - 1,411 km; Vistula (shared with Poland and Belarus) - 1,213 km" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Black Sea) Danube (795,656 sq km), Don (458,694 sq km), Dnieper (533,966 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "densest settlement in the eastern (Donbas) and western regions; noteable concentrations in and around major urban areas of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donets'k, Dnipropetrovs'k, and Odesa" }, @@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption; some synthetic drug production for export to the West; limited government eradication program; used as transshipment point for opiates and other illicit drugs from Africa, Latin America, and Turkey to Europe and Russia; Ukraine has improved anti-money-laundering controls, resulting in its removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) Noncooperative Countries and Territories List in February 2004; Ukraine's anti-money-laundering regime continues to be monitored by FATF" + "text": "a transit country for illicit drug trafficking into the European Union due to its location amidst several important trafficking routes into western Europe, ports on the Black and Azov seas, extensive river routes, and porous northern and eastern borders; South American cocaine moves through Ukrainian seaports and airports; secret amphetamine and methamphetamine laboratories supply the local market
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/middle-east/ae.json b/middle-east/ae.json index e58945a9..b6a5256d 100644 --- a/middle-east/ae.json +++ b/middle-east/ae.json @@ -307,13 +307,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "93.8%" + "text": "97.6%" }, "male": { - "text": "93.1%" + "text": "98%" }, "female": { - "text": "95.8% (2015)" + "text": "96.9% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ "text": "boundary agreement was signed and ratified with Oman in 2003 for entire border, including Oman's Musandam Peninsula and Al Madhah enclaves, but contents of the agreement and detailed maps showing the alignment have not been published; Iran and UAE dispute Tunb Islands and Abu Musa Island, which Iran occupies
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "the UAE is a drug transshipment point for traffickers given its proximity to Southwest Asian drug-producing countries; the UAE's position as a major financial center makes it vulnerable to money laundering; anti-money-laundering controls improving, but informal banking remains unregulated" + "text": "a transshipment point for illegal narcotics and a pass-through for drug proceeds; numerous exchange houses and general trading companies increase potential for money; major source of precursor chemicals used in the production of illicit narcotics" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/middle-east/gg.json b/middle-east/gg.json index 451b6ca0..ff77e6ab 100644 --- a/middle-east/gg.json +++ b/middle-east/gg.json @@ -326,13 +326,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "99.4%" + "text": "99.6%" }, "male": { - "text": "99.4%" + "text": "99.7%" }, "female": { - "text": "99.3% (2017)" + "text": "99.5% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for domestic consumption; used as transshipment point for opiates via Central Asia to Western Europe and Russia" + "text": "located on a major drug trafficking route where Southwest Asian opium, heroin and precursor chemicals are transported; marijuana trafficking increased
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/middle-east/gz.json b/middle-east/gz.json index c8ace0f2..c8003feb 100644 --- a/middle-east/gz.json +++ b/middle-east/gz.json @@ -295,13 +295,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "97.2%" + "text": "97.5%" }, "male": { - "text": "98.7%" + "text": "98.8%" }, "female": { - "text": "95.7% (2018)" + "text": "96.2% (2020)" }, "note": "note: estimates are for Gaza and the West Bank" }, diff --git a/middle-east/ir.json b/middle-east/ir.json index 48b205c7..0b0dda2f 100644 --- a/middle-east/ir.json +++ b/middle-east/ir.json @@ -96,16 +96,16 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "95,530 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: (Persian Gulf) Tigris and Euphrates (918,044 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Salt water lake(s)": { "text": "Caspian Sea (shared with Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan) - 374,000 sq km; Lake Urmia - 5,200 sq km; Lake Namak - 750 sq km" } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Euphrates (shared with Iraq, Syria, and Turkey) - 3,596 km; Tigris (shared with Iraq, Turkey, and Syria) - 1,950 km; Helmand (shared with Afghanistan) - 1,130 km" + "text": "Euphrates (shared with Turkey [s], Syria, and Iraq [m]) - 3,596 km; Tigris (shared with Turkey, Syria, and Iraq [m]) - 1,950 km; Helmand (shared with Afghanistan [s]) - 1,130 kmsignificant transit and destination country for opiates and cannabis products mainly from Afghanistan; produces and consumes methamphetamine and traffics it to international markets; one of the primary transshipment routes for Southwest Asian heroin to Europe
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/middle-east/iz.json b/middle-east/iz.json index 98169e70..d570a911 100644 --- a/middle-east/iz.json +++ b/middle-east/iz.json @@ -90,19 +90,19 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "35,250 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: (Persian Gulf) Tigris and Euphrates (918,044 sq km)" - }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "Arabian Aquifer System" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lake Hammar - 1,940 sq km" } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Euphrates (shared with Iran, Syria, and Turkey) - 3,596 km; Tigris (shared with Turkey, Syria, and Iran) - 1,950 km; " + "text": "Euphrates river mouth (shared with Turkey[s], Syria, and Iran) - 3,596 km; Tigris river mouth (shared with Turkey[s], Syria, and Iran) - 1,950 km; the Tigris and Euphrates join to form the Shatt al ArabMinistry of Pershmerga (Kurdistan Regional Government): Regional Guard Brigades, Unit (or Division) 70 Forces, Unit (or Division) 80 Forces, special operations/counter-terrorism forces (Counter Terrorism Group, CTG and Counter Terrorism Directorate, CTD); note - Unit 70 and the CTG are associated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political party, while Unit 80 and the CTD are associated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP); Ministry of Interior: Zeravani and Emergency Response Forces (paramilitary internal security forces)
Popular Mobilization Commission and Affiliated Forces (PMC or PMF); a collection of approximately 60 militias of widely varied sizes and political interests (2021)" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2020": { @@ -1151,7 +1150,7 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "information varies; approximately 200,000 personnel under the Ministry of Defense (190,000 Army/Aviation Command/Special Forces; 5,000 Navy; 5,000 Air/Air Defense Forces); approximately 25,000 National-Level Security Forces (10,000 Iraqi Counterterrorism Service; 10,000 Presidential Brigades; 5,000 Prime Minister’s Special Forces Division); est. 100-160,000 Popular Mobilization Forces; est. 150,000-200,000 Peshmerga Forces (2020-21)" + "text": "information varies; approximately 200,000 personnel under the Ministry of Defense (190,000 Army/Aviation Command/Special Forces; 5,000 Navy; 5,000 Air/Air Defense Forces); approximately 25,000 National-Level Security Forces (10,000 Iraqi Counterterrorism Service; 10,000 Presidential Brigades; 5,000 Prime Minister’s Special Forces Division); Ministry of Peshmerga: approximately 150,000-plus (35,000 Regional Guard Brigades; 50,000 Unit 70 Forces; 70,000 Unit 80 Forces); estimated 100-160,000 Popular Mobilization Forces (2020-21)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the Iraqi military inventory is comprised of Russian and Soviet-era equipment combined with newer European- and US-sourced platforms; since 2010, Russia and the US are the leading suppliers of military hardware to Iraq (2020)" @@ -1160,7 +1159,7 @@ "text": "18-40 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2019)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "as of early 2021, Iraqi military and security forces continued to conduct counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group, particularly in northern and western Iraq
Shia militia and paramilitary units from the Popular Mobilization Committee and Affiliated Forces (PMF) have fought alongside the Iraqi military against ISIS since 2014, but the majority of these forces continue to largely ignore the 2016 Law of the Popular Mobilization Authority, which mandated that armed militias must be regulated in a fashion similar to Iraq’s other security forces and act under the Iraqi government’s direct control; the Iraqi prime minister legally commands the PMF, but most of the militia brigades take orders from associated political parties and/or other government officials, including some with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
the Kurdish Peshmerga are formally recognized as a legitimate Iraqi military force under the country’s constitution and have operated jointly with the Iraqi military against ISIS militants, but they also operate outside of Iraqi military command structure; the Peshmerga report to the Kurdistan Regional Government or Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan parties instead of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense
at the request of the Iraqi government, NATO agreed to establish an advisory, training and capacity-building mission in Iraq in October 2018 to help Iraqi forces in their fight against ISIS; NATO Mission Iraq (NMI) currently has about 500 troops, but in February 2021 NATO announced it would increase the presence to about 4,000, although no timeframe was given
as of early 2021, Iraqi security forces (ISF) continued to conduct counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group, particularly in northern and western Iraq; Kurdish Security Forces (KSF, aka Peshmerga) also conducted operations against ISIS
the KSF are formally recognized as a legitimate Iraqi military force under the country’s constitution and have operated jointly with the Iraqi military against ISIS militants, but they also operate outside of Iraqi military command structure; in mid-2021, the KSF and ISF conducted a joint counter-ISIS operation in an area known as the Kurdistan Coordination Line, a swath of disputed territory in northern Iraq claimed by both the Kurdistan Regional Government and the central Iraqi Government; the KSF/Peshmerga report to the Kurdistan Regional Government or Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan parties instead of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense
Popular Mobilization Commission and Affiliated Forces (PMF or PMC), also known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, or al-Hashd al-Sha’abi in Arabic), tribal militia units have fought alongside the Iraqi military against ISIS since 2014, but the majority of these forces continue to largely ignore the 2016 Law of the Popular Mobilization Authority, which mandated that armed militias must be regulated in a fashion similar to Iraq’s other security forces and act under the Iraqi Government’s direct control; the Iraqi prime minister legally commands the PMF, but most of the militia brigades take orders from associated political parties and/or other government officials, including some with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two that have been designated as terrorist organizations by the US; the PMF/PMU is an umbrella organization comprised of many different militias, the majority of which are Shia; there are typically three types of Shia militia:
--militias backed by Iran, particularly the IRGC; they are considered the most active and capable, and include such groups as the Badr Organization, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and Kataib Hizballah
--militias affiliated with Shia political parties, but not aligned with Iran, such as Moqtada al-SADR's Saray al-Salam (Peace Brigades)
--militias not connected with political parties, but affiliated with the Najaf-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-SISTANI (Iraq’s supreme Shia cleric), such as the Hawza militias
other PMF/PMU militias include Tribal Mobilization militias, or Hashd al-Asha’iri, which are composed of fighters from Sunni tribes; some of these militias take orders from the ISF and local authorities while others respond to orders from the larger Shia PMU militias; still other militias include Yazidi and Christian militias and the Turkmen brigades; the links of these forces to the PMU is not always clear-cut and may be loosely based on financial, legal, or political incentives
at the request of the Iraqi government, NATO agreed to establish an advisory, training and capacity-building mission in Iraq in October 2018 to help Iraqi forces in their fight against ISIS; NATO Mission Iraq (NMI) currently has about 500 troops, but in February 2021 NATO announced it would increase the presence to about 4,000, although no timeframe was given
(2021)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/jo.json b/middle-east/jo.json index 6a665482..af482671 100644 --- a/middle-east/jo.json +++ b/middle-east/jo.json @@ -87,17 +87,17 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "964 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major lakes (area sq km)": { + "Salt water lake(s)": { + "text": "Dead Sea (shared with Israel and West Bank) - 1,020 sq kmtransit country for heroin, opium, and cocaine trafficked to European markets; amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) are trafficked to Middle East and Southeast Asia markets; one of the major transit routes for opiates smuggled from Afghanistan via Iran destined for Western Europe; smugglers involved in both heroin sales and transport and production and smuggling of synthetic drugs; criminal networks have interests in heroin conversion laboratories operating in Iran near the Turkish border; hashish imported or grown domestically for local consumption
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/middle-east/we.json b/middle-east/we.json index da025ee3..216bef05 100644 --- a/middle-east/we.json +++ b/middle-east/we.json @@ -322,13 +322,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "97.2%" + "text": "97.5%" }, "male": { - "text": "98.7%" + "text": "98.8%" }, "female": { - "text": "95.7% (2018)" + "text": "96.2% (2020)" }, "note": "note: estimates are for Gaza and the West Bank" }, diff --git a/north-america/ca.json b/north-america/ca.json index b363580e..beb9f807 100644 --- a/north-america/ca.json +++ b/north-america/ca.json @@ -98,12 +98,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "8,700 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Mississippi* (Gulf of Mexico) (3,202,185 sq km, Canada only 32,000 sq km), Nelson (Hudson Bay) (1,093,141 sq km), Saint Lawrence* (1,049,636 sq km, Canada only 839,200 sq km)major source and transit country for heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, and illicit synthetic including fentanyl and counterfeit pills destined for the United States; main transit country for cocaine from South America, a transit route and destination for fentanyl and associated precursors originating from China
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/north-america/us.json b/north-america/us.json index b53b629a..de545cbd 100644 --- a/north-america/us.json +++ b/north-america/us.json @@ -101,12 +101,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "264,000 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Gulf of Mexico) Mississippi* (3,202,185 sq km); Rio Grande (607,965 sq km); (Gulf of Saint Lawrence) Saint Lawrence* (1,049,636 sq km total, US only 505,000 sq km)Missouri - 3,768 km; Mississippi (shared with Canada) - 3,544 km; Yukon (shared with Canada) - 3,190 km; Saint Lawrence (shared with Canada) - 3,058 km; Rio Grande (shared with Mexico) - 3,057 km; Colorado (shared with Mexico) - 2,333 km; Arkansas - 2,348 km; Columbia (shared with Canada) - 2,250 km; Red - 2,188 km; Ohio - 2,102 km; Snake - 1,670 km
" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: (Gulf of Mexico) Mississippi* (3,202,185 sq km); Rio Grande (607,965 sq km); (Gulf of Saint Lawrence) Saint Lawrence* (1,049,636 sq km total, US only 505,000 sq km)world's largest consumer of cocaine (mostly from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean), Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; major consumer of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids sourced from Mexico and China, often mixed with other drugs; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-america/ar.json b/south-america/ar.json index e4943b1a..1773f751 100644 --- a/south-america/ar.json +++ b/south-america/ar.json @@ -96,12 +96,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "23,600 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Paraná (2,582,704 sq km)" - }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "Guarani Aquifer System" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lago Buenos Aires (shared with Chile) - 2,240 sq km; Lago Argentino - 1,410 sq km; Lago Viedma - 1,090 sq km; Lago San Martin (shared with Chile) - 1,010 sq km; Lago Colhue Huapi - 800 sq km; Lago Fagnano (shared with Chile) - 590 sq km; Lago Nahuel Huapi - 550 sq km" @@ -111,7 +105,13 @@ } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Rio de la Plata/Parana (shared with Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia) - 4,880 km; Paraguay (shared with Paraguay and Brazil) - 2,549 km; Uruguay (shared with Brazil and Uruguay) - 1,610 km" + "text": "Rio de la Plata/Parana river mouth (shared with Brazil [s], Paraguay, and Uruguay) - 4,880 km; Paraguay (shared with Brazil [s], and Paraguay [m]) - 2,549 km; Uruguay (shared with Brazil [s] and Uruguay [m]) - 1,610 kmColombia is the world’s top cocaine producer; exports and is a source of heroin and marijuana; coca cultivation was estimated at 245,000 hectares (ha) in 2020; potential pure cocaine production reached 1,010 mega tons in 2020
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-america/ec.json b/south-america/ec.json index bdc12ae3..8c9e7652 100644 --- a/south-america/ec.json +++ b/south-america/ec.json @@ -344,13 +344,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "92.8%" + "text": "93.6%" }, "male": { - "text": "93.8%" + "text": "94.8%" }, "female": { - "text": "92.1% (2017)" + "text": "92.5% (2020)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1178,11 +1178,11 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "451,093 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay), 65,854 (Colombia) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2021)" + "text": "482,897 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay), 65,854 (Colombia) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2021)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "significant transit country for cocaine originating in Colombia and Peru, with much of the US-bound cocaine passing through Ecuadorian Pacific waters; importer of precursor chemicals used in production of illicit narcotics; attractive location for cash-placement by drug traffickers laundering money because of dollarization and weak anti-money-laundering regime; increased activity on the northern frontier by trafficking groups and Colombian insurgents" + "text": "Ecuador is a major transit country for illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin and chemical precursors to process cocaine from Colombia and Peru; not a major drug producing country" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-america/gy.json b/south-america/gy.json index 8debedfc..4d60c7cd 100644 --- a/south-america/gy.json +++ b/south-america/gy.json @@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km), Orinoco (953,675 sq km)" }, - "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Orinoco (shared with Colombia and Venezuela) - 2,101 km; " - }, "Population distribution": { "text": "population is heavily concentrated in the northeast in and around Georgetown, with noteable concentrations along the Berbice River to the east; the remainder of the country is sparsely populated" }, @@ -461,9 +458,6 @@ "text": "0.5% (2010 est.)" } }, - "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Orinoco (shared with Colombia and Venezuela) - 2,101 km; " - }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km), Orinoco (953,675 sq km)" }, @@ -1102,13 +1096,13 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "the Guyana Defense Force has approximately 3,000 active personnel (2021)" + "text": "the Guyana Defense Force has approximately 4,000 active personnel (2021)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the Guyana Defense Force's limited inventory is mostly comprised of second-hand platforms from a variety of foreign suppliers, including Brazil, China, the former Soviet Union, the UK, and the US; since 2000, Guyana has received small amounts of military equipment from Brazil, China, and the UK (2020)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "limited information; 18 years of age or older for voluntary military service; no conscription (2019)" + "text": "18 years of age or older for voluntary military service; no conscription (2021)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { @@ -1117,11 +1111,11 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "23,300 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or received alternative legal stay) (2020)" + "text": "24,500 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or received alternative legal stay) (2021)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "transshipment point for narcotics from South America - primarily Venezuela - to Europe and the US; producer of cannabis; rising money laundering related to drug trafficking and human smuggling" + "text": "
transshipment point for cocaine destined for the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, and West Africa; growing domestic drug consumption problem
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-america/ns.json b/south-america/ns.json index 1e46cb61..77f68e88 100644 --- a/south-america/ns.json +++ b/south-america/ns.json @@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ "text": "area claimed by French Guiana between Riviere Litani and Riviere Marouini (both headwaters of the Lawa); Suriname claims a triangle of land between the New and Kutari/Koetari rivers in a historic dispute over the headwaters of the Courantyne; Guyana seeks UN Convention on the Law of the Sea arbitration to resolve the longstanding dispute with Suriname over the axis of the territorial sea boundary in potentially oil-rich waters
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "growing transshipment point for South American drugs destined for Europe via the Netherlands and Brazil; transshipment point for arms-for-drugs dealing" + "text": "a transit country for South American cocaine en route to Europe, the United States and Africa; marijuana is the primary drug consumed locally" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-america/pa.json b/south-america/pa.json index d3112e88..4d7b734d 100644 --- a/south-america/pa.json +++ b/south-america/pa.json @@ -85,15 +85,15 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "1,362 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Rio de la Plata/Parana (shared with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Bolivia) - 4,880 km; Paraguay (shared with Brazil and Argentina) - 2,549 km" + }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Paraná (2,582,704 sq km)" }, "Major aquifers": { "text": "Guarani Aquifer System" }, - "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Rio de la Plata/Parana (shared with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Bolivia) - 4,880 km; Paraguay (shared with Brazil and Argentina) - 2,549 km" - }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most of the population resides in the eastern half of the country; to the west lies the Gran Chaco (a semi-arid lowland plain), which accounts for 60% of the land territory, but only 2% of the overall population" }, @@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "94%" - }, - "male": { "text": "94.5%" }, + "male": { + "text": "94.9%" + }, "female": { - "text": "93.5% (2018)" + "text": "94.2% (2020)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ "text": "unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for violent extremist organizations
" }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "major illicit producer of cannabis, most or all of which is consumed in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile; transshipment country for Andean cocaine headed for Brazil, other Southern Cone markets, and Europe; weak border controls, extensive corruption and money-laundering activity, especially in the Tri-Border Area; weak anti-money-laundering laws and enforcement" + "text": "cannabis cultivation and the trafficking of Andean cocaine in the tri-border area shared with Argentina, and Brazil facilitates money laundering
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-america/pe.json b/south-america/pe.json index 523e69b7..fea54420 100644 --- a/south-america/pe.json +++ b/south-america/pe.json @@ -93,12 +93,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "25,800 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km)" - }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "Amazon Basin" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Fresh water lake(s)": { "text": "Lago Titicaca (shared with Bolivia) - 8,030 sq km" @@ -107,6 +101,12 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Amazon (shared with Brazil) - 6,400 km;" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km)" + }, + "Major aquifers": { + "text": "Amazon Basin" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "approximately one-third of the population resides along the desert coastal belt in the west, with a strong focus on the capital city of Lima; the Andean highlands, or sierra, which is strongly identified with the country's Amerindian population, contains roughly half of the overall population; the eastern slopes of the Andes, and adjoining rainforest, are sparsely populated" }, @@ -356,13 +356,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "94.4%" + "text": "94.5%" }, "male": { - "text": "97.1%" + "text": "97%" }, "female": { - "text": "91.7% (2018)" + "text": "92% (2020)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -1224,14 +1224,14 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "1,049,970 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay) (2021)" + "text": "1,286,434 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum, are recognized as refugees, or have received alternative legal stay) (2021)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "60,000 (civil war from 1980-2000; most IDPs are indigenous peasants in Andean and Amazonian regions; as of 2011, no new information on the situation of these IDPs) (2020)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer, Peru is now the world's second largest producer of coca leaf, though it lags far behind Colombia; cultivation of coca in Peru was estimated at 44,000 hectares in 2016, a decrease of 16 per cent over 2015; second largest producer of cocaine, estimated at 410 metric tons of potential pure cocaine in 2016; finished cocaine is shipped out from Pacific ports to the international drug market; increasing amounts of base and finished cocaine, however, are being moved to Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia for use in the Southern Cone or transshipment to Europe and Africa; increasing domestic drug consumption" + "text": "a regional transshipment and destination point for illegal drugs;
cannabis products, methamphetamine hydrochloride (locally known as ‘shabu’), and MDMA (ecstasy) are locally used; Chinese Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) are the main source of methamphetamine; precursor chemicals are in transit from China to Burma
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-america/uy.json b/south-america/uy.json index be81c7e2..1c6b9a2f 100644 --- a/south-america/uy.json +++ b/south-america/uy.json @@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "2,380 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "Guarani Aquifer System" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Salt water lake(s)": { "text": "Lagoa Mirim (shared with Brazil) - 2,970 sq km" @@ -107,6 +104,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Rio de la Plata/Parana (shared with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia) - 4,880 km; Uruguay (shared with Brazil and Argentina) - 1,610 km" }, + "Major aquifers": { + "text": "Guarani Aquifer System" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most of the country's population resides in the southern half of the country; approximately 80% of the populace is urban, living in towns or cities; nearly half of the population lives in and around the capital of Montevideo" }, @@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write" }, "total population": { - "text": "98.7%" + "text": "98.8%" }, "male": { - "text": "98.4%" + "text": "98.5%" }, "female": { - "text": "99% (2018)" + "text": "99% (2019)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { diff --git a/south-america/ve.json b/south-america/ve.json index 5e59df67..81bb8216 100644 --- a/south-america/ve.json +++ b/south-america/ve.json @@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "10,550 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km), Orinoco (953,675 sq km)" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "Salt water lake(s)": { "text": "Lago de Maracaibo - 13,010 sq km" @@ -107,6 +104,9 @@ "Major rivers (by length in km)": { "text": "Negro (shared with Colombia and Brazil) - 2,250 km; Orinoco (shared with Colombia and Guyana) - 2,101 km;" }, + "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { + "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km), Orinoco (953,675 sq km)" + }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most of the population is concentrated in the northern and western highlands along an eastern spur at the northern end of the Andes, an area that includes the capital of Caracas" }, @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "small-scale illicit producer of opium and coca for the processing of opiates and coca derivatives; however, large quantities of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana transit the country from Colombia bound for US and Europe; significant narcotics-related money-laundering activity, especially along the border with Colombia and on Margarita Island; active eradication program primarily targeting opium; increasing signs of drug-related activities by Colombian insurgents on border" + "text": "
a major drug transit country and trafficking route in the Western Hemisphere largely destined for the Caribbean, Central America, the United States, West Africa, and Europe for illegal drugs, predominately cocaine; government reportedly complicity with illegal armed narcotrafficking groups with practically nonexistent international drug control cooperation; significant narcotics-related money-laundering activity, especially along the border with Colombia and on Margarita Island; active eradication program primarily targeting opium; increasing signs of drug-related activities by Colombian insurgents on border
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-asia/af.json b/south-asia/af.json index e5b9c647..f69e1420 100644 --- a/south-asia/af.json +++ b/south-asia/af.json @@ -85,16 +85,16 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "32,080 sq km (2012)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: Indus (1,081,718 sq km)source and transit point for illicit narcotics and precursor chemicals bound for Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and North America; in 2020 India exported over $19 billion of illegal pharmaceutical drugs; illegal opium poppy growing in the the Northeast; traffickers retool commercial chemical factories to produce large volumes of ephedrine, methamphetamine, and other drugs illicitly
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-asia/np.json b/south-asia/np.json index fcffec2c..1d15f2f8 100644 --- a/south-asia/np.json +++ b/south-asia/np.json @@ -85,15 +85,15 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "13,320 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Brahmaputra (shared with India, China, Bangladesh, and Bhutan) - 3,969 km; Ganges (shared with Bangladesh and India) - 2,704 km" + }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: Brahmaputra (651,335 sq km), Ganges (1,016,124 sq km), Indus (1,081,718 sq km)" }, "Major aquifers": { "text": "Indus-Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin" }, - "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Brahmaputra (shared with India, China, Bangladesh, and Bhutan) - 3,969 km; Ganges (shared with Bangladesh and India) - 2,704 km" - }, "Population distribution": { "text": "most of the population is divided nearly equally between a concentration in the southern-most plains of the Tarai region and the central hilly region; overall density is quite low" }, @@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "illicit producer of cannabis and hashish for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West" + "text": "
illicit producer of cannabis and hashish for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/south-asia/pk.json b/south-asia/pk.json index 65730e89..5389a4aa 100644 --- a/south-asia/pk.json +++ b/south-asia/pk.json @@ -96,15 +96,15 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "202,000 sq km (2012)" }, + "Major rivers (by length in km)": { + "text": "Indus (shared with India and China) - 3,610 km; Sutlej (shared with India) - 1,372 km; Chenab (shared with India) - 1,086 km" + }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Indian Ocean drainage: Indus (1,081,718 sq km)minor cultivator of opium poppy and cannabis with 1,400 of poppy cultivated 2016; one of the world’s top transit corridors for opiates and cannabis products along with Afghanistan and Iran; precursor chemicals also pass through Pakistan as a major transit point for global distribution
" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/world/xx.json b/world/xx.json index adc0ed2c..580d63bf 100644 --- a/world/xx.json +++ b/world/xx.json @@ -82,18 +82,18 @@ "Irrigated land": { "text": "3,242,917 sq km (2012 est.)" }, - "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { - "text": "summary statement: a watershed is a drainage basin on an area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water; oceans ultimately take in the drainage from 83% of all land area; the remaining 17% of the land drains into internal (endorheic) basins, e.g., the Caspian Sea; The World Factbook lists 51 different watersheds across 102 countries; of these, 18 are in Asia, 9 in Europe, 9 in Africa, 8 in North and Central America, 5 in South America, and 2 in Australia; all watersheds with an area of at least 500,000 sq km have been included along with a number of smaller, regionally significant watersheds; together, these watersheds represent the surface hydrology water flows that are the World's primary sources of fresh water for individual consumption, industry, and agriculture" - }, - "Major aquifers": { - "text": "summary statement: aquifers are underground layers of water-bearing permeable rock formations; they include alluvial formations such as unconsolidated sand and gravel aquifers, sedimentary rock formations of sandstone and karst (carbonate rocks such as limestone) aquifers, as well as volcanic aquifers, and basement aquifers (igneous and metamorphic rocks that underlie sedimentary and volcanic rock sequences); groundwater from aquifers can be extracted using a water well; The World Factbook lists 37 major aquifers across 52 countries; of these, 13 are in Africa, 10 in Asia, 5 in North America, 3 in South America, 4 in Europe, and 2 in Australia; although aquifers can vary in size, the major aquifers listed in The Factbook contain the bulk of the stored volume of groundwater; the fresh water held in these aquifers represents more than 30% of the World's fresh water; in the US, groundwater is primarily used for irrigation and globally, 70% of groundwater withdrawn is used for agriculture; groundwater also supplies almost half of all drinking water worldwide" - }, "Major lakes (area sq km)": { "text": "top ten largest natural lakes: Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan) 374,000 sq km; Lake Superior (Canada, United States) 82,100 sq km; Lake Victoria (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) 62,940 sq km; Lake Huron (Canada, United States) 59,600 sq km; Lake Michigan (United States) 57,750 sq km; Lake Tanganyika (Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia) 32,000 sq km; Great Bear Lake (Canada) 31,328 sq km; Lake Baikal (Russia) 31,500 sq km; Lake Malawi (Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania) 22,490 sq km; Great Slave Lake (Canada) 28,568 sq km
cocaine: worldwide coca cultivation in 2020 likely amounted to 373,000 hectares, potential pure cocaine production reached 2,100 metric tons in 2020
opiates: worldwide illicit opium poppy cultivation probably reached about 265,000 hectares in 2020, with potential opium production reaching 7,300 metric tons; Afghanistan is world's primary opium producer, accounting for 85% of the global supply; Southeast Asia was responsible for 7% of global opium; Latin America opium in 2020 was sufficient to produce about 61 metric tons of pure heroin