diff --git a/africa/ag.json b/africa/ag.json index 51773164..590cdd46 100644 --- a/africa/ag.json +++ b/africa/ag.json @@ -433,14 +433,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/africa/ao.json b/africa/ao.json index 40274c01..17704351 100644 --- a/africa/ao.json +++ b/africa/ao.json @@ -434,14 +434,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.36% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.36% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/bc.json b/africa/bc.json index 7d02feb4..70af4296 100644 --- a/africa/bc.json +++ b/africa/bc.json @@ -436,14 +436,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.23% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.23% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/bn.json b/africa/bn.json index c47ed9d2..f0a76355 100644 --- a/africa/bn.json +++ b/africa/bn.json @@ -460,14 +460,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.24% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.24% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/by.json b/africa/by.json index ddf1aa1b..56de4901 100644 --- a/africa/by.json +++ b/africa/by.json @@ -462,14 +462,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "10.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "10.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/cd.json b/africa/cd.json index 9cfe230a..f41169fc 100644 --- a/africa/cd.json +++ b/africa/cd.json @@ -465,14 +465,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "3.81% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "3.81% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -497,7 +493,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "widespread lack of access": { - "text": "due to civil insecurity and shortfall in cereal production - according to the latest analysis, about 2.1 million people are projected to be in \"Crisis\" and above, between June and August 2022 due to persisting insecurity in Lac and Tibesti regions that disrupted livelihood activities and caused population displacements, as well as a below-average cereal production in 2021; as of September 2022, floods destroyed about 45,000 hectares of crops and affected more than 450,000 people, mostly in the provinces of Logone Occidental, Mandoul and Sila, increasing the risk of a deterioration of food insecurity (2022)" + "text": "due to civil insecurity and shortfall in cereal production - according to the latest analysis, about 1.5 million people are projected to experience acute food insecurity during the June to August 2023 lean season period; this would be an improvement compared to the previous year, mostly due to the significantly higher year-on-year cereal output in 2022 after the below-average 2021 production; acute food insecurity is underpinned by persistent insecurity in the Lac and Tibesti regions; elevated food prices, as well as the impact of the severe floods in 2022, which affected approximately 1.5 million people and destroyed about 350,000 hectares of farmland, are compounding food insecurity (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { @@ -1210,7 +1206,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Chadian National Army (Armee Nationale du Tchad, ANT): Ground Forces (l'Armee de Terre, AdT), Chadian Air Force (l'Armee de l'Air Tchadienne, AAT), General Direction of the Security Services of State Institutions (Direction Generale des Services de Securite des Institutions de l'Etat, GDSSIE); National Gendarmerie; Ministry of Public Security and Immigration: National Nomadic Guard of Chad (GNNT), Chadian National Police (2022)", - "note": "note: the GDSSIE, formerly known as the Republican Guard, is the presidential guard force and is considered to be Chad's elite military unit; it is reportedly a division-size unit with infantry, armor, and special forces/anti-terrorism regiments (known as the Special Anti-Terrorist Group or SATG, aka Division of Special Anti-Terrorist Groups or DGSAT)" + "note": "note 1: the GDSSIE, formerly known as the Republican Guard, is the presidential guard force and is considered to be Chad's elite military unit; it is reportedly a division-size unit with infantry, armor, and special forces/anti-terrorism regiments (known as the Special Anti-Terrorist Group or SATG, aka Division of Special Anti-Terrorist Groups or DGSAT)

note 2: Border security duties are shared by the Army, Customs (Ministry of Public Security and Immigration), the Gendarmerie, and the GNNT " }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2021": { @@ -1243,7 +1239,7 @@ "note": "note 1: Chad has committed approximately 1,000-1,500 troops to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically; in 2019, Chad sent more than 1,000 troops to Nigeria’s Borno State to fight Boko Haram as part of the MNJTF mission

note 2: Chad is also part of a four (formerly five)-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G4 Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Chad, Mali (withdrew in 2022), Mauritania, and Niger; it has committed 550 troops and 100 gendarmes to the force; as of 2020, defense forces from each of the participating states were allowed to pursue terrorist fighters up to 100 km into neighboring countries; the force is backed by France, the UN, and the US" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the ANT has considerable combat experience against insurgents and terrorist groups and is considered one of the more effective militaries in the region, although its performance has been viewed as uneven, and it has a tradition of deep involvement in domestic politics; over the past decade, the ANT has received considerable foreign military assistance, particularly from France, which maintains a military base in N’Djamena; the ANT's current operational focus is on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations; it is engaged with the Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in West Africa terrorist groups in the Lake Chad Basin area (primarily the Lac Province) and in the Sahel, particularly the tri-border area with Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger; in addition, the ANT conducts frequent operations against internal anti-government militias and armed dissident groups

several rebel groups operate in northern Chad from bases in southern Libya, including the FACT (Front pour le Changement et la Concorde au Tchad), the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic le Conseil de Commandement Militaire pour le salut de la République or CCSMR), the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (le Union des Forces pour la Démocratie et le Développement or UFDD), and the Union of Resistance Forces (le Union des Forces de la Résistance UFR); former Chadian President Idriss DEBY was killed in April 2021 during fighting in the northern part of the country between the FACT and the Chadian Army; some armed groups, including the UFDD and UFR, signed an accord in August 2022 in return for the release of prisoners, amnesty, and an end to hostilities between the Chadian Government and these armed factions; however, other armed groups, including the FACT and CCSMR, refused to join the accord (2023)" + "text": "the ANT has considerable combat experience against insurgents and terrorist groups, although it is assessed to be underfunded and its performance to be uneven; it has a tradition of deep involvement in domestic politics; over the past decade, the ANT has received considerable foreign military assistance, particularly from France, which maintains a military base in N’Djamena; the ANT's current operational focus is on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations; it is engaged with the Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in West Africa terrorist groups in the Lake Chad Basin area (primarily the Lac Province) and in the Sahel, particularly the tri-border area with Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger; in addition, the ANT conducts frequent operations against internal anti-government militias and armed dissident groups

several rebel groups operate in northern Chad from bases in southern Libya, including the FACT (Front pour le Changement et la Concorde au Tchad), the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic le Conseil de Commandement Militaire pour le salut de la République or CCSMR), the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (le Union des Forces pour la Démocratie et le Développement or UFDD), and the Union of Resistance Forces (le Union des Forces de la Résistance UFR); former Chadian President Idriss DEBY was killed in April 2021 during fighting in the northern part of the country between the FACT and the Chadian Army; some armed groups, including the UFDD and UFR, signed an accord in August 2022 in return for the release of prisoners, amnesty, and an end to hostilities between the Chadian Government and these armed factions; however, other armed groups, including the FACT and CCSMR, refused to join the accord (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/cf.json b/africa/cf.json index d5571b47..c6bc723e 100644 --- a/africa/cf.json +++ b/africa/cf.json @@ -468,14 +468,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "3.17% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "3.17% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/cg.json b/africa/cg.json index 37a0f220..efcd7fac 100644 --- a/africa/cg.json +++ b/africa/cg.json @@ -471,14 +471,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "8.72% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "8.72% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -500,7 +496,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "widespread lack of access": { - "text": "due to internal conflict in eastern regions and economic downturn - given the recent escalation of conflicts in the eastern provinces and the consequent population displacement, the magnitude and severity of acute food insecurity may exceed the projected levels; additionally, elevated staple food prices, both domestically and globally, pose a further risk to food insecurity (2022)" + "text": "due to internal conflict in eastern regions and high food prices - according to an October 2022 analysis, 24.5 million people were projected to experience acute food insecurity between January and June 2023; this is due to persistent conflict in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, which continues to cause population displacements, and to high prices of domestic food staples (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { diff --git a/africa/cm.json b/africa/cm.json index 8a8eeb31..4ac47798 100644 --- a/africa/cm.json +++ b/africa/cm.json @@ -473,14 +473,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.5% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.5% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1341,7 +1337,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "347,030 (Central African Republic), 124,872 (Nigeria) (2023)" + "text": "347,593 (Central African Republic), 126,151 (Nigeria) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "983,281 (2022) (includes far north, northwest, and southwest)" diff --git a/africa/cn.json b/africa/cn.json index 83510a32..6a144114 100644 --- a/africa/cn.json +++ b/africa/cn.json @@ -417,14 +417,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.39% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.39% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/africa/ct.json b/africa/ct.json index 7891ce5d..1e3ca7cb 100644 --- a/africa/ct.json +++ b/africa/ct.json @@ -447,14 +447,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "8.99% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "8.99% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -479,7 +475,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production/supplies": { - "text": "due to internal conflict - persisting conflicts and displacements are expected to continue affecting agricultural activities and limit farmers’ access to crop growing areas and inputs, with a negative impact on 2022 crop production; according to an analysis issued in April 2022, the number of severely food insecure people in \"Crisis\" and above were estimated at 2.2 million between April and August 2022, mainly due to high levels of civil insecurity, population displacements and high food prices (2022)" + "text": "due to internal conflict and high food prices - according to the latest analysis, issued in November 2022, the number of people in Crisis and above is estimated at 2.7 million between September 2022 and March 2023; this is mainly attributed to the impact of civil insecurity and high food prices; persisting insecurity and population displacements continue to affect agricultural activities and limit farmers’ access to crop growing areas and agricultural inputs; elevated international prices of fuel and fertilizers, largely imported, have reportedly led to a lower use of agricultural inputs in 2022, especially among smallholder farmers, with a negative impact on yields (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { diff --git a/africa/cv.json b/africa/cv.json index a95af445..e3d92aca 100644 --- a/africa/cv.json +++ b/africa/cv.json @@ -419,14 +419,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.38% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.38% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/africa/dj.json b/africa/dj.json index 57ad5482..a767efd3 100644 --- a/africa/dj.json +++ b/africa/dj.json @@ -427,14 +427,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -450,7 +446,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "widespread lack of access": { - "text": "due to unfavorable weather and high food prices - about 192,000 people are estimated to be experiencing acute food insecurity between July and December 2022 mainly due to insufficient rains in 2021 and 2022, which affected rangelands and pastoral livelihoods, and high food prices (2022)" + "text": "due to unfavorable weather and high food prices - about 192,000 people were estimated to have experienced acute food insecurity between July and December 2022 mainly due to insufficient rains in 2021 and 2022, which affected rangelands and pastoral livelihoods, as well as high food prices (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { @@ -465,7 +461,7 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "16 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "20 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { "text": "0 cubic meters (2017 est.)" diff --git a/africa/eg.json b/africa/eg.json index 465fb045..bc798302 100644 --- a/africa/eg.json +++ b/africa/eg.json @@ -462,9 +462,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/ek.json b/africa/ek.json index 05ef1480..ebcc97ae 100644 --- a/africa/ek.json +++ b/africa/ek.json @@ -415,14 +415,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.52% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.52% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/et.json b/africa/et.json index 76084fe8..17e5bdc8 100644 --- a/africa/et.json +++ b/africa/et.json @@ -475,14 +475,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "5.81% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "5.81% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -507,7 +503,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "widespread lack of access": { - "text": "due to conflict in Tigray Region, drought conditions in southeastern areas, high food prices - The difficult and worsening food security situation is the result of multiple shocks affecting food availability and access including: the conflict in northern Tigray Region and in adjacent areas of Amhara and Afar regions, which began in November 2020; in Tigray region alone, 5.3 million people are estimated to be severely food insecure; the failure of the March‑May 2022 “Gu‑Genna” rains in southern pastoral areas of southern Oromiya Region and southern Somali Region, exacerbated drought conditions prevailing since late 2020, causing severe crop and livestock losses; severe macroeconomic challenges including insufficient foreign currency reserves and the continuous depreciation of the national currency, as a result, inflation is at very high levels, with the year‑on‑year food inflation rate estimated at 35.5 percent in July, one the highest of the last decade; these difficulties are exacerbated by the ripple effects of the Ukraine war, which triggered hikes in international prices of wheat, fuel and fertilizers (2022)" + "text": "due to conflict in Tigray Region, drought conditions in southeastern areas, high food prices - The difficult and worsening food security situation is the result of multiple shocks affecting food availability and access including: the conflict in northern Tigray Region and in adjacent areas of Amhara and Afar regions, which began in November 2020; in Tigray region alone, 5.3 million people are estimated to be severely food insecure; the failure of the March‑May 2022 “Gu‑Genna” rains in southern pastoral areas of southern Oromiya Region and southern Somali Region, exacerbated drought conditions prevailing since late 2020, causing severe crop and livestock losses; severe macroeconomic challenges including insufficient foreign currency reserves and the continuous depreciation of the national currency, as a result, inflation is at very high levels, with the year‑on‑year food inflation rate estimated at 35.5 percent in July, one the highest of the last decade; these difficulties are exacerbated by the ripple effects of the Ukraine war, which triggered hikes in international prices of wheat, fuel, and fertilizers (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { @@ -1317,7 +1313,7 @@ "note": "note: in November 2021, the Ethiopian Government issued a nationwide state of emergency that enabled officials to order military-age citizens to undergo training and accept military duty in support of the Tigray conflict; the order also recalled retired military officers to active duty" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "5-10,000 Somalia (4,500 for ATMIS; the remainder under a bilateral agreement with Somalia; note - bilateral figures are prior to the conflict with Tigray); 250 Sudan (UNISFA); 1,475 South Sudan (UNMISS) (2022)" + "text": "5-8,000 Somalia (approximately 4,000 for ATMIS; the remainder under a bilateral agreement with Somalia; note - bilateral figures are prior to the 2020-22 conflict with Tigray); 250 Sudan (UNISFA); 1,450 South Sudan (UNMISS) (2022)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the ENDF is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest, most experienced, and best equipped militaries; the Ground Forces are estimated to have more than 20 infantry divisions, including several that are mechanized, along with at least 1 division of commandos/special forces; the Air Force has combat squadrons of multipurpose fighter aircraft, attack helicopters, and armed unmanned aerial vehicles; ENDF operations are often supported by sizeable regional state paramilitary units 

the ENDF is focused on both external threats emanating from its neighbors and against multiple internal armed groups; since 1998, the ENDF has engaged in several conventional and counterinsurgency operations, including border wars with Eritrea (1998-2000) and Somalia (2006-2008) and internal conflicts with the Tigray regional state (2020-2022), several insurgent groups and ethnic militias (aka Fano), and the al-Shabaab terrorist group; the ENDF is currently conducting counterinsurgency operations against anti-government militants in several states, including in Oromya (Oromia) against the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA; aka Shene), an insurgent group that claims to be fighting for greater autonomy for the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group; in 2022, militants from the Somalia-based al-Shabaab terrorist group launched an incursion into Ethiopia's Somali (Sumale) region, attacking villages and security forces; the Ethiopian Government claimed that regional security forces killed hundreds of Shabaab fighters and subsequently deployed additional ENDF troops into Somalia’s Gedo region to prevent further incursions

from November of 2020 until a cease-fire was negotiated in November 2022, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) engaged in a military conflict with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the former governing party of the Tigray Region; the GoE deemed a TPLF attack on an ENDF base as a domestic terrorism incident and launched a military offensive in response; the TPLF asserted that its actions were self-defense in the face of planned GoE action to remove it from the provincial government; the GoE 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; TPLF military forces were known as the Tigray Defense Force (TDF) and were comprised of state paramilitary forces, local militia, and troops that defected from the ENDF; the fighting included heavy civilian and military casualties with widespread abuses reported (2023)" diff --git a/africa/ga.json b/africa/ga.json index a30f3eaf..95c4bd57 100644 --- a/africa/ga.json +++ b/africa/ga.json @@ -459,14 +459,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.47% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.47% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/gb.json b/africa/gb.json index a3f3ae88..addb73fc 100644 --- a/africa/gb.json +++ b/africa/gb.json @@ -429,14 +429,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.6% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.6% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/gh.json b/africa/gh.json index 0e596e4a..d1bd9e76 100644 --- a/africa/gh.json +++ b/africa/gh.json @@ -470,14 +470,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "3.51% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "3.51% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -513,13 +509,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "299.6 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "300 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "95 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "100 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "1.07 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "1.07 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/africa/gv.json b/africa/gv.json index c426bfd8..801dd2c5 100644 --- a/africa/gv.json +++ b/africa/gv.json @@ -453,14 +453,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "4.81% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "4.81% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -507,13 +503,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "224.8 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "230 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "56.2 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "60 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "292.9 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "600 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/africa/iv.json b/africa/iv.json index 54d4dfe7..e68fc87a 100644 --- a/africa/iv.json +++ b/africa/iv.json @@ -470,14 +470,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.04% of GDP (2016 est.)" - } + "text": "2.04% of GDP (2016 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/ke.json b/africa/ke.json index bbbf01e8..864f77cf 100644 --- a/africa/ke.json +++ b/africa/ke.json @@ -450,14 +450,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -478,7 +474,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production/supplies": { - "text": "due to drought conditions - about 4.4 million people are projected to be severely acutely food insecure between October and December 2022 reflecting consecutive poor rainy seasons since late 2020 that affected crop and livestock production, mainly in northern and eastern pastoral, agro-pastoral and marginal agricultural areas (2022)" + "text": "due to drought conditions - about 4.4 million people were projected to be severely acutely food insecure between October and December 2022 reflecting consecutive poor rainy seasons since late 2020 that affected crop and livestock production; prices of maize are at high levels across the country due to reduced availabilities and high fuel prices inflating production and transportation costs (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { diff --git a/africa/li.json b/africa/li.json index 1c64e2dd..21bb9395 100644 --- a/africa/li.json +++ b/africa/li.json @@ -449,14 +449,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "13.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "13.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/lt.json b/africa/lt.json index 15616992..b666b577 100644 --- a/africa/lt.json +++ b/africa/lt.json @@ -442,14 +442,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "3.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "3.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/ly.json b/africa/ly.json index 48bf2aec..c7589bca 100644 --- a/africa/ly.json +++ b/africa/ly.json @@ -413,14 +413,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Food insecurity": { "severe localized food insecurity": { @@ -1144,7 +1140,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Libya lacks a nationwide military and the interim government, the Government of National Unity (GNU), relies on its cooperation with disparate militias that it cannot entirely control for security; the GNU has a ministry of defense and access to various ground, air, and naval/coast guard forces comprised of a mix of semi-regular military units, militias, civilian volunteers, and foreign troops and mercenaries

the Libyan National Army (LNA), under de facto LNA commander Khalifa HAFTER, also includes various ground, air, and naval units comprised of semi-regular military personnel, militias, and foreign troops and mercenaries; as of 2022, the LNA operated independently from the GNU and exerted influence throughout eastern, central, and southern Libya (2022)", + "text": "Libya lacks a nationwide military and the interim government, the Government of National Unity (GNU), relies on its cooperation with disparate militias that it cannot entirely control for security; the GNU has a ministry of defense and access to various ground, air, and naval/coast guard forces comprised of a mix of semi-regular military units, militias, civilian volunteers, and foreign troops and mercenaries

the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), under de facto LNA commander Khalifa HAFTER, also includes various ground, air, and naval units comprised of semi-regular military personnel, militias, and foreign troops and mercenaries; the LNA operates independently from the GNU and exerts influence throughout eastern, central, and southern Libya (2022)", "note": "note 1: the Stabilization Support Authority (SSA) is a state-funded militia established in January 2021 by the GNU; it is tasked with securing government buildings and officials, participating in combat operations, apprehending those suspected of national security crimes, and cooperating with other security bodies

note 2: the national police force under the Ministry of Interior oversees internal security (with support from military forces under the Ministry of Defense), but much of Libya's security-related police work generally falls to informal armed groups, which received government salaries but lacked formal training, supervision, or consistent accountability" }, "Military expenditures": { @@ -1154,13 +1150,13 @@ "text": "estimates not available" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "both the forces aligned with the GNU and the LNA are largely equipped with weapons of Russian or Soviet origin; as of 2021, Turkey was the top provider of arms and equipment to the forces supporting the GNU, while the United Arab Emirates was the main supporter of the LNA (2021)" + "text": "both the forces aligned with the GNU and the LNA are largely equipped with weapons of Russian or Soviet origin; in recent years, Turkey has the been the primary supplier of arms to the GNU, while the LNA has received quantities from the UAE (2022)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "not available" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "Turkey has been the primary backer of the GNU/GNA; Turkish military advisers have trained and assisted western/GNU Libyan forces in accordance with a 2019 Turkey-GNA security agreement; Turkey has also provided thousands of Syrian mercenaries to Libya, as well as ammunition, weapons and aerial drones; Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt have been the main supporters of the LNA; the LNA has used fighters from other countries, including Chad, Sudan, and Syria 

as of 2022, ISIS continued to maintain a relatively weak presence in Libya with small bands of fighters operating out of ungoverned spaces and conducting small-scale attacks throughout the country (2022)" + "text": "Turkey has been the primary backer of the GNU/GNA; Turkish military advisers have trained and assisted western/GNU Libyan forces in accordance with a 2019 Turkey-GNA security agreement; Turkey has also provided thousands of Syrian mercenaries to Libya, as well as ammunition, weapons and aerial drones; Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt have been the main supporters of the LNA; Russia has provided as many as 2,000 private military contractors; the LNA has also used fighters from other countries, including Chad, Sudan, and Syria 

ISIS continues to maintain a relatively weak presence in Libya with small bands of fighters operating out of ungoverned spaces and conducting small-scale attacks throughout the country (2022)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/ma.json b/africa/ma.json index 5ce552ec..402695a3 100644 --- a/africa/ma.json +++ b/africa/ma.json @@ -458,14 +458,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "4.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "4.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1244,7 +1240,7 @@ "text": "18-25 years of age for men and women; service obligation 18 months; no conscription; women are permitted to serve in all branches (2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "one of the military’s duties is assisting the gendarmerie with maintaining law and order in rural areas, particularly in areas affected by banditry, cattle rustling (cattle thieves are known as dahalo), and criminal groups (2022)" + "text": "the PAF’s responsibilities include ensuring sovereignty and territorial integrity and protecting Madagascar’s maritime domain, particularly against piracy, drug trafficking, and smuggling; it also assists the Gendarmerie with maintaining law and order in rural areas, largely in areas affected by banditry, cattle rustling, and criminal groups; the PAF has a history of having influence in domestic politics and a lack of accountability; members of the Army and the Gendarmerie were arrested for coup plotting as recently as 2021; its closest defense partners have been India and Russia; the PAF’s small Navy has traditionally looked to India for assistance with maritime security (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/mi.json b/africa/mi.json index 585984d0..cd0e26f5 100644 --- a/africa/mi.json +++ b/africa/mi.json @@ -453,14 +453,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "6.19% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "6.19% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -481,8 +477,8 @@ "note": "note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Malawi is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine" }, "Food insecurity": { - "severe localized food insecurity": { - "text": "due to reduced incomes and shortfalls in cereal production - an estimated 1.65 million people are facing “Crisis” levels of food insecurity between January and March 2022, underpinned by localized shortfalls in cereal production and the lingering impact of an economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic; a moderate decline in cereal production in 2022, particularly in southern districts, and increasing food prices are expected to lead to an increased prevalence of food insecurity in the last quarter of 2022; the prevalence of food insecurity is likely to increase in the second half of 2022 and early 2023 mainly due to the high food prices and low cereal production in southern districts; in addition to the adverse impacts of the low cereal harvest in the south and high food prices across the country, a third factor that is foreseen to contribute to a worsening of food insecurity conditions is the forecasted slow economic growth in 2022, underpinned by the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s elevated debt levels (2022)" + "widespread lack of access": { + "text": "due to localized shortfalls in cereal production and high food prices - an estimated 3.82 million people are expected to experience acute food insecurity between October 2022 and March 2023; this number is more than double the estimate for the January to March 2022 period; high food prices and the effects of weather-induced localized shortfalls in cereal production in 2022, notably in southern districts, are the primary factors underpinning the increase in acute food insecurity (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { @@ -1259,7 +1255,7 @@ "text": "750 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) (May 2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the MDF’s primary responsibility is external security; it is also tasked as necessary with carrying out policing or other domestic activities, such as disaster relief; Malawi contributes regularly to African Union and UN peace support operations

the MDF was established in 1964 from elements of the Kings African Rifles (KAR), a British colonial regiment raised from Great Britain's various possessions in East Africa from 1902 until independence in the 1960s; the KAR conducted both military and internal security functions within the colonial territories, and served outside the territories during the World Wars (2022)" + "text": "the MDF’s primary responsibility is external security; it is also tasked as necessary with providing support to civilian authorities during emergencies, supporting the Police Service, protecting national forest reserves, and participating in regional peacekeeping missions, as well as assisting with infrastructure development; it is generally considered to be a professional and effective service, although most of its equipment is aging and obsolescent; Malawi contributes regularly to African Union and UN peace support operations; the Army is the dominant service and has 3 infantry brigades while its subordinate maritime force has a few patrol boats for monitoring Lake Malawi

the MDF was established in 1964 from elements of the Kings African Rifles (KAR), a British colonial regiment raised from Great Britain's various possessions in East Africa from 1902 until independence in the 1960s; the KAR conducted both military and internal security functions within the colonial territories, and served outside the territories during the World Wars (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/ml.json b/africa/ml.json index 2ccc50a9..7cb55441 100644 --- a/africa/ml.json +++ b/africa/ml.json @@ -466,14 +466,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1289,10 +1285,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Mali does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; government efforts included prosecuting hereditary slavery cases, increasing convictions, continuing training and awareness raising activities, releasing all children associated with the Malian armed forces (FAMa) to an international organization for care, training law enforcement officials on protection of children in armed conflict, identifying 215 children used by armed groups and referring them to international organizations for care; however, the government did not stop all use of children in the FAMa; the government continued to provide support to and collaborate with the Imghad Tuareg and the Allies Self-Defense Group, which recruited and used child soldiers; authorities did not investigate any suspects for child soldier offenses or make efforts to prevent it; law enforcement lacked resources and training about human trafficking; services for victims remained insufficient; therefore, Mali was downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List (2020)" + "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Mali does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; the transition government adopted a national referral mechanism with standard procedures to identify and refer services for victims, increased efforts to prevent armed groups from recruiting child soldiers, and allocated more funding for anti-trafficking; however, Mali did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to expand its anti-trafficking capacity, in part due to substantial personnel turnover related to the May 2021 consolidation of military power and upheaval of the previous transition government; for the third consecutive year, officials did not amend laws to explicitly define hereditary slavery as a form of trafficking and continued to treat hereditary slavery cases as misdemeanors; despite widespread allegations of complicity in hereditary slavery and forced recruitment of child soldiers, no law enforcement or government officials were investigated; because the transition government has devoted significant resources to a written plan that, if implemented, would constitute significant efforts to meet the minimum standards, Mali was granted a waiver per the TVPA from an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3, therefore Mali remained on the Tier 2 Watch List for the third consecutive year (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Mali is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; women and girls are forced into domestic servitude, agricultural labor, and support roles in gold mines, as well as subjected to sex trafficking; Malian boys are found in conditions of forced labor in agricultural settings, gold mines, and the informal commercial sector, as well as forced begging in Mali and neighboring countries; Malians and other Africans who travel through Mali to Mauritania, Algeria, or Libya in hopes of reaching Europe are particularly at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking; men and boys, primarily of Songhai ethnicity, are subjected to debt bondage in the salt mines of Taoudenni in northern Mali; some members of Mali's Tuareg community are subjected to traditional slavery-related practices, and this involuntary servitude reportedly has extended to their children; reports indicate that non-governmental armed groups operating in northern Mali recruited children as combatants, cooks, porters, guards, spies, and sex slaves; slaveholders use some members of the Tuareg community in hereditary servitude where communities rather than individuals or families exploit the enslaved" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Mali and, to a lesser extent, Malians abroad; boys from Mali and neighboring countries are exploited in agriculture, artisanal gold mines, domestic work, transportation, begging—sometimes at the hands of corrupt Quranic teachers—and the informal commercial sector; men and boys, primarily of Songhai ethnicity, are subjected to debt bondage in the salt mines of Taoudeni in northern Mali; some members of Mali's Tuareg community are subjected to slavery-related practices, where communities rather than individuals or families exploit the enslaved; women and girls are forced into domestic servitude, agricultural labor, and support roles in gold mines, as well as subjected to sex trafficking in Mali; other women and girls are exploited in sex trafficking in Gabon, Libya, Lebanon, and Tunisia and in domestic servitude in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia; women and girls lured from other West African countries with offers of jobs in Bamako, Europe, and the United States are exploited locally in sex trafficking; Africans transiting Mali to Europe are vulnerable to trafficking; terrorist organizations and armed groups, particularly in northern and central regions lacking significant government presence, continue to recruit child combatants, and some groups use girls in combat, support roles, or for sexual exploitation; widespread reports implicate officials in corruption and complicity in trafficking and hereditary slavery cases (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/africa/mo.json b/africa/mo.json index d52988e5..12f81475 100644 --- a/africa/mo.json +++ b/africa/mo.json @@ -480,14 +480,10 @@ "note": "note:  data does not include former Western Sahara" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/africa/mp.json b/africa/mp.json index eb3b2a95..135aa987 100644 --- a/africa/mp.json +++ b/africa/mp.json @@ -421,14 +421,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/africa/mr.json b/africa/mr.json index 434c90a5..29e988da 100644 --- a/africa/mr.json +++ b/africa/mr.json @@ -460,14 +460,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.3% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1291,10 +1287,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Mauritania does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so and was upgraded to Tier 2 Watch List; the government convicted five hereditary slaveholders, drafted new anti-trafficking legislation and a national action plan, raised awareness on child forced begging in Quranic schools with imams and religious leaders by establishing an inter-ministerial committee, published a child protection guide, and operated a cash transfer program; however, the government rarely imprisoned convicted slaveholders and did not identify any victims; government agencies lacked resources; government officials refuse to investigate or prosecute political offenders (2020)" + "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Mauritania does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; the government implemented a new law allowing anti-slavery NGOs to operate more freely, established a permanent anti-trafficking coordinating committee, and increased funding for its national action plan; officials conducted public awareness campaigns, helped organize a sub-regional symposium on combating slavery, and initiated three hereditary slavery investigations; however, Mauritania did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to expand its anti-trafficking capacity; the government did not prosecute or convict any alleged traffickers, courts effectively dismissed all pending cases against alleged slaveholders from the previous reporting period, and officials did not identify any victims for the fourth consecutive year; because the government has devoted sufficient resources to a written plan that, if implemented, would constitute significant efforts to meet the minimum standards, Mauritania was granted a waiver per the TVPA from an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3 and, therefore, remained on the Tier 2 Watch List (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Mauritania is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to conditions of forced labor and sex trafficking; adults and children from traditional slave castes are subjected to slavery-related practices rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships; Mauritanian boys  are trafficked within the country by religious teachers for forced begging; Mauritanian girls, as well as girls from Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, and other West African countries, are forced into domestic servitude; Mauritanian women and girls are forced into prostitution in the country or transported to countries in the Middle East for the same purpose" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Mauritania, as well as Mauritanians abroad; adults and children from traditional slave castes are subjected to slavery-related practices rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships; Mauritanian and other West African boys are trafficked within the country by religious teachers for forced begging; West African women and girls, especially Senegalese and Ivoirians, are exploited in domestic labor and sex trafficking in Mauritania; Sub-Saharan African migrants transiting the port city of Nouadhibou en route to Morocco and Europe are exploited in forced labor and sex trafficking; Mauritanian women and girls, fraudulently recruited for jobs abroad, are transported to Gulf states and subjected to domestic servitude and sex trafficking (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/africa/mz.json b/africa/mz.json index a90b1f6f..3a3b6492 100644 --- a/africa/mz.json +++ b/africa/mz.json @@ -454,14 +454,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "6.46% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "6.46% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "4.17% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "4.17% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1296,7 +1292,7 @@ "text": "registration for military service is mandatory for all men and women at 18 years of age; 18-35 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary service for men and women; 2-year service obligation (2021)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the FADM is responsible for external security, cooperating with police on internal security, and responding to natural disasters and other emergencies; the current primary focus of the FADM is countering an insurgency driven by militants with ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, an area known for rich liquid natural gas deposits; insurgent attacks in the province began in 2017 and the fighting has left over 4,000 estimated dead and approximately 1 million displaced; the FADM is widely assessed as lacking the training, equipment, and overall capabilities to address the insurgency; as of 2022, several countries from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the EU, as well as Rwanda and the US were providing various forms of military assistance; the SADC countries and Zambia have sent more than 3,000 military and security personnel, while the EU and the US have provided training assistance; the counterterrorism efforts of the Mozambique and allied African military and security forces have seen some success against the militants, but as of 2022 terrorist attacks had expanded into the neighboring provinces of Niassa and Nampula (2023)" + "text": "the FADM is responsible for external security, cooperating with police on internal security, and responding to natural disasters and other emergencies; the current primary focus of the FADM is countering an insurgency driven by militants with ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, an area known for rich liquid natural gas deposits; insurgent attacks in the province began in 2017 and the fighting has left over 4,000 estimated dead and approximately 1 million displaced; the FADM is widely assessed as lacking the training, equipment, and overall capabilities to address the insurgency; several countries from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the EU, as well as Rwanda and the US are providing various forms of military assistance; the SADC countries and Zambia have sent more than 3,000 military and security personnel, while the EU and the US have provided training assistance (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/ng.json b/africa/ng.json index 86b56b3e..68e69700 100644 --- a/africa/ng.json +++ b/africa/ng.json @@ -455,14 +455,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "4.41% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "4.41% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1266,7 +1262,7 @@ "note": "note 1: Niger is part of a four (formerly five)-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G5 (now G4) Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali (withdrew in 2022), and Mauritania; it has committed 1,100 troops and 200 gendarmes to the force; as of 2022, defense forces from each of the participating states were allowed to pursue terrorist fighters up to 100 km into neighboring countries; the force is backed by France, the UN, and the US

note 2: Niger also has about 1,000 troops committed to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own country territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "as of 2022, the FAN was conducting counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations against Islamic militants on at least two fronts; in the Diffa region, the Nigeria-based Boko Haram terrorist group has conducted dozens of attacks on security forces, army bases, and civilians; on Niger’s western border with Mali, the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-West Africa (ISIS-WA) has conducted numerous attacks on security personnel; a series of ISIS-WA attacks on FAN forces near the Malian border in December of 2019 and January of 2020 resulted in the deaths of more than 170 soldiers; terrorist attacks continued into 2022 (2022)" + "text": "while the FAN is responsible for ensuring external security, much of its focus is internal, particularly counterinsurgency/counterterrorism operations against Islamic militant groups operating in the areas bordering Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali, and Nigeria, as well as much of northern Niger and the Diffa and Lake Chad regions; these groups include the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) in the Greater Sahara, Boko Haram, ISIS-West Africa, and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM); up to 70% of the security forces are assigned to fighting militants and protecting borders

the FAN is a lightly armed, but experienced military; it has conducted training and combat operations with foreign partners, including the French and US; the EU has also provided security assistance, particularly to the GN, GNN, and the National Police; the FAN also conducts counterterrorism operations with the G4 Sahel Group and the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), which coordinates the Lake Chad states’ operations against Boko Haram

in recent years, Niger has focused on making its security services more mobile to improve their effectiveness in countering terrorism and protecting the country’s borders; with training support and material assistance from the US and the EU, each security service has created new units or reconfigured existing units with an emphasis on mobility, hybridization, and specialized training; since the 2010s, the Army has created a special operations command, up to 12 special intervention battalions, and an anti-terrorism unit known as the 1st Expeditionary Force of Niger (EFoN); the GN has created mobile units modeled on European gendarmerie forces known as the Rapid Action Group—Surveillance and Response in the Sahel (Groupe d'action Rapides—Surveillance et Intervention au Sahel or GAR-SI Sahel); the GNN has developed mobile Multipurpose Squadrons (Escadrons Polyvalentes de la Garde Nationale de Niger or EP-GNN), while the National Police have created Mobile Border Control Companies (Compagnie Mobile de Contrôle des Frontières or CMCF); Niger has also established training centers for special forces in Tillia and peacekeeping in Ouallam

the Army was established in 1960 from French colonial forces, while the Air Force was formed as the Niger National Escadrille in 1961; the GN received its first Nigerien commander in 1962; since its establishment, Niger’s military has played a significant role in the country’s politics, conducting successful coups in 1974, 1996, 1999, and 2010, and ruling Niger for much of the period before 1999; the FAN also conducted counterinsurgency operations against Taureg rebels during 1990-95 and 2007-09 (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { @@ -1281,7 +1277,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "188,041 (Nigeria), 65,847 (Mali) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" + "text": "188,015 (Nigeria), 65,847 (Mali) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "376,809 (includes the regions of Diffa, Tillaberi, and Tahoua; unknown how many of the 11,000 people displaced by clashes between government forces and the Tuareg militant group, Niger Movement for Justice, in 2007 are still displaced; inter-communal violence; Boko Haram attacks in southern Niger, 2015) (2022)" diff --git a/africa/ni.json b/africa/ni.json index e71be86e..56a52141 100644 --- a/africa/ni.json +++ b/africa/ni.json @@ -464,14 +464,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1280,7 +1276,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Nigerian Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Coast Guard), Air Force; Ministry of Interior: Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) (2022)", - "note": "note 1: the NSCDC a paramilitary agency commissioned to assist the military in the management of threats to internal security, including attacks and natural disasters

note 2: some states have created local security forces in response to increased violence, insecurity, and criminality that have exceeded the response capacity of government security forces" + "note": "note 1: the NSCDC a paramilitary agency commissioned to assist the military in the management of threats to internal security, including attacks and natural disasters

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

note 3: some states have created local security forces in response to increased violence, insecurity, and criminality that have exceeded the response capacity of government security forces" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2021": { @@ -1313,7 +1309,7 @@ "note": "note: Nigeria has committed an Army combat brigade (approximately 3,000 troops) to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional counter-terrorism force comprised of troops from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger; MNJTF conducts operations against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own country territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Nigerian military is sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and regarded as one of its most capable forces; the Army and Air Force are focused largely on internal security and face a number of challenges that have stretched their resources; the Army is deployed in all 36 of the country's states; in the northeast, it is conducting counterinsurgency/counterterrorist operations against the Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in West Africa (ISIS-WA) terrorist groups, where it has deployed as many as 70,000 troops at times and jihadist-related violence has killed an estimated 35-40,000 people, mostly civilians, since 2009; in the northwest, it faces growing threats from criminal gangs, bandits, and violence associated with long-standing farmer-herder conflicts, as well as BH and ISIS-WA terrorists; bandits in the northwest are estimated to number in the low 10,000s and violence there has killed more than 10,000 people since the mid-2010s; the military also continues to protect the oil industry in the Niger Delta region against militants and criminal activity, although the levels of violence there have decreased in recent years; since 2021, additional troops and security forces have been deployed to eastern Nigeria to quell renewed agitation for a state of Biafra (Biafra seceded from Nigeria in the late 1960s, sparking a civil war that caused more than 1 million deaths)

meanwhile, the Navy is focused on security in the Gulf of Guinea; since 2016, it has developed a maritime strategy, boosted naval training and its naval presence in the Gulf, increased participation in regional maritime security efforts, and acquired a considerable number of new naval platforms, including offshore and coastal patrol craft, fast attack boats, and air assets; its principal surface ships currently include a frigate and 4 corvettes or offshore patrol ships

the Nigerian military traces its origins to the Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF), a multi-regiment force formed by the British colonial office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria (Lagos and the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria), Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Gambia; the WAFF served with distinction in both East and West Africa during World War I; in 1928, it received royal recognition and was re-named the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF); the RWAFF went on to serve in World War II as part of the British 81st and 82nd (West African) divisions in the East Africa and Burma campaigns; in 1956, the Nigeria Regiment of the RWAFF was renamed the Nigerian Military Forces (NMF) and in 1958, the colonial government of Nigeria took over control of the NMF from the British War Office; the Nigerian Armed Forces were established following independence in 1960 (2023)" + "text": "the Nigerian military is sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and regarded as one of its most capable forces; the Army is organized into 8 divisions comprised of a diverse mix of more than 20 combat brigades, including airborne infantry, amphibious infantry, armor, artillery, light infantry, mechanized and motorized infantry, and special operations forces; there is also a presidential guard brigade; the Army typically organizes into battalion- and brigade-sized task forces for operations; the Air Force has a small mix of fighter, ground attack, and attack helicopter squadrons primarily for supporting the Army

the Army and Air Force are focused largely on internal security and face a number of challenges that have stretched their resources; the Army is deployed in all 36 of the country's states; in the northeast, it is conducting counterinsurgency/counterterrorist operations against the Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in West Africa (ISIS-WA) terrorist groups, where it has deployed as many as 70,000 troops at times and jihadist-related violence has killed an estimated 35-40,000 people, mostly civilians, since 2009; in the northwest, it faces growing threats from criminal gangs, bandits, and violence associated with long-standing farmer-herder conflicts, as well as BH and ISIS-WA terrorists; bandits in the northwest are estimated to number in the low 10,000s and violence there has killed more than 10,000 people since the mid-2010s; the military also continues to protect the oil industry in the Niger Delta region against militants and criminal activity, although the levels of violence there have decreased in recent years; since 2021, additional troops and security forces have been deployed to eastern Nigeria to quell renewed agitation for a state of Biafra (Biafra seceded from Nigeria in the late 1960s, sparking a civil war that caused more than 1 million deaths)

meanwhile, the Navy is focused on security in the Gulf of Guinea; since 2016, it has developed a maritime strategy, boosted naval training and its naval presence in the Gulf, increased participation in regional maritime security efforts, and acquired a considerable number of new naval platforms, including offshore and coastal patrol craft, fast attack boats, and air assets; its principal surface ships currently include a frigate and 4 corvettes or offshore patrol ships

the Nigerian military traces its origins to the Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF), a multi-regiment force formed by the British colonial office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria (Lagos and the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria), Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Gambia; the WAFF served with distinction in both East and West Africa during World War I; in 1928, it received royal recognition and was re-named the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF); the RWAFF went on to serve in World War II as part of the British 81st and 82nd (West African) divisions in the East Africa and Burma campaigns; in 1956, the Nigeria Regiment of the RWAFF was renamed the Nigerian Military Forces (NMF) and in 1958, the colonial government of Nigeria took over control of the NMF from the British War Office; the Nigerian Armed Forces were established following independence in 1960 (2023)" }, "Maritime threats": { "text": "

the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea remain a very high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2021, there were 34 reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea region; although a significant decrease from the total number of 81 incidents in 2020, it included the one hijacking and three of five ships fired upon worldwide; while boarding and attempted boarding to steal valuables from ships and crews are the most common types of incidents, almost a third of all incidents involve a hijacking and/or kidnapping; in 2021, 57 crew members were kidnapped in seven separate incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, representing 100% of kidnappings worldwide; Nigerian pirates in particular are well armed and very aggressive, operating as far as 200 nm offshore; the Maritime Administration of the US Department of Transportation has issued a Maritime Advisory (2022-001 - Gulf of Guinea-Piracy/Armed Robbery/Kidnapping for Ransom) effective 4 January 2022, which states in part, \"Piracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping for ransom continue to serve as significant threats to US-flagged vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea\"

" diff --git a/africa/od.json b/africa/od.json index ac0feac6..7b4a2465 100644 --- a/africa/od.json +++ b/africa/od.json @@ -393,9 +393,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.65% of GDP (2015 est.)" - } + "text": "2.65% of GDP (2015 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1096,7 +1094,7 @@ "note": "note: in 2019, women made up less than 10% of the active military" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF), formerly the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), was founded as a guerrilla movement against the Sudanese Government in 1983 and participated in the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005); the Juba Declaration that followed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 unified the SPLA and the South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF), the second-largest rebel militia remaining from the civil war, under the SPLA name; in 2017, the SPLA was renamed the South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF) and in September 2018 was renamed again as the SSPDF

the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has operated in the country since 2011 with the objectives of consolidating peace and security and helping establish conditions for the successful economic and political development of South Sudan; UNMISS had about 15,000 personnel deployed in the country as of 2022

United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has operated in the disputed Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan since 2011; UNISFA's mission includes ensuring security, protecting civilians, strengthening the capacity of the Abyei Police Service, de-mining, monitoring/verifying the redeployment of armed forces from the area, and facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid; as of 2022, UNISFA had approximately 2,500 military and police personnel" + "text": "the SSPDF is largely focused on internal security; the Ground Force has approximately 8 light infantry divisions plus a mechanized presidential guard division (aka the Tiger Division); the Air Force has small numbers of transport aircraft and combat helicopters 

the SSPDF, formerly the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), was founded as a guerrilla movement against the Sudanese Government in 1983 and participated in the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005); the Juba Declaration that followed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 unified the SPLA and the South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF), the second-largest rebel militia remaining from the civil war, under the SPLA name; in 2017, the SPLA was renamed the South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF) and in September 2018 was renamed again as the SSPDF

the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has operated in the country since 2011 with the objectives of consolidating peace and security and helping establish conditions for the successful economic and political development of South Sudan; UNMISS had about 15,000 personnel deployed in the country as of 2022

United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has operated in the disputed Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan since 2011; UNISFA's mission includes ensuring security, protecting civilians, strengthening the capacity of the Abyei Police Service, de-mining, monitoring/verifying the redeployment of armed forces from the area, and facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid; as of 2022, UNISFA had approximately 2,500 military and police personnel (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { @@ -1108,7 +1106,7 @@ "text": "289,840 (Sudan), 10,849 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022)" }, "IDPs": { - "text": "2.23 million (alleged coup attempt and ethnic conflict beginning in December 2013; information is lacking on those displaced in earlier years by: fighting in Abyei between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in May 2011; clashes between the SPLA and dissident militia groups in South Sudan; inter-ethnic conflicts over resources and cattle; attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army; floods and drought) (2022)" + "text": "2.23 million (alleged coup attempt and ethnic conflict beginning in December 2013; information is lacking on those displaced in earlier years by: fighting in Abyei between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in May 2011; clashes between the SPLA and dissident militia groups in South Sudan; inter-ethnic conflicts over resources and cattle; attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army; floods and drought) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "10,000 (2022)" @@ -1116,10 +1114,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "

Tier 3 — South Sudan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so: the government’s efforts include forming and staffing an anti-trafficking inter-ministerial task force, releasing 286 child soldiers, and identifying 19 potential trafficking victims; however, the recruitment of child soldiers by security and law enforcement continues and neither was held criminally responsible; authorities did not investigate or prosecute forced labor or sex trafficking crimes and made no effort to identify and protect trafficking victims; authorities continued to arrest and imprison child sex trafficking victims without screening for indicators of trafficking (2020)

" + "text": "

Tier 3 — South Sudan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, therefore it remains on Tier 3; the government took some steps to address trafficking, including convening an inter-ministerial task force, finalizing a National Action plan, and conducting awareness activities; however, there was a government policy or pattern whereby security and law enforcement officers continued to forcibly recruit child soldiers and did not hold any members criminally accountable for these unlawful acts; for the tenth consecutive year, there were no reported investigations into or prosecutions for forced labor or sex trafficking; officials did not report identifying or assisting any victims and continued to penalize victims for unlawful acts traffickers compelled them to commit (2022)

" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "South Sudan is a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; South Sudanese women and girls, particularly those who are internally displaced or from rural areas, are vulnerable to forced labor and sexual exploitation in urban centers; the rising number of street children and child laborers are also exploited for forced labor and prostitution; women and girls from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Democratic Republic of the Congo are trafficked to South Sudan with promises of legitimate jobs and are forced into the sex trade; inter-ethnic abductions continue between some communities in South Sudan; government forces use children to fight and perpetrate violence against other children and civilians, to serve as scouts, escorts, cooks, and cleaners, and to carry heavy loads while on the move" + "text": "traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in South Sudan and South Sudanese abroad; women and girls, particularly from rural areas or internally displaced, are vulnerable to domestic servitude, and some are exploited by males in the households in sexual abuse or trafficking; South Sudanese girls are exploited in sex trafficking in restaurants, hotels, and brothels—sometimes involving corrupt law enforcement officials; some children are coerced to work in begging, herding, construction, and a wide range of physically demanding labor sectors; men and women recruited from neighboring countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of the Congo, and Uganda, as well as South Sudanese women and children are recruited with fraudulent employment offers in hotels, restaurants, and construction and forced to work for little or no pay or coerced into commercial sex; government forces use children to fight or serve in support roles; several milliion internally displaced persons and South Sudanese refugees living in neighboring countries are at risk of trafficking, and unaccompanied children in the camps are vulnerable to abduction by sex and labor traffickers (2022)" } } } diff --git a/africa/pu.json b/africa/pu.json index 1ee621f5..5687dbcf 100644 --- a/africa/pu.json +++ b/africa/pu.json @@ -439,14 +439,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "9.24% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "9.24% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -476,13 +472,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "34.1 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "30 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "11.9 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "10 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "144 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "140 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/africa/rw.json b/africa/rw.json index dcd26fd3..f5bda75d 100644 --- a/africa/rw.json +++ b/africa/rw.json @@ -447,14 +447,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "3.75% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "3.75% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1228,7 +1224,7 @@ "text": "2,450 (plus about 500 police) Central African Republic (approximately 1,700 for MINUSCA; an additional 750 troops sent separately under a bilateral agreement with CAR in August, 2021); up to 2,000 Mozambique (deployed mid-2021 under a bi-lateral agreement to assist with combating insurgency; includes both military and police forces); 2,600 (plus about 400 police) South Sudan (UNMISS) (2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "since 2021, Rwanda has deployed troops to the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to combat the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR); it has also been accused by the DRC Government of providing material support to the March 23 Movement (M23, aka Congolese Revolutionary Army) rebel group, which as of 2022 was fighting with DRC troops and UN peacekeeping forces

the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) were established following independence in 1962; after the 1990-1994 civil war and genocide, the victorious Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front's military wing, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), became the country's military force; the RPA participated in the First (1996-1997) and Second (1998-2003) Congolese Wars; the RPA was renamed the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) in 2003, by which time it had assumed a more national character with the inclusion of many former Hutu officers as well as newly recruited soldiers

the RDF is widely regarded as one of Africa’s best trained and most capable and professional military forces; as of 2022, over 7,000 RDF and police personnel were deployed on missions in Africa (2022)" + "text": "

the RDF is lightly equipped, but widely regarded as one of East Africa’s best trained, experienced, and most professional militaries; the Army is relatively large with 4 divisions that are mostly comprised of light infantry brigades; it also has separate artillery, presidential guard, and special operations brigades; the Air Force has a small inventory of combat helicopters and a handful of transport aircraft

the RDF’s principle responsibilities are ensuring territorial integrity and national sovereignty and preventing infiltrations of illegal armed groups from neighboring countries, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); since 2021, Rwanda has deployed troops to the border with the DRC to combat the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which it has accused the DRC of backing; the RDF has been accused by the DRC Government of making incursions into the DRC and providing material support to the March 23 Movement (M23, aka Congolese Revolutionary Army) rebel group, which has been fighting with DRC troops and UN peacekeeping forces; the RDF also participates in UN and regional military operations; over 6,000 RDF personnel are deployed in the Central African Republic, Mozambique, and South Sudan 

the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) were established following independence in 1962; after the 1990-1994 civil war and genocide, the victorious Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front's military wing, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), became the country's military force; the RPA participated in the First (1996-1997) and Second (1998-2003) Congolese Wars; the RPA was renamed the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) in 2003, by which time it had assumed a more national character with the inclusion of many former Hutu officers as well as newly recruited soldiers (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { @@ -1237,7 +1233,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "72,120 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 48,515 (Burundi) (2023)" + "text": "72,120 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 48,592 (Burundi) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "9,500 (2022)" diff --git a/africa/se.json b/africa/se.json index 2fbf0ba5..1e1b563d 100644 --- a/africa/se.json +++ b/africa/se.json @@ -418,14 +418,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.09% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.09% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/africa/sf.json b/africa/sf.json index 059eaaba..780e0da1 100644 --- a/africa/sf.json +++ b/africa/sf.json @@ -463,9 +463,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "2.4% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.4% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1303,7 +1301,7 @@ "text": "1,150 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); up to 1,500 Mozambique (part of a Southern African Development Community force to help quell an insurgency) (2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the SANDF was created in 1994 to replace the South African Defense Force (SADF); the SANDF was opened to all South Africans who met military requirements, while the SADF was a mostly white force (only whites were subject to conscription) with non-whites only allowed to join in a voluntary capacity; the SANDF also absorbed members of the guerrilla and militia forces of the various anti-apartheid opposition groups, including the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, and the Inkatha Freedom Party, as well as the security forces of the formerly independent Bantustan homelands; the SANDF is one of Africa’s most capable militaries; over the past decade, however, its operational readiness and modernization programs have been hampered by funding shortfalls; it participates regularly in African and UN peacekeeping missions (2023)" + "text": "the SANDF’s primary responsibilities include territorial and maritime defense, supporting the Police Service, protecting key infrastructure, and participating in international peacekeeping missions; the SANDF traditionally has been one of Africa’s most capable militaries, but in recent years its operational readiness and modernization programs have been hampered by funding shortfalls; it participates regularly in African and UN peacekeeping missions and is a member of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Standby Force; in 2021, it sent approximately 1,500 troops to Mozambique as part of a multinational SADC force to help combat an insurgency, and South African forces are a key component of the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; in recent years, the SANDF has been deployed internally to assist the Police Service with quelling unrest and to combat trafficking along the border

the Army in recent years has reorganized, and its combat forces are organized into 4 “modern” brigades, each designed for specific missions and responding to modern-day threats such as “asymmetric” warfare; the new brigades are separated into airborne, light infantry, mechanized, and motorized forces; the Navy operates a mixed force of warships, patrol craft, submarines, and support vessels; its principal combatants are 4 frigates and 3 attack submarines; the Navy also has a maritime rapid reaction squadron that includes naval infantry and combat divers; the Air Force has squadrons of multipurpose fighter, ground attack, and transport aircraft, as well as attack and transport helicopters

the SANDF was created in 1994 to replace the South African Defense Force (SADF); the SANDF was opened to all South Africans who met military requirements, while the SADF was a mostly white force (only whites were subject to conscription) with non-whites only allowed to join in a voluntary capacity; the SANDF also absorbed members of the guerrilla and militia forces of the various anti-apartheid opposition groups, including the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, and the Inkatha Freedom Party, as well as the security forces of the formerly independent Bantustan homelands (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/sg.json b/africa/sg.json index 19ab130f..a2b7ffd9 100644 --- a/africa/sg.json +++ b/africa/sg.json @@ -469,14 +469,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.46% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.46% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1253,7 +1249,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Senegalese Armed Forces (les Forces Armées Sénégalaises, FAS): Army, Senegalese National Navy (Marine Senegalaise, MNS), Senegalese Air Force (l'Armee de l'Air du Senegal), National Gendarmerie (includes Territorial and Mobile components); Ministry of Interior: National Police (2022)", - "note": "note: the National Police operates in major cities, while the Gendarmerie primarily operates outside urban areas" + "note": "note: the National Police operates in major cities, while the Gendarmerie primarily operates outside urban areas; both services have specialized anti-terrorism units" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2021": { @@ -1285,8 +1281,7 @@ "text": "750 Gambia (ECOMIG); 970 Mali (MINUSMA); note - Senegal also has about 1,100 police deployed on various UN peacekeeping missions (2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "Senegalese security forces are engaged in a low-level counterinsurgency campaign in the southern Casamance region against various factions of the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MDFC); while violent incidents have decreased since a tacit cease-fire was reached in 2012, the insurgency, which began in 1982, continued as of late 2022 and remained one of longest running low-level conflicts in the world, claiming more than 5,000 lives and leaving another 60,000 displaced (2022)", - "note": "note: in August 2022, a representative of the Senegalese Government and a leader of the MFDC signed an agreement in which the MFDC pledged to lay down its arms and work towards a permanent peace" + "text": "

despite limited resources, the FAS is considered to be a well-equipped, experienced, and professional military; it has a history of non-interference in the country’s political process and good relations with civil authorities; it is experienced in foreign deployments and has received considerable assistance from the French military, which maintains a presence in Senegal, and the US, with smaller levels from Germany, Spain, and the UK; the FAS’s primary focuses are border, internal, and maritime security; it is closely watching the prevalence of multiple active terrorist groups across the region and political  instability in neighboring Mali and Guinea and has recently established new military and gendarmerie camps along its eastern border; it also works with the government in areas such as preventive healthcare, infrastructure development, environmental protection, and disaster response

the Army is spread amongst 7 military zones and organized into a mix of light infantry battalions and light armored reconnaissance squadrons, as well as airborne, special operations, and artillery battalions; the Gendarmerie includes mobile units, as well as the Presidential Guard (aka “The Red Guard”); the Navy is a small force of coastal patrol craft; in recent years it has acquired some modern platforms from France and Israel, including its first offshore patrol vessel, to improve the Navy’s ability to patrol Senegal’s coastline and economic exclusion zone, conduct fisheries inspections, counter drug trafficking, and combat piracy; the Air Force is configured for supporting the ground forces and has a small number of light attack aircraft and helicopter gunships, as well as transport and reconnaissance aircraft

Senegalese security forces have been engaged in a low-level counterinsurgency campaign in the southern Casamance region against various factions of the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MDFC) since 1982; the conflict is one of longest running low-level insurgencies in the World, having claimed more than 5,000 lives while leaving another 60,000 displaced; in August 2022, a representative of the Senegalese Government and an MFDC faction leader signed an agreement in which the MFDC pledged to lay down its arms and work towards a permanent peace (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { @@ -1308,10 +1303,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Senegal does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; efforts include establishing an anti-trafficking database; planning the third phase of its program to remove vulnerable children, including trafficking victims, from the streets of major cities; launching an emergency campaign to place vulnerable children and forced begging victims in shelters due to COVID 19 pandemic; however, the government rarely proactively investigated or prosecuted traffickers exploiting children in forced begging; authorities did not take action against officials who refused to investigate such cases; officials only applied adequate prison terms in accordance with the 2005 anti-trafficking law to two convicted traffickers; authorities did not identify any adult trafficking victims; government officials continued to have a limited knowledge of trafficking; Senegal was downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List (2020)" + "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Senegal does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; efforts included increasing trafficking investigations, prosecutions, and convictions, as well as training judicial and law enforcement officials; the Minister of Justice released instructions to prosecutors urging them to seek harsher penalties consistent with the 2005 anti-trafficking law; however, the government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to increase its anti-trafficking capacity; officials did not investigate, prosecute, or convict traffickers exploiting children in forced begging for the second consecutive year, and did not consistently prosecute alleged traffickers or apply penalties consistent with the 2005 law; the government identified significantly fewer victims and made minimal efforts to identify and refer adult victims to services; because the government has devoted sufficient resources to a written plan that, if implemented, would constitute significant efforts to meet the minimum standards, Senegal was granted a waiver per the TVPA from an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3 and, therefore, remained on Tier 2 Watch List for the third consecutive year (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Senegal is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women who are subjected to forced begging, forced labor, and sex trafficking; traffickers subject Senegalese children to forced labor in domestic service, mining, and prostitution; some Senegalese boys from Quranic schools and boys from The Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea are forced to beg; Senegalese women and girls are forced into domestic servitude in neighboring countries, Europe, and the Middle East, while others are sexually exploited in Senegal; women and girls from other West African countries are subjected to domestic servitude and sexual exploitation in Senegal; Ukrainian and Chinese women are exploited for sex trafficking in bars and nightclubs; North Korean workers are forced to work in construction" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Senegal, and Senegalese abroad; forced begging is the most prevalent form of trafficking in Senegal; corrupt Quranic teachers, or men claiming to be Quranic teachers, force children to beg in the major cities; children and women are exploited in sex trafficking and forced labor in domestic servitude and gold mining; although internal trafficking is most prevalent, boys from Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Mali are exploited in forced begging as well as forced labor in artisanal gold mines; Nigerian women are exploited in sex trafficking in southeastern Senegal’s gold mining region, where women from Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, and Sierra Leone are also exploited; West African women and girls are forced into domestic servitude and sex trafficking in Senegal, including sex tourism for tourists from Belgium, France, Germany, and other countries; Senegalese women and girls are exploited as domestic servants in neighboring countries, Europe, and the Middle East (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/africa/sl.json b/africa/sl.json index d5387cc2..a5552c77 100644 --- a/africa/sl.json +++ b/africa/sl.json @@ -452,14 +452,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "6.92% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "6.92% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1212,7 +1208,7 @@ "text": "18-29 for voluntary military service; women are eligible to serve; no conscription (2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "after the end of the civil war in 2002, the military was reduced in size and restructured with British military assistance; the RSLAF’s origins lie in the Sierra Leone Battalion of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF), a multi-regiment force formed by the British colonial office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Gold Coast (Ghana), Nigeria (Lagos and the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria), Sierra Leone, and Gambia; the RWAFF fought in both World Wars (2022)" + "text": "the RSLAF’s principle responsibilities are securing the borders and the country’s territorial waters, supporting civil authorities during emergencies and reconstruction efforts, and participating in peacekeeping missions; it is small, lightly armed, and has a limited budget; since being reduced in size and restructured with British assistance after the end of the civil war in 2002, it has received assistance from several foreign militaries, including those of Canada, China, France, the UK, and the US; the RSLAF has participated in peacekeeping operations in Somalia and Sudan; the Land Forces are by far the largest service and have 4 small light infantry brigades; the Maritime Forces have a few small coastal and in-shore patrol boats, while the Air Wing has a handful of serviceable combat helicopters

the RSLAF’s origins lie in the Sierra Leone Battalion of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF), a multi-regiment force formed by the British colonial office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Gold Coast (Ghana), Nigeria (Lagos and the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria), Sierra Leone, and Gambia; the RWAFF fought in both World Wars (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/so.json b/africa/so.json index 29e68589..5d4b436c 100644 --- a/africa/so.json +++ b/africa/so.json @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production/supplies": { - "text": "due to drought conditions and internal conflict - an estimated 6.7 million people are expected to face severe acute food insecurity between October and December 2022, including about 300,000  people facing “Catastrophe” levels of food insecurity, resulting from consecutive poor rainy seasons since late 2020, which severely affected crop and livestock production, and due to heightened conflict since early 2021; famine is expected to occur in Bay region between October and December 2022 if humanitarian assistance is not urgently scaled up (2022)" + "text": "due to drought conditions and internal conflict - about 6.5 million people are estimated to face severe acute food insecurity between April and June 2023 as a result of consecutive poor rainy seasons since late 2020 and heightened conflict since early 2021 (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { diff --git a/africa/su.json b/africa/su.json index b4abed8b..21f7653d 100644 --- a/africa/su.json +++ b/africa/su.json @@ -448,14 +448,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "3.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "3.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/to.json b/africa/to.json index c3cd031e..bd6d5cdd 100644 --- a/africa/to.json +++ b/africa/to.json @@ -460,14 +460,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "3.96% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "3.96% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/tp.json b/africa/tp.json index 8be35a5d..f052c0d7 100644 --- a/africa/tp.json +++ b/africa/tp.json @@ -445,14 +445,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.9% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.9% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/ts.json b/africa/ts.json index e14ec7cf..a587d45c 100644 --- a/africa/ts.json +++ b/africa/ts.json @@ -432,14 +432,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1232,7 +1228,7 @@ }, "Terrorism": { "Terrorist group(s)": { - "text": "Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) network in Tunisia; al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb", + "text": "Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) network in Tunisia (known locally as Ajnad al-Khilafah or the Army of the Caliphate); al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb", "note": "note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T" } }, diff --git a/africa/tz.json b/africa/tz.json index 648ec5a5..77fe52d4 100644 --- a/africa/tz.json +++ b/africa/tz.json @@ -474,14 +474,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.19% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.19% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -565,7 +561,7 @@ }, "Capital": { "name": { - "text": "Dar es Salaam (de facto administrative capital), Dodoma (national capital); note - Dodoma, designated the national capital in 1996, serves as the meeting place for the National Assembly and is thus the legislative capital; Dar es Salaam (the original national capital) remains the de facto capital, the country's largest city and commercial center, and the site of the executive branch offices and diplomatic representation" + "text": "Dodoma (national capital); note - Dodoma, designated the national capital in 1996, serves as the meeting place for the National Assembly; Dar es Salaam, the original national capital and the country's largest city and commercial center, remains the site of the executive branch offices and diplomatic representation" }, "geographic coordinates": { "text": "6 48 S, 39 17 E" diff --git a/africa/ug.json b/africa/ug.json index 23d796dd..b4bb2035 100644 --- a/africa/ug.json +++ b/africa/ug.json @@ -446,14 +446,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "7.32% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "7.32% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1278,7 +1274,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "479,364 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 857,322 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 62,169 (Somalia), 40,501 (Burundi), 27,605 (Eritrea), 23,290 (Rwanda), 5,450 (Ethiopia) (2023)" + "text": "479,364 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (2022); 865,363 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 67,494 (Somalia), 40,852 (Burundi), 27,605 (Eritrea), 23,290 (Rwanda), 5,450 (Ethiopia) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "67,000 (2022)" diff --git a/africa/uv.json b/africa/uv.json index 32116f05..0638c8e2 100644 --- a/africa/uv.json +++ b/africa/uv.json @@ -447,14 +447,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "4.54% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "4.54% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1218,7 +1214,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Armed Forces of Burkina Faso (FABF): Army of Burkina Faso (L’Armee de Terre, LAT), Air Force of Burkina Faso (Force Aerienne de Burkina Faso, FABF), National Gendarmerie; Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland (VDP) (2022)", - "note": "note 1: the National Gendarmerie officially reports to the Ministry of Defense, but usually operates in support of the Ministry of Security and the Ministry of Justice; Gendarmerie troops are typically integrated with Army forces in anti-terrorism operations

note 2: the VDP is a civilian defense force established in 2019 to act as auxiliaries to the Army in the fight against militants; the volunteers receive two weeks of training and typically assist with carrying out surveillance, information-gathering, and escort duties" + "note": "note 1: the National Gendarmerie officially reports to the Ministry of Defense, but usually operates in support of the Ministry of Security and the Ministry of Justice; Gendarmerie troops are typically integrated with Army forces in anti-terrorism operations; specialized counterterrorism units include the Army's special forces, the Special Legion of the National Gendarmerie, and the Multipurpose Intervention Unit of National Police

note 2: the VDP is a civilian defense force established in 2019 to act as auxiliaries to the Army in the fight against militants; the volunteers receive two weeks of training and typically assist with carrying out surveillance, information-gathering, and escort duties
" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2021": { diff --git a/africa/wa.json b/africa/wa.json index 51f816e4..d52f9526 100644 --- a/africa/wa.json +++ b/africa/wa.json @@ -441,14 +441,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.47% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.47% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1265,7 +1261,7 @@ "note": "note: as of 2018, women comprised more than 20% of the active duty military" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Namibian Defense Force (NDF) was created in 1990, largely from demobilized former members of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) and the South West Africa Territorial Force (SWATF); PLAN was the armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), while SWATF was an auxiliary of the South African Defense Force and comprised the armed forces of the former South West Africa, 1977-1989; from 1990-1995, the British military assisted with the forming and training the NDF (2022)" + "text": "the NDF’s primary responsibility is external security; it has participated in UN and regional peacekeeping and security missions and provides assistance to civil authorities as needed; it is a small and professional force that participates in multinational training exercises; the Army fields a largely mobile force centered on 3 small motorized infantry brigades and a reconnaissance regiment; the Navy has a Chinese-built multipurpose offshore patrol ship equipped with a helicopter landing platform and supported by several coastal patrol vessels, while the Air Force has a small inventory of aircraft, including a few Chinese-made fighters and Soviet-era attack helicopters 

the NDF was created in 1990, largely from demobilized former members of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) and the South West Africa Territorial Force (SWATF); PLAN was the armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), while SWATF was an auxiliary of the South African Defense Force and comprised the armed forces of the former South West Africa, 1977-1989; from 1990-1995, the British military assisted with the forming and training the NDF (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/africa/wz.json b/africa/wz.json index 802f2b74..161d7de6 100644 --- a/africa/wz.json +++ b/africa/wz.json @@ -430,14 +430,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.25% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.25% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/za.json b/africa/za.json index 9421f3f5..314a2992 100644 --- a/africa/za.json +++ b/africa/za.json @@ -452,14 +452,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "4.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "4.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/africa/zi.json b/africa/zi.json index a7c63795..351b3273 100644 --- a/africa/zi.json +++ b/africa/zi.json @@ -457,14 +457,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.61% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.61% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.4% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.4% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/aq.json b/australia-oceania/aq.json index 815e92b6..b8e2e592 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/aq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/aq.json @@ -328,14 +328,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/as.json b/australia-oceania/as.json index 26639759..4c2a4666 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/as.json +++ b/australia-oceania/as.json @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ } }, "Natural resources": { - "text": "alumina, coal, iron ore, copper, lithium, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rare earth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, opals, natural gas, petroleum; note - Australia is the world's largest net exporter of coal accounting for 26.5% of global coal exports in 2021; as well, Australia is by far the world's largest supplier of opals" + "text": "alumina, coal, iron ore, copper, lithium, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rare earth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, opals, natural gas, petroleum;", + "note": "note 1: Australia is the world's largest net exporter of coal accounting for 26.5% of global coal exports in 2021;coal is the country’s most abundant energy resource, and coal ranks as the second-largest export commodity from Australia in terms of revenue; in 2020, Australia held the third-largest recoverable coal reserves in the world behind the United States and Russia

note 2: Australia is by far the world's largest supplier of opals

note 3: Australia holds the largest uranium reserves in the world, and was the second-largest global uranium producer behind Kazakhstan in 2020.

note 4: Australia was the largest exporter of LNG in the world in 2020." }, "Land use": { "agricultural land": { @@ -444,14 +445,10 @@ "note": "note: data include Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.78% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.78% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -663,7 +660,7 @@ "text": "blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and a large seven-pointed star in the lower hoist-side quadrant known as the Commonwealth or Federation Star, representing the federation of the colonies of Australia in 1901; the star depicts one point for each of the six original states and one representing all of Australia's internal and external territories; on the fly half is a representation of the Southern Cross constellation in white with one small, five-pointed star and four larger, seven-pointed stars" }, "National symbol(s)": { - "text": "Commonwealth Star (seven-pointed Star of Federation), golden wattle tree (Acacia pycnantha Benth), kangaroo, emu; national colors: green, gold" + "text": "Commonwealth Star (seven-pointed Star of Federation), golden wattle tree (Acacia pycnantha), kangaroo, emu; national colors: green, gold" }, "National anthem": { "name": { @@ -1058,7 +1055,8 @@ }, "proven reserves": { "text": "3,228,115,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)" - } + }, + "note": "note: Australia was the largest exporter of LNG in the world in 2020." }, "Carbon dioxide emissions": { "total emissions": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/bp.json b/australia-oceania/bp.json index 85ec24d9..2e13751f 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/bp.json +++ b/australia-oceania/bp.json @@ -417,14 +417,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "20.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "20.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/cq.json b/australia-oceania/cq.json index 1209b093..d17b5ea5 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/cq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/cq.json @@ -329,9 +329,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/fj.json b/australia-oceania/fj.json index da7c7ae8..38cc455a 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fj.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fj.json @@ -417,14 +417,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.59% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.59% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/fm.json b/australia-oceania/fm.json index 337118b4..0ef887e2 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fm.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fm.json @@ -384,9 +384,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -512,7 +510,7 @@ "text": "unicameral Congress (14 seats; 10 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 2-year terms and 4 at- large members directly elected from each of the 4 states by proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 2 March 2021 (next to be held on March 2023)" + "text": "last held on 7 March 2023 (next to be held on March 2025)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 14; composition as of July 2022 - men 13, women 1, percent of women 7.1%" diff --git a/australia-oceania/gq.json b/australia-oceania/gq.json index 46f4a42a..146c6ed3 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/gq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/gq.json @@ -339,14 +339,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/kr.json b/australia-oceania/kr.json index d698140e..24cb9574 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/kr.json +++ b/australia-oceania/kr.json @@ -428,14 +428,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/nh.json b/australia-oceania/nh.json index 2cdebd6a..95369b47 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nh.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nh.json @@ -417,14 +417,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.54% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.54% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/nr.json b/australia-oceania/nr.json index 260effb0..8fc2fba8 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nr.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nr.json @@ -404,9 +404,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/nz.json b/australia-oceania/nz.json index 9ad956c3..02ff00a1 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nz.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nz.json @@ -431,14 +431,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.5% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.5% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/ps.json b/australia-oceania/ps.json index 998d89fc..fd6bdf08 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ps.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ps.json @@ -407,9 +407,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/rm.json b/australia-oceania/rm.json index e2882db7..8708722e 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/rm.json +++ b/australia-oceania/rm.json @@ -416,9 +416,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/tn.json b/australia-oceania/tn.json index 0fb349af..fbdff8f1 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/tn.json +++ b/australia-oceania/tn.json @@ -439,14 +439,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/tv.json b/australia-oceania/tv.json index 32292c91..72b7f5e9 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/tv.json +++ b/australia-oceania/tv.json @@ -398,9 +398,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/ws.json b/australia-oceania/ws.json index a6596b22..38db1866 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ws.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ws.json @@ -424,14 +424,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json index 555b4188..1dea4df9 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json @@ -351,9 +351,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json index 504a615f..b154579a 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ac.json @@ -383,14 +383,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json index 1cb16641..33e717d7 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json @@ -401,14 +401,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json index 7ade1e26..2367d5b5 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json @@ -372,14 +372,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json index f88efdde..091c174e 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json @@ -435,14 +435,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json index 3cedd134..ccf2ce5e 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json @@ -340,14 +340,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json index fef0f5ac..6d403eec 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json @@ -449,14 +449,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.82% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.82% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -504,7 +500,7 @@ "text": "Costa Rica" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Costa Rica" + "text": "República de Costa Rica" }, "local short form": { "text": "Costa Rica" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json index 21c00fc3..69998f51 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json @@ -454,14 +454,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -487,13 +483,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "1.7 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "1.7 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "740 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "740 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "4.519 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "4.52 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -509,7 +505,7 @@ "text": "Cuba" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Cuba" + "text": "República de Cuba" }, "local short form": { "text": "Cuba" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json index 48891c34..14c6a72a 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json @@ -347,14 +347,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -363,7 +359,7 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "19 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "20 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { "text": "0 cubic meters (2017 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json index 71a3bb41..2ded6a2b 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json @@ -451,14 +451,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -489,13 +485,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "855 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "860 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "659.9 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "660 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "7.563 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "7.56 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -511,7 +507,7 @@ "text": "The Dominican" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica Dominicana" + "text": "República Dominicana" }, "local short form": { "text": "La Dominicana" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json index 4a274d3f..30c494c2 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/es.json @@ -444,14 +444,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.6% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.6% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -493,7 +489,7 @@ "text": "El Salvador" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de El Salvador" + "text": "República de El Salvador" }, "local short form": { "text": "El Salvador" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json index 3ecbb041..44a19203 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json @@ -375,14 +375,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -391,7 +387,7 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "12 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "10 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { "text": "0 cubic meters (2017 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json index 7f261fe4..510bdadc 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gt.json @@ -449,14 +449,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.78% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.78% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -481,13 +477,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "835 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "840 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "603.1 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "600 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "1.886 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "1.89 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -503,7 +499,7 @@ "text": "Guatemala" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Guatemala" + "text": "República de Guatemala" }, "local short form": { "text": "Guatemala" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json index 0d2e55db..b8748d93 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json @@ -445,14 +445,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.68% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.68% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -466,8 +462,8 @@ } }, "Food insecurity": { - "severe localized food insecurity": { - "text": "due to reduced agricultural production, sociopolitical turmoil, natural disasters - about 4.56 million people are estimated to be facing severe acute food insecurity and in need of urgent food assistance between March and June 2022; the high levels of food insecurity are the result of consecutive reduced cereal harvests between 2018 and 2021, and elevated food prices, exacerbated by socio-political turmoil and worsening insecurity; the lack of income-earning opportunities, amid worsening insecurity and difficult macroeconomic conditions, is likely to heighten food insecurity in 2022 (2022)" + "widespread lack of access": { + "text": "due to high food prices, natural disasters, sociopolitical turmoil, and worsening insecurity - about 4.7 million people are projected to be facing severe acute food insecurity and are in need of urgent food assistance between March and June 2023; the high levels of food insecurity are the result of elevated food prices, an economic downturn, frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by sociopolitical turmoil and worsening insecurity; the population experiencing the highest levels of acute food insecurity is located in the Cité Soleil commune of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, where inter-gang violence severely affects households’ access to markets and essential services
(2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { @@ -477,13 +473,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "190 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "190 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "51 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "50 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "1.209 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "1.2 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json index d4002e53..b2bb151c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json @@ -441,14 +441,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.91% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.91% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -473,13 +469,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "315 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "320 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "114 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "111 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "1.178 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "1.1 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -495,7 +491,7 @@ "text": "Honduras" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Honduras" + "text": "República de Honduras" }, "local short form": { "text": "Honduras" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json index 034bdd09..22ad9cb6 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json @@ -426,14 +426,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json index d40d31c9..6e195c27 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json @@ -427,14 +427,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -481,7 +477,7 @@ "text": "Nicaragua" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Nicaragua" + "text": "República de Nicaragua" }, "local short form": { "text": "Nicaragua" @@ -1230,10 +1226,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 3 — Nicaragua does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so and was downgraded to Tier 3; the government identified slightly more victims than in the previous reporting period and prosecuted a trafficker; however, no traffickers were convicted and victim identification remained inadequate; authorities did not  investigate, prosecute, or convict government employees complicit in trafficking; the government provided no victim services; prosecution, protection, and prevention efforts in the two Caribbean autonomous regions of Nicaragua continued to be much weaker than in the rest of the country (2020)" + "text": "Tier 3 — Nicaragua does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government took some steps to address trafficking, prosecuting eight alleged traffickers and convicting four sex traffickers; however, the government continued to downplay the severity of the trafficking problem, denying that traffickers exploited Nicaraguans in foreign countries; officials did not report any investigations, prosecutions, or convictions of government employees, despite endemic corruption and widespread official complicity; the government did not cooperate with NGOs and civil society in a national anti-trafficking coalition seeking to identify and provide services to victims (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Nicaragua and Nicaraguans abroad; women, children, and migrants are most at risk; women and children are subject to sex trafficking within the country and its two Caribbean autonomous regions, as well as  in other Central American countries, Mexico, Spain, and the United States; traffickers used social media to recruit victims with promises of high-paying jobs in restaurants, hotels, construction, and security outside of Nicaragua where they are subjected to sex or labor trafficking; traffickers exploit children through forced participation in illegal drug production and trafficking; children and persons with disabilities are subjected to forced begging; Nicaragua is also a destination for child sex tourists from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Nicaragua and Nicaraguans abroad; women, children, and migrants are most at risk; women and children are subject to sex trafficking within the country and its two Caribbean autonomous regions, as well as in other Central American countries, Mexico, Spain, and the United States; traffickers used social media to recruit victims with promises of higher-paying jobs in restaurants, hotels, domestic service, construction, and security outside of Nicaragua where they are subjected to sex or labor trafficking; traffickers force children to participate in illegal drug production and trafficking, while others are forced to work in artisanal mines and quarries; children and persons with disabilities are subjected to forced begging; Nicaragua is a destination for child sex tourists from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json index 861bd540..ef74f695 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json @@ -445,14 +445,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -499,7 +495,7 @@ "text": "Panama" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Panama" + "text": "República de Panama" }, "local short form": { "text": "Panama" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json index c45f3b5a..5b3f8e0b 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json @@ -368,14 +368,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json index cacebf86..eef9f79f 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/sc.json @@ -390,14 +390,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json index f7bbbe37..51562877 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json @@ -404,14 +404,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json index b29fabd2..1c393e4c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json @@ -401,14 +401,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json index 9f053142..62262af7 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json @@ -338,14 +338,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" } }, "Government": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json index d0762ab3..d0be89c3 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json @@ -304,14 +304,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json index 2e6cfb50..c8e1b2f4 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json @@ -392,14 +392,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json index 994604ff..41396d6b 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json @@ -343,9 +343,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-asia/kg.json b/central-asia/kg.json index 63276617..e3e2d6fb 100644 --- a/central-asia/kg.json +++ b/central-asia/kg.json @@ -443,14 +443,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/central-asia/kz.json b/central-asia/kz.json index 25db5f28..a911c720 100644 --- a/central-asia/kz.json +++ b/central-asia/kz.json @@ -439,14 +439,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.99% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.99% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1244,7 +1240,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Land Forces, Naval Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces; Ministry of Internal Affairs: National Police, National Guard; Committee for National Security (KNB): Border Service (2023)", + "text": "Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Land Forces, Naval Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces; Ministry of Internal Affairs: National Police, National Guard; Committee for National Security (KNB): Border Guard Service (2023)", "note": "note: the National Guard is a gendarmerie type force administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also serves the Ministry of Defense; it is responsible for fighting crime, maintaining public order, and ensuring public safety; other duties include anti-terrorism operations, guarding prisons, riot control, and territorial defense in time of war" }, "Military expenditures": { diff --git a/central-asia/rs.json b/central-asia/rs.json index 4c9e07a9..bbe5b5b3 100644 --- a/central-asia/rs.json +++ b/central-asia/rs.json @@ -464,14 +464,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.29% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.29% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.53% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.53% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -573,7 +569,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "

46 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respubliki, singular - respublika), 4 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnyye okrugi, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 9 krays (kraya, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast')

oblasts: Amur (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kostroma, Kurgan, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Magadan, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Orel, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl

republics: Adygeya (Maykop), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Bashkortostan (Ufa), Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy), Chuvashiya (Cheboksary), Dagestan (Makhachkala), Ingushetiya (Magas), Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik), Kalmykiya (Elista), Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk), Kareliya (Petrozavodsk), Khakasiya (Abakan), Komi (Syktyvkar), Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola), Mordoviya (Saransk), North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz), Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk), Tatarstan (Kazan), Tyva (Kyzyl), Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)

autonomous okrugs: Chukotka (Anadyr'), Khanty-Mansi-Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk), Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar), Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)

krays: Altay (Barnaul), Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Primorskiy [Maritime] (Vladivostok), Stavropol, Zabaykalsk [Transbaikal] (Chita)

federal cities: Moscow [Moskva], Saint Petersburg [Sankt-Peterburg]

autonomous oblast: Yevreyskaya [Jewish] (Birobidzhan)", + "text": "

46 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respubliki, singular - respublika), 4 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnyye okrugi, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 9 krays (kraya, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast')

oblasts: Amur (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kostroma, Kurgan, Kursk, Leningrad (Gatchina), Lipetsk, Magadan, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Orel, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl

republics: Adygeya (Maykop), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Bashkortostan (Ufa), Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy), Chuvashiya (Cheboksary), Dagestan (Makhachkala), Ingushetiya (Magas), Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik), Kalmykiya (Elista), Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk), Kareliya (Petrozavodsk), Khakasiya (Abakan), Komi (Syktyvkar), Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola), Mordoviya (Saransk), North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz), Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk), Tatarstan (Kazan), Tyva (Kyzyl), Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)

autonomous okrugs: Chukotka (Anadyr'), Khanty-Mansi-Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk), Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar), Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)

krays: Altay (Barnaul), Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Primorskiy [Maritime] (Vladivostok), Stavropol, Zabaykalsk [Transbaikal] (Chita)

federal cities: Moscow [Moskva], Saint Petersburg [Sankt-Peterburg]

autonomous oblast: Yevreyskaya [Jewish] (Birobidzhan)", "note": "note 1: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)

note 2: the United States does not recognize Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the municipality of Sevastopol, nor their redesignation as the \"Republic of Crimea\" and the \"Federal City of Sevastopol\"" }, "Independence": { @@ -1362,10 +1358,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 3 — Russia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, is not making significant efforts to do, and remains in Tier 3; the government took some steps to address trafficking by convicting some traffickers, facilitating the return of Russian children from Iraq and Syria, and identifying some victims, including foreign nationals; however, there was a government policy of forced labor, the number of victims identified was negligible, and authorities penalized potential victims without screening for signs of trafficking; the government offered no funding or programs for trafficking victims’ rehabilitation, prosecutions remained low compared with the scope of Russia’s trafficking problem, no national anti-trafficking strategy has been drafted, and government agencies have not been assigned roles or responsibilities (2020)" + "text": "Tier 3 — Russia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, is not making significant efforts to do, and remained on Tier 3; the government took some steps to address trafficking by prosecuting and convicting more traffickers, extending work and residence permits for foreign workers in response to the pandemic, and facilitating the return of Russian children from Iraq and Syria; however, there was a government policy or pattern of trafficking, including forced labor of North Korean workers; officials did not identify any trafficking victims and efforts to prosecute and convict traffickers remained weak; authorities penalized potential victims and prosecuted sex trafficking victims for crimes without screening for signs of trafficking; the government offered no funding or programs to provide services for trafficking victims and took steps to limit or ban such action by civil society groups; no national anti-trafficking strategy has been drafted, and government agencies have not been assigned roles or responsibilities; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 created significant risks of trafficking for the millions of refugees fleeing Ukraine (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Russia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking, although labor trafficking is the predominant problem; people from Russia and other countries in Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Asia, including Vietnam and North Korea, are subjected to conditions of forced labor in Russia’s construction, manufacturing, agriculture, repair shop, and domestic services industries, as well as forced begging and narcotics cultivation; North Koreans contracted under bilateral government arrangements to work in the timber industry in the Russian Far East reportedly are subjected to forced labor; Russian women and children were reported to be victims of sex trafficking in Russia, Northeast Asia, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, while women from European, African, and Central Asian countries were reportedly forced into prostitution in Russia" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Russia, and Russians abroad; although labor trafficking is the predominant problem, sex trafficking also occurs; victims from Russia and other countries in Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, China, and North Korea are subjected to forced labor in Russia’s construction, manufacturing, agriculture, maritime, grocery and retail store, restaurant, and domestic services industries, as well as forced begging and drug manufacturing and trafficking; the government increased the use of convict labor to offset a shortage of labor migrants; Russian women and children were reported to be victims of sex trafficking in Russia, Northeast Asia, Europe, Central Asia, Africa, the United States, and the Middle East; Russian-led forces in Syria reportedly recruit Syrian children to fight in Libya, and Russian-led forces in Ukraine reportedly forcibly conscript adults to fight against their country and recruit children for fighting or support roles in eastern Ukraine; Ukrainians forcibly displaced to Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, and Ukrainians in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine, are highly vulnerable to trafficking (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/central-asia/ti.json b/central-asia/ti.json index c529591e..8d84f939 100644 --- a/central-asia/ti.json +++ b/central-asia/ti.json @@ -440,14 +440,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.12% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.12% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.54% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.54% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/central-asia/tx.json b/central-asia/tx.json index 13b23e47..dbaabc5d 100644 --- a/central-asia/tx.json +++ b/central-asia/tx.json @@ -444,14 +444,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1230,10 +1226,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 3 — Turkmenistan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government approved the 2020-2022 national action plan, continued anti-trafficking awareness campaigns, worked with international organizations on combating trafficking, provided training to its diplomatic corps on human trafficking, and identified potential trafficking victims at the international airport; however, the  government used forced labor in the cotton harvest and public works projects; no officials were held accountable for their role in trafficking crimes; authorities did not prosecute or convict any traffickers; no victims were identified and offered protection or assistance programs (2020)" + "text": "Tier 3 — Turkmenistan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, therefore, Turkmenistan remained on Tier 3; the government took some steps to address trafficking, including participating in anti-trafficking awareness campaigns; however, there was a government policy or pattern of forced labor, including mobilization of adults and children for forced labor in annual harvest, public works, and other sectors; officials denied access to independent monitors seeking to observe the cotton harvest; the government did not report any investigations, prosecutions, or convictions, nor hold any officials accountable for complicity in forced labor crimes; authorities did not identify victims nor fund victim assistance programs (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Turkmenistan is a source, and to a much lesser degree, destination country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; Turkmen in search of work in other countries are forced to work in textile sweatshops, construction, and domestic service; some Turkmen women and girls are sex trafficked abroad; Turkey is the primary trafficking destination, followed by Russia, India, and other countries in the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and Europe; labor trafficking occurs within Turkmenistan, particularly in the construction industry; government officials require employees in private sector institutions, soldiers, and public sector workers to pick cotton without payment under the threat of penalty, such as dismissal, reduced work hours, or salary deductions to meet government-imposed quotas for the cotton harvest" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic victims in Turkmenistan, and Turkmen men and women are exploited abroad; state policies continue to perpetuate government-compelled forced labor in the cotton sector, as well as in public works and community cleaning and beautification projects; officials reportedly force the homeless into agricultural work or domestic servitude in the homes of law enforcement families; children are reportedly forced to work in cotton and potato fields during summer educational camps; residents of rural areas are at highest risk for trafficking both in country and abroad; LGBTQI+ communities are vulnerable to police abuse, extortion, and coercion, as well as sex trafficking or forced labor; Turkmen men and women are subjected to forced labor after migrating abroad; some migrant men are forced into criminal drug trafficking, and some migrant women are exploited by sex traffickers; most Turkmen migrant victims are in Turkey, Russia, and India, as well as other countries in the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and Europe (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/central-asia/uz.json b/central-asia/uz.json index c50de322..00ab2407 100644 --- a/central-asia/uz.json +++ b/central-asia/uz.json @@ -430,14 +430,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json index c3805c39..558d2407 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json @@ -470,14 +470,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.69% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.69% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1305,7 +1301,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "IDPs": { - "text": "1.66 million (government offensives against armed ethnic minority groups near its borders with China and Thailand, natural disasters, forced land evictions) (2023)" + "text": "1.7 million (government offensives against armed ethnic minority groups near its borders with China and Thailand, natural disasters, forced land evictions) (2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "600,000 (2022); note - Rohingya Muslims, living predominantly in Rakhine State, are Burma's main group of stateless people; the Burmese Government does not recognize the Rohingya as a \"national race\" and stripped them of their citizenship under the 1982 Citizenship Law, categorizing them as \"non-nationals\" or \"foreign residents;\" under the Rakhine State Action Plan drafted in October 2014, the Rohingya must demonstrate their family has lived in Burma for at least 60 years to qualify for a lesser naturalized citizenship and the classification of Bengali or be put in detention camps and face deportation; native-born but non-indigenous people, such as Indians, are also stateless; the Burmese Government does not grant citizenship to children born outside of the country to Burmese parents who left the country illegally or fled persecution, such as those born in Thailand; the number of stateless persons has decreased dramatically because hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since 25 August 2017 to escape violence" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json index e0f819e7..1c114e6a 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json @@ -422,14 +422,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json index cacf2d2e..5899b1db 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json @@ -447,14 +447,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.84% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.84% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json index e594f9f0..a518ca32 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json @@ -469,14 +469,10 @@ "note": "note: data do not include Hong Kong and Macau" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.57% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.57% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -614,28 +610,28 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013); Vice President WANG Qishan (since 17 March 2018)" + "text": "President XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013); Vice President HAN Zheng (since 10 March 2023)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Premier LI Keqiang (since 16 March 2013); Executive Vice Premiers HAN Zheng (since 19 March 2018), SUN Chunlan (since 19 March 2018), LIU He (since 19 March 2018), HU Chunhua (since 19 March 2018)" + "text": "Premier LI Qiang (since 11 March 2023)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "State Council appointed by National People's Congress" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president and vice president indirectly elected by National People's Congress (no term limits); election last held on 17 March 2018 (next to be held in March 2023); premier nominated by president, confirmed by National People's Congress" + "text": "president and vice president indirectly elected by National People's Congress; election last held on 10 March 2023 (next to be held in March 2028); premier nominated by president, confirmed by National People's Congress" }, "election results": { - "text": "2018: XI Jinping reelected president; National People's Congress vote - 2,970 (unanimously); WANG Qishan elected vice president with 2,969 votes

2013: XI Jinping elected president; National People's Congress vote - 2,952; LI Yuanchao elected vice president with 2,839 votes" + "text": "2023: XI Jinping reelected president; National People's Congress vote - 2,952 (unanimously); HAN Zheng
elected vice president with 2,952 votes

2018: XI Jinping reelected president; National People's Congress vote - 2,970 (unanimously); WANG Qishan elected vice president with 2,969 votes" }, - "note": "note: ultimate authority rests with the Communist Party Central Committee’s 25-member Political Bureau (Politburo) and its seven-member Standing Committee; XI Jinping holds the three most powerful positions as party general secretary, state president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission " + "note": "note: ultimate authority rests with the Communist Party Central Committee’s 25-member Political Bureau (Politburo) and its seven-member Standing Committee; XI Jinping holds the three most powerful positions as party general secretary, state president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission" }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { "text": "unicameral National People's Congress or Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui (maximum of 3,000 seats; members indirectly elected by municipal, regional, and provincial people's congresses, and the People's Liberation Army; members serve 5-year terms); note - in practice, only members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its 8 allied independent parties, and CCP-approved independent candidates are elected" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held in December 2017-February 2018 (next to be held in late 2022 to early 2023)" + "text": "last held in December 2017-February 2018 (next to be held in 2023)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 2,238, women 742, percent of women 24.9%" @@ -1354,7 +1350,7 @@ "text": "Tier 3 — China does not fully meet the minimum standards for elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, therefore China remained on Tier 3; the government initiated its first prosecution of a domestic trafficking case, approved a new National Action Plan for 2021-2030, and conducted some anti-trafficking training; however, there was a government policy or pattern of widespread forced labor, including continued mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, ethnic Kyrgyz, and members of other Turkic and Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; the government also implemented similar policies against other religious minorities and Tibetans in other provinces; Chinese nationals reportedly suffered forced labor in several countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe hosting Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects; for the fifth consecutive year, the government did not report complete law enforcement data, nor did it identify any trafficking victims or refer them to protection services  (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in China and Chinese people abroad; Chinese men, women, and children are victims of forced labor and sex trafficking in at least 60 countries; traffickers also use China as a transit point to subject foreign individuals to trafficking in other countries throughout Asia and in international maritime industries; state-sponsored forced labor is intensifying under the government’s mass detention and political indoctrination campaign against Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; well-organized criminal syndicates and local gangs subject Chinese women and girls to sex trafficking within China; women and girls from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and several countries in Africa experience forced labor in domestic service, forced concubinism leading to forced childbearing, and sex trafficking via forced and fraudulent marriage to Chinese men; African and Asian men reportedly experience conditions indicative of forced labor aboard Chinese-flagged fishing vessels; many North Korean refugees and asylum-seekers living in China illegally are particularly vulnerable to trafficking" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in China and Chinese people abroad; Chinese men, women, and children are victims of forced labor and sex trafficking in at least 60 countries; traffickers also use China as a transit point to subject foreign individuals to trafficking in other countries throughout Asia and in international maritime industries; state-sponsored forced labor is intensifying under the government’s mass detention and political indoctrination campaign against Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; well-organized criminal syndicates and local gangs subject Chinese women and girls to sex trafficking within China; women and girls from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and several countries in Africa experience forced labor in domestic service, forced concubinism leading to forced childbearing, and sex trafficking via forced and fraudulent marriage to Chinese men; African and Asian men reportedly experience conditions indicative of forced labor aboard Chinese-flagged fishing vessels; many North Korean refugees and asylum-seekers living in China illegally are particularly vulnerable to trafficking (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json index 2e134b60..df593bee 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json @@ -370,14 +370,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json index f990a7c4..d6879b77 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/id.json @@ -462,14 +462,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.39% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.39% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "1.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -559,7 +555,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "34 provinces (provinsi-provinsi, singular - provinsi), 1 autonomous province*, 1 special region** (daerah-daerah istimewa, singular - daerah istimewa), and 1 national capital district*** (daerah khusus ibukota); Aceh*, Bali, Banten, Bengkulu, Gorontalo, Jakarta***, Jambi, Jawa Barat (West Java), Jawa Tengah (Central Java), Jawa Timur (East Java), Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan), Kalimantan Selatan (South Kalimantan), Kalimantan Tengah (Central Kalimantan), Kalimantan Timur (East Kalimantan), Kalimantan Utara (North Kalimantan), Kepulauan Bangka Belitung (Bangka Belitung Islands), Kepulauan Riau (Riau Islands), Lampung, Maluku, Maluku Utara (North Maluku), Nusa Tenggara Barat (West Nusa Tenggara), Nusa Tenggara Timur (East Nusa Tenggara), Papua, Papua Barat (West Papua), Papua Pegunungan (Papua Highlands), Papua Selatan (South Papua), Papua Tengah (Central Papua), Riau, Sulawesi Barat (West Sulawesi), Sulawesi Selatan (South Sulawesi), Sulawesi Tengah (Central Sulawesi), Sulawesi Tenggara (Southeast Sulawesi), Sulawesi Utara (North Sulawesi), Sumatera Barat (West Sumatra), Sumatera Selatan (South Sumatra), Sumatera Utara (North Sumatra), Yogyakarta**", + "text": "35 provinces (provinsi-provinsi, singular - provinsi), 1 autonomous province*, 1 special region** (daerah istimewa), and 1 national capital district*** (daerah khusus ibukota); Aceh*, Bali, Banten, Bengkulu, Gorontalo, Jakarta***, Jambi, Jawa Barat (West Java), Jawa Tengah (Central Java), Jawa Timur (East Java), Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan), Kalimantan Selatan (South Kalimantan), Kalimantan Tengah (Central Kalimantan), Kalimantan Timur (East Kalimantan), Kalimantan Utara (North Kalimantan), Kepulauan Bangka Belitung (Bangka Belitung Islands), Kepulauan Riau (Riau Islands), Lampung, Maluku, Maluku Utara (North Maluku), Nusa Tenggara Barat (West Nusa Tenggara), Nusa Tenggara Timur (East Nusa Tenggara), Papua, Papua Barat (West Papua), Papua Barat Daya (Southwest Papua), Papua Pegunungan (Papua Highlands), Papua Selatan (South Papua), Papua Tengah (Central Papua), Riau, Sulawesi Barat (West Sulawesi), Sulawesi Selatan (South Sulawesi), Sulawesi Tengah (Central Sulawesi), Sulawesi Tenggara (Southeast Sulawesi), Sulawesi Utara (North Sulawesi), Sumatera Barat (West Sumatra), Sumatera Selatan (South Sumatra), Sumatera Utara (North Sumatra), Yogyakarta**", "note": "note: following the implementation of decentralization beginning on 1 January 2001, regencies and municipalities have become the key administrative units responsible for providing most government services" }, "Independence": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json index 2a4cc9d9..99054a04 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json @@ -438,14 +438,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "respiratory diseases": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json index d536cde8..5f1095cd 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json @@ -1098,8 +1098,8 @@ "note": "note: since 2006, the UN Security Council has passed nearly a dozen resolutions sanctioning North Korea for developing nuclear weapons and related activities, starting with Resolution 1718, which condemned the North's first nuclear test and placed sanctions on the supply of heavy weaponry (including tanks, armored combat vehicles, large calibre artillery, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, and missiles and missile launchers), missile technology and material, and select luxury goods; additional resolutions have expanded to include all arms, including small arms and light weapons; the US and other countries have also imposed unilateral sanctions" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "17 years of age for compulsory military service for men and women; service obligation 7 years for men, 5 years for women  (2022)", - "note": "note: the bulk of the KPA is made up of conscripts; as many as 20% of North Korean males between the ages of 16 and 54 are in the military at a given time and possibly up to 30 percent of males between the ages of 18 and 27, not counting the reserves or paramilitary units" + "text": "17 years of age for compulsory military service for men and women; service obligation up to 10 years for men and up to 8 years for women (2023)", + "note": "note: the bulk of the KPA is made up of conscripts; as many as 20% of North Korean males between the ages of 16 and 54 are in the military at a given time and possibly up to 30 percent of males between the ages of 18 and 27, not counting the reserves or paramilitary units; women comprise about 20% of the military by some estimates" }, "Military - note": { "text": "in addition to the invasion of South Korea and the subsequent Korean War (1950-53), North Korea from the 1960s to the 1980s launched a considerable number of limited military and subversive actions against South Korea using special forces and terrorist tactics; including aggressive skirmishes along the DMZ, overt attempts to assassinate South Korean leaders, kidnappings, the bombing of an airliner, and a failed effort in 1968 to foment an insurrection and conduct a guerrilla war in the South with more than 100 seaborne commandos; from the 1990s until 2010, the North lost two submarines and a semi-submersible boat attempting to insert infiltrators into the South (1996, 1998) and provoked several engagements in the Northwest Islands area along the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL), including naval skirmishes between patrol boats in 1999 and 2002, the torpedoing and sinking of a South Korean Navy corvette in 2010, and the bombardment of a South Korean Marine Corps installation on Yeonpyeong Island, also in 2010; since 2010, further minor incidents continue to occur periodically along the DMZ, where both the KPA and the South Korean military maintain large numbers of troops

in 2018, North Korea and South Korea signed a tension reduction agreement known as the Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA), which established land, sea, and air buffer zones along the DMZ and the NLL; implementation of the CMA required the removal of some land mines and guard posts; the efforts led to a reduction of tension in the DMZ, but as of 2022 North Korea had failed to uphold much of its side of the agreement

the KPA was founded in 1948; Kim Jong Un is the KPA supreme commander, while operational control of the armed forces resides in the General Staff Department (GSD), which reports directly to Kim; the GSD maintains overall control of all military forces and is charged with turning Kim’s directives into operational military orders; the Ministry of National Defense (MND) is responsible for administrative control of the military and external relations with foreign militaries

as of 2022, North Korea’s growing ballistic missile program included close- (CRBM), short- (SRBM), medium- (MRBM), intermediate- (IRBM), and intercontinental- (ICBM) range ballistic missiles; the North received its first ballistic missiles, short-range FROGs (free rocket over ground), from the Soviet Union in the 1960s, but its modern ballistic missile program is generally thought to date back to the mid-1970s when it received a Soviet Scud-class missile, likely from Egypt; the North reverse-engineered the missile and developed an indigenously built version in 1984; it flight-tested its first Scud-based medium-range Nodong missile in 1990, and probably began development of the multi-stage Taepodong missiles around this time as well; the North revealed its first road-mobile ICBM in 2012 and conducted the first test of an ICBM-class system in 2017; it conducted additional ICBM tests in 2022 (2022)" @@ -1116,10 +1116,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 3 — the government of North Korea does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; during this reporting period there was a government policy or pattern of forced labor of adults and children in prison camps, labor training centers, and through its imposition of forced labor conditions on North Korean overseas contract workers;  proceeds from state-sponsored forced labor fund government functions and illicit activities; the government has made no effort to address human trafficking (2020)" + "text": "Tier 3 — the government of North Korea does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government did not demonstrate any efforts to address human trafficking; during this reporting period there was a government policy or pattern of human trafficking in prison camps, in labor training centers, in massed mobilizations of adults and children, and through forced labor by North Korean overseas workers; proceeds from state-sponsored forced labor funded government functions and illicit activities (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "North Korea is a source country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor, forced marriage, and sex trafficking; in the recent past, many North Korean women and girls lured by promises of food, jobs, and freedom migrated to China illegally to escape poor social and economic conditions only to be forced into prostitution, marriage, or exploitative labor arrangements; North Koreans do not have a choice in the work the government assigns them and are not free to change jobs at will; many North Korean workers recruited to work abroad under bilateral contracts with foreign governments are subjected to forced labor and reportedly face government reprisals if they try to escape or complain to outsiders; thousands of North Koreans, including children, are subjected to forced labor in prison camps" + "text": "human traffickers—including government officials—exploit North Koreans at home and abroad; women and children are exploited in sex trafficking within North Korea; forced labor is part of an established system of political repression and a pillar of the economic system; children in prison camps are subject to forced labor for up to 12 hours per day; officials forcibly mobilize adults and school children to work in factories, agriculture, logging, mining, infrastructure work, information technology, and construction sectors; North Koreans sent to work abroad, including through bilateral agreements with foreign businesses or governments, face forced labor conditions; NGOs report overseas workers are managed as a matter of state policy; the government often appropriates and deposits worker salaries into government-controlled accounts; in 2017, the UN Security Council prohibited members from issuing or renewing work authorizations for North Koreans and, with limited exceptions, required repatriation; nonetheless, an estimated 20,000-100,000 North Koreans are working in China, primarily in restaurants and factories; North Korean women and girls lured by promises of jobs in China are forced into prostitution, marriage, or exploitative labor arrangements; many North Koreans continue to work or enter Russia, and some workers are reportedly working in African, Middle Eastern, an Southeast Asian countries (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json index 7f640acf..2d26ef1f 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ks.json @@ -437,14 +437,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "respiratory diseases": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json index a7e85446..55592e96 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json @@ -450,9 +450,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.48% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.48% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json index 6471c064..a9317479 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json @@ -320,14 +320,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -990,10 +986,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Macau does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; the government trained police, customs, and social welfare officials on human trafficking, funded an awareness campaign, and provided services to victims; authorities convicted three sex traffickers but did not sentence anyone to significant prison terms; authorities investigated only one potential trafficking case and made no prosecutions; the government provided no assistance to any victims, and officials did not initiate any prosecutions or sentence convicted traffickers to significant terms of imprisonment; Macau was downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List (2020)" + "text": "Tier 3 — Macau does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, therefore Macau was downgraded to Tier 3; the government took some steps to address trafficking, including investigating one potential case, disseminating awareness-raising materials, and maintaining guidelines for identifying and referring victims to services; however, for the third consecutive year officials did not identify or provide services to any victims, nor initiate any prosecutions; Macau has not convicted a trafficker since 2019 and has never identified a victim of forced labor (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Macau is a destination and, to a much lesser extent, source for women and children subjected to sex trafficking and possibly forced labor; most victims come from the Chinese mainland, but others are trafficked from China, Russia, and Southeast Asia; victims are lured in by false job offers and forced into prostitution, often being confined to massage parlors and illegal brothels where their identity documents are confiscated and they are threatened with violence; Chinese, Russian, and Thai criminal organizations are believed to be involved in recruiting women for Macau’s commercial sex industry" + "text": "human traffickers exploit foreign victims in Macau; traffickers recruit most victims from mainland China, Russia, and Southeast Asia using false job offers; adult and child victims are forced into commercial sex in casinos, hotels, and private homes, and sometimes have their documents confiscated; Casinos and other establishments reportedly allow staff to partner with criminal networks to facilitate sex trafficking; migrant construction and domestic workers, primarily from mainland China, Indonesia, and the Philippines may be vulnerable to forced labor in Macau (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json index b2f191f9..1cb3cdac 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json @@ -445,14 +445,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "8.62% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "8.62% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json index 8f3e548d..3c9f1522 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json @@ -443,14 +443,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.57% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.57% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1302,10 +1298,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Malaysia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; the government identified more victims, increased the number of trafficking-specialist prosecutors, drafted victim identification standard operating procedures, identified two volunteer victim assistance specialists that worked with more than 100 victims, and co-hosted the first national conference on anti-trafficking; however, authorities prosecuted and convicted fewer traffickers and investigated few trafficking cases; despite the issue of corruption, insufficient efforts were made to prosecute officials’ complicity in trafficking-related crimes or to report the results of investigations into such crimes; insufficient interagency coordination and victim services discouraged foreign victims from participating in criminal proceedings; no resources were devoted to a written plan that, if implemented, would constitute significant efforts to meet the minimum standards; Malaysia was granted a waiver per the Trafficking Victims Protection Act from an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3 (2020)" + "text": "Tier 3 — Malaysia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, therefore Malaysia remained on Tier 3; officials took some steps to address trafficking, including expanding the legal definition of forced labor, increasing assistance for victims in government-funded shelters and judicial processes, and adopting a five-year national action plan against forced labor; however, the government continued to conflate trafficking and migrant smuggling crimes, impeding law enforcement and victim identification; anti-trafficking investigations declined, and no officials allegedly complicit in trafficking were prosecuted or convicted; officials continued to inadequately address allegations of labor trafficking in the rubber manufacturing and palm oil sectors, allowing abusive employers to sometimes operate with impunity; the government identified fewer victims, did not consistently implement procedures to identify victims, and penalized trafficking victims for immigration and prostitution violations (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Malaysia is a destination and, to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for women and children subjected to conditions of forced labor and women and children subjected to sex trafficking; Malaysia is mainly a destination country for foreign workers who migrate willingly from countries including Indonesia, Nepal, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam, but subsequently they encounter forced labor or debt bondage at the hands of their employers in the domestic, agricultural, construction, plantation, and industrial sectors; a small number of Malaysian citizens were reportedly trafficked internally and to Singapore, China, and Japan for commercial sexual exploitation; refugees are also vulnerable to trafficking; some officials are reportedly complicit in facilitating trafficking; traffickers lure Rohingya women and girls residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh to Malaysia, where they are coerced to engage in commercial sex" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Malaysia and, to a lesser extent, Malaysians abroad; most victims in Malaysia are documented and undocumented migrant workers from Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam; employers and agents exploit some migrants through debt-based coercion, and large organized crime syndicates are involved in some trafficking; Chinese nationals working for Chinese state-affiliated construction projects in Malaysia are vulnerable to forced labor; some young foreign women and girls—mainly from Southeast Asia, although also from Nigeria—are forced into commercial sex work in Malaysia after false recruitment for work in restaurants, hotels, beauty salons, or brokered marriages; refugees, Rohingya and other asylum-seekers, and stateless individuals are vulnerable to sex and labor trafficking; traffickers force Malaysian orphans and children to beg, and increasingly exploit Malaysian women and children in forced labor; corrupt immigration officials facilitate trafficking by accepting bribes from brokers and smugglers at the borders and airports, and other government officials profit from bribes or extortion from and exploitation of migrants (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json index 83da4389..a61780af 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/pp.json @@ -442,14 +442,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1268,10 +1264,10 @@ }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 3 — Papua New Guinea does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; despite remaining at Tier 3, the government continued to identify some trafficking victims and a prominent trafficking case was advanced; however, the government did not provide protective services for victims and did not systematically implement its victim identification procedures; corruption among officials in the logging sector remains a problem, and they continue to facilitate sex trafficking and forced labor; no alleged traffickers were convicted; the government dedicates little financial and human resources to combat trafficking, and awareness of trafficking is low among government officials (2020)" + "text": "Tier 2 Watch List — Papua New Guinea does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so; for the first time in four years, the government initiated prosecutions against four alleged traffickers, and identified and provided protective services to a child sex trafficking victim; however, the government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts compared to the previous year; officials did not convict any traffickers, nor provide shelter or services to victims or help NGOs do so; endemic corruption and complicity, particularly in the logging and fishing sectors, left foreigners and locals vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced labor; the lack of resources for anti-trafficking efforts, low awareness among officials and the public, and lack of training activities continued to hinder progress; the government did not update standard operating procedures for victim identification or allocate funding to its national action plan; therefore, Papua New Guinea remained on Tier 2 Watch List for the second consecutive year (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "Papua New Guinea is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor; women and children are subjected to sex trafficking and domestic servitude; families may sell girls into forced marriages to settle debts, leaving them vulnerable to forced domestic service; local and Chinese men are forced to labor in logging and mining camps; migrant women from Malaysia, Thailand, China, and the Philippines are subjected to sex trafficking and domestic servitude at logging and mining camps, fisheries, and entertainment sites" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Papua New Guinea, and Papua New Guineans are exploited abroad; traffickers use Papua New Guinea as a transit point to exploit foreign victims in other countries; foreign and local women and children are exploited in sex trafficking and in forced labor in domestic service, the tourism sector, manual labor, begging, and street vending; families or tribe members reportedly exploit children in sex trafficking or forced labor; some parents force their daughters in to marriages or child sex trafficking to resolve debts or disputes; Chinese, Malaysian, and local men are forced to work in logging and mining camps; migrant women from Malaysia, Thailand, China, and the Philippines are subjected to sex trafficking and domestic servitude at logging and mining camps, fisheries, and entertainment sites (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json index 1aa7f81d..bf052eec 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json @@ -460,14 +460,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.18% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.18% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.07% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.07% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1300,7 +1296,7 @@ "Terrorism": { "Terrorist group(s)": { "text": "Abu Sayyaf Group; Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA); Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – East Asia (ISIS-EA) in the Philippines", - "note": "note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T" + "note": "note 1: ISIS-EA factions include Daulah Islamiya-Lanao (aka Maute Group), Daulah Islamiya-Maguindanao, Daulah Islamiya-Socsargen, ISIS-aligned elements of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), ISIS-aligned elements of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), and rogue elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 

note 2: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json index 095d5915..4f398e10 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json @@ -425,14 +425,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json index 2b73a61e..eb8385c7 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json @@ -463,14 +463,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json index 664b0e89..a1667463 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json @@ -437,14 +437,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json index 89cc8c00..caa21625 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json @@ -440,14 +440,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.49% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.49% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.35% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.35% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/europe/al.json b/europe/al.json index b4ce3daa..4483449b 100644 --- a/europe/al.json +++ b/europe/al.json @@ -447,14 +447,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.18% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.18% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1190,7 +1186,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Republic of Albania Armed Forces (Forcat e Armatosura të Republikës së Shqipërisë (FARSH)): Land Forces, Navy Forces (includes Coast Guard), Air Forces

Ministry of Interior: Guard of the Republic, State Police (includes the Border and Migration Police) (2022)", - "note": "note: the State Police are primarily responsible for internal security, while the Guard of the Republic protects senior state officials, foreign dignitaries, and certain state properties" + "note": "note: the State Police are primarily responsible for internal security, including counterterrorism, while the Guard of the Republic protects senior state officials, foreign dignitaries, and certain state properties" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { diff --git a/europe/an.json b/europe/an.json index 50946b21..abe4a122 100644 --- a/europe/an.json +++ b/europe/an.json @@ -390,9 +390,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -486,7 +484,7 @@ "text": "Co-prince Emmanuel MACRON (since 14 May 2017); represented by Patrick STROZDA (since 14 May 2017); and Co-prince Archbishop Joan-Enric VIVES i Sicilia (since 12 May 2003); represented by Josep Maria MAURI (since 20 July 2012)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Xaviar Espot ZAMORA (since 16 May 2019)" + "text": "Xavier Espot ZAMORA (since 16 May 2019)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Executive Council of 12 ministers designated by the head of government" diff --git a/europe/au.json b/europe/au.json index aaf1f056..44337f67 100644 --- a/europe/au.json +++ b/europe/au.json @@ -429,14 +429,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.07% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.07% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1264,7 +1260,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "67,588 (Syria), 43,725 (Afghanistan), 10,110 (Iraq), 8,684 (Somalia), 7,294 (Iran), 6,124 (Russia) (mid-year 2022); 93,579 (Ukraine) (as of 20 February 2023)" + "text": "67,588 (Syria), 43,725 (Afghanistan), 10,110 (Iraq), 8,684 (Somalia), 7,294 (Iran), 6,124 (Russia) (mid-year 2022); 94,343 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "3,219 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/be.json b/europe/be.json index 05ed5e5c..051a15e3 100644 --- a/europe/be.json +++ b/europe/be.json @@ -432,14 +432,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1257,7 +1253,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "20,086 (Syria), 7,049 (Afghanistan), 5,769 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 68,616 (Ukraine) (as of 27 February 2023)" + "text": "20,086 (Syria), 7,049 (Afghanistan), 5,769 (Iraq) (mid-year 2022); 68,869 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,190 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/bk.json b/europe/bk.json index f2edb8e0..f9fdf987 100644 --- a/europe/bk.json +++ b/europe/bk.json @@ -425,14 +425,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.49% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.49% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/bo.json b/europe/bo.json index 46c757c7..ef860857 100644 --- a/europe/bo.json +++ b/europe/bo.json @@ -438,14 +438,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1258,7 +1254,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "20,780 (Ukraine) (as of 21 February 2023)" + "text": "20,983 (Ukraine) (as of 28 February 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "5,626 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/bu.json b/europe/bu.json index 1beb7835..db4821e3 100644 --- a/europe/bu.json +++ b/europe/bu.json @@ -436,14 +436,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.22% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.22% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1260,7 +1256,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "22,226 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 50,592 (Ukraine) (as of 28 February 2023)" + "text": "22,226 (Syria) (mid-year 2022); 50,112 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,129 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/cy.json b/europe/cy.json index 3950808a..04adf758 100644 --- a/europe/cy.json +++ b/europe/cy.json @@ -436,14 +436,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -458,13 +454,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "110 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "110 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "17 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "20 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "184 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "170 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -1234,7 +1230,7 @@ "note": "note: the CNG accepts all foreign nationals of at least partial Cypriot descent under age 32 as volunteers; dual citizenship Cypriot origin citizens, who were born in Cyprus or abroad, have the obligation to serve in the CNG on repatriation, regardless of whether or not they possess a foreign citizenship; a person is considered as having Cypriot origin where a grandparent or parent was/is a Cypriot citizen" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) was set up in 1964 to prevent further fighting between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities on the island and bring about a return to normal conditions; the UNFICYP mission had about 800 personnel as of mid-2022" + "text": "the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) was set up in 1964 to prevent further fighting between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities on the island and bring about a return to normal conditions; the UN force patrols a buffer zone, also called the “Green Line,” that separates the two sides; the UNFICYP mission has about 800-1,000 personnel  (2022)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/da.json b/europe/da.json index f6d7ab3a..4dbbbc13 100644 --- a/europe/da.json +++ b/europe/da.json @@ -431,14 +431,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -453,13 +449,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "381.5 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "380 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "32.9 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "50 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "326.7 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "490 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/europe/ee.json b/europe/ee.json index c6d2e49e..c98aa1e0 100644 --- a/europe/ee.json +++ b/europe/ee.json @@ -263,14 +263,10 @@ "text": "cold temperate; potentially subarctic in the north to temperate; mild wet winters; hot dry summers in the south" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Total renewable water resources": { "text": "1.7 trillion cubic meters (2019)" diff --git a/europe/ei.json b/europe/ei.json index f5250844..2b5bc649 100644 --- a/europe/ei.json +++ b/europe/ei.json @@ -418,14 +418,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/en.json b/europe/en.json index 0acdaee7..86e51444 100644 --- a/europe/en.json +++ b/europe/en.json @@ -430,14 +430,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.85% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.85% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -576,10 +572,10 @@ "text": "unicameral Parliament or Riigikogu (101 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by open- list proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 3 March 2019 (next to be held in March 2023)" + "text": "last held on 5 March 2023" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party - RE 28.9%, K 23.1%, EKRE 17.8%, Pro Patria 11.4%, SDE 9.8%, other 9%; seats by party - RE 34, K 26, EKRE 19, Pro Patria 12, SDE 10; composition - men 75, women 26, percent of women 25.7%" + "text": "percent of vote by party - Reform 31.2%, EKRE 16.1%, Center 15.3%, E200 13.3%, SDE 9.3%, Pro Patria 8.2%, Left 2.4%, Right 2.3%, Greens 1.0%; seats by party - Reform 37, EKRE 17, Center 16, E200 14, SDE 9, Pro Patria 8" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -594,7 +590,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) or K [Juri RATAS]
Estonia 200 [Kristina KALLAS]
Estonian Conservative People's Party (Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond) or EKRE [Martin HELME]
Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond) or RE [Kaja KALLAS]
Pro Patria (Isamaa) [Helir-Valdor SEEDER]
Social Democratic Party or SDE [Lauri LAANEMETS]" + "text": "Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) or K [Juri RATAS]
Estonia 200 [Kristina KALLAS]
Estonian Conservative People's Party (Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond) or EKRE [Martin HELME]
Estonian Greens (Greens/EFA) [Marko KAASIK & Johanna Maria TOUGU]
Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond) or RE [Kaja KALLAS]
Pro Patria (Isamaa) [Helir-Valdor SEEDER]
Social Democratic Party or SDE [Lauri LAANEMETS]" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "Australia Group, BA, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EMU, ESA (cooperating state), EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, NATO, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNTSO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" diff --git a/europe/ez.json b/europe/ez.json index 362e563c..2588f68e 100644 --- a/europe/ez.json +++ b/europe/ez.json @@ -428,14 +428,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.17% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0.17% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -456,13 +452,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "616.6 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "650 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "967.2 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "820 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "46.6 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "40 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -549,7 +545,7 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President Milos ZEMAN (since 8 March 2013)" + "text": "President Petr PAVEL (since 9 March 2023)" }, "head of government": { "text": "Prime Minister Petr FIALA (since 17 December 2021); First Deputy Prime Minister Vit RAKUSAN (since 17 December 2021), Deputy Prime Ministers Marian JURECKA, Ivan BARTOS, Vlastimil VALEK (all since 17 December 2021)" @@ -561,7 +557,7 @@ "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (limited to 2 consecutive terms); elections last held on 27-28 January 2023 the second round and 13-14 January 2023 for the 1st round; prime minister appointed by the president for a 4-year term" }, "election results": { - "text": "2023; 2nd Round Petr PAVEL 58.3%, Andrej BABIS 41.6%; PAVEL will take office in March 2023; 1st Round Petr PAVEL 35.4%, Andrej BABIS 35%, Danuse NERUDORA 13.9%, Pavel FISCHER 6.8%

2018: Milos ZEMAN reelected president in the second round; percent of vote - Milos ZEMAN (SPO) 51.4%, Jiri DRAHOS (independent) 48.6%

2013: Milos ZEMAN elected president; percent of vote - Milos ZEMAN (SPO) 54.8%, Karel SCHWARZENBERG (TOP 09) 45.2%" + "text": "2023; 2nd Round Petr PAVEL 58.3%, Andrej BABIS 41.6%; 1st Round Petr PAVEL 35.4%, Andrej BABIS 35%, Danuse NERUDORA 13.9%, Pavel FISCHER 6.8%

2018: Milos ZEMAN reelected president in the second round; percent of vote - Milos ZEMAN (SPO) 51.4%, Jiri DRAHOS (independent) 48.6%

2013: Milos ZEMAN elected president; percent of vote - Milos ZEMAN (SPO) 54.8%, Karel SCHWARZENBERG (TOP 09) 45.2%" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -1238,7 +1234,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "494,793 (Ukraine) (as of 26 February 2023)" + "text": "497,217 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,625 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/fi.json b/europe/fi.json index f3a84a4c..aafcdec5 100644 --- a/europe/fi.json +++ b/europe/fi.json @@ -441,14 +441,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.36% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.36% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/fo.json b/europe/fo.json index ed64591f..8322c9f3 100644 --- a/europe/fo.json +++ b/europe/fo.json @@ -341,9 +341,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/fr.json b/europe/fr.json index 0ee05245..037e8d68 100644 --- a/europe/fr.json +++ b/europe/fr.json @@ -455,14 +455,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout France; as of 9 December 2022, France has reported a total of 37,252,086 cases of COVID-19 or 57276.2 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 155,898 cumulative deaths or a rate 239.7 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 7 December 2022, 80.54% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine" diff --git a/europe/gm.json b/europe/gm.json index a93dc862..40235577 100644 --- a/europe/gm.json +++ b/europe/gm.json @@ -442,14 +442,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -478,13 +474,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "4.388 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "10.4 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "19.75 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "17.68 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "299.7 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "400 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/europe/gr.json b/europe/gr.json index fcdcfdb7..c271c196 100644 --- a/europe/gr.json +++ b/europe/gr.json @@ -428,14 +428,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -450,13 +446,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "1.991 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "1.69 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "208.3 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "320 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "9.041 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "8.11 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/europe/hr.json b/europe/hr.json index 8cc074bf..aeaa3eb3 100644 --- a/europe/hr.json +++ b/europe/hr.json @@ -441,14 +441,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -477,13 +473,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "455 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "460 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "184 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "190 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "76 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "80 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -1282,7 +1278,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "20,796 (Ukraine) (as of 10 February 2023)" + "text": "21,115 (Ukraine) (as of 3 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "2,889 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/hu.json b/europe/hu.json index ac2841a1..b4665029 100644 --- a/europe/hu.json +++ b/europe/hu.json @@ -438,14 +438,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -479,13 +475,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "624.5 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "640 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "3.358 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "3.22 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "518.6 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "490 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { @@ -1278,7 +1274,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "34,248 (Ukraine) (as of 28 February 2023)" + "text": "34,248 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "130 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/ic.json b/europe/ic.json index 84f32ba6..902937f4 100644 --- a/europe/ic.json +++ b/europe/ic.json @@ -419,14 +419,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -441,10 +437,10 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "80 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "80 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "198 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "200 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { "text": "300,000 cubic meters (2017 est.)" diff --git a/europe/im.json b/europe/im.json index a0a3233e..c738456b 100644 --- a/europe/im.json +++ b/europe/im.json @@ -340,9 +340,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/it.json b/europe/it.json index 135527b8..b717a533 100644 --- a/europe/it.json +++ b/europe/it.json @@ -431,14 +431,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "note: a new coronavirus is causing respiratory illness (COVID-19) in Italy; illness with this virus has ranged from mild to severe with fatalities reported; as of 9 December 2022, Italy has reported a total of 24,488,080 cases of COVID-19 or 41,058.8 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 181,733 cumulative deaths or a rate of 304.7 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 8 December 2022, 86.15% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine; the US Department of Homeland Security has issued instructions requiring US passengers who have been in Italy to travel through select airports where the US Government has implemented enhanced screening procedures" @@ -1282,7 +1278,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "3,000 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 710,687 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)" + "note": "note: 710,889 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "important gateway for drug trafficking; organized crime groups allied with Colombian and Spanish groups trafficking cocaine to Europe" diff --git a/europe/kv.json b/europe/kv.json index a19103bd..18a9dc1c 100644 --- a/europe/kv.json +++ b/europe/kv.json @@ -328,14 +328,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/lg.json b/europe/lg.json index a674eb94..0d17a1a9 100644 --- a/europe/lg.json +++ b/europe/lg.json @@ -438,14 +438,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.85% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.85% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1215,6 +1211,9 @@ "text": "National Armed Forces (Nacionalie Brunotie Speki): Land Forces (Latvijas Sauszemes Speki), Naval Force (Latvijas Juras Speki, includes Coast Guard (Latvijas Kara Flote)), Air Force (Latvijas Gaisa Speki), National Guard (2022)" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.25% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "2.1% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1226,9 +1225,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "2% of GDP (2019) (approximately $920 million)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "2.1% of GDP (2018) (approximately $900 million)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { diff --git a/europe/lh.json b/europe/lh.json index 48d88128..9e7d3383 100644 --- a/europe/lh.json +++ b/europe/lh.json @@ -436,14 +436,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.31% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/europe/lo.json b/europe/lo.json index 8dd2662a..3466fe72 100644 --- a/europe/lo.json +++ b/europe/lo.json @@ -425,14 +425,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.22% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.22% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1224,7 +1220,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "109,828 (Ukraine) (as of 28 February 2023)" + "text": "111,173 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "2,940 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/ls.json b/europe/ls.json index 1d281deb..2418e9a9 100644 --- a/europe/ls.json +++ b/europe/ls.json @@ -369,9 +369,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/lu.json b/europe/lu.json index 1ebafd36..75865d83 100644 --- a/europe/lu.json +++ b/europe/lu.json @@ -417,14 +417,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/md.json b/europe/md.json index 4d234a25..66ce85b3 100644 --- a/europe/md.json +++ b/europe/md.json @@ -427,14 +427,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.26% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1231,7 +1227,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "109,348 (Ukraine) (as of 26 February 2023)" + "text": "107,728 (Ukraine) (as of 5 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,701 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/mj.json b/europe/mj.json index 497f4655..90cb9430 100644 --- a/europe/mj.json +++ b/europe/mj.json @@ -456,14 +456,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.43% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.43% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.12% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.12% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1268,7 +1264,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "468 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 29,594 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023)" + "note": "note: 29,642 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-March 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

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

" diff --git a/europe/mk.json b/europe/mk.json index 3eb80744..c7aa82eb 100644 --- a/europe/mk.json +++ b/europe/mk.json @@ -422,14 +422,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1196,7 +1192,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "6,511 (Ukraine) (as of 26 February 2023)" + "text": "6,514 (Ukraine) (as of 6 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "521 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/mn.json b/europe/mn.json index 20a90fae..7a116cd7 100644 --- a/europe/mn.json +++ b/europe/mn.json @@ -368,9 +368,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/mt.json b/europe/mt.json index e5f4438d..d9fee1e5 100644 --- a/europe/mt.json +++ b/europe/mt.json @@ -422,14 +422,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/nl.json b/europe/nl.json index 2b4d97b4..d0ff025d 100644 --- a/europe/nl.json +++ b/europe/nl.json @@ -434,14 +434,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/no.json b/europe/no.json index 947c99fa..20829a70 100644 --- a/europe/no.json +++ b/europe/no.json @@ -433,14 +433,10 @@ "note": "note: data include Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/pl.json b/europe/pl.json index 8eeb0e78..13707724 100644 --- a/europe/pl.json +++ b/europe/pl.json @@ -446,14 +446,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.17% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.17% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1304,7 +1300,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "1,563,386 (Ukraine) (as of 28 February 2023)" + "text": "1,564,711 (Ukraine) (as of 7 February 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,435 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/po.json b/europe/po.json index 2e77277a..dc7afbeb 100644 --- a/europe/po.json +++ b/europe/po.json @@ -429,14 +429,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.13% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/ri.json b/europe/ri.json index e2ce8884..ab0cc357 100644 --- a/europe/ri.json +++ b/europe/ri.json @@ -450,14 +450,10 @@ "note": "note: data include Kosovo" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.38% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.38% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.25% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.25% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1223,7 +1219,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Serbian Armed Forces (Vojska Srbije, VS): Land Forces (includes Riverine Component, consisting of a naval flotilla on the Danube), Air and Air Defense Forces, Serbian Guard; Police Directorate of the Serbian Ministry of Interior: Gendarmerie (2022)", + "text": "Serbian Armed Forces (Vojska Srbije, VS): Land Forces (includes Riverine Component, consisting of a naval flotilla on the Danube), Air and Air Defense Forces, Serbian Guard; Serbian Ministry of Interior: General Police Directorate (2023)", "note": "note: the Serbian Guard is a brigade-sized unit that is directly subordinate to the Serbian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff; its duties include safeguarding key defense facilities and rendering military honors to top foreign, state, and military officials 
" }, "Military expenditures": { @@ -1274,7 +1270,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "2,594 (includes stateless persons in Kosovo) (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 944,624 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 7,271 migrants and asylum seekers as of November 2022" + "note": "note: 944,634 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-February 2023); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 7,271 migrants and asylum seekers as of November 2022" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

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

" diff --git a/europe/ro.json b/europe/ro.json index b5548371..df78554b 100644 --- a/europe/ro.json +++ b/europe/ro.json @@ -439,14 +439,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.16% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.16% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1265,7 +1261,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "112,575 (Ukraine) (as of 26 February 2023)" + "text": "110,921 (Ukraine) (as of 5 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "297 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/si.json b/europe/si.json index 26946307..99f63f43 100644 --- a/europe/si.json +++ b/europe/si.json @@ -423,14 +423,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.2% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.2% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1229,7 +1225,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "8,965 (Ukraine) (as of 27 February 2023)" + "text": "9,061 (Ukraine) (as of 7 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "10 (2020)" diff --git a/europe/sm.json b/europe/sm.json index e179114c..efeedbb6 100644 --- a/europe/sm.json +++ b/europe/sm.json @@ -372,9 +372,7 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/sp.json b/europe/sp.json index 8e7df23a..2b49c07a 100644 --- a/europe/sp.json +++ b/europe/sp.json @@ -444,14 +444,10 @@ "note": "note: data include Canary Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "respiratory diseases": { @@ -1292,7 +1288,7 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "6,489 (2022)" }, - "note": "note: 281,945 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals, including Canary Islands (January 2015-February 2023)" + "note": "note: 282,236 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals, including Canary Islands (January 2015-March 2023)" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "primary transit point in Europe for cocaine from South America and for hashish from Morocco; cocaine is shipped in raw or liquid form with mixed cargo to avoid detection; traffickers ship methamphetamine via express mail; increasing indoor cannabis production; illegal labs cutting, mixing, and reconstituting cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine labs; synthetic drugs, including ketamine and MDMA (ecstasy) transit from Spain to the US" diff --git a/europe/sw.json b/europe/sw.json index cd9a6d92..8c1f6419 100644 --- a/europe/sw.json +++ b/europe/sw.json @@ -435,14 +435,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/europe/sz.json b/europe/sz.json index 63a2cea8..f839d6eb 100644 --- a/europe/sz.json +++ b/europe/sz.json @@ -430,14 +430,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1262,7 +1258,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "14,726 (Eritrea), 11,441 (Afghanistan), 8,039 (Syria), (mid-year 2022); 81,436 (Ukraine) (as of 24 February 2023)" + "text": "14,726 (Eritrea), 11,441 (Afghanistan), 8,039 (Syria), (mid-year 2022); 81,862 (Ukraine) (as of 3 March 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "891 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/uk.json b/europe/uk.json index 2b73b4a6..d5138aa8 100644 --- a/europe/uk.json +++ b/europe/uk.json @@ -437,14 +437,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "respiratory diseases": { diff --git a/europe/up.json b/europe/up.json index b1458619..8c3b3cf0 100644 --- a/europe/up.json +++ b/europe/up.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "

Ukraine was the center of the first eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and eventually into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The cultural and religious legacy of Kyivan Rus laid the foundation for Ukrainian nationalism through subsequent centuries. A new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate, was established during the mid-17th century after an uprising against the Poles. Despite continuous Muscovite pressure, the Hetmanate managed to remain autonomous for well over 100 years. During the latter part of the 18th century, most Ukrainian ethnographic territory was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, Ukraine achieved a short-lived period of independence (1917-20) but was reconquered and endured a brutal Soviet rule that engineered two forced famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for 7 to 8 million more deaths. Although Ukraine achieved independence in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy and prosperity remained elusive as the legacy of state control and endemic corruption stalled efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties.

A peaceful mass protest referred to as the \"Orange Revolution\" in the closing months of 2004 forced the authorities to overturn a rigged presidential election and to allow a new internationally monitored vote that swept into power a reformist slate under Viktor YUSHCHENKO. Subsequent internal squabbles in the YUSHCHENKO camp allowed his rival Viktor YANUKOVYCH to stage a comeback in parliamentary (Rada) elections, become prime minister in August 2006, and be elected president in February 2010. In October 2012, Ukraine held Rada elections, widely criticized by Western observers as flawed due to use of government resources to favor ruling party candidates, interference with media access, and harassment of opposition candidates. President YANUKOVYCH's backtracking on a trade and cooperation agreement with the EU in November 2013 - in favor of closer economic ties with Russia - and subsequent use of force against students, civil society activists, and other civilians in favor of the agreement led to a three-month protest occupation of Kyiv's central square. The government's use of violence to break up the protest camp in February 2014 led to all out pitched battles, scores of deaths, international condemnation, a failed political deal, and the president's abrupt departure for Russia. New elections in the spring allowed pro-West president Petro POROSHENKO to assume office in June 2014; he was succeeded by Volodymyr ZELENSKY in May 2019.

Shortly after YANUKOVYCH's departure in late February 2014, Russian President PUTIN ordered the invasion of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula falsely claiming the action was to protect ethnic Russians living there. Two weeks later, a \"referendum\" was held regarding the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation. The \"referendum\" was condemned as illegitimate by the Ukrainian Government, the EU, the US, and the UN General Assembly (UNGA). In response to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, 100 members of the UN passed UNGA resolution 68/262, rejecting the \"referendum\" as baseless and invalid and confirming the sovereignty, political independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. In mid-2014, Russia began supplying proxies in two of Ukraine's eastern provinces with manpower, funding, and materiel driving an armed conflict with the Ukrainian Government that continues to this day. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the unrecognized Russian proxy republics signed the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum in September 2014 to end the conflict. However, this agreement failed to stop the fighting or find a political solution. In a renewed attempt to alleviate ongoing clashes, leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany negotiated a follow-on Package of Measures in February 2015 to implement the Minsk agreements. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, the unrecognized Russian proxy republics, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also meet regularly to facilitate implementation of the peace deal. By early 2022, more than 14,000 civilians were killed or wounded as a result of the Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine.

On 24 February 2022, Russia escalated its conflict with Ukraine by invading the country on several fronts in what has become the largest conventional military attack on a sovereign state in Europe since World War II. The invasion has received near universal international condemnation, and many countries have imposed sanctions on Russia and supplied humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. Russia made substantial gains in the early weeks of the invasion but underestimated Ukrainian resolve and combat capabilities. By the end of 2022, Ukrainian forces had regained all territories in the north and northeast and made some advances in the east and south. Nonetheless, Russia in late September 2022 unilaterally declared its annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts - Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia - even though none was fully under Russian control. The annexations remain unrecognized by the international community.

The invasion has also created Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. As of 28 February, 2023, approximately 19.08 million people had fled Ukraine, and 5.35 million people were internally displaced as of January 2023.  Nearly 19,000 civilian casualties had been reported, as of 12 February 2023. The invasion of Ukraine remains one of the two largest displacement crises worldwide (the other is the conflict in Syria).

 

" + "text": "

Ukraine was the center of the first eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and eventually into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The cultural and religious legacy of Kyivan Rus laid the foundation for Ukrainian nationalism through subsequent centuries. A new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate, was established during the mid-17th century after an uprising against the Poles. Despite continuous Muscovite pressure, the Hetmanate managed to remain autonomous for well over 100 years. During the latter part of the 18th century, most Ukrainian ethnographic territory was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, Ukraine achieved a short-lived period of independence (1917-20) but was reconquered and endured a brutal Soviet rule that engineered two forced famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for 7 to 8 million more deaths. Although Ukraine achieved independence in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy and prosperity remained elusive as the legacy of state control and endemic corruption stalled efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties.

A peaceful mass protest referred to as the \"Orange Revolution\" in the closing months of 2004 forced the authorities to overturn a rigged presidential election and to allow a new internationally monitored vote that swept into power a reformist slate under Viktor YUSHCHENKO. Subsequent internal squabbles in the YUSHCHENKO camp allowed his rival Viktor YANUKOVYCH to stage a comeback in parliamentary (Rada) elections, become prime minister in August 2006, and be elected president in February 2010. In October 2012, Ukraine held Rada elections, widely criticized by Western observers as flawed due to use of government resources to favor ruling party candidates, interference with media access, and harassment of opposition candidates. President YANUKOVYCH's backtracking on a trade and cooperation agreement with the EU in November 2013 - in favor of closer economic ties with Russia - and subsequent use of force against students, civil society activists, and other civilians in favor of the agreement led to a three-month protest occupation of Kyiv's central square. The government's use of violence to break up the protest camp in February 2014 led to all out pitched battles, scores of deaths, international condemnation, a failed political deal, and the president's abrupt departure for Russia. New elections in the spring allowed pro-West president Petro POROSHENKO to assume office in June 2014; he was succeeded by Volodymyr ZELENSKY in May 2019.

Shortly after YANUKOVYCH's departure in late February 2014, Russian President PUTIN ordered the invasion of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula falsely claiming the action was to protect ethnic Russians living there. Two weeks later, a \"referendum\" was held regarding the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation. The \"referendum\" was condemned as illegitimate by the Ukrainian Government, the EU, the US, and the UN General Assembly (UNGA). In response to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, 100 members of the UN passed UNGA resolution 68/262, rejecting the \"referendum\" as baseless and invalid and confirming the sovereignty, political independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. In mid-2014, Russia began supplying proxies in two of Ukraine's eastern provinces with manpower, funding, and materiel driving an armed conflict with the Ukrainian Government that continues to this day. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the unrecognized Russian proxy republics signed the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum in September 2014 to end the conflict. However, this agreement failed to stop the fighting or find a political solution. In a renewed attempt to alleviate ongoing clashes, leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany negotiated a follow-on Package of Measures in February 2015 to implement the Minsk agreements. Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, the unrecognized Russian proxy republics, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also meet regularly to facilitate implementation of the peace deal. By early 2022, more than 14,000 civilians were killed or wounded as a result of the Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine.

On 24 February 2022, Russia escalated its conflict with Ukraine by invading the country on several fronts in what has become the largest conventional military attack on a sovereign state in Europe since World War II. The invasion has received near universal international condemnation, and many countries have imposed sanctions on Russia and supplied humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. Russia made substantial gains in the early weeks of the invasion but underestimated Ukrainian resolve and combat capabilities. By the end of 2022, Ukrainian forces had regained all territories in the north and northeast and made some advances in the east and south. Nonetheless, Russia in late September 2022 unilaterally declared its annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts - Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia - even though none was fully under Russian control. The annexations remain unrecognized by the international community.

The invasion has also created Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. As of 7 March, 2023, approximately 19.29 million people had fled Ukraine, and 5.35 million people were internally displaced as of January 2023.  Nearly 21,800 civilian casualties had been reported, as of 5 March 2023. The invasion of Ukraine remains one of the two largest displacement crises worldwide (the other is the conflict in Syria).

 

" } }, "Geography": { @@ -441,21 +441,17 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.34% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.42% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.42% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "

note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Eastern Europe; Ukraine is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

" }, "Food insecurity": { "widespread lack of access": { - "text": "due to conflict - production prospects of 2022 winter crops hampered by low availability of inputs, delivery challenges, difficult physical access to fields due to the war, and eventual labor shortages; forecast for cereal exports in 2022 reduced, amid port closures, damage to infrastructure and implementation of government policies to secure sufficient domestic supplies; as of early March 2022, about 12 million people estimated to be in need of life saving assistance (2022)" + "text": "due to conflict - planting of 2023 winter crops was completed by mid‑November 2022 and crops are currently in winter dormancy phase; the area sown with wheat amounts to about 3.8 million hectares, well below the 6.5 million hectares planted in 2021; overall, the area sown with the 2023 winter cereal crops is estimated to be 40 percent below the average level; despite decreased cereal production, food availability at the national level is reported to be adequate, but access remains a major challenge; the country had already been experiencing elevated levels of food price inflation in the past, due to the economic impact of the conflict in eastern parts of the country; according to the 2023 Humanitarian Needs Overview, at least 17.6 million people are estimated to be in need of multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance in 2023 due to the war, including over 11 million in need of food security and livelihood interventions (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { diff --git a/middle-east/ae.json b/middle-east/ae.json index 3d6d2277..7320fe9a 100644 --- a/middle-east/ae.json +++ b/middle-east/ae.json @@ -424,14 +424,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout UAE; as of 9 December 2022, UAE has reported a total of 1,045,040 cases of COVID-19 or 10,566.2 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 2,348 cumulative deaths or a rate of 23.74 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population" diff --git a/middle-east/aj.json b/middle-east/aj.json index adb4e414..a1f3e1b5 100644 --- a/middle-east/aj.json +++ b/middle-east/aj.json @@ -435,14 +435,10 @@ "note": "note: data include Nagorno-Karabakh" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/middle-east/am.json b/middle-east/am.json index 9243ee06..e7f34e79 100644 --- a/middle-east/am.json +++ b/middle-east/am.json @@ -440,14 +440,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.28% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.28% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/middle-east/ba.json b/middle-east/ba.json index 9433c93e..97f5342a 100644 --- a/middle-east/ba.json +++ b/middle-east/ba.json @@ -424,14 +424,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/middle-east/gg.json b/middle-east/gg.json index ae770eaf..9a66a8f2 100644 --- a/middle-east/gg.json +++ b/middle-east/gg.json @@ -444,14 +444,10 @@ "note": "note: data include Abkhazia and South Ossetia" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.07% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.07% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -460,13 +456,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "360 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "660 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "402.2 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "330 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "1.1 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "590 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/middle-east/gz.json b/middle-east/gz.json index fb2d7c60..8d4db1e6 100644 --- a/middle-east/gz.json +++ b/middle-east/gz.json @@ -357,9 +357,7 @@ "note": "note: data represent Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "

note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Asia; the Gaza Strip is currently considered a high risk to travelers for polio; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

" diff --git a/middle-east/ir.json b/middle-east/ir.json index 1b3b4476..ac19d071 100644 --- a/middle-east/ir.json +++ b/middle-east/ir.json @@ -452,14 +452,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2017 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2017 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/middle-east/is.json b/middle-east/is.json index 8e388659..52864881 100644 --- a/middle-east/is.json +++ b/middle-east/is.json @@ -432,14 +432,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "

note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Asia; Israel is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

" diff --git a/middle-east/iz.json b/middle-east/iz.json index f3ec0b48..b8b564ff 100644 --- a/middle-east/iz.json +++ b/middle-east/iz.json @@ -445,14 +445,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1243,7 +1239,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Ministry of Defense: Iraqi Army, Army Aviation Command, Iraqi Navy, Iraqi Air Force, Iraqi Air Defense Command, Special Forces Command, Special Security Division (Green Zone protection)

National-Level Security Forces: Iraqi Counterterrorism Service (CTS), Prime Minister's Special Forces Division, Presidential Brigades

Ministry of Interior: Federal Police Forces Command, Border Guard Forces Command, Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency, Emergency Response Division, Facilities Protection Directorate, and Provincial Police

Ministry of Oil: Energy Police Directorate

Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Peshmerga: 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); Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Interior: Zeravani and Emergency Response Forces (paramilitary internal security forces)

Popular Mobilization Committee (PMC): Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Tribal Mobilization Forces (TMF); the PMF and TMF are a collection of approximately 60 militias of widely varied sizes and political interests (2022)" + "text": "Ministry of Defense: Iraqi Army, Army Aviation Command, Iraqi Navy, Iraqi Air Force, Iraqi Air Defense Command, Special Forces Command, Special Security Division (Green Zone protection)

National-Level Security Forces: Iraqi Counterterrorism Service (CTS; reports to the Prime Minister), Prime Minister's Special Forces Division, Presidential Brigades

Ministry of Interior: Federal Police Forces Command, Border Guard Forces Command, Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency, Emergency Response Division, Facilities Protection Directorate, and Provincial Police

Ministry of Oil: Energy Police Directorate

Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Peshmerga: 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); Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Interior: Zeravani and Emergency Response Forces (paramilitary internal security forces)

Popular Mobilization Committee (PMC): Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Tribal Mobilization Forces (TMF); the PMF and TMF are a collection of approximately 60 militias of widely varied sizes and political interests (2022)" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2021": { @@ -1288,7 +1284,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "13,344 (Turkey), 7,864 (West Bank and Gaza Strip) (mid-year 2022); 259,584 (Syria) (2023)" + "text": "13,344 (Turkey), 7,864 (West Bank and Gaza Strip) (mid-year 2022); 260,341 (Syria) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "1.17 million (displacement in central and northern Iraq since January 2014) (2023)" diff --git a/middle-east/jo.json b/middle-east/jo.json index 042c35c2..0304dbec 100644 --- a/middle-east/jo.json +++ b/middle-east/jo.json @@ -451,14 +451,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Jordan; as of 9 December 2022, Jordan has reported a total of 1,746,997 cases of COVID-19 or 17,122.16 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 14,122 cumulative deaths or a rate of 138.4 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population" diff --git a/middle-east/ku.json b/middle-east/ku.json index c17b3a36..acb21e14 100644 --- a/middle-east/ku.json +++ b/middle-east/ku.json @@ -428,14 +428,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/middle-east/le.json b/middle-east/le.json index cfa9b7ea..3c48eaf3 100644 --- a/middle-east/le.json +++ b/middle-east/le.json @@ -433,14 +433,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Lebanon; as of 9 December 2022, Lebanon has reported a total of 1,220,831 cases of COVID-19 or 17,886.46 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 10,740 cumulative deaths or a rate of 157.35 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 1 December 2022, 49.9% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine" diff --git a/middle-east/mu.json b/middle-east/mu.json index cd94f824..252ad3b3 100644 --- a/middle-east/mu.json +++ b/middle-east/mu.json @@ -431,14 +431,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1189,7 +1185,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF): Royal Army of Oman (RAO), Royal Navy of Oman (RNO), Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO), Royal Guard of Oman (RGO); Royal Oman Police (ROP): Civil Defense, Immigration, Customs, Royal Oman Police Coast Guard (2022)", - "note": "note: in addition to its policing duties, the Royal Oman Police conducts many administrative functions similar to the responsibilities of a Ministry of Interior in other countries   " + "note": "note: in addition to its policing duties, the Royal Oman Police conducts many administrative functions similar to the responsibilities of a Ministry of Interior in other countries" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2021": { diff --git a/middle-east/qa.json b/middle-east/qa.json index ee1f0988..249811cb 100644 --- a/middle-east/qa.json +++ b/middle-east/qa.json @@ -429,14 +429,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/middle-east/sa.json b/middle-east/sa.json index c282b7f0..b35ef74a 100644 --- a/middle-east/sa.json +++ b/middle-east/sa.json @@ -434,14 +434,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/middle-east/sy.json b/middle-east/sy.json index 34520d85..3e39a619 100644 --- a/middle-east/sy.json +++ b/middle-east/sy.json @@ -1215,14 +1215,14 @@ "stateless persons": { "text": "160,000 (2022); note - Syria's stateless population consists of Kurds and Palestinians; stateless persons are prevented from voting, owning land, holding certain jobs, receiving food subsidies or public healthcare, enrolling in public schools, or being legally married to Syrian citizens; in 1962, some 120,000 Syrian Kurds were stripped of their Syrian citizenship, rendering them and their descendants stateless; in 2011, the Syrian Government granted citizenship to thousands of Syrian Kurds as a means of appeasement; however, resolving the question of statelessness is not a priority given Syria's ongoing civil war" }, - "note": "note: the ongoing civil war has resulted in more than 5.5 million registered Syrian refugees - dispersed mainly in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey - as of November 2022" + "note": "note: the ongoing civil war has resulted in more than 5.4 million registered Syrian refugees - dispersed mainly in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey - as of March 2023" }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { - "text": "Tier 3 — Syria does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government does not hold any traffickers, including complicit officials, criminally accountable for trafficking; no trafficking victims were identified or received protection during the reporting period; government and pro-Syrian militias continued to forcibly recruit and use child soldiers; the government does not prevent armed opposition forces and designated terrorist organizations from recruiting children; authorities continued to arrest, detain, and severely abuse trafficking victims, including child soldiers, and punished them for unlawful acts traffickers compelled them to commit (2020)" + "text": "Tier 3 — Syria does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, therefore Syria remained on Tier 3; during the reporting period, there was a government policy or pattern of human trafficking and employing or recruiting child soldiers; Syrians were exploited in forced labor under compulsory military service for indefinite periods under threat of torture, familial reprisal, or death; the government did not hold any traffickers criminally accountable nor identify or protect any victims; government and pro-Syrian militias continued to forcibly recruit and use child soldiers; the government did not prevent armed opposition forces and designated terrorist organizations from recruiting children; authorities continued to arrest, detain, and severely abuse trafficking victims, including child soldiers, and punished them for unlawful acts traffickers compelled them to commit (2022)" }, "trafficking profile": { - "text": "due to Syria’s civil war, hundreds of thousands of Syrians, foreign migrant workers, and refugees have fled the country and are vulnerable to human trafficking; the lack of security and inaccessibility of the majority of the country makes it impossible to conduct a thorough analysis of the impact of the ongoing conflict on the scope and magnitude of Syria’s human trafficking situation; prior to the uprising, the Syrian armed forces and opposition forces used Syrian children in combat and support roles and as human shields" + "text": "human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Syria, as well as Syrians abroad; more than half of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million have been internally displaced or are refugees in other countries and extremely vulnerable to traffickers; children are vulnerable to forced marriages, sexual slavery, and forced labor; armed groups, community members, and criminal gangs exploit women, girls, and boys in Syria in sex trafficking; Syrian government forces, pro-regime militias, and opposition forces use Syrian children in combat and support roles and as human shields; foreign domestic workers from Southeast Asian countries are subject to forced labor; terrorist groups reportedly force, coerce, or fraudulently recruit foreigners, including migrants from Central Asia and Western and other women, who are vulnerable to forced labor and sex trafficking; Syrian refugees in neighboring countries, particularly Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey, are highly vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced labor (2022)" } }, "Illicit drugs": { diff --git a/middle-east/tu.json b/middle-east/tu.json index 307ce0e2..f00323af 100644 --- a/middle-east/tu.json +++ b/middle-east/tu.json @@ -452,14 +452,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.05% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Turkey; as of 9 December 2022, Turkey has reported a total of 16,919,638 cases of COVID-19 or 20,061.4 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 101,203 cumulative deaths or a rate of 120 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 22 November 2022, 67.89% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine" diff --git a/middle-east/we.json b/middle-east/we.json index 12958154..62bf34c7 100644 --- a/middle-east/we.json +++ b/middle-east/we.json @@ -402,9 +402,7 @@ "note": "note: data represent Gaza Strip and the West Bank" }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "

note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Asia; the West Bank is currently considered a high risk to travelers for polio; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine

" @@ -933,6 +931,9 @@ }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "not available" + }, + "Military - note": { + "text": "the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are responsible for the West Bank, but PA security forces were granted security control of 17.5% (called Area A) under the 1993 Oslo Accords; the PA has administrative control over Area B (about 22% of the West Bank), but security control is shared with Israeli authorities; Israel maintains all administrative and security control of Area C, which comprises about 61% of the West Bank (2022)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/middle-east/ym.json b/middle-east/ym.json index 4817c2ae..0f5335db 100644 --- a/middle-east/ym.json +++ b/middle-east/ym.json @@ -438,14 +438,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -1215,7 +1211,7 @@ }, "Terrorism": { "Terrorist group(s)": { - "text": "Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)/Qods Force; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham - Yemen; al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)", + "text": "Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)/Qods Force; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham - Yemen; al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Hizballah", "note": "note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T" } }, @@ -1225,7 +1221,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "69,671 (Somalia), 20,306 (Ethiopia) (2022)" + "text": "20,306 (Ethiopia) (2022); 63,349 (Somalia) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "4.52 million (conflict in Sa'ada Governorate; clashes between al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula and government forces) (2022)" diff --git a/north-america/ca.json b/north-america/ca.json index 86a5aed8..c13e0624 100644 --- a/north-america/ca.json +++ b/north-america/ca.json @@ -446,14 +446,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/north-america/gl.json b/north-america/gl.json index 36a2453a..fb2be9cb 100644 --- a/north-america/gl.json +++ b/north-america/gl.json @@ -346,14 +346,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/north-america/mx.json b/north-america/mx.json index 4c52ca54..b4bb0242 100644 --- a/north-america/mx.json +++ b/north-america/mx.json @@ -471,14 +471,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.03% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -718,7 +714,7 @@ "note": "note: similar to the flag of Italy, which is shorter, uses lighter shades of green and red, and does not display anything in its white band" }, "National symbol(s)": { - "text": "golden eagle; national colors: green, white, red" + "text": "golden eagle, dahlia; national colors: green, white, red" }, "National anthem": { "name": { diff --git a/north-america/us.json b/north-america/us.json index 63ceb82e..b9aef706 100644 --- a/north-america/us.json +++ b/north-america/us.json @@ -450,14 +450,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.04% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.2% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.2% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/south-america/ar.json b/south-america/ar.json index 89b7a24a..f1166bdf 100644 --- a/south-america/ar.json +++ b/south-america/ar.json @@ -449,14 +449,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.09% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.09% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "text": "note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout Argentina; as of 9 December 2022, Argentina has reported a total of 9,739,856 cases of COVID-19 or 21,550.36 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 130,034 cumulative deaths or 287.7 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 8 December 2022, 91% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine" @@ -513,7 +509,7 @@ "text": "Argentina" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica Argentina" + "text": "República Argentina" }, "local short form": { "text": "Argentina" diff --git a/south-america/bl.json b/south-america/bl.json index f45ac4d8..9d71f9aa 100644 --- a/south-america/bl.json +++ b/south-america/bl.json @@ -451,14 +451,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.33% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.33% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/south-america/br.json b/south-america/br.json index a36c74b7..a8864d8e 100644 --- a/south-america/br.json +++ b/south-america/br.json @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Amazon river mouth (shared with Peru [s]) - 6,400 km; Rio de la Plata/Parana river source (shared with Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Tocantins - 3,650 km; Sao Francisco - 3,180 km; Paraguay river source (shared with Argentina and Paraguay [m]) - 2,549 km; Rio Negro river mouth (shared with Colombia [s] and Venezuela) - 2,250 km; Uruguay river source (shared with Argentina and Uruguay [m]) - 1,610 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" + "text": "Amazon river mouth (shared with Peru [s]) - 6,400 km; Río de la Plata/Paraná river source (shared with Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Tocantins - 3,650 km; São Francisco - 3,180 km; Paraguay river source (shared with Argentina and Paraguay [m]) - 2,549 km; Rio Negro river mouth (shared with Colombia [s] and Venezuela) - 2,250 km; Uruguay river source (shared with Argentina and Uruguay [m]) - 1,610 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km), Orinoco (953,675 sq km), Paraná (2,582,704 sq km), São Francisco (617,814 sq km), Tocantins (764,213 sq km)" @@ -465,14 +465,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.62% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.62% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -509,7 +505,7 @@ } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Amazon river mouth (shared with Peru [s]) - 6,400 km; Rio de la Plata/Parana river source (shared with Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Tocantins - 3,650 km; Sao Francisco - 3,180 km; Paraguay river source (shared with Argentina and Paraguay [m]) - 2,549 km; Rio Negro river mouth (shared with Colombia [s] and Venezuela) - 2,250 km; Uruguay river source (shared with Argentina and Uruguay [m]) - 1,610 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" + "text": "Amazon river mouth (shared with Peru [s]) - 6,400 km; Río de la Plata/Paraná river source (shared with Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Tocantins - 3,650 km; São Francisco - 3,180 km; Paraguay river source (shared with Argentina and Paraguay [m]) - 2,549 km; Rio Negro river mouth (shared with Colombia [s] and Venezuela) - 2,250 km; Uruguay river source (shared with Argentina and Uruguay [m]) - 1,610 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Amazon (6,145,186 sq km), Orinoco (953,675 sq km), Paraná (2,582,704 sq km), São Francisco (617,814 sq km), Tocantins (764,213 sq km)" @@ -541,7 +537,7 @@ "text": "Brazil" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica Federativa do Brasil" + "text": "República Federativa do Brasil" }, "local short form": { "text": "Brasil" diff --git a/south-america/ci.json b/south-america/ci.json index 257c621f..10302462 100644 --- a/south-america/ci.json +++ b/south-america/ci.json @@ -438,14 +438,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.49% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.49% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.01% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -487,7 +483,7 @@ "text": "Chile" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Chile" + "text": "República de Chile" }, "local short form": { "text": "Chile" diff --git a/south-america/co.json b/south-america/co.json index cc31d793..35c6897c 100644 --- a/south-america/co.json +++ b/south-america/co.json @@ -455,14 +455,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.75% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.75% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -520,7 +516,7 @@ "text": "Colombia" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica de Colombia" + "text": "República de Colombia" }, "local short form": { "text": "Colombia" @@ -1300,7 +1296,7 @@ }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18-24 years of age for compulsory (men) and voluntary (men and women) military service; conscript service obligation is 18 months; conscripted soldiers reportedly include regular soldiers (conscripts without a high school degree), drafted high school graduates (bachilleres), and rural (campesino) soldiers who serve in their home regions (2022)", - "note": "note: in 2020, conscripts reportedly comprised about 50% of the Colombian military's active force with approximately 60-90,000 conscripts brought into the military annually" + "note": "note 1: in 2020, conscripts reportedly comprised about 50% of the Colombian military's active force with more than 50,000 conscripts brought into the military annually

note 2: as of 2022, women comprised about 1% of the military" }, "Military deployments": { "text": "275 Egypt (MFO) (2022)" diff --git a/south-america/ec.json b/south-america/ec.json index 97b0b37e..6adc1487 100644 --- a/south-america/ec.json +++ b/south-america/ec.json @@ -456,14 +456,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.27% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -514,7 +510,7 @@ "text": "Ecuador" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica del Ecuador" + "text": "República del Ecuador" }, "local short form": { "text": "Ecuador" @@ -544,7 +540,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "24 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia); Azuay, Bolivar, Canar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galapagos, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los Rios, Manabi, Morona-Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Pichincha, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Sucumbios, Tungurahua, Zamora-Chinchipe" + "text": "24 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia); Azuay, Bolivar, Canar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galapagos, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los Rios, Manabi, Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Pichincha, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Sucumbios, Tungurahua, Zamora Chinchipe" }, "Independence": { "text": "24 May 1822 (from Spain)" diff --git a/south-america/gy.json b/south-america/gy.json index 07384083..d2e0a1d6 100644 --- a/south-america/gy.json +++ b/south-america/gy.json @@ -442,14 +442,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "4.56% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "4.56% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -478,13 +474,13 @@ }, "Total water withdrawal": { "municipal": { - "text": "61.3 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "60 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "industrial": { - "text": "20.4 million cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "20 million cubic meters (2019 est.)" }, "agricultural": { - "text": "1.363 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)" + "text": "1.36 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)" } }, "Total renewable water resources": { diff --git a/south-america/ns.json b/south-america/ns.json index 356fd71a..f5f88e9d 100644 --- a/south-america/ns.json +++ b/south-america/ns.json @@ -429,14 +429,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "2.36% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "2.36% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/south-america/pa.json b/south-america/pa.json index 2ea1aa7f..b754d106 100644 --- a/south-america/pa.json +++ b/south-america/pa.json @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ "text": "Cerro Pero 842 m" }, "lowest point": { - "text": "junction of Rio Paraguay and Rio Parana 46 m" + "text": "junction of Río Paraguay and Río Paraná 46 m" }, "mean elevation": { "text": "178 m" @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ "text": "1,362 sq km (2012)" }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Rio de la Plata/Parana (shared with Brazil [s], Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Paraguay river mouth (shared with Brazil [s] and Argentina) - 2,549 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" + "text": "Río de la Plata/Paraná (shared with Brazil [s], Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Paraguay river mouth (shared with Brazil [s] and Argentina) - 2,549 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Paraná (2,582,704 sq km)" @@ -442,14 +442,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.21% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -468,7 +464,7 @@ } }, "Major rivers (by length in km)": { - "text": "Rio de la Plata/Parana (shared with Brazil [s], Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Paraguay river mouth (shared with Brazil [s] and Argentina) - 2,549 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" + "text": "Río de la Plata/Paraná (shared with Brazil [s], Argentina, and Uruguay [m]) - 4,880 km; Paraguay river mouth (shared with Brazil [s] and Argentina) - 2,549 km
note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth" }, "Major watersheds (area sq km)": { "text": "Atlantic Ocean drainage: Paraná (2,582,704 sq km)" @@ -500,7 +496,7 @@ "text": "Paraguay" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica del Paraguay" + "text": "República del Paraguay" }, "local short form": { "text": "Paraguay" @@ -1247,7 +1243,7 @@ "note": "note: as of 2021, women made up about 6% of the active military" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "as of 2022, the armed forces were conducting operations against the Paraguayan People's Army (Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo, EPP), a Marxist-nationalist insurgent group operating in the rural northern part of the country along the border with Brazil; they were also assisting internal security forces in countering narco-trafficking networks" + "text": "the armed forces conduct operations against the Paraguayan People's Army (Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo, EPP), a domestic criminal group initially dedicated to a socialist revolution in Paraguay that operates in the rural northern part of the country along the border with Brazil; they also assist internal security forces in countering narco-trafficking networks (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/south-america/pe.json b/south-america/pe.json index 949c5b3b..b6f634cb 100644 --- a/south-america/pe.json +++ b/south-america/pe.json @@ -467,14 +467,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.12% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.12% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -537,7 +533,7 @@ "text": "Peru" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica del Peru" + "text": "República del Peru" }, "local short form": { "text": "Peru" @@ -1322,7 +1318,7 @@ "text": "215 Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (May 2022)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "as of 2022, the Peruvian security forces continued to conduct operations against remnants of the Shining Path terrorist group (aka Sendero Luminoso; see Appendix T), particularly in the Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro River Valleys (VRAEM) of eastern Peru; the military had approximately 8,000-10,000 troops in the VRAEM under a combined Special Command comprised of air, ground, naval, police, and special forces units (2022)" + "text": "the Peruvian security forces continue to conduct operations against remnants of the Shining Path terrorist group (aka Sendero Luminoso; see Appendix T), particularly in the Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro River Valleys (VRAEM) of eastern Peru; as of 2022, the military had approximately 8,000-10,000 troops in the VRAEM under a combined Special Command comprised of air, ground, naval, police, and special forces units (2022)" }, "Maritime threats": { "text": "the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial waters of Peru are a risk for armed robbery against ships; in 2021, 18 attacks against commercial vessels were reported, a more than 50% increase over the eight attacks in 2020; all of these occurred in the main port of Callao while ships were berthed or at anchor" diff --git a/south-america/uy.json b/south-america/uy.json index 3d1aba99..891398d5 100644 --- a/south-america/uy.json +++ b/south-america/uy.json @@ -445,14 +445,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.56% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.56% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -500,7 +496,7 @@ "text": "Uruguay" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica Oriental del Uruguay" + "text": "República Oriental del Uruguay" }, "local short form": { "text": "Uruguay" diff --git a/south-america/ve.json b/south-america/ve.json index 5078a3ea..40249910 100644 --- a/south-america/ve.json +++ b/south-america/ve.json @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ "text": "Venezuela" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela" + "text": "República Bolivariana de Venezuela" }, "local short form": { "text": "Venezuela" diff --git a/south-asia/af.json b/south-asia/af.json index f95cb6c8..2f3d53e3 100644 --- a/south-asia/af.json +++ b/south-asia/af.json @@ -455,14 +455,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.2% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.2% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/south-asia/bg.json b/south-asia/bg.json index e9162634..478f34c9 100644 --- a/south-asia/bg.json +++ b/south-asia/bg.json @@ -463,14 +463,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.08% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.02% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { @@ -492,7 +488,7 @@ }, "Food insecurity": { "severe localized food insecurity": { - "text": "due to economic constraints -  losses in income and remittances caused by the COVID‑19 pandemic and its containment measures led to an increase in poverty; in 2022, food insecurity is expected to increase and remain at high levels due to the impact of recent shocks, including floods that occurred in mid‑May 2022 in the northeastern parts of the country and the elevated international prices of energy, fuel and food, which have been transmitted to the domestic markets (2022)" + "text": "due to economic constraints and high prices of important food items -  food insecurity is expected to remain fragile, given persisting economic constraints; domestic prices of wheat flour and palm oil, important food items, were at high levels in January 2023; the result of elevated international prices of energy, fuel and food, having been transmitted to the domestic markets (2023)" } }, "Waste and recycling": { @@ -1326,7 +1322,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "950,972 (Burma) (2022)" + "text": "957,951 (Burma) (2023)" }, "IDPs": { "text": "427,000 (conflict, development, human rights violations, religious persecution, natural disasters) (2021)" diff --git a/south-asia/bt.json b/south-asia/bt.json index 3676fafa..505eb07d 100644 --- a/south-asia/bt.json +++ b/south-asia/bt.json @@ -396,14 +396,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "1.89% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.89% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { diff --git a/south-asia/ce.json b/south-asia/ce.json index bc753db3..7803f553 100644 --- a/south-asia/ce.json +++ b/south-asia/ce.json @@ -448,14 +448,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/south-asia/in.json b/south-asia/in.json index d7c2b5fb..dd1473f1 100644 --- a/south-asia/in.json +++ b/south-asia/in.json @@ -476,14 +476,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.14% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "1.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "1.15% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/south-asia/mv.json b/south-asia/mv.json index 64d578e3..b905ebce 100644 --- a/south-asia/mv.json +++ b/south-asia/mv.json @@ -434,14 +434,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Waste and recycling": { "municipal solid waste generated annually": { @@ -1140,7 +1136,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "the Republic of Maldives has no distinct army, navy, or air force but a single security unit called the Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) comprised of ground forces, an air element, a coastguard, a presidential security division, and a special protection group (2022)", - "note": "note: the Maldives Police Service is responsible for internal security and reports to the Ministry of Home Affairs" + "note": "note: the Maldives Police Service is responsible for internal security and reports to the Ministry of Home Affairs; the MNDF is responsible for counterterrorism" }, "Military expenditures": { "text": "not available" diff --git a/south-asia/np.json b/south-asia/np.json index e53b88f5..0a9a2b71 100644 --- a/south-asia/np.json +++ b/south-asia/np.json @@ -451,14 +451,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.45% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/south-asia/pk.json b/south-asia/pk.json index 8434a9fc..8fded49d 100644 --- a/south-asia/pk.json +++ b/south-asia/pk.json @@ -469,14 +469,10 @@ } }, "Revenue from forest resources": { - "forest revenues": { - "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.1% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Revenue from coal": { - "coal revenues": { - "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" - } + "text": "0.06% of GDP (2018 est.)" }, "Major infectious diseases": { "degree of risk": { diff --git a/world/xx.json b/world/xx.json index 6dcd54a9..9dfd1e6a 100644 --- a/world/xx.json +++ b/world/xx.json @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ } }, "Major urban areas - population": { - "text": "ten largest urban agglomerations: Tokyo (Japan) - 37,393,000; New Delhi (India) - 30,291,000; Shanghai (China) - 27,058,000; Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 22,043,000; Mexico City (Mexico) - 21,782,000; Dhaka (Bangladesh) - 21,006,000; Cairo (Egypt) - 20,901,000; Beijing (China) - 20,463,000; Mumbai (India) - 20,411,000;  Osaka (Japan) - 19,165,000 (2020)", + "text": "ten largest urban agglomerations: Tokyo (Japan) - 37,393,000; New Delhi (India) - 30,291,000; Shanghai (China) - 27,058,000; Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 22,043,000; Mexico City (Mexico) - 21,782,000; Dhaka (Bangladesh) - 21,006,000; Cairo (Egypt) - 20,901,000; Beijing (China) - 20,463,000; Mumbai (India) - 20,411,000; Osaka (Japan) - 19,165,000 (2020)", "note": "ten largest urban agglomerations, by continent:
Africa - Cairo (Egypt) - 20,901,000; Lagos (Nigeria) - 134,368,000; Kinshasha (DRC) - 14,342,000; Luanda (Angola) - 8,330,000; Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) - 6,702,000; Khartoum (Sudan) - 5,829,000; Johannesburg (South Africa) - 5,783,000; Alexandria (Egypt) - 5,281,000; Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) - 5,203,000; Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) - 4,794,000

Asia - Tokyo (Japan) - 37,393,000; New Delhi (India) - 30,291,000; Shanghai (China) - 27,058,000; Dhaka (Bangladesh) - 21,006,000; Beijing (China) - 20,463,000; Mumbai (India) - 20,411,000; Osaka (Japan) - 19,165,000; Karachi (Pakistan) - 16,094,000; Chongqing (China) - 15,872,000; Istanbul (Turkey) - 15,190,000

Europe - Moscow (Russia) - 12,538,000; Paris (France) - 11,017,000; London (United Kingdom) - 9,304,000; Madrid (Spain) - 6,618,000; Barcelona (Spain) - 5,586,000, Saint Petersburg (Russia) -  5,468,000; Rome (Italy) - 4,257,000; Berlin (Germany) - 3,562,000; Athens (Greece) - 3,153,000; Milan (Italy) - 3,140,000

North America - Mexico City (Mexico) - 21,782,000; New York-Newark (United States) - 18,804,000; Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana (United States) - 12,447,000; Chicago (United States) - 8,865,000; Houston (United States) - 6,371,000; Dallas-Fort Worth (United States) - 6,301,000; Toronto (Canada) - 6,197,000; Miami (United States) - 6,122,000; Atlanta (United States) - 5,803,000; Philadelphia (United States) - 5,717,000

Oceania - Melbourne (Australia) - 4,968,000, Sydney (Australia) - 4,926,000; Brisbane (Australia) - 2,406,000; Perth (Australia) - 2,042,000; Auckland (New Zealand) - 1,607,000; Adelaide (Australia) - 1,336,000; Gold Coast-Tweed Head (Australia) - 699,000; Canberra (Australia) - 457,000; Newcastle-Maitland (Australia) - 450,000; Wellington (New Zealand) - 415,000

South America - Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 22,043,000; Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 15,154,000; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - 13,458,000; Bogota (Colombia) - 10,978,000; Lima (Peru) - 10,719,000; Santiago (Chile) - 6,767,000; Belo Horizonte (Brazil) - 6,084,000; Brasilia (Brazil) - 4,646,000; Porto Alegre (Brazil) - 4,137,000; Recife (Brazil) - 4,127,000 (2020)" }, "Sex ratio": {