auto-update week 15

europe/fi.json

@@ -467,10 +467,10 @@
     },
     "Geoparks": {
       "total global geoparks and regional networks": {
-        "text": "3"
+        "text": "4 (2024)"
       },
       "global geoparks and regional networks": {
-        "text": "Rokua; Lauhanvuori-Haemeenkangas; Saimaa; Salpausselka (2023)"
+        "text": "Impact Crater Lake - Lappajarvi; Rokua; Lauhanvuori-Haemeenkangas; Saimaa; Salpausselka (2024)"
       }
     }
   },
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@
     },
     "Current account balance": {
       "Current account balance 2022": {
-        "text": "-$7,317,736,000 (2022 est.)"
+        "text": "-$7.318 billion (2022 est.)"
       },
       "Current account balance 2021": {
         "text": "$1.222 billion (2021 est.)"
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@
       "Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 2020": {
         "text": "$13.48 billion (2020 est.)"
       },
-      "note": "note: holdings of gold (year end prices)/foreign exchange/special drawing rights in current dollars"
+      "note": "note: holdings of gold (year-end prices)/foreign exchange/special drawing rights in current dollars"
     },
     "Debt - external": {
       "Debt - external 2019": {
@@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@
       "note": "<strong>note 1:</strong> the military trains approximately 21,000 conscripts each year; women have served on a voluntary basis since 1995, and as of 2022 made up about 19% of the military's full-time personnel<br><br><strong>note 2: </strong>Finland has had conscription since 1951"
     },
     "Military deployments": {
-      "text": "225 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2023)"
+      "text": "165 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2024)"
     },
     "Military - note": {
       "text": "the Finnish Defense Forces (FDF) are focused primarily on territorial defense, which is based on having a large, trained reserve force created by general conscription; active-duty FDF units absorb and train more than 20,000 conscripts annually; the resulting pool of trained reservists gives the FDF a wartime strength of approximately 280,000 and a total reserve of some 900,000 citizens with military service; other FDF responsibilities include support to international peacekeeping operations and some domestic security duties, such as assisting the National Police in maintaining law and order in crises<br><br>the FDF is also focused on fulfilling its new commitment to NATO; following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Finland reassessed its security policy situation and applied for NATO membership and gained entry in April 2023; as a member of the Alliance, Finland is part of NATO’s collective defense and is covered by the security guarantees enshrined in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty (also known as the Washington Treaty); Finland had been part of NATO’s Partnership for Peace program since 1994, and the FDF exercised with some NATO members and participated in NATO-led military missions in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq; Finland also is a signatory of the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy and actively participates in EU crisis management missions and operations; the FDF cooperates closely with the militaries of other Nordic countries through the Nordic Defense Cooperation structure (NORDEFCO; established 2009), which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden and involves cooperation in such areas as armaments, education, human resources, training and exercises, and operations; Finland considers Sweden as its closest bi-lateral security partner; the UK and the US are also close defense partners; in 2022, Finland signed a mutual security agreement with the UK, and since 2014 has been part of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a pool of high-readiness military forces from 10 Baltic and Scandinavian countries designed to respond to a wide range of contingencies in the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, and High North regions<br><br>the bulk of the FDF’s annual intake of conscripts go into the Army; in peacetime, the Army has five combat brigades, which include armored, jaeger/light infantry, and mechanized infantry forces, plus regiments of light infantry, special forces, and helicopter assault forces; the Navy has a mix of missile-armed patrol craft, fast patrol boats, and mine warfare vessels; it is slated to receive four multirole corvettes by 2029; the Navy also has a coastal defense brigade, which includes anti-ship missile and naval special operations forces and a naval infantry brigade maintained at cadre strength that incorporates about 1,500 conscripts annually; the Air Force has about 60 US-made F/A-18 multirole fighters, which are scheduled to be replaced by US-origin F-35 stealth multirole fighters beginning in 2025 (2023)"