diff --git a/africa/ag.json b/africa/ag.json index 1b098cbe..d525b6b5 100644 --- a/africa/ag.json +++ b/africa/ag.json @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ } }, "Ethnic groups": { - "text": "Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%", - "note": "note: although almost all Algerians are Berber in origin (not Arab), only a minority identify themselves as primarily Berber, about 15% of the total population; these people live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers and several other communities; the Berbers are also Muslim but identify with their Berber rather than Arab cultural heritage; Berbers have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has officially recognized Berber languages and introduced them into public schools" + "text": "Arab-Amazigh 99%, European less than 1%", + "note": "note: although almost all Algerians are Amazigh in origin (not Arab), only a minority identify themselves as primarily Amazigh, about 15% of the total population; these people live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers and several other communities; the Amazigh are also Muslim but identify with their Amazigh rather than Arab cultural heritage; Amazigh have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has officially recognized Amazigh languages and introduced them into public schools" }, "Languages": { "Languages": { - "text": "Arabic (official), French (lingua franca), Berber or Tamazight (official); dialects include Kabyle Berber (Taqbaylit), Shawiya Berber (Tacawit), Mzab Berber, Tuareg Berber (Tamahaq)" + "text": "Arabic (official), French (lingua franca), Tamazight (official) (dialects include Kabyle (Taqbaylit), Shawiya (Tacawit), Mzab, Tuareg (Tamahaq))" }, "major-language sample(s)": { "text": "
كتاب حقائق العالم، المصدر الذي لا يمكن الاستغناء عنه للمعلومات الأساسية (Arabic)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information." @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament or Barlaman consists of:
Council of the Nation or Majlis al-Umma (174 seats, statutory; 170 currently); two-thirds of members indirectly elected by simple majority vote by an electoral college composed of local assemblies within each wilaya, and one-third of members appointed by the president; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)
National People's Assembly or al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani (407 seats, including 8 seats for Algerian diaspora); members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by open-list proportional representation vote using the Hare quota method; members serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament consists of:
Council of the Nation or Majlis al-Umma (174 seats, statutory; 170 currently); two-thirds of members indirectly elected by simple majority vote by an electoral college composed of local assemblies within each wilaya, and one-third of members appointed by the president; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)
National People's Assembly or al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani (407 seats, including 8 seats for Algerian diaspora); members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by open-list proportional representation vote using the Hare quota method; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "
Council of the Nation - last held on 5 February 2022 (next expected in 2025)
National People's Assembly - snap election held on 12 June 2021 (next to be held on 12 June 2026)" @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Algerian National Front or FNA [Moussa TOUATI]
Algerian Popular Movement or MPA [Amara BENYOUNES]
Algeria's Hope Rally or TAJ [Fatma Zohra ZEROUATI]
Democratic and Social Movement or MDS [Fethi GHARES]
Dignity or El Karama [Mohamed DAOUI]
El-Infitah [Omar BOUACHA]
Ennour El Djazairi Party (Algerian Radiance Party) or PED [Badreddine BELBAZ]
Equity and Proclamation Party or PEP [Naima SALHI]
Future Front or El Mostakbel [Abdelaziz BELAID]
Islamic Renaissance Movement or Ennahda Movement [Yazid BENAICHA]
Justice and Development Front or FJD [Abdellah DJABALLAH]
Movement for National Reform or El Islah [Filali GHOUINI]
Movement of Society for Peace or MSP [Abderrazak MAKRI]
National Construction Movement or El-Bina (Harakat El-Binaa El-Watani) [Abdelkader BENGRINA]
National Democratic Rally (Rassemblement National Democratique) or RND [Tayeb ZITOUNI]
National Front for Social Justice or FNJS [Khaled BOUNEDJEMA]
National Liberation Front or FLN [Abou El Fadhel BAADJI]
National Militancy Front or FMN [Abdallah HADDAD]
National Party for Solidarity and Development or PNSD [Dalila YALAQUI]
National Republican Alliance or ANR [Belkacem SAHLI]
New Dawn Party (El-Fajr El-Jadid) [Tahar BENBAIBECHE]
New Generation (Jil Jadid) [Soufiane DJILALI]
Oath of 1954 or Ahd 54 [Ali Fawzi REBAINE]
Party of Justice and Liberty or PLJ [Mohamed SAID]
Rally for Culture and Democracy or RCD [Atmane MAZOUZ]
Socialist Forces Front or FFS [Youcef AOUCHICHE]
Union for Change and Progress or UCP [Zoubida ASSOUL]
Union of Democratic and Social Forces or UFDS [Noureddine BAHBOUH]
Vanguard of Liberties (Talaie El Hurriyet) [Abdelkader SAADI]
Workers Party or PT [Louisa HANOUNE]
Youth Party or PJ [Hamana BOUCHARMA]", + "text": "Algerian National Front or FNA [Moussa TOUATI]
Algerian Popular Movement or MPA [Amara BENYOUNES]
Algeria's Hope Rally or TAJ [Fatma Zohra ZEROUATI]
Dignity or El Karama [Mohamed DAOUI]
El-Infitah [Omar BOUACHA]
Ennour El Djazairi Party (Algerian Radiance Party) or PED [Badreddine BELBAZ]
Equity and Proclamation Party or PEP [Naima SALHI]
Future Front or El Mostakbel [Abdelaziz BELAID]
Islamic Renaissance Movement or Ennahda Movement [Yazid BENAICHA]
Justice and Development Front or FJD [Abdellah DJABALLAH]
Movement for National Reform or El Islah [Mohamed Ben ABDESSALAM]
Movement of Society for Peace or MSP [Abdelali Hassani CHERIF]
National Construction Movement or El-Bina (Harakat El-Binaa El-Watani) [Abdelkader BENGRINA]
National Democratic Rally (Rassemblement National Democratique) or RND [Mustapha YAHI]
National Front for Social Justice or FNJS [Redouane KHELIF]
National Liberation Front or FLN [Abdelkrim BENMBAREK]
National Militancy Front or FMN [Abdallah HADDAD]
National Party for Solidarity and Development or PNSD [Dalila YALAQUI]
National Republican Alliance or ANR [Belkacem SAHLI]
New Dawn Party (El-Fajr El-Jadid) [Tahar BENBAIBECHE]
New Generation (Jil Jadid) [Soufiane DJILALI]
Oath of 1954 or Ahd 54 [Ali Fawzi REBAINE]
Party of Justice and Liberty or PLJ [Djamel BENZIADI]
Rally for Culture and Democracy or RCD [Atmane MAZOUZ]
Socialist Forces Front or FFS [Youcef AOUCHICHE]
Union for Change and Progress or UCP [Zoubida ASSOUL]
Union of Democratic and Social Forces or UFDS [Salah ABDERAHMANE]
Vanguard of Liberties (Talaie El Hurriyet) [Reda BENOUNANE]
Workers Party or PT [Louisa HANOUNE]
Youth Party or PJ [Hamana BOUCHARMA]", "note": "note: a law banning political parties based on religion was enacted in March 1997" }, "International organization participation": { @@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "5,097,095 (2021 est.)" + "text": "5,576,193 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "12 (2021 est.)" @@ -1169,9 +1169,12 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Algerian People's National Army (ANP): Land Forces, Naval Forces (includes Coast Guard), Air Forces, Territorial Air Defense Forces, Republican Guard (under ANP but responsible to the President), National Gendarmerie

Ministry of Interior: General Directorate of National Security (national police) (2023)", - "note": "note: the National Gendarmerie performs police functions outside urban areas under the auspices of the Ministry of National Defense; it is comprised of territorial, intervention/mobile, border guard, railway, riot control, and air support units; General Directorate of National Security share responsibility for maintaining law and order " + "note": "note: the National Gendarmerie performs police functions outside urban areas under the auspices of the Ministry of National Defense; it is comprised of territorial, intervention/mobile, border guard, railway, riot control, and air support units; General Directorate of National Security share responsibility for maintaining law and order" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "9% of GDP (2023)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "4.8% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1183,9 +1186,6 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "6% of GDP (2019 est.)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "5.5% of GDP (2018 est.)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service for men and women; 19-30 years of age for mandatory service for men (all Algerian men must register at age 17); service obligation reduced from 18 to 12 months in 2014 (2023)", - "note": "note: as of 2020, conscripts comprised an estimated 70% of the military" + "note": "note: conscripts comprise an estimated 70% of the military" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the ANP is responsible for external defense but also has some internal security responsibilities; key areas of concern include border and maritime security, terrorism, regional instability, and tensions with Morocco; Algeria supports the pro-independence Polisario Front in Western Sahara and accuses Morocco of supporting the Algerian separatist Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie (MAK); border security and counterterrorism have received additional focus since the Arab Spring events of 2011 and the rise of terrorist threats emanating from Libya and the Sahel; the Army and Ministry of Defense (MND) paramilitary forces of the Gendarmerie and the border guards have beefed up their presence along the frontiers with Tunisia, Libya, Niger, and Mali to interdict and deter cross-border attacks by Islamic militant groups; the ANP and MND paramilitary forces have also increased counterterrorism cooperation with some neighboring countries, particularly Tunisia, including joint operations

the ANP has also played a large role in the country’s politics since independence in 1962, including coups in 1965 and 1991; it was a key backer of BOUTEFLIKA’s election in 1999 and remained a center of power during his 20-year rule; the military was instrumental in BOUTEFLIKA’s resignation in 2019, when it withdrew support and called for him to be removed from office

the ANP is well-funded and one of the better-equipped militaries in North Africa; over the past decade, it has made large investments in more modern equipment, including armored vehicles, air defense systems, fighter aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and warships, largely from Russia but also China and Western European suppliers; it is a conscript-based force that exercises regularly, including jointly with foreign militaries such as those of Russia, Tunisia, and some Sahel countries; the ANP is part of the African Union’s Standby Force for North Africa; the core combat units of the Land Forces consists of multiple armored and mechanized divisions, as well as a combined airborne and special forces division, plus separate brigades of mechanized or motorized infantry and tanks; the Naval Forces’ principal warships include frigates, corvettes, and attack submarines; in 2015, the Naval Forces acquired from Italy its first amphibious transport dock (LHD) ship, which is capable of carrying helicopters, small landing craft, and more than 300 troops; the Air Force has more than 100 Russian-made combat aircraft, as well as about 200 Russian-made combat helicopters (2023)" diff --git a/africa/ao.json b/africa/ao.json index 63a8add9..5fe5ab42 100644 --- a/africa/ao.json +++ b/africa/ao.json @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ "text": "Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola Electoral Coalition or CASA-CE [Manuel FERNANDES]
Humanist Party of Angola or PHI [Florbela MALAQUIAS]
National Front for the Liberation of Angola or FNLA; note - party has two factions; one led by Lucas NGONDA; the other by Ngola KABANGU
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola or UNITA [Adalberto Costa JUNIOR] (largest opposition party)
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola or MPLA [Joao LOURENCO]; note- ruling party in power since 1975
Social Renewal Party or PRS [Benedito DANIEL]" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, CEMAC, CPLP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMISS, Union Latina, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, CEMAC, CPLP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMISS, Union Latina, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "119,826 (2021 est.)" + "text": "93,968 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Angolan Armed Forces (Forcas Armadas Angolanas, FAA): Army, Navy (Marinha de Guerra Angola, MGA), Angolan National Air Force (Forca Aerea Nacional Angolana, FANA; under operational control of the Army)

Ministry of Interior: National Police, Border Guard Police  (2023)" + "text": "Angolan Armed Forces (Forcas Armadas Angolanas, FAA): Army, Navy (Marinha de Guerra Angola, MGA), Angolan National Air Force (Forca Aerea Nacional Angolana, FANA; under operational control of the Army)

Ministry of Interior: National Police, Border Guard Police (2023)" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { @@ -1219,10 +1219,10 @@ "text": "20-45 years of age for compulsory and 18-45 years for voluntary military service for men (registration at age 18 is mandatory); 20-45 years of age for voluntary service for women; 24-month conscript service obligation; Angolan citizenship required; the Navy is entirely staffed with volunteers (2023)" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "in 2023, Angola agreed to send 500 troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 12 months to oversee cantonment of a rebel group known as M23, though as of publication few troops had actually deployed.  Angola has also deployed military advisors as part of a SADC deployment to confront ISIS-M in Mozambique." + "text": "in 2023, Angola agreed to send 500 troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 12 months to oversee cantonment of a rebel group known as M23 (2023)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Angolan Armed Forces were created in 1991 under the Bicesse Accords signed between the Angolan Government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA); the current force is responsible for country’s external defense but also has some domestic security responsibilities, including border protection, expulsion of irregular migrants, and small-scale counterinsurgency operations against groups like the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda separatists in Cabinda; the Army is one of the largest in the region with six infantry divisions spread amongst six military regions; it is also one of the better equipped, with a significant portion of its units being motorized and supported by approximately 300 Soviet-era tanks, largely acquired in the 1980s and 1990s; the Air Force is also one of the largest and best equipped in the region with a fleet of approximately 100 combat aircraft, plus a substantial inventory of transport aircraft and helicopter gunships; while naval modernization has received more attention in recent years, the Navy remains a small force of fast attack and coastal patrol craft (2023)" + "text": "the Angolan Armed Forces were created in 1991 under the Bicesse Accords signed between the Angolan Government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA); the current force is responsible for country’s external defense but also has some domestic security responsibilities, including border protection, expulsion of irregular migrants, and small-scale counterinsurgency operations against groups like the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda separatists in Cabinda; the Army and Air Force are some of the largest and better equipped forces in the region; a significant portion of the Army's core combat forces--six infantry divisions--are motorized and supported by approximately 300 Soviet-era tanks, while the Air Force has a fleet of approximately 100 combat aircraft, plus a substantial inventory of transport aircraft and helicopter gunships; while naval modernization has received more attention in recent years, the Navy remains a small force of fast attack and coastal patrol craft (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/africa/bc.json b/africa/bc.json index 75c63bcc..4c30eec4 100644 --- a/africa/bc.json +++ b/africa/bc.json @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "132,457 (2021 est.)" + "text": "91,725 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "5 (2021 est.)" @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ "text": "approximately 300 Mozambique (Southern African Development Community force) (2023)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the BDF’s key functions include defending the country's territorial integrity on land and in the air, ensuring national security and stability, and aiding civil authorities in support of domestic missions such as disaster relief and anti-poaching; it is a small and professional force that participates in regional and international security operations; the Ground Force has five small brigades of infantry, light armor, and artillery, plus a unit of commandos and a marine unit with boats and river craft for patrolling Botswana's internal waterways and supporting anti-poaching operations; the Air Arm has a small squadron of ageing fighters, as well as some multipurpose helicopters

Bechuanaland/Botswana did not have a permanent military during colonial times, with the British colonial administrators relying instead on small, lightly armed constabularies such as the Bechuanaland Mounted Police, the Bechuanaland Border Police, and by the early 1960s, the Police Mobile Unit (PMU); after independence in 1966, Botswana militarized the PMU and gave it responsibility for the country’s defense rather than create a conventional military force; however, turmoil in neighboring countries and numerous cross-border incursions by Rhodesian and South African security forces in the 1960s and 1970s demonstrated that the PMU was inadequate for defending the country and led to the establishment of the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) in 1977 (2023)" + "text": "the BDF’s key functions include defending the country's territorial integrity on land and in the air, ensuring national security and stability, and aiding civil authorities in support of domestic missions such as disaster relief and anti-poaching; it participates in regional and international security operations; the Ground Force has five small brigades of infantry, light armor, and artillery, plus a unit of commandos and a marine unit with boats and river craft for patrolling Botswana's internal waterways and supporting anti-poaching operations; the Air Arm has a small squadron of ageing fighters, as well as some multipurpose helicopters

Bechuanaland/Botswana did not have a permanent military during colonial times, with the British colonial administrators relying instead on small, lightly armed constabularies such as the Bechuanaland Mounted Police, the Bechuanaland Border Police, and by the early 1960s, the Police Mobile Unit (PMU); after independence in 1966, Botswana militarized the PMU and gave it responsibility for the country’s defense rather than create a conventional military force; however, turmoil in neighboring countries and numerous cross-border incursions by Rhodesian and South African security forces in the 1960s and 1970s demonstrated that the PMU was inadequate for defending the country and led to the establishment of the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) in 1977 (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/africa/bn.json b/africa/bn.json index a382bb67..7ca803aa 100644 --- a/africa/bn.json +++ b/africa/bn.json @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "11,493 (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,526 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/africa/by.json b/africa/by.json index c5bc3c27..3d537165 100644 --- a/africa/by.json +++ b/africa/by.json @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ "note": "note: data represent languages read and written by people 10 years of age or older; spoken Kirundi is nearly universal" }, "Religions": { - "text": "Roman Catholic 58.6%, Protestant 35.3% (includes Adventist 2.7% and other Protestant 32.6%), Muslim 3.4%, other 1.3%, none 1.3% (2016-17 est.)" + "text": "Christian 93.9% (Roman Catholic 58.6%, Protestant 35.3% [includes Adventist 2.7% and other Protestant religions 32.6%]), Muslim 3.4%, other 1.3%, none 1.3% (2016-17 est.)" }, "Demographic profile": { "text": "

Burundi is a densely populated country with a high population growth rate, factors that combined with land scarcity and poverty place a large share of its population at risk of food insecurity. About 90% of the population relies on subsistence agriculture. Subdivision of land to sons, and redistribution to returning refugees, results in smaller, overworked, and less-productive plots. Food shortages, poverty, and a lack of clean water contribute to a 60% chronic malnutrition rate among children. A lack of reproductive health services has prevented a significant reduction in Burundi’s maternal mortality and fertility rates, which are both among the world’s highest. With almost two-thirds of its population under the age of 25 and a birth rate of about 5 children per woman as of 2022, Burundi’s population will continue to expand rapidly for decades to come, putting additional strain on a poor country.

Historically, migration flows into and out of Burundi have consisted overwhelmingly of refugees from violent conflicts. In the last decade, more than a half million Burundian refugees returned home from neighboring countries, mainly Tanzania. Reintegrating the returnees has been problematic due to their prolonged time in exile, land scarcity, poor infrastructure, poverty, and unemployment. Repatriates and existing residents (including internally displaced persons) compete for limited land and other resources. To further complicate matters, international aid organizations reduced their assistance because they no longer classified Burundi as a post-conflict country. Conditions deteriorated when renewed violence erupted in April 2015, causing another outpouring of refugees. In addition to refugee out-migration, Burundi has hosted thousands of refugees from neighboring countries, mostly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and lesser numbers from Rwanda.

" @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ }, "Capital": { "name": { - "text": "Gitega (political capital), Bujumbura (commercial capital); note - in January 2019, the Burundian parliament voted to make Gitega the political capital of the country while Bujumbura would remain its economic capital; as of 2022, the government's move to Gitega remains incomplete" + "text": "Gitega (political capital), Bujumbura (commercial capital); note - in January 2019, the Burundian parliament voted to make Gitega the political capital of the country while Bujumbura would remain its economic capital; as of 2023, the government's move to Gitega remains incomplete" }, "geographic coordinates": { "text": "3 25 S, 29 55 E" @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "18 provinces; Bubanza, Bujumbura Mairie, Bujumbura Rural, Bururi, Cankuzo, Cibitoke, Gitega, Karuzi, Kayanza, Kirundo, Makamba, Muramvya, Muyinga, Mwaro, Ngozi, Rumonge, Rutana, Ruyigi" + "text": "18 provinces; Bubanza, Bujumbura Mairie, Bujumbura Rural, Bururi, Cankuzo, Cibitoke, Gitega, Karuzi, Kayanza, Kirundo, Makamba, Muramvya, Muyinga, Mwaro, Ngozi, Rumonge, Rutana, Ruyigi; note- a law was passed in March 2023 reducing the number of provinces to five: Buhumuza, Bujumbura, Burunga, Butanyerera, Gitega, with full implementation by 2025." }, "Independence": { "text": "1 July 1962 (from UN trusteeship under Belgian administration)" @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:
Senate or Inama Nkenguzamateka (39 seats in the July 2020 election); 36 members indirectly elected by an electoral college of provincial councils using a three-round voting system, which requires a two-thirds majority vote in the first two rounds and simple majority vote for the two leading candidates in the final round; 3 seats reserved for Twas, and 30% of all votes reserved for women; members serve 5-year terms)
National Assembly or Inama Nshingamateka (123 seats in the May 2020 election; 100 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 23 co-opted members; 60% of seats allocated to Hutu and 40% to Tutsi; 3 seats reserved for Twas; 30% of total seats reserved for women; members serve 5-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:
Senate or Inama Nkenguzamateka (39 seats in the July 2020 election); 36 members indirectly elected by an electoral college of provincial councils using a three-round voting system, which requires a two-thirds majority vote in the first two rounds and simple majority vote for the two leading candidates in the final round; 3 seats reserved for Twas, and 30% of all votes reserved for women; members serve 5-year terms)
National Assembly or Inama Nshingamateka (123 seats in the May 2020 election; 100 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 23 co-opted members; 60% of seats allocated to Hutus and 40% to Tutsis; 3 seats reserved for Twas; 30% of total seats reserved for women; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { "text": "
Senate - last held on 20 July 2020 (next to be held in 2025)
National Assembly - last held on 20 May 2020 (next to be held in 2025)" @@ -598,21 +598,21 @@ "text": "Supreme Court (consists of 9 judges and organized into judicial, administrative, and cassation chambers); Constitutional Court (consists of 7 members)" }, "judge selection and term of office": { - "text": "Supreme Court judges nominated by the Judicial Service Commission, a 15-member independent body of judicial and legal profession officials), appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate; judge tenure NA; Constitutional Court judges appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate and serve 6-year nonrenewable terms" + "text": "Supreme Court judges nominated by the Judicial Service Commission, a 15-member body of judicial and legal profession officials), appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate; judge tenure NA; Constitutional Court judges appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate and serve 6-year nonrenewable terms" }, "subordinate courts": { - "text": "Courts of Appeal; County Courts; Courts of Residence; Martial Court; Court Against Corruption; Commercial Court" + "text": "Courts of Appeal; County Courts; Courts of Residence; Martial Court; Commercial Court" } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Front for Democracy in Burundi-Nyakuri or FRODEBU-Nyakuri [Keffa NIBIZI]
Front for Democracy in Burundi-Sahwanya or FRODEBU-Sahwanya [Pierre Claver NAHIMANA]
National Congress for Liberty or CNL [Agathon RWASA]
National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Front for the Defense of Democracy or CNDD-FDD [Evariste NDAYISHIMIYE]
National Liberation Forces or FNL [Jacques BIGITIMANA]
Union for National Progress (Union pour le Progress Nationale) or UPRONA [Abel GASHATSI]" + "text": "Council for Democracy and the Sustainable Development of Burundi or CODEBU [Keffa NIBIZI]
Front for Democracy in Burundi-Sahwanya or FRODEBU-Sahwanya [Patrick NKURUNZIZA]
National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Front for the Defense of Democracy or CNDD-FDD [Evariste NDAYISHIMIYE]
National Congress for Liberty or CNL [Agathon RWASA]
National Liberation Forces or FNL [Jacques BIGIRIMANA]
Union for National Progress (Union pour le Progress Nationale) or UPRONA [Olivier NKURUNZIZA] 

" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AfDB, ATMIS, AU, CEMAC, CEPGL, CICA, COMESA, EAC, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AfDB, ATMIS, AU, CEMAC, CEPGL, CICA, COMESA, EAC, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICGLR, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Chargé d'Affaires Préféré NDAYISHIMIYE (since 18 March 2023)" + "text": "Ambassador Jean Bosco BAREGE (since 11 January 2024); Chargé d'Affaires Geneviève NIZIGIYIMANA (since 3 October 2023)  " }, "chancery": { "text": "2233 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007" @@ -624,12 +624,12 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 342-2578" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
burundiembusadc@gmail.com

https://burundiembassy-usa.com/index.php" + "text": "burundiembusadc@gmail.com

https://burundiembassy-usa.com/index.php" } }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Keith GILGES (since June 2022) " + "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Keith GILGES (since June 2022)" }, "embassy": { "text": "B.P. 1720, Avenue Des Etats-Unis, Bujumbura" @@ -640,9 +640,6 @@ "telephone": { "text": "[257] 22-207-000" }, - "FAX": { - "text": "[257] 22-222-926" - }, "email address and website": { "text": "
BujumburaC@state.gov

https://bi.usembassy.gov/" } @@ -1045,7 +1042,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "15,976 (2021 est.)" + "text": "14,918 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" @@ -1061,7 +1058,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "Burundi provides an attractive telecom market given its high population density and existing low subscription rates for all services; one downside for investors is that the country has a very low economic output, disposable income is also very low, and fixed-line infrastructure is poor outside the main urban areas; this is a greater motivation for investors to focus on improving mobile networks than in expanding fixed-line infrastructure; to overcome difficulties associated with the poor telecom infrastructure, the government has supported a number of prominent telcos building a national fiber backbone network; this network offers onward connectivity to submarine cable infrastructure landings in Kenya and Tanzania; the first sections of this network were switched on in early 2014, and additional provinces have since been connected; in addition, the government in early 2018 kick-started the Burundi Broadband project, which aims to deliver national connectivity by 2025; based on this improved infrastructure the government and ITU have developed an ICT strategy to make use of telecoms to promote the country’s socio-economic development through to 2028; progress made by Tanzania with its own national backbone network has benefited Burundi, which has been provided with onward connectivity to most countries in the region; International bandwidth capacity has continued to increase in recent years, including a 38% increase in the nine months to September 2021, resulting in lower retail prices for consumers; two of the mobile operators have launched 3G and LTE services to capitalize on the growing demand for internet access; the number of mobile subscribers increased 7% in the third quarter of 2021, quarter-on-quarter; similar growth is expected for the next two years at least, which will help bring the mobile level closer to the average for the region (2022)" + "text": "Burundi provides an attractive telecom market given its high population density and existing low subscription rates for all services; one downside for investors is that the country has a very low economic output,and an unconducive business environment;  disposable income is also very low, and fixed-line infrastructure is poor outside the main urban areas; this is a greater motivation for investors to focus on improving mobile networks than in expanding fixed-line infrastructure; to overcome difficulties associated with the poor telecom infrastructure, the government has supported a number of prominent telcos building a national fiber backbone network; this network offers onward connectivity to submarine cable infrastructure landings in Kenya and Tanzania; the first sections of this network were switched on in early 2014, and additional provinces have since been connected; in addition, the government in early 2018 kick-started the Burundi Broadband project, which aims to deliver national connectivity by 2025; based on this improved infrastructure the government and ITU have developed an ICT strategy to make use of telecoms to promote the country’s socio-economic development through to 2028; progress made by Tanzania with its own national backbone network has benefited Burundi, which has been provided with onward connectivity to most countries in the region; International bandwidth capacity has continued to increase in recent years, including a 38% increase in the nine months to September 2021, resulting in lower retail prices for consumers; two of the mobile operators have launched 3G and LTE services to capitalize on the growing demand for internet access; the number of mobile subscribers increased 7% in the third quarter of 2021, quarter-on-quarter; similar growth is expected for the next two years at least, which will help bring the mobile level closer to the average for the region (2022); Burundi’s Telecommunications Regulation and Control Agency (ARCT) has recently published its roadmap for the deployment of 5G services in the country, setting out a target of July 2024 for the introduction of commercial services.   (2022)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage is about 62 per 100 persons (2021)" @@ -1134,7 +1131,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "National Defense Force of Burundi (Force de Defense Nationale du Burundi or FDNB): Land Force (Force Terrestre), the Navy Force (Force Marine), the Air Force (Force Aerienne) and Specialized Units (Unites Specialisees) (2023)", - "note": "note 1: the Specialized Units include a special security brigade for the protection of institutions (aka BSPI) and military police

note 2: in 2022, Burundi created a new reserve force (Force de réserve et d’appui au développement, FRAD); the FRAD's duties include organizing paramilitary trainings, supporting other components in protecting the integrity of the national territory, conceiving and implementing development projects, and operationalizing national and international partnerships

note 3: the Burundi National Police (Police Nationale du Burundi) are under the Ministry of Interior, Community Development, and Public Security" + "note": "note 1: the Specialized Units include a special security brigade for the protection of institutions (aka BSPI) commandos, special forces and military police

note 2: in 2022, Burundi created a new reserve force (Force de réserve et d’appui au développement, FRAD); the FRAD's duties include organizing paramilitary trainings, supporting other components in protecting the integrity of the national territory, conceiving and implementing development projects, and operationalizing national and international partnerships

note 3: the Burundi National Police (Police Nationale du Burundi) are under the Ministry of Interior, Community Development, and Public Security" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { @@ -1163,7 +1160,7 @@ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women (2023)" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "750 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); more than 3,000 in Somalia (ATMIS; note - foreign troop contingents under ATMIS are drawing down towards a final exit in December 2024) (2023)" + "text": "750 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); more than 3,000 in Somalia (ATMIS); note - foreign troop contingents under ATMIS are drawing down towards a final exit in December 2024); bilateral deployment to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2023)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the FDNB is responsible for defending Burundi’s territorial integrity and protecting its sovereignty; it has an internal security role, including maintaining and restoring public order if required; the FDNB also participates in providing humanitarian/disaster assistance, countering terrorism, narcotics trafficking, piracy, and illegal arms trade, and protecting the country’s environment; the FDNB conducts limited training with foreign partners such as Russia and participates in regional peacekeeping missions, most recently in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Somalia; these missions have provided the force some operational experience and funding; in recent years the FDNB has conducted operations against anti-government rebel groups based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that have carried out sporadic attacks in Burundi, such as the such as National Forces of Liberation (FNL), the Resistance for the Rule of Law-Tabara (aka RED Tabara), and Popular Forces of Burundi (FPB or FOREBU)

the Land Force’s primary units are 4 regionally based divisions which are comprised mostly of light infantry complemented by a few battalions of artillery, light armored forces, and commandos; the FDNB also has a separate special security brigade for protecting key facilities; the Air Force is lightly equipped with a handful of combat helicopters, while the Naval Force has a few patrol boats for monitoring Burundi’s 175-km shoreline on Lake Tanganyika

the Arusha Agreement that ended the 1993-2005 created a unified military by balancing the predominantly Tutsi ex-Burundi Armed Forces (ex-FAB) and the largely Hutu dominated armed movements and requiring the military to have a 50/50 ethnic mix of Tutsis and Hutus (2023)" diff --git a/africa/cd.json b/africa/cd.json index d8b6d971..f0d64de3 100644 --- a/africa/cd.json +++ b/africa/cd.json @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ "text": "Interim President Mahamat Idriss DEBY (since 20 April 2021); note - on 20 April 2021, newly reelected President Idriss DEBY Itno, Lt. Gen. died of injuries sustained following clashes between government forces he was commanding and insurgents in the northern part of the country; following his death, Mahamat Idriss DEBY took control of the country and dismissed the Chadian parliament, establishing a Transitional Military Council and promising elections within 18 months" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Interim Prime Minister Albert Pahimi PADACKE (since 26 April 2021); note - PADACKE was appointed interim prime minister by the Transitional Military Council led by Mahamat Idriss DEBY" + "text": "Interim Prime Minister Succès MASRA (since 2 January 2024)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Council of Ministers" @@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "5,300 (2021 est.)" + "text": "5,250 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/africa/cf.json b/africa/cf.json index 7b294749..9ad7d133 100644 --- a/africa/cf.json +++ b/africa/cf.json @@ -397,17 +397,6 @@ "female": { "text": "11 years (2012)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "42.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "42.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "42.5%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -803,17 +792,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "2.268 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "35.4%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20.6%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "44% (2005 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "23.01% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/cg.json b/africa/cg.json index 15d41b64..3189daab 100644 --- a/africa/cg.json +++ b/africa/cg.json @@ -602,10 +602,10 @@ "text": "Ministers of State appointed by the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by simple majority vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 30 December 2018 (next to be held on 20 December 2023); prime minister appointed by the president" + "text": "president directly elected by simple majority vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 20 December 2023 (next to be held in December 2028); prime minister appointed by the president" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2018: Felix TSHISEKEDI elected president; percent of vote - Felix TSHISEKEDI (UDPS) 38.6%, Martin FAYULU (Lamuka coalition) 34.8%, Emmanuel Ramazani SHADARY (PPRD) 23.9%, other 2.7%; note - election marred by serious voting irregularities

2011: Joseph KABILA reelected president; percent of vote - Joseph KABILA (PPRD) 49%, Etienne TSHISEKEDI (UDPS) 32.3%, other 18.7%; note - election marred by serious voting irregularities" + "text": "2023: Felix TSHISEKEDI reelected president; percent of vote - Felix TSHISEKEDI (UDPS) 73.3%, Moise KATUMBI (Ensemble) 18.8%, Martin FAYULU (ECIDE) 5.3%, other 2.6%

2018: Felix TSHISEKEDI elected president; percent of vote - Felix TSHISEKEDI (UDPS) 38.6%, Martin FAYULU (Lamuka coalition) 34.8%, Emmanuel Ramazani SHADARY (PPRD) 23.9%, other 2.7%; note - election marred by serious voting irregularities" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -613,10 +613,10 @@ "text": "bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of:
Senate (109 seats; 109 members to include 108 indirectly elected by provincial assemblies by proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms and a former president, appointed for life)

National Assembly (500 seats; 439 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 61 directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote; members serve 5-year terms)

 

" }, "elections": { - "text": "

Senate - last held on 14 March 2019
National Assembly - last held on 30 December 2018 (first round), with a second round on 31 March 2019
(next election held 20 December 2023)

 

" + "text": "

Senate - last held on 14 March 2019 (next election held in March 2024)
National Assembly - last held on 20 December 2023 (next election held in December 2028)

 

" }, "election results": { - "text": "

Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPRD 22, MLC 14, FR 7, RCD 7, PDC 6, CDC 3, MSR 3, PALU 2, other 18, independent 26; composition as of 2022 - men 83, women 26, percent of women 23.9%
National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPRD 62, UDPS 41, PPPD 29, MSR 27, MLC 22, PALU 19, UNC 17, ARC 16, AFDC 15, ECT 11, RRC 11, other 214 (includes numerous political parties that won 10 or fewer seats and 2 constituencies where voting was halted), independent 16; composition as of 2022 - men 436, women 64, percent of women 12.8%; total Parliament percent of women 14.8%

" + "text": "

Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPRD 22, MLC 14, FR 7, RCD 7, PDC 6, CDC 3, MSR 3, PALU 2, other 18, independent 26; composition as of 2022 - men 83, women 26, percent of women 23.9%

National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPRD 62, UDPS 41, PPPD 29, MSR 27, MLC 22, PALU 19, UNC 17, ARC 16, AFDC 15, ECT 11, RRC 11, other 214 (includes numerous political parties that won 10 or fewer seats and 2 constituencies where voting was halted), independent 16; composition as of 2022 - men 436, women 64, percent of women 12.8%; total Parliament percent of women 14.8%

" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Christian Democrat Party or PDC [Jose ENDUNDO]
Congolese Rally for Democracy or RCD [Azarias RUBERWA]
Convention of Christian Democrats or CDC [NA]
Engagement for Citizenship and Development or ECiDe [Martin FAYULU]
Forces of Renewal or FR [Mbusa NYAMWISI]
Lamuka coalition [Martin FAYULU] (includes ECiDe, MLC, Together for Change, CNB, and Nouvel Elan)
Movement for the Liberation of the Congo or MLC [Jean-Pierre BEMBA]
Nouvel Elan [Adolphe MUZITO]
Our Congo or CNB (\"Congo Na Biso\") [Freddy MATUNGULU]
People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy or PPRD [Henri MOVA Sakanyi]
Social Movement for Renewal or MSR [Pierre LUMBI]
Together for Change (\"Ensemble\") [Moise KATUMBI]
Unified Lumumbist Party or PALU [NA]
Union for the Congolese Nation or UNC [Vital KAMERHE]
Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Felix TSHISEKEDI]" + "text": "Christian Democrat Party or PDC [Jose ENDUNDO]
Congolese Rally for Democracy or RCD [Azarias RUBERWA]
Convention of Christian Democrats or CDC [NA]
Engagement for Citizenship and Development or ECIDE [Martin FAYULU]
Forces of Renewal or FR [Mbusa NYAMWISI]
Lamuka coalition [Martin FAYULU] (includes ECIDE, MLC, Together for Change, CNB, and Nouvel Elan)
Movement for the Liberation of the Congo or MLC [Jean-Pierre BEMBA]
Nouvel Elan [Adolphe MUZITO]
Our Congo or CNB (\"Congo Na Biso\") [Freddy MATUNGULU]
People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy or PPRD [Henri MOVA Sakanyi]
Social Movement for Renewal or MSR [Pierre LUMBI]
Together for Change (\"Ensemble\") [Moise KATUMBI]
Unified Lumumbist Party or PALU [NA]
Union for the Congolese Nation or UNC [Vital KAMERHE]
Union for Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Felix TSHISEKEDI]" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, CEMAC, CEPGL, COMESA, EAC, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LCBC (observer), MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" + "text": "0 (2021 est.) less than 1" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/africa/cm.json b/africa/cm.json index d92c1f91..9f1be596 100644 --- a/africa/cm.json +++ b/africa/cm.json @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ } }, "Religions": { - "text": "Roman Catholic 38.3%, Protestant 25.5%, other Christian 6.9%, Muslim 24.4%, animist 2.2%, other 0.5%, none 2.2% (2018 est.)" + "text": "Christian 70.7% (Roman Catholic 38.3%, Protestant 25.5%, other Christian 6.9%), Muslim 24.4%, animist 2.2%, other 0.5%, none 2.2% (2018 est.)" }, "Demographic profile": { "text": "

Cameroon has a large youth population, with more than 60% of the populace under the age of 25 as of 2020. Fertility is falling but remains at a high level, especially among poor, rural, and uneducated women, in part because of inadequate access to contraception. Life expectancy remains low at about 55 years due to the prevalence of HIV and AIDs and an elevated maternal mortality rate, which has remained high since 1990. Cameroon, particularly the northern region, is vulnerable to food insecurity largely because of government mismanagement, corruption, high production costs, inadequate infrastructure, and natural disasters. Despite economic growth in some regions, poverty is on the rise, and is most prevalent in rural areas, which are especially affected by a shortage of jobs, declining incomes, poor school and health care infrastructure, and a lack of clean water and sanitation. Underinvestment in social safety nets and ineffective public financial management also contribute to Cameroon’s high rate of poverty.  The activities of Boko Haram, other armed groups, and counterinsurgency operations have worsened food insecurity in the Far North region.  

International migration has been driven by unemployment (including fewer government jobs), poverty, the search for educational opportunities, and corruption. The US and Europe are preferred destinations, but, with tighter immigration restrictions in these countries, young Cameroonians are increasingly turning to neighboring states, such as Gabon and Nigeria, South Africa, other parts of Africa, and the Near and Far East. Cameroon’s limited resources make it dependent on UN support to host more than 480,000 refugees and asylum seekers as of December 2022. These refugees and asylum seekers are primarily from the Central African Republic and Nigeria.  Internal and external displacement have grown dramatically in recent years.  Boko Haram's attacks and counterattacks by government forces in the Far North since 2014 have increased the number of internally displaced people.  Armed conflict between separatists and Cameroon's military in the Northwest and Southwest since 2016 have displaced hundreds of thousands of the country's Anglophone minority.

" @@ -402,17 +402,6 @@ "female": { "text": "11 years (2016)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "6.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "6%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "7.3%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -600,7 +589,7 @@ "text": "President Paul BIYA (since 6 November 1982)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Joseph Dion NGUTE (since 4 January 2019); Deputy Prime Minister Amadou ALI (since 2014)" + "text": "Prime Minister Joseph Dion NGUTE (since 4 January 2019)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet proposed by the prime minister, appointed by the president" @@ -620,7 +609,7 @@ "text": "Senate - last held on 12 March 2023 (next to be held in 2028)
National Assembly - last held on 9 February 2020" }, "election results": { - "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - CDPM 100%; composition as of October 2023 - men 69, women 31, percent of women 31%
National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - CPDM 139, UNDP 7, SDF 5, PCRN 5, UDC 4, FSNC 3, MDR 2, Union of Socialist Movements 2; other 13; composition as of October 2023 - men 119, women 61, percent of women 33.9%; note - total Parliament percent of women 31.1%" + "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - CDPM 100%; composition as of October 2023 - men 69, women 31, percent of women 31%

National Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - CPDM 139, UNDP 7, SDF 5, PCRN 5, UDC 4, FSNC 3, MDR 2, Union of Socialist Movements 2; other 13; composition as of October 2023 - men 119, women 61, percent of women 33.9%; note - total Parliament percent of women 31.1%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -628,14 +617,14 @@ "text": "Supreme Court of Cameroon (consists of 9 titular and 6 surrogate judges and organized into judicial, administrative, and audit chambers); Constitutional Council (consists of 11 members)" }, "judge selection and term of office": { - "text": "Supreme Court judges appointed by the president with the advice of the Higher Judicial Council of Cameroon, a body chaired by the president and includes the minister of justice, selected magistrates, and representatives of the National Assembly; judge term NA; Constitutional Council members appointed by the president for single 9-year terms" + "text": "Supreme Court judges appointed by the president with the advice of the Higher Judicial Council of Cameroon, a body chaired by the president and includes the minister of justice, selected magistrates, and representatives of the National Assembly; judge term NA; Constitutional Council members appointed by the president for renewable 6-year terms" }, "subordinate courts": { "text": "Parliamentary Court of Justice (jurisdiction limited to cases involving the president and prime minister); appellate and first instance courts; circuit and magistrates' courts" } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Alliance for Democracy and Development [Marcel YONDO]
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement or CPDM [Paul BIYA]
Cameroon People's Party or CPP [Edith Kah WALLA]
Cameroon Renaissance Movement or MRC [Maurice KAMTO]
Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA]
Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation or PCRN [Cabral LIBII]
Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon or FSNC [Issa Tchiroma BAKARY]
Movement for the Defense of the Republic or MDR [Dakole DAISSALA]
Movement for the Liberation and Development of Cameroon or MLDC [Marcel YONDO]
National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari BELLO BOUBA]
Progressive Movement or MP [Jean-Jacques EKINDI]
Social Democratic Front or SDF [John FRU NDI]
Union of Peoples of Cameroon or UPC [Provisionary Management Bureau] [Cecil ODHIAMBO] 
Union of Socialist Movements NA" + "text": "Alliance for Democracy and Development [Garga Haman ADJI]
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement or CPDM [Paul BIYA]
Cameroon People's Party or CPP [Edith Kah WALLA]
Cameroon Renaissance Movement or MRC [Maurice KAMTO]
Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Hermine Patricia TOMAINO]
Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation or PCRN [Cabral LIBII]
Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon or FSNC [Issa Tchiroma BAKARY]
Movement for the Defense of the Republic or MDR [Paulin DJOWRWE]
Movement for the Liberation and Development of Cameroon or MLDC [Marcel YONDO]
National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari BELLO BOUBA]
Progressive Movement or MP [Jean-Jacques EKINDI]
Social Democratic Front or SDF [Joshua OSIH]
Union of Peoples of Cameroon or UPC [Pierre Baleguel NKOT] 
Union of Socialist Movements [Pierre KWEMO] " }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, C, CEMAC, EITI (compliant country), FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LCBC, MIGA, MNJTF, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNMISS, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" @@ -654,7 +643,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 387-3826" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "cs@cameroonembassyusa.org

https://www.cameroonembassyusa.org/mainFolder/index.html" + "text": "mail@cameroonembassyusa" } }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { @@ -813,17 +802,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "11.81 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "70%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "13%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "17% (2001 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "3.87% (2021 est.)" @@ -1122,7 +1100,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "739,572 (2021 est.)" + "text": "929,007 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "3 (2021 est.)" @@ -1138,7 +1116,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "Cameroon was for many years one of the few countries in Africa with only two competing mobile operators; the investment programs among operators over the next few years will considerably boost mobile broadband services in rural areas of the country, many of which are under served by fixed-line infrastructure; the government has also been supportive, having launched its ‘Cameroon Digital 2020’ program, aimed at improving connectivity nationally; improved submarine and terrestrial cable connectivity has substantially increased international bandwidth, in turn leading to reductions in access prices for consumers; other projects such as Acceleration of the Digital Transformation of Cameroon are aimed at developing the digital economy (2022)" + "text": "Cameroon was for many years one of the few countries in Africa with only two competing mobile operators; the investment programs among operators over the next few years aims to considerably boost mobile broadband services in rural areas of the country, many of which are under served by fixed-line infrastructure; the government has also been supportive, having launched its ‘Cameroon Digital 2020’ program, aimed at improving connectivity nationally; improved submarine and terrestrial cable connectivity has substantially increased international bandwidth, in turn leading to reductions in access prices for consumers; other projects such as Acceleration of the Digital Transformation of Cameroon are aimed at developing the digital economy (2022)" }, "domestic": { "text": "only a little above 3 per 100 persons for fixed-line subscriptions; mobile-cellular usage has increased sharply, reaching a subscribership base of roughly 83 per 100 persons (2021)" @@ -1148,7 +1126,7 @@ } }, "Broadcast media": { - "text": "government maintains tight control over broadcast media; state-owned Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV), broadcasting on both a TV and radio network, was the only officially recognized and fully licensed broadcaster until August 2007, when the government finally issued licenses to 2 private TV broadcasters and 1 private radio broadcaster; about 70 privately owned, unlicensed radio stations operate but are subject to closure at any time; foreign news services required to partner with state-owned national station (2019)" + "text": "government maintains tight control over broadcast media; state-owned Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV), broadcasting on both a TV and radio network, was the only officially recognized and fully licensed broadcaster until August 2007, when the government issued licenses to 2 private TV broadcasters and 1 private radio broadcaster; about 70 privately owned, unlicensed radio stations operate under “administrative tolerance,” meaning the stations could be subject to closure at any time (2019)" }, "Internet country code": { "text": ".cm" @@ -1246,7 +1224,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Cameroon Armed Forces (Forces Armees Camerounaises, FAC): Army (L'Armee de Terre), Navy (Marine Nationale Republique, MNR, includes naval infantry or fusiliers marin), Air Force (Armee de l'Air du Cameroun, AAC), Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bataillons d’Intervention Rapide or BIR), National Gendarmerie, Presidential Guard (2023)", - "note": "note 1: the National Police and the National Gendarmerie are responsible for internal security; the Police report to the General Delegation of National Security, while the Gendarmerie reports to the Secretariat of State for Defense in charge of the Gendarmerie

note 2: the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) maintains its own command and control structure and reports directly to the president; the BIR is structured as a large brigade with up to 9 battalions, detachments, or groups consisting of infantry, airborne/airmobile, amphibious, armored reconnaissance, counterterrorism, and support elements, such as artillery and intelligence; the BIR receives better training, equipment, and pay than regular Army units" + "note": "note 1: the National Police and the National Gendarmerie are responsible for internal security; the Police report to the General Delegation of National Security, while the Gendarmerie reports to the Secretariat of State for Defense in charge of the Gendarmerie

note 2: the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), while part of the Ministry of Defense, maintains its own command and control structure that reports directly to the Presidency; the BIR is structured as a large brigade with up to 9 battalions, detachments, or groups consisting of infantry, airborne/airmobile, amphibious, armored reconnaissance, counterterrorism, and support elements, such as artillery and intelligence; the BIR receives better training, equipment, and pay than regular Army units." }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { @@ -1266,8 +1244,8 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "information varies; approximately 35-40,000 active-duty troops (20-25,000 ground forces, including the Rapid Intervention Battalion/BIR and Presidential Guard; 2,000 Navy; 1,000 Air Force; 12,000 Gendarmerie) (2023)", - "note": "note: the BIR has approximately 5,000 personnel" + "text": "information varies; approximately 45-50,000 active-duty troops (30-35,000 ground forces, including the Rapid Intervention Battalion/BIR and Presidential Guard; 2,000 Navy; 1,000 Air Force; 12,000 Gendarmerie) (2023)", + "note": "note: the BIR has approximately 12,000 personnel" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the FAC inventory includes a wide mix of mostly older or second-hand Chinese, Russian, and Western equipment, with a limited quantity of more modern weapons received in recent years from such countries as China, France, and Russia (2023)" diff --git a/africa/cn.json b/africa/cn.json index 02a48397..1a527d5d 100644 --- a/africa/cn.json +++ b/africa/cn.json @@ -343,17 +343,6 @@ "female": { "text": "11 years (2014)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "21.7% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "21.8%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "21.5%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -693,17 +682,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "219,900 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "80%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20% (1996 est.)" - }, - "industry and services": { - "text": "20% (1996 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "9.45% (2021 est.)" @@ -994,7 +972,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "7,431 (2021 est.)" + "text": "7,370 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "1 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/ct.json b/africa/ct.json index 0ad15a04..6262a008 100644 --- a/africa/ct.json +++ b/africa/ct.json @@ -373,17 +373,6 @@ "female": { "text": "6 years (2012)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "11.8% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "10.6%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "13.1%" - } } }, "Environment": { diff --git a/africa/cv.json b/africa/cv.json index 99089ef8..fc0642bd 100644 --- a/africa/cv.json +++ b/africa/cv.json @@ -348,17 +348,6 @@ "female": { "text": "13 years (2018)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "34.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "29.9%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "40.7%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -1017,7 +1006,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "53,586 (2021 est.)" + "text": "57,020 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "9 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/eg.json b/africa/eg.json index a3c13074..edc5137c 100644 --- a/africa/eg.json +++ b/africa/eg.json @@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "11,030,900 (2021 est.)" + "text": "11.6 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "10 (2021 est.)" @@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ "note": "note: conscripts are estimated to comprise over half of the military, as well as a considerable portion of the Central Security Force" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "1,000 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); (2023)" + "text": "1,000 Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (2023)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF) are responsible for external defense but also have an internal role assisting police and paramilitary security forces during emergencies and in anti-terrorism operations; the EAF also participates in foreign peacekeeping and other security missions, as well as both bilateral and multinational exercises; the military has considerable political power and independence; it has long had a crucial role in Egypt’s politics and has a large stake in the civilian economy, including running banks, businesses, gas stations, shipping lines, and utilities, and producing consumer and industrial goods, importing commodities, and building and managing infrastructure projects, such as bridges, roads, hospitals, and housing; the various enterprises are reportedly profitable enough to make the armed forces largely self-funded

key areas of concern for the EAF include Islamic militant groups operating out of the Sinai Peninsula, regional challenges such as instability in Libya and Yemen, and maritime security; since 2011, the EAF has been conducting operations alongside other security forces in the North Sinai governorate against several militant groups, particularly the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham; since 2014, it has deployed large numbers of troops along its border with Libya and provided air support to the Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen; the Navy in recent years has sought to modernize and expand its capabilities and profile in the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea, including the acquisition of helicopter carriers, modern frigates, and attack submarines; in 2020, the EAF inaugurated a large joint service military base on the Red Sea to secure the country’s southern coasts, protect economic investments and natural resources, and confront security challenges in the Red Sea region

the EAF is the largest and one of the best equipped militaries in the region; the Army’s primary combat forces include approximately 13 divisions, which are mostly armored or mechanized, complemented by some independent armored and infantry brigades; the EAF has approximately 5,000 artillery systems, plus surface-to-surface missile forces and a large special operations command, which includes airborne, airmobile, commando, special forces, and other specialized units; the Navy’s principal warships are approximately 20 frigates and corvettes, eight attack submarines, and two French-built helicopter-capable amphibious assault ships (LHDs); the Air Force has more than 300 French-, Russian-, and US-made fighter and multipurpose fighter aircraft, as well as nearly 100 US- and Russian-produced attack helicopters

Egypt is a major security partner of the US and one of the largest recipients of US military aid in the region; it also has Major Non-NATO Ally status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation

the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) has operated in the Sinai since 1982 as a peacekeeping and monitoring force to supervise the implementation of the security provisions of the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Treaty of Peace; the MFO is an independent international organization, created by agreement between Egypt and Israel; ait is composed of about 1,150 troops from 13 countries; Colombia, Fiji, and the US are the leading providers of troops to the MFO (2023)" diff --git a/africa/ek.json b/africa/ek.json index 82430376..da934919 100644 --- a/africa/ek.json +++ b/africa/ek.json @@ -341,17 +341,6 @@ "female": { "text": "93% (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "18.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "17.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "19.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -984,7 +973,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "11,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "11,389 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/africa/er.json b/africa/er.json index 4e0dc188..7c3eb292 100644 --- a/africa/er.json +++ b/africa/er.json @@ -363,17 +363,6 @@ "female": { "text": "7 years (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "14.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "13.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "16.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -728,14 +717,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "1.675 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "80%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20% (2004 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "8.05% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/gb.json b/africa/gb.json index 17522764..4091dc42 100644 --- a/africa/gb.json +++ b/africa/gb.json @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ "note": "Paul Mba Abessole" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU (suspended), BDEAC, CEMAC, FAO, FZ, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSCA, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU (suspended), BDEAC, CEMAC, FAO, FZ, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSCA, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "31,708 (2021 est.)" + "text": "43,395 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "1 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/gh.json b/africa/gh.json index a74ba524..8452403a 100644 --- a/africa/gh.json +++ b/africa/gh.json @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ "note": "note: Ghana has more than 20 registered parties; included are those which participated in the 2020 general election" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AfDB, ATMIS, AU, C, ECOWAS, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNSOM, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AfDB, ATMIS, AU, C, ECOWAS, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNSOM, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "315,271 (2021 est.)" + "text": "330,016 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "1 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/gv.json b/africa/gv.json index fc29ea29..c0e4593d 100644 --- a/africa/gv.json +++ b/africa/gv.json @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ }, "Constitution": { "history": { - "text": "previous 1958, 1990; latest 2010, which was suspended on 5 September 2021 via a coup d’etat; on 27 September, the Transitional Charter was released, which supersedes the constitution until a new constitution is promulgated" + "text": "previous 1958, 1990; 2010 and a referendum in 2020, which was suspended on 5 September 2021 via a coup d’etat; on 27 September, the Transitional Charter was released, which supersedes the constitution until a new constitution is promulgated" }, "amendments": { "text": "proposed by the National Assembly or by the president of the republic; consideration of proposals requires approval by simple majority vote by the Assembly; passage requires approval in referendum; the president can opt to submit amendments directly to the Assembly, in which case approval requires at least two-thirds majority vote; revised in 2020" @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "0 (2018 est.)" + "text": "0 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "0 (2018 est.)" @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ } }, "Broadcast media": { - "text": "

Government maintains marginal control over broadcast media; single state-run TV station; state-run radio broadcast station also operates several stations in rural areas; a dozen private television stations; a steadily increasing number of privately owned radio stations, nearly all in Conakry, and about a dozen community radio stations; foreign TV programming available via satellite and cable subscription services 

(2022)" + "text": "

Government maintains control over broadcast media; single state-run TV station; state-run radio broadcast station also operates several stations in rural areas; a dozen private television stations; a steadily increasing number of privately owned radio stations, nearly all in Conakry, and about a dozen community radio stations; foreign TV programming available via satellite and cable subscription services 

(2022)" }, "Internet country code": { "text": ".gn" @@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary and selective conscripted service; 9-12 months of service (2023)" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "670 Mali (MINUSMA) (2023)" + "text": "NA (2023)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the Guinean military is a small and lightly armed force that is responsible for external defense, but also has some domestic security responsibilities and has historically been involved in suppressing public protests; the military has undergone some attempts at reform since 2010, but in 2021 the Army’s special forces led a successful coup; the Army has a mix of approximately 10 infantry, light armor, commando, and special forces battalions, as well as a presidential guard force; piracy and natural resource protection in the Gulf of Guinea are key areas of concern for the small Navy, which possesses only a few patrol boats; the Air Force has a handful of serviceable aircraft, including helicopter gunships (2023)" diff --git a/africa/li.json b/africa/li.json index 67416969..4deacd45 100644 --- a/africa/li.json +++ b/africa/li.json @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Liberia-Guinea: none identified

Liberia-Sierra Leone: none identified

" + "text": "

none identified

" }, "Illicit drugs": { "text": "

not a significant transit country for illicit narcotics bound for the United States or Europe; not a key producer of illicit drugs; proximity to major drug transit routes contribute to trafficking cocaine and heroin, to and through Liberia and other West African countries; local drug use involves locally grown cannabis, heroin (mostly smoked), cocaine (snorted), and more recently kush (Cannabis Indic’s type flower), mixed with different substances including heroin or synthetic DMT

" diff --git a/africa/lt.json b/africa/lt.json index 1128f7d7..8bd81b15 100644 --- a/africa/lt.json +++ b/africa/lt.json @@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "9,559 (2021 est.)" + "text": "6,744 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ "text": "the LDF has a small inventory of older and second-hand equipment from a variety of countries (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18-24 years of age for voluntary military service for both men and women (women can serve in combat arms); no conscription (2023)" + "text": "18-30 years of age for voluntary military service for both men and women (women can serve in combat arms); no conscription (2023)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "Lesotho's declared policy for its military is the maintenance of the country's sovereignty and the preservation of internal security; in practice, external security is guaranteed by South Africa; the LDF is a small force comprised of about a half dozen infantry companies; it began in 1964 as the Police Mobile Unit (PMU); the PMU was designated as the Lesotho Paramilitary Force in 1980 and became the Royal Lesotho Defense Force in 1986; it was subsequently renamed the Lesotho Defense Force in 1993 (2023)" @@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Lesotho-South Africa: South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to control smuggling, poaching, and illegal migration

 

" + "text": "

Lesotho-South Africa: South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, as well as Mozambique and, Zimbabwe, to assist with controlling cross-border smuggling, poaching, and illegal migration

 

" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/ly.json b/africa/ly.json index 8e6de224..0b352a5b 100644 --- a/africa/ly.json +++ b/africa/ly.json @@ -121,18 +121,18 @@ } }, "Ethnic groups": { - "text": "Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Italian, Maltese, Pakistani, Tunisian, and Turkish)" + "text": "Amazigh and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Italian, Maltese, Pakistani, Tunisian, and Turkish)" }, "Languages": { "Languages": { - "text": "Arabic (official), Italian, English (all widely understood in the major cities); Berber (Nafusi, Ghadamis, Suknah, Awjilah, Tamasheq)" + "text": "Arabic (official), Italian, English (all widely understood in the major cities); Tamazight (Nafusi, Ghadamis, Suknah, Awjilah, Tamasheq)" }, "major-language sample(s)": { "text": "
كتاب حقائق العالم، المصدر الذي لا يمكن الاستغناء عنه للمعلومات الأساسية (Arabic)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information." } }, "Religions": { - "text": "Muslim (official; virtually all Sunni) 96.6%, Christian 2.7%, Buddhist <1%, Hindu <1%, Jewish <1%, folk religion <1%, other  <1%, unafilliated <1% (2020 est.)", + "text": "Muslim (official; virtually all Sunni) 96.6%, Christian 2.7%, Buddhist <1%, Hindu <1%, Jewish <1%, folk religion <1%, other  <1%, unaffiliated <1% (2020 est.)", "note": "note: non-Sunni Muslims include native Ibadhi Muslims (<1% of the population) and foreign Muslims" }, "Demographic profile": { @@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1.6 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,218,180 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "23 (2021 est.)" @@ -1097,8 +1097,8 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "the Government of National Unity (GNU) has access to various ground, air, and naval/coast guard forces comprised of a mix of formations and equipment from the QADHAFI regime, semi-regular and nominally integrated units, tribal armed groups/militias, civilian volunteers, and foreign private military contractors and mercenaries; the GNU has a Ministry of Defense, but has limited control over its security forces

the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), under de facto LNA commander Khalifa HAFTER, also includes various ground, air, and naval forces comprised of semi-regular military personnel, militias, and foreign private military contractors and mercenaries; the LNA operates independently from the GNU and exerts influence throughout eastern, central, and southern Libya (2023)", - "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 receive government salaries but lack formal training, supervision, or consistent accountability" + "text": "the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) has access to various ground, air, and naval/coast guard forces comprised of a mix of formations and equipment from the QADHAFI regime, semi-regular and nominally integrated units, tribal armed groups/militias, civilian volunteers, and foreign private military contractors and mercenaries; the GNU has a Ministry of Defense, but has limited control over its security forces

the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), under de facto LNA commander Khalifa HAFTER, also includes various ground, air, and naval forces comprised of semi-regular military personnel, militias, and foreign private military contractors and mercenaries; the LNA operates independently from the GNU and exerts influence throughout eastern, central, and southern Libya (2023)", + "note": "note 1: the Stabilization Support Apparatus (SSA) is a state-funded militia established in January 2021 by the GNA; 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 receive government salaries but lack formal training, supervision, or consistent accountability" }, "Military expenditures": { "text": "not available" @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Libya-Algeria: dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32,000 sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria

Libya-Chad: various Chadian rebels from the Aozou region reside in southern Libya; Libyan forces clashed with Chadian rebels in September 2021

Libya-Egypt: none identified

Libya-Niger: the boundary is poorly defined but has never been disputed by either country

Libya-Sudan: none identified

Libya-Tunisia: none identified

" + "text": "

Libya-Algeria: while dormant, Libya has long claimed about 32,000 sq km in southeastern Algeria south of the Libyan town of Ghat  

Libya-Chad: various Chadian rebels from the Aozou region reside in southern Libya; Libyan forces clashed with Chadian rebels in September 2021

Libya-Egypt: none identified

Libya-Niger: the boundary is poorly defined but has never been disputed by either country

Libya-Sudan: none identified

Libya-Tunisia: none identified

" }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { diff --git a/africa/ma.json b/africa/ma.json index a7983700..0c766ede 100644 --- a/africa/ma.json +++ b/africa/ma.json @@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "26,271 (2021 est.)" + "text": "25,761 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Madagascar-France: claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island (all administered by France); the vegetated drying cays of Banc du Geyser, which were claimed by Madagascar in 1976, also fall within the EEZ claim of France

Madagascar-Comoros: the vegetated drying cays of Banc du Geyser, which were claimed by Madagascar in 1976, also fall within the EEZ claim of the Comoros

" + "text": "

Madagascar-France: claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island (all administered by France; talks with France over the claims have occurred in 1990, 2016, and 2019); the vegetated drying cays of Banc du Geyser, which were claimed by Madagascar in 1976, also fall within the EEZ claim of France

Madagascar-Comoros: the vegetated drying cays of Banc du Geyser, which were claimed by Madagascar in 1976, also fall within the EEZ claim of the Comoros

" }, "Trafficking in persons": { "tier rating": { diff --git a/africa/mi.json b/africa/mi.json index 4e062c04..2312a315 100644 --- a/africa/mi.json +++ b/africa/mi.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "

Malawi shares its name with the Chewa word for flames and is linked to the Maravi people from whom the Chewa language originated. The Maravi settled in what is now Malawi around 1400 during one of the later waves of Bantu migration across central and southern Africa. Several of Malawi’s ethnic groups trace their origins to different Maravi lineages. A powerful Maravi kingdom, established around 1500, reached its zenith around 1700, when it controlled what is now southern and central Malawi as well as portions of neighboring Mozambique and Zambia before beginning to decline because of destabilization from the escalating global trade in enslaved people. In the early 1800s, widespread conflict in southern Africa displaced various ethnic Ngoni groups, some of which moved into Malawi and further undermined the Maravi. Members of the Yao ethnic group - which had long traded with Malawi from Mozambique - introduced Islam and began to settle in Malawi in significant numbers in the mid-1800s; in the late 1800s, members of the Lomwe ethnic group also moved into southern Malawi from Mozambique. British missionary and trading activity increased in the area around Lake Nyasa in the mid-1800s, and Britain declared a protectorate, called British Central Africa, over what is now Malawi in 1891 and eliminated various political entities that sought to retain their autonomy over the subsequent decade. The British renamed the territory Nyasaland in 1907 and it was part of the colonial Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - including present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe - from 1953 to 1963 before gaining independence as Malawi in 1964.

Hastings Kamuzu BANDA served as prime minister at independence and, when the country became a republic in 1966, he became president. He later instituted one-party rule under his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and was declared president for life. After three decades of one-party rule, the country held multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections in 1994 under a provisional constitution that came into full effect the following year. Bakili MULUZI of the United Democratic Front party became the first freely elected president of Malawi when he defeated BANDA at the polls in 1994; he won reelection in 1999. President Bingu wa MUTHARIKA was elected in 2004 and subsequently started his own party, the Democratic Progressive Party, in 2005. MUTHARIKA was reelected to a second term in 2009. He died abruptly in 2012 and was succeeded by Vice President Joyce BANDA, who had earlier started her own party, the People's Party. MUTHARIKA's brother, Peter MUTHARIKA, defeated BANDA in the election in 2014. Peter MUTHARIKA was reelected in a disputed election in 2019 that resulted in countrywide protests. The courts ordered a new the election, and in 2020 Lazarus CHAKWERA of the MCP was elected president after defeating MUTHARIKA as head of a coalition of opposition parties. Population growth, increasing pressure on agricultural lands, corruption, and the scourge of HIV/AIDS pose major problems for Malawi.

" + "text": "

Malawi shares its name with the Chewa word for flames and is linked to the Maravi people from whom the Chewa language originated. The Maravi settled in what is now Malawi around 1400 during one of the later waves of Bantu migration across central and southern Africa. Several of Malawi’s ethnic groups trace their origins to different Maravi lineages. A powerful Maravi kingdom, established around 1500, reached its zenith around 1700, when it controlled what is now southern and central Malawi as well as portions of neighboring Mozambique and Zambia before beginning to decline because of destabilization from the escalating global trade in enslaved people. In the early 1800s, widespread conflict in southern Africa displaced various ethnic Ngoni groups, some of which moved into Malawi and further undermined the Maravi. Members of the Yao ethnic group - which had long traded with Malawi from Mozambique - introduced Islam and began to settle in Malawi in significant numbers in the mid-1800s; in the late 1800s, members of the Lomwe ethnic group also moved into southern Malawi from Mozambique. British missionary and trading activity increased in the area around Lake Nyasa in the mid-1800s, and Britain declared a protectorate, called British Central Africa, over what is now Malawi in 1891 and eliminated various political entities that sought to retain their autonomy over the subsequent decade. The British renamed the territory Nyasaland in 1907 and it was part of the colonial Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - including present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe - from 1953 to 1963 before gaining independence as Malawi in 1964.

Hastings Kamuzu BANDA served as prime minister at independence and, when the country became a republic in 1966, he became president. He later instituted one-party rule under his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and was declared president for life. After three decades of one-party rule, the country held multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections in 1994 under a provisional constitution that came into full effect the following year. Bakili MULUZI of the United Democratic Front party became the first freely elected president of Malawi when he defeated BANDA at the polls in 1994; he won reelection in 1999. President Bingu wa MUTHARIKA was elected in 2004 under the United Democratic Front and subsequently started his own party, the Democratic Progressive Party, in 2005. MUTHARIKA was reelected to a second term in 2009. He died abruptly in 2012 and was succeeded by Vice President Joyce BANDA, who had earlier started her own party, the People's Party. MUTHARIKA's brother, Peter MUTHARIKA, defeated BANDA in the election in 2014. Peter MUTHARIKA was reelected in a disputed election in 2019 that resulted in countrywide protests. The courts ordered a new the election, and in 2020 Lazarus CHAKWERA of the MCP was elected president after defeating MUTHARIKA as head of a coalition of opposition parties. Population growth, increasing pressure on agricultural lands, corruption, and the scourge of HIV/AIDS pose major problems for Malawi.

" } }, "Geography": { @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ "text": "Chewa 34.3%, Lomwe 18.8%, Yao 13.2%, Ngoni 10.4%, Tumbuka 9.2%, Sena 3.8%, Mang'anja 3.2%, Tonga 1.8%, Nyanja 1.8%, Nkhonde 1%, other 2.2%, foreign 0.3% (2018 est.)" }, "Languages": { - "text": "English (official), Chewa (common), Lambya, Lomwe, Ngoni, Nkhonde, Nyakyusa, Nyanja, Sena, Tonga, Tumbuka, Yao", + "text": "English (official), Chewa (dominant), Lambya, Lomwe, Ngoni, Nkhonde, Nyakyusa, Nyanja, Sena, Tonga, Tumbuka, Yao", "note": "note: Chewa and Nyanja are mutually intelligible dialects; Nkhonde and Nyakyusa are mutually intelligible dialects" }, "Religions": { @@ -393,17 +393,6 @@ "female": { "text": "11 years (2011)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "9.9% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "7.6%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "12.2%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -554,7 +543,7 @@ }, "Constitution": { "history": { - "text": "previous 1953 (preindependence), 1964, 1966; latest drafted January to May 1994, approved 16 May 1994, entered into force 18 May 1995" + "text": "previous 1953 (pre-independence), 1964, 1966; latest drafted January to May 1994, approved 16 May 1994, entered into force 18 May 1995" }, "amendments": { "text": "proposed by the National Assembly; passage of amendments affecting constitutional articles, including the sovereignty and territory of the state, fundamental constitutional principles, human rights, voting rights, and the judiciary, requires majority approval in a referendum and majority approval by the Assembly; passage of other amendments requires at least two-thirds majority vote of the Assembly; amended several times, last in 2017" @@ -626,7 +615,7 @@ "text": "Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [Peter MUTHARIKA]
Malawi Congress Party or MCP [Lazarus CHAKWERA]
People's Party or PP [Joyce BANDA]
United Democratic Front or UDF
United Transformation Movement or UTM [Saulos CHILIMA]" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -785,17 +774,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "8.551 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "76.9%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "4.1%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "19% (2013 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "7.02% (2021 est.)" @@ -1088,7 +1066,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "12,465 (2021 est.)" + "text": "9,456 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" @@ -1104,7 +1082,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "with few resources, Malawi is one of the world’s least developed countries; there has been little investment in fixed-line telecom infrastructure, and as a result, the country’s two mobile networks Airtel Malawi and TMN provide the vast majority of connections for voice and data services; both operators have invested in LTE technologies to improve the quality of data services; the lack of market competition, together with limited international internet bandwidth, has also resulted in some of the highest prices for telecom services in the region; the government in late 2020 secured an average 80% reduction in the cost of data bundles offered by the MNOs; following continuing customer complaints, the regulator in mid-2021 ensured that costs were again reduced, this time by about a third; mobile penetration remains low in comparison to the regional average and so there are considerable opportunities for further growth, particularly in the mobile broadband sector; low penetration is partly attributed to the lack of competition, though there is the possibility that a new play come launch services by the end of 2022; the internet sector is reasonably competitive, with about 50 licensed ISPs, though the limited availability and high cost of international bandwidth has held back growth and kept broadband access prices among the highest in the region; these limitations are being addressed, with the second phase of the national fiber backbone having started in mid-2021 (2022)" + "text": "with few resources, Malawi is one of the world’s least developed countries; there has been little investment in fixed-line telecom infrastructure, and as a result, the country’s two mobile networks Airtel Malawi and TMN provide the vast majority of connections for voice and data services; both operators have invested in LTE technologies to improve the quality of data services; the lack of market competition, together with limited international internet bandwidth, has also resulted in some of the highest prices for telecom services in the region; the government in late 2020 secured an average 80% reduction in the cost of data bundles offered by the MNOs; following continuing customer complaints, the regulator in mid-2021 ensured that costs were again reduced, this time by about a third; mobile penetration remains low in comparison to the regional average and so there are considerable opportunities for further growth, particularly in the mobile broadband sector, though there is the possibility that a new play come launch services by the end of 2022; the internet sector is reasonably competitive, with about 50 licensed ISPs, though the limited availability and high cost of international bandwidth has held back growth and kept broadband access prices among the highest in the region; these limitations are being addressed, with the second phase of the national fiber backbone having started in mid-2021 (2022)" }, "domestic": { "text": "limited fixed-line subscribership less than 1 per 100 households; mobile-cellular subscribership roughly 60 per 100 households (2021)" @@ -1195,8 +1173,8 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Malawi Defense Force (MDF): Army, Maritime Force, Air Force, National Service (reserve force) (2023)", - "note": "note: the MDF reports directly to the president as commander in chief; the Malawi Ministry of Defense was abolished in 2011; the Malawi Police Service is under the Ministry of Homeland Security" + "text": "Malawi Defense Force (MDF): Land Forces (Army), Maritime Force, Air Force, National Service (reserve force) (2023)", + "note": "note: the MDF reports directly to the president as commander in chief; the Malawi Police Service is under the Ministry of Homeland Security" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { @@ -1222,10 +1200,10 @@ "text": "the MDF's inventory is comprised of mostly obsolescent or secondhand equipment originating from such countries as France and South Africa; in recent years, it has received small amounts of armaments from a few countries, including China (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18-30 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; high school equivalent required for enlisted recruits and college equivalent for officer recruits; initial engagement is 7 years for enlisted personnel and 10 years for officers (2023)" + "text": "18-24 years of age for men and women for voluntary military service; high school equivalent required for enlisted recruits and college equivalent for officer recruits; initial engagement is 7 years for enlisted personnel and 10 years for officers (2023)" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "750 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) (2023)" + "text": "

850 military deployments to the DRC under MONUSCO in 2023. 

 

(2023)" }, "Military - note": { "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)" @@ -1233,7 +1211,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Malawi-Mozambique: the two countries have held exercises to reaffirm boundaries a number of times

Malawi-Tanzania: dispute with Tanzania over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River; Malawi contends that the entire lake up to the Tanzanian shoreline is its territory, while Tanzania claims the border is in the center of the lake; the conflict was reignited in 2012 when Malawi awarded a license to a British company for oil exploration in the lake

Malawi-Zambia: border demarcation was completed in 2011; in 2018, the redemarcation exercise determined that some parts of Malawi actually belonged to Zambia

 

" + "text": "

Malawi-Mozambique: the two countries have held exercises to reaffirm boundaries a number of times

Malawi-Tanzania: dispute with Tanzania over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River; Malawi contends that the entire lake up to the Tanzanian shoreline is its territory, while Tanzania claims the border is in the center of the lake; the conflict was reignited in 2012 when Malawi awarded a license to a British company for oil exploration in the lake

" }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { diff --git a/africa/ml.json b/africa/ml.json index 68a3caa2..cdd172c1 100644 --- a/africa/ml.json +++ b/africa/ml.json @@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "301,055 (2021 est.)" + "text": "306,900 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "1 (2021 est.)" @@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ "text": "note: until announcing its withdrawal in May of 2022, Mali was part of a five-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G5 Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger; Mali had committed 1,100 troops and 200 gendarmes to the force" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the FAMa is responsible for defense of the country’s sovereignty and territory, but also has some domestic security duties, including the maintenance of public order and support to law enforcement if required, as well as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations; it also participates in socio-economic development projects; the military has traditionally played a large role in Mali’s politics; prior to the coup in August 2020 and military takeover in May 2021, it had intervened in the political arena at least five times since the country gained independence in 1960; two attempts failed (1976 and 1978), while three succeeded in overturning civilian rule (1968, 1991, and 2012)

the FAMa and other security forces are actively engaged in operations against several insurgent/terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS), as well as other rebel groups, communal militias, and criminal bands spread across the central, northern, and southern regions of the country; the government is reportedly in control of only an estimated 10-20% of the country's central and northern territories, and attacks are increasing in the more heavily populated south, including around the capital Bamako; the Macina Liberation Front (FLM), part of the Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) coalition of al-Qa'ida-linked terror groups, has played a large role in a surge in violence in Mali’s central and southern regions; in the north, ISIS in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS) has regained strength in recent years

the FAMa and the remainder of the security forces collapsed in 2012 during the fighting against Tuareg rebels and Islamic militants and have since been rebuilt with considerable external assistance, including the EU, France, and the UN; for example, the EU Training Mission in Mali (EUTM) from 2013-2022 trained as many as 15,000 Malian soldiers and 8 combined arms battalions/battlegroups (Groupement Tactique InterArmes, GTIA), each of which was structured to be self-sufficient with its own motorized/mechanized infantry, light armor, commandos, artillery, engineers, and other support forces; EUTM suspended its training program in 2022, citing issues with the ruling military government, including human rights abuses and the presence of Russian private military contractors; over the same period, the French military provided considerable assistance to the Malian security forces and conducted counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations in Mali; the French suspended operations in 2021 and in August 2022 withdrew the last of its forces while also citing issues with the military government; the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has operated in the country since 2013 with the mission of providing security, rebuilding Malian security forces, protecting civilians, supporting national political dialogue, and assisting in the reestablishment of Malian government authority; however, in June 2023, the UN Security Council voted to end the MINUSMA mission after the ruling junta demanded the withdrawal of foreign forces and aligned itself closer to Russia; the MINUSMA mission officially ended on 11 December 2023 and nearly all troops were withdrawn, although a “liquidation phase” involving activities such as handing over remaining equipment to local authorities will stretch into 2024
 
in addition to the EU-trained GTIAs, the Army has commandos and special forces, as well as recently created motorcycle-mounted reconnaissance units; the Air Force has small numbers of combat aircraft and helicopters, as well as a few armed UAVs; the Gendarmerie and National Guard field company-sized paramilitary units, including camel-mounted forces in the National Guard; they also have special anti-terrorism and intervention forces

the military government has increased security ties with Russia; Russia has provided military equipment, and in December 2021, Mali contracted with a Russian private military company to provide training for local armed forces and security to senior Malian officials; the contractors have also participated in security operations and been accused of war crimes; as of 2023, there were an estimated 1,000 Russian military contractors in Mali (2023)" + "text": "the FAMa is responsible for defense of the country’s sovereignty and territory, but also has some domestic security duties, including the maintenance of public order and support to law enforcement if required, as well as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations; it also participates in socio-economic development projects; the military has traditionally played a large role in Mali’s politics; prior to the coup in August 2020 and military takeover in May 2021, it had intervened in the political arena at least five times since the country gained independence in 1960; two attempts failed (1976 and 1978), while three succeeded in overturning civilian rule (1968, 1991, and 2012)

the FAMa and other security forces are actively engaged in operations against several insurgent/terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS), as well as other rebel groups, communal militias, and criminal bands spread across the central, northern, and southern regions of the country; the government is reportedly in control of only an estimated 10-20% of the country's central and northern territories, and attacks are increasing in the more heavily populated south, including around the capital Bamako; the Macina Liberation Front (FLM), part of the Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) coalition of al-Qa'ida-linked terror groups, has played a large role in a surge in violence in Mali’s central and southern regions; in the north, ISIS in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS) has regained strength in recent years

the FAMa and the remainder of the security forces collapsed in 2012 during the fighting against Tuareg rebels and Islamic militants and have since been rebuilt with considerable external assistance, including the EU, France, and the UN; for example, the EU Training Mission in Mali (EUTM) from 2013-2022 trained as many as 15,000 Malian soldiers and eight combined arms battalions/battlegroups (Groupement Tactique InterArmes, GTIA), each of which was structured to be self-sufficient with its own motorized/mechanized infantry, light armor, commandos, artillery, engineers, and other support forces; EUTM suspended its training program in 2022, citing issues with the ruling military government, including human rights abuses and the presence of Russian private military contractors; over the same period, the French military provided considerable assistance to the Malian security forces and conducted counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations in Mali; the French suspended operations in 2021 and in August 2022 withdrew the last of its forces while also citing issues with the military government; the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has operated in the country since 2013 with the mission of providing security, rebuilding Malian security forces, protecting civilians, supporting national political dialogue, and assisting in the reestablishment of Malian government authority; however, in June 2023, the UN Security Council voted to end the MINUSMA mission after the ruling junta demanded the withdrawal of foreign forces and aligned itself closer to Russia; the MINUSMA mission officially ended on 11 December 2023, although a “liquidation phase” involving activities such as handing over remaining equipment to local authorities will stretch into 2024
 
in addition to the EU-trained GTIAs, the Army has commandos and special forces, as well as recently created motorcycle-mounted reconnaissance units; the Air Force has small numbers of combat aircraft and helicopters, as well as a few armed UAVs; the Gendarmerie and National Guard field company-sized paramilitary units, including camel-mounted forces in the National Guard; they also have special anti-terrorism and intervention forces

the military government has increased security ties with Russia; Russia has provided military equipment, and in December 2021, Mali contracted with a Russian private military company to provide training for local armed forces and security to senior Malian officials; the contractors have also participated in security operations and been accused of war crimes; as of 2023, there were an estimated 1,000 Russian military contractors in Mali (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/africa/mo.json b/africa/mo.json index 8caa27c5..82eebafa 100644 --- a/africa/mo.json +++ b/africa/mo.json @@ -126,12 +126,12 @@ } }, "Ethnic groups": { - "text": "Arab-Berber 99%, other 1%", + "text": "Arab-Amazigh 99%, other 1%", "note": "note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara" }, "Languages": { "Languages": { - "text": "Arabic (official), Berber languages (Tamazight (official), Tachelhit, Tarifit), French (often the language of business, government, and diplomacy); note - the proportion of Berber speakers is disputed" + "text": "Arabic (official), Tamazight languages (Tamazight (official), Tachelhit, Tarifit), French (often the language of business, government, and diplomacy); note - the proportion of Tamazight speakers is disputed" }, "major-language sample(s)": { "text": "
كتاب ديال لحقائق متاع العالم، احسن مصدر متاع المعلومات الأساسية (Arabic)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information." @@ -402,18 +402,6 @@ "text": "14 years (2021)" }, "note": "note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara" - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "27.2% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "26.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "28.7%" - }, - "note": "note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara" } }, "Environment": { @@ -809,17 +797,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "11.814 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "39.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20.3%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "40.5% (2014 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "11.47% (2021 est.)" @@ -1109,7 +1086,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "2,460,155 (2021 est.)" + "text": "2,645,109 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "7 (2021 est.)" @@ -1245,7 +1222,7 @@ "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { "text": "Royal Armed Forces (FAR): Royal Moroccan Army (includes the Moroccan Royal Guard), Royal Moroccan Navy (includes Coast Guard, marines), Royal Moroccan Air Force; Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie (2023)", - "note": "note 1: the Moroccan Royal Guard is officially part of the Royal Moroccan Army, but is under the direct operational control of the Royal Military Household of His Majesty the King; it provides for the security and safety of the King and royal family; it was established in the 11th century and is considered one of the world's oldest active units still in military service

note 2: Morocco's security apparatus includes several police and paramilitary organizations with overlapping authority; the National Police (Ministry of Interior) manages internal law enforcement in cities; the Royal Gendarmerie (Administration of National Defense) is responsible for law enforcement in rural regions and on national highways; the Gendarmerie operates mobile and fixed checkpoints along the roads in border areas and at the entrances to major municipalities; it also has a counterterrorism role; the Auxiliary Forces (Ministry of Interior) provide support to the Gendarmerie and National Police; it includes a Mobile Intervention Corps, a motorized paramilitary security force that supplements the military and the police as needed" + "note": "note 1: the Moroccan Royal Guard is officially part of the Royal Moroccan Army, but is under the direct operational control of the Royal Military Household of His Majesty the King; it provides for the security and safety of the King and royal family; it was established in the 11th century and is considered one of the world's oldest active units still in military service

note 2: Morocco's security apparatus includes several police and paramilitary organizations with overlapping authority; the National Police (DGSN; Ministry of Interior) manages internal law enforcement in cities; the Royal Gendarmerie (Administration of National Defense) is responsible for law enforcement in rural regions and on national highways; the Gendarmerie operates mobile and fixed checkpoints along the roads in border areas and at the entrances to major municipalities; it also has a counterterrorism role; the Auxiliary Forces (Ministry of Interior) provide support to the Gendarmerie and National Police; it includes a Mobile Intervention Corps, a motorized paramilitary security force that supplements the military and the police as needed" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { diff --git a/africa/mp.json b/africa/mp.json index 2c5d4269..02394174 100644 --- a/africa/mp.json +++ b/africa/mp.json @@ -350,17 +350,6 @@ "female": { "text": "16 years (2017)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "25.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "19.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "32.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -728,17 +717,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "597,900 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "8%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "29.8%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "62.2% (2014 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "7.41% (2021 est.)" @@ -1028,7 +1006,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "469,100 (2021 est.)" + "text": "462,100 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "36 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/mr.json b/africa/mr.json index 4195f194..2cbcc4d7 100644 --- a/africa/mr.json +++ b/africa/mr.json @@ -128,11 +128,11 @@ } }, "Ethnic groups": { - "text": "Black Moors (Haratines - Arabic-speaking descendants of African origin who are or were enslaved by White Moors) 40%, White Moors (of Arab-Berber descent, known as Beydane) 30%, Sub-Saharan Mauritanians (non-Arabic speaking, largely resident in or originating from the Senegal River Valley, including Halpulaar, Fulani, Soninke, Wolof, and Bambara ethnic groups) 30%" + "text": "Black Moors (Haratines - Arabic-speaking descendants of African origin who are or were enslaved by White Moors) 40%, White Moors (of Arab-Amazigh descent, known as Beydane) 30%, Sub-Saharan Mauritanians (non-Arabic speaking, largely resident in or originating from the Senegal River Valley, including Halpulaar, Fulani, Soninke, Wolof, and Bambara ethnic groups) 30%" }, "Languages": { "Languages": { - "text": "Arabic (official and national), Pular, Soninke, Wolof (all national languages), French; note - the spoken Arabic in Mauritania differs considerably from the Modern Standard Arabic used for official written purposes or in the media; the Mauritanian dialect, which incorporates many Berber words, is referred to as Hassaniya" + "text": "Arabic (official and national), Pular, Soninke, Wolof (all national languages), French; note - the spoken Arabic in Mauritania differs considerably from the Modern Standard Arabic used for official written purposes or in the media; the Mauritanian dialect, which incorporates many Tamazight words, is referred to as Hassaniya" }, "major-language sample(s)": { "text": "
كتاب حقائق العالم، المصدر الذي لا يمكن الاستغناء عنه للمعلومات الأساسية (Arabic)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information." @@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "58,094 (2021 est.)" + "text": "47,503 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "1 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/africa/ng.json b/africa/ng.json index 62e2219f..b3cbe464 100644 --- a/africa/ng.json +++ b/africa/ng.json @@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "58,000 (2021)" + "text": "58,000 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/africa/ni.json b/africa/ni.json index 0c68483b..088e80c2 100644 --- a/africa/ni.json +++ b/africa/ni.json @@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "106,385 (2021 est.)" + "text": "96,996 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/africa/pu.json b/africa/pu.json index d6b14e6a..a7afabc0 100644 --- a/africa/pu.json +++ b/africa/pu.json @@ -532,10 +532,10 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President Umaro Sissoko EMBALO (since 27 February 2020); note - President EMBALO was declared winner of the 29 December 2019 runoff presidential election by the electoral commission, in late February 2020, EMBALO inaugurated himself with only military leadership present, even though the Supreme Court of Justice had yet to rule on an electoral litigation appeal lodged by his political rival Domingos Simoes PEREIRA" + "text": "President Umaro Sissoco EMBALO (since 27 February 2020); note - President EMBALO was declared winner of the 29 December 2019 runoff presidential election by the electoral commission, in late February 2020, EMBALO inaugurated himself with only military leadership present, even though the Supreme Court of Justice had yet to rule on an electoral litigation appeal lodged by his political rival Domingos Simoes PEREIRA" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Rui Duarte DE BARROS (since 20 December 2023) note- on 4 December 2023 the president dissolved the parliament" + "text": "Prime Minister Rui Duarte DE BARROS (since 27 December 2023) note- on 4 December 2023 the president dissolved the parliament" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet nominated by the prime minister, appointed by the president" @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador Mike RAYNOR (since 20 April 2022)" + "text": "Ambassador Michael RAYNOR (since 20 April 2022)" }, "mailing address": { "text": "2080 Bissau Place, Washington DC  20521-2080" diff --git a/africa/se.json b/africa/se.json index 55852132..c703a8cc 100644 --- a/africa/se.json +++ b/africa/se.json @@ -347,17 +347,6 @@ "female": { "text": "16 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "16.5% (2020 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "17.5%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "15.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -717,17 +706,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "51,000 (2018 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "3%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "23%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "74% (2006)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2017": { "text": "3% (2017 est.)" diff --git a/africa/sf.json b/africa/sf.json index 55614a1b..be3e9b32 100644 --- a/africa/sf.json +++ b/africa/sf.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "

Some of the earliest human remains in the fossil record are found in South Africa. By about A.D. 500, Bantu speaking groups began settling into what is now northeastern South Africa displacing Khoisan speaking groups to the southwest. Dutch traders landed at the southern tip of present-day South Africa in 1652 and established a stopover point on the spice route between the Netherlands and the Far East, founding the city of Cape Town. After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the settlers of Dutch descent (Afrikaners, also called \"Boers\" (farmers) at the time) trekked north to found their own republics, Transvaal and Orange Free State. In the 1820s, several decades of wars began as the Zulus expanded their territory, moving out of what is today southeastern South Africa and clashing with other indigenous peoples and with expanding European settlements during a period known as the Mfecane. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration from Europe.

The Anglo-Zulu War (1879) resulted in the incorporation of the Zulu kingdom's territory into the British Empire. Subsequently, the Afrikaner republics were incorporated into the British Empire after their defeat in the Second South African War (1899-1902). However, the British and the Afrikaners ruled together beginning in 1910 under the Union of South Africa, which became a republic in 1961 after a Whites-only referendum. In 1948, the National Party was voted into power and instituted a policy of apartheid – billed as \"separate development\" of the races - which favored the White minority and suppressed the Black majority and other non-White groups. The African National Congress (ANC) led the resistance to apartheid and many top ANC leaders, such as Nelson MANDELA, spent decades in South Africa's prisons. Internal protests and insurgency, as well as boycotts by some Western nations and institutions, led to the regime's eventual willingness to unban the ANC and negotiate a peaceful transition to majority rule.

The first multi-racial elections in 1994 following the end of apartheid ushered in majority rule under an ANC-led government. South Africa has since struggled to address apartheid-era imbalances in wealth, housing, education, and health care under successive administrations. Jacob ZUMA became president in 2009 and was reelected in 2014, but resigned in February 2018 after numerous corruption scandals and gains by opposition parties in municipal elections in 2016. His successor, Cyril RAMAPHOSA, has made some progress in reigning in corruption, though many challenges persist. In May 2019 national elections, the country’s sixth since the end of apartheid, the ANC won a majority of parliamentary seats, delivering RAMAPHOSA a five-year term. RAMAPHOSA was reelected ANC leader in 2022 ahead of national elections scheduled for 2024.

" + "text": "

Some of the earliest human remains in the fossil record are found in South Africa. By about A.D. 500, Bantu speaking groups began settling into what is now northeastern South Africa displacing Khoisan speaking groups to the southwest. Dutch traders landed at the southern tip of present-day South Africa in 1652 and established a stopover point on the spice route between the Netherlands and the Far East, founding the city of Cape Town. After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the settlers of Dutch descent (Afrikaners, also called \"Boers\" (farmers) at the time) trekked north to found their own republics, Transvaal and Orange Free State. In the 1820s, several decades of wars began as the Zulus expanded their territory, moving out of what is today southeastern South Africa and clashing with other indigenous peoples and with expanding European settlements. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred mass immigration predominately from Europe.

The Anglo-Zulu War (1879) resulted in the incorporation of the Zulu kingdom's territory into the British Empire. Subsequently, the Afrikaner republics were incorporated into the British Empire after their defeat in the Second South African War (1899-1902). However, the British and the Afrikaners ruled together beginning in 1910 under the Union of South Africa, which left the British Commonwealth to become a fully self-governing republic in 1961 after a Whites-only referendum. In 1948, the National Party was voted into power and instituted a policy of apartheid – billed as \"separate development\" of the races - which favored the White minority and suppressed the Black majority and other non-White groups. The African National Congress (ANC) led the resistance to apartheid and many top ANC leaders, such as Nelson MANDELA, spent decades in South Africa's prisons. Internal protests and insurgency, as well as boycotts by some Western nations and institutions, led to the regime's eventual willingness to unban the ANC and negotiate a peaceful transition to majority rule.

The first multi-racial elections in 1994 following the end of apartheid ushered in majority rule under an ANC-led government. South Africa has since struggled to address apartheid-era imbalances in wealth, housing, education, and health care under successive administrations. Cyril RAMAPHOSA, has made some progress in reigning in corruption, though many challenges persist. RAMAPHOSA was reelected ANC leader in 2022 ahead of national elections scheduled for 2024.

" } }, "Geography": { @@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ } }, "Ethnic groups": { - "text": "Black African 81.4%, Colored 8.2%, White 7.3%, Indian/Asian 2.7%, other 0.4% (2022 est.)", - "note": "note: colored is a term used in South Africa, including on the national census, for persons of mixed race ancestry who developed a distinct cultural identity over several hundred years" + "text": "Black African 81.4%, Coloured 8.2%, White 7.3%, Indian/Asian 2.7%, other 0.4% (2022 est.)", + "note": "note: coloured is a term used in South Africa, including on the national census, for persons of mixed race ancestry who developed a distinct cultural identity over several hundred years" }, "Languages": { "Languages": { @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ "text": "Cabinet appointed by the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president indirectly elected by the National Assembly for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 22 May 2019 (next to be held in May 2024)" + "text": "president indirectly elected by the National Assembly for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 22 May 2019 (next to be held around May 2024)" }, "election results": { "text": "
2019: Matamela Cyril RAMAPHOSA (ANC) elected president by the National Assembly unopposed

2014: Jacob ZUMA (ANC) reelected president by the National Assembly unopposed 

 

" @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Chargé d’Affaires Ismail ESAU (since 14 August 2023)" + "text": "Ambassador (vacant); Chargé d’Affaires Ndumiso NTSHINGAIsmail ESAU (since 29 October 2023)" }, "chancery": { "text": "3051 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008" @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ } }, "Broadcast media": { - "text": "the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) operates 4 TV stations, 3 are free-to-air and 1 is pay TV; e.tv, a private station, is accessible to more than half the population; multiple subscription TV services provide a mix of local and international channels; well-developed mix of public and private radio stations at the national, regional, and local levels; the SABC radio network, state-owned and controlled but nominally independent, operates 18 stations, one for each of the 11 official languages, 4 community stations, and 3 commercial stations; more than 100 community-based stations extend coverage to rural areas" + "text": "the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) operates 46 free-to-air TV stations; e.tv, a private station, is accessible to more than half the population; multiple subscription TV services provide a mix of local and international channels; well-developed mix of public and private radio stations at the national, regional, and local levels; the SABC radio network, state-owned and controlled but nominally independent, operates 18 stations, one for each of the 11 official languages, 4 community stations, and 3 commercial stations; more than 100 community-based stations extend coverage to rural areas" }, "Internet country code": { "text": ".za" @@ -1195,10 +1195,10 @@ }, "Railways": { "total": { - "text": "20,986 km (2014)" + "text": "30,400 km (2021)" }, "standard gauge": { - "text": "80 km (2014) 1.435-m gauge (80 km electrified)" + "text": "80 km (2021) 1.435-m gauge (80 km electrified)" }, "narrow gauge": { "text": "19,756 km (2014) 1.065-m gauge (8,271 km electrified)" diff --git a/africa/sg.json b/africa/sg.json index d53c878f..58b842fb 100644 --- a/africa/sg.json +++ b/africa/sg.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "Senegal is one of the few countries in the world with evidence of continuous human life from the Paleolithic period to present. Between the 14th and 16th centuries, the Jolof Empire ruled most of Senegal. Starting in the 15th century, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain traded along the Senegalese coast. Senegal’s location on the western tip of Africa made it a favorable base for the European slave trade. European powers used the Senegalese island of Goree as a base to purchase slaves from the warring chiefdoms on the mainland, and at the height of the slave trade in Senegal, over one-third of the Senegalese population was enslaved. In 1815, France abolished slavery and began expanding inland. During the second half of the 19th century, France took possession of Senegal as a French colony. In 1959, the French colonies of Senegal and French Sudan were merged and granted independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. The union broke up after only a few months. In 1982, Senegal joined with The Gambia to form the nominal confederation of Senegambia. The envisaged integration of the two countries was never implemented, and the union dissolved in 1989.

Since the 1980s, the Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance - a separatist movement based in southern Senegal - has led a low-level insurgency. Several attempts at reaching a comprehensive peace agreement have failed. Since 2012, despite sporadic incidents of violence, an unofficial cease-fire has remained largely in effect. Senegal is one of the most stable democracies in Africa and has a long history of participating in international peacekeeping and regional mediation. The Socialist Party of Senegal ruled for 40 years until Abdoulaye WADE was elected president in 2000 and re-elected in 2007. WADE amended Senegal's constitution over a dozen times to increase executive power and weaken the opposition. In 2012, WADE’s decision to run for a third presidential term sparked public backlash that led to his defeat to current President Macky SALL. A 2016 constitutional referendum limited future presidents to two consecutive five-year terms. The change, however, does not apply to SALL's first term. In February 2019, SALL won his bid for reelection; his second term will end in 2024." + "text": "Senegal is one of the few countries in the world with evidence of continuous human life from the Paleolithic period to present. Between the 14th and 16th centuries, the Jolof Empire ruled most of Senegal. Starting in the 15th century, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain traded along the Senegalese coast. Senegal’s location on the western tip of Africa made it a favorable base for the European slave trade. European powers used the Senegalese island of Goree as a base to purchase slaves from the warring chiefdoms on the mainland, and at the height of the slave trade in Senegal, over one-third of the Senegalese population was enslaved. In 1815, France abolished slavery and began expanding inland. During the second half of the 19th century, France took possession of Senegal as a French colony. In 1959, the French colonies of Senegal and French Sudan were merged and granted independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. The union broke up after only a few months. In 1982, Senegal joined with The Gambia to form the nominal confederation of Senegambia. The envisaged integration of the two countries was never implemented, and the union dissolved in 1989.

Since the 1980s, the Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance - a separatist movement based in southern Senegal - has led a low-level insurgency. Several attempts at reaching a comprehensive peace agreement have failed. Since 2012, despite sporadic incidents of violence, an unofficial cease-fire has remained largely in effect. Senegal is one of the most stable democracies in Africa and has a long history of participating in international peacekeeping and regional mediation. The Socialist Party of Senegal ruled for 40 years until Abdoulaye WADE was elected president in 2000 and re-elected in 2007. WADE amended Senegal's constitution over a dozen times to increase executive power and weaken the opposition. In 2012, WADE’s decision to run for a third presidential term sparked public backlash that led to his defeat to current President Macky SALL. A 2016 constitutional referendum limited future presidents to two consecutive five-year terms. SALL announced in July 2023 that he would not seek another term in office, and will conclude his tenure in April 2024. " } }, "Geography": { @@ -128,10 +128,10 @@ } }, "Ethnic groups": { - "text": "Wolof 39.7%, Pular 27.5%, Serer 16%, Mandinka 4.9%, Jola 4.2%, Soninke 2.4%, other 5.4% (includes Europeans and persons of Lebanese descent) (2019 est.)" + "text": "Wolof 39.7%, Pulaar 27.5%, Sereer 16%, Mandinka 4.9%, Jola 4.2%, Soninke 2.4%, other 5.4% (includes Europeans and persons of Lebanese descent) (2019 est.)" }, "Languages": { - "text": "French (official), Wolof, Pular, Jola, Mandinka, Serer, Soninke" + "text": "French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka, Serer, Soninke" }, "Religions": { "text": "Muslim 97.2% (most adhere to one of the four main Sufi brotherhoods), Christian 2.7% (mostly Roman Catholic) (2019 est.)" @@ -502,10 +502,10 @@ "text": "Senegal" }, "local long form": { - "text": "Republique du Senegal" + "text": "Republique du Sénégal " }, "local short form": { - "text": "Senegal" + "text": "Sénégal" }, "former": { "text": "Senegambia (along with The Gambia), Mali Federation" @@ -525,14 +525,14 @@ "text": "14 44 N, 17 38 W" }, "time difference": { - "text": "UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)" + "text": "UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, D.C., during Standard Time)" }, "etymology": { "text": "the Atlantic coast trading settlement of Ndakaaru came to be called \"Dakar\" by French colonialists" } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "14 regions (regions, singular - region); Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaffrine, Kaolack, Kedougou, Kolda, Louga, Matam, Saint-Louis, Sedhiou, Tambacounda, Thies, Ziguinchor" + "text": "14 regions (regions, singular - region); Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaffrine, Kaolack, Kéedougou, Kolda, Louga, Matam, Saint-Louis, Sedhiou, Tambacounda, Thies, Ziguinchor" }, "Independence": { "text": "4 April 1960 (from France); note - complete independence achieved upon dissolution of federation with Mali on 20 August 1960" @@ -542,14 +542,14 @@ }, "Constitution": { "history": { - "text": "previous 1959 (preindependence), 1963; latest adopted by referendum 7 January 2001, promulgated 22 January 2001" + "text": "previous 1959 (pre-independence), 1963; latest adopted by referendum 7 January 2001, promulgated 22 January 2001" }, "amendments": { "text": "proposed by the president of the republic or by the National Assembly; passage requires Assembly approval and approval in a referendum; the president can bypass a referendum and submit an amendment directly to the Assembly, which requires at least three-fifths majority vote; the republican form of government is not amendable; amended several times, last in 2019" } }, "Legal system": { - "text": "civil law system based on French law; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Court" + "text": "civil law system based on French law; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Council" }, "International law organization participation": { "text": "accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction" @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single renewable 5-year term; election last held on 24 February 2019 (next to be held in February 2024)" + "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single, renewable 5-year term; election last held on 24 February 2019 (next to be held in February 2024)" }, "election results": { "text": "
2019: Macky SALL elected president in first round; percent of vote - Macky SALL (APR) 58.3%, Idrissa SECK (Rewmi) 20.5%, Ousmane SONKO (PASTEF) 15.7%, other 5.5%

2012: Macky SALL elected president in second round; percent of vote - Macky SALL 65.8%, Abdoulaye WADE (PDS) 34.2% 

" @@ -593,15 +593,15 @@ "text": "unicameral National Assembly or Assemblée Nationale (165 seats; 112 members including 15 representing Senegalese diaspora directly elected by plurality vote in single- and multi-seat constituencies and 53 members directly elected by proportional representation vote in a single nationwide constituency; member term is 5-years)" }, "elections": { - "text": "National Assembly - last held on 31 July 2022 (next to be held in July 2027)" + "text": "National Assembly - last held on 31 July 2022 (next scheduled to be held in July 2027)" }, "election results": { - "text": "National Assembly results - percent of vote by party/coalition - BBY 46.6%, YAW 32.9%, WS 14.5%, other 6%;  seats by party/coalition - BBY 82, YAW 56, WS 24, other 3; composition - men 95, women 70, percent of women 42.4%" + "text": "National Assembly results - percent of vote by party/coalition - BBY 46.6%, YAW 32.9%, WS 14.5%, other 6%;  seats by party/coalition - BBY 82, YAW 42, WS 24, other 17; composition - men 92, women 73, percent of women 44%" } }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { - "text": "Supreme Court or Cour Supreme (consists of the court president and 12 judges and organized into civil and commercial, criminal, administrative, and social chambers); Constitutional Council or Conseil Constitutionel (consists of 7 members, including the court president, vice president, and 5 judges)" + "text": "Supreme Court or Cour Suprême  (consists of the court president and 12 judges and organized into civil and commercial, criminal, administrative, and social chambers); Constitutional Council or Conseil Constitutionnel  (consists of 7 members, including the court president, vice president, and 5 judges)" }, "judge selection and term of office": { "text": "Supreme Court judges appointed by the president of the republic upon recommendation of the Superior Council of the Magistrates, a body chaired by the president and minister of justice; judge tenure varies, with mandatory retirement either at 65 or 68 years; Constitutional Council members appointed - 5 by the president and 2 by the National Assembly speaker; judges serve 6-year terms, with renewal of 2 members every 2 years" @@ -611,17 +611,17 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "African Patriots for Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity [Ousmane SONKO]
Alliance for Citizenship and Work or ACT [Abdoul MBAYE]
Alliance for the Republic-Yakaar or APR [Macky SALL]
Alliance of Forces of Progress or AFP [Moustapha NIASSE]
And-Jef/African Party for Democracy and Socialism or AJ/PADS [Landing SAVANE]
Benno Bokk Yakaar or BBY (United in Hope) [Mahammed DIONNE] (coalition includes AFP, APR, BGC, LD-MPT, PIT, PS, and UNP)
Bokk Gis Gis coalition [Pape DIOP]
Citizen Movement for National Reform or MCRN-Bes Du Nakk [Mansour Sy DJAMIL]
Dare the Future movement [Aissata Tall SALL]
Democratic League-Labor Party Movement or LD-MPT [Mamadou NDOYE]
Democratic Renaissance Congress [NA]
Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubel or FSD/BJ [Cheikh Abdoulaye Bamba DIEYE]
Gainde Centrist Bloc or BCG [Jean-Paul DIAS Mendes]
General Alliance for the Interests of the Republic or AGIR [Thierno BOCOUM]
Grand Party or GP [Malick GAKOU]
Independence and Labor Party or PIT [Maguette THIAM]
Jotna Coalition [Dr Abdoulaye Niane]
Liberate the People (Yewwi Askan Wi) or YAW [Barthelemy DIAS, Ousmane SONKO, Khalifa SALL]
Madicke 2019 coalition [Madicke NIANG]
National Union for the People or UNP [Abdoul MBAYE]
Only Senegal Movement [Pierre Goudiaby ATEPA]
Party for Truth and Development or PVD [Cheikh Ahmadou Kara MBAKE]
Party of Unity and Rally or PUR [Cheikh Mouhamadou Moustapha SY]
Patriotic Convergence Kaddu Askan Wi or CP-Kaddu Askan Wi [Abdoulaye BALDE]
Rewmi Party [Idrissa SECK]
Save Senegal (Wallu Senegal Grand Coalition) or WS [Abdoulaye WADE] (coalition includes PDS, Jotna Coalition, Democratic Renaissance Congress)
Senegalese Democratic Party or PDS [Abdoulaye WADE]
Socialist Party or PS [Ousmane Tanor DIENG]
Tekki Movement [Mamadou Lamine DIALLO]" + "text": "Alliance for Citizenship and Work or ACT [Abdoul MBAYE]
Alliance for the Republic-Yakaar or APR [Macky SALL]
Alliance of Forces of Progress or AFP [Moustapha NIASSE]
AND (National Alliance for Democracy) [Aissatou MBODJ]
And-Jef/African Party for Democracy and Socialism or AJ/PADS [Landing SAVANE]
ARC (Alternative for the next generation of citizens) [Anta Babacar NGOM] 
Awalé [Abdourahmane DIOUF] 
Benno Bokk Yakaar or BBY (United in Hope) [vacant] (coalition includes AFP, APR, BGC, LD-MPT, PIT, PS, and UNP)
Bokk Gis Gis coalition [Pape DIOP]
Citizen Movement for National Reform or MCRN-Bes Du Nakk [Mansour Sy DJAMIL]
Coalition Mimi 2024 [Aminata TOURE]
Dare the Future movement [Aissata Tall SALL]
Democratic League-Labor Party Movement or LD-MPT [Mamadou NDOYE]
Democratic Renaissance Congress [NA]
Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubel or FSD/BJ [Cheikh Abdoulaye Bamba DIEYE]
Gainde Centrist Bloc or BCG [Jean-Paul DIAS MENDES ]
General Alliance for the Interests of the Republic or AGIR [Thierno BOCOUM]
Grand Party or GP [Malick GAKOU]
Gueum sa Bopp (Believe in yourself) [Bougane Dany GUEYE]
Independence and Labor Party or PIT [Maguette THIAM]
Jotna Coalition [Dr Abdoulaye NIANE]
Liberate the People (Yewwi Askan Wi) or YAW [Ousmane SONKO, Déthié FALL, Cheikh Tidiane YOUM]
Madicke 2019 coalition [Madicke NIANG]
National Union for the People or UNP [Abdoul MBAYE]
Only Senegal Movement [Pierre Goudiaby ATEPA]
Party for Truth and Development or PVD [Cheikh Ahmadou Kara MBAKE]
Party of Unity and Rally or PUR [Cheikh Mouhamadou Moustapha SY]
Patriotic Convergence Kaddu Askan Wi or CP-Kaddu Askan Wi [Abdoulaye BALDE]
PRP (Republican party for Progress) [Déthié FALL]
Rewmi Party [Idrissa SECK]
Save Senegal (Wallu Senegal Grand Coalition) or WS [Karim WADE] (coalition includes PDS, Jotna Coalition, Democratic Renaissance Congress)
Senegalese Democratic Party or PDS [Karim WADE]
Socialist Party or PS [vacant]
Tekki Movement [Mamadou Lamine DIALLO]
Réewum Ngor (Republic of Values) [Thierno Alassane SALL]
Servants (Les Serviteurs) [Pape Djibril FALL]



" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, CD, CPLP (associate), ECOWAS, EITI (candidate country), FAO, FZ, G-15, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, CD, CPLP (associate), ECOWAS, EITI (candidate country), FAO, FZ, G-15, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { "text": "Ambassador Mansour Elimane KANE (since 6 January 2020)" }, "chancery": { - "text": "2215 M ST NW, Washington, DC 20037" + "text": "2215 M ST NW, Washington, D.C. 20037" }, "telephone": { "text": "[1] (202) 234-0540" @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ "text": "Route des Almadies, Dakar" }, "mailing address": { - "text": "2130 Dakar Place, Washington DC  20521-2130" + "text": "2130 Dakar Place, Washington D.C.  20521-2130" }, "telephone": { "text": "[221] 33-879-4000" @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ } }, "Broadcast media": { - "text": "state-run Radiodiffusion Television Senegalaise (RTS) broadcasts TV programs from five cities in Senegal; in most regions of the country, viewers can receive TV programming from at least 7 private broadcasters; a wide range of independent TV programming is available via satellite; RTS operates a national radio network and a number of regional FM stations; at least 7 community radio stations and 18 private-broadcast radio stations are available; transmissions of at least 5 international broadcasters are accessible on FM in Dakar (2019)" + "text": "Senegal’s media environment includes over 25 private television stations, hundreds of radio stations, and more than 45 newspapers.  State-run Radiodiffusion Television Senegalaise (RTS) broadcasts from five cities in Senegal and a wide range of independent TV programming is available via satellite; transmissions of several international broadcasters are accessible on FM in Dakar" }, "Internet country code": { "text": ".sn" @@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ }, "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 (2023)", + "text": "Senegalese Armed Forces (les Forces Armées Sénégalaises, FAS): Army (l’Armée de Terre, AT), Senegalese National Navy (Marine Senegalaise, MNS), Senegalese Air Force (l'Arméee de l'Air du Séenéegal), National Gendarmerie (includes Territorial and Mobile components)

Ministry of Interior: National Police (2023)", "note": "note: the National Police operates in major cities, while the Gendarmerie under the FAS primarily operates outside urban areas; both services have specialized anti-terrorism units" }, "Military expenditures": { @@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "approximately 27,000 active personnel (13,000 Army; 1,500 Navy/Coast Guard; 1,500 Air Force; 11,000 National Gendarmerie) (2023)" + "text": "approximately 27,000 active personnel (15,000 Army; 1,500 Navy; 1,500 Air Force; 16,000 National Gendarmerie), 15,000 National Police (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the FAS inventory includes mostly older or secondhand equipment from a variety of countries, including France, South Africa, and Russia/former Soviet Union; in recent years, the FAS has undertaken a modernization program and has received small amounts of newer equipment from more than 10 countries, with France as the leading supplier (2023)" @@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; 20 years of age for selective compulsory service for men and possibly women; 24-month service obligation (2023)" }, "Military deployments": { - "text": "200 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 950 Mali (MINUSMA); note - Senegal also has up to 1,000 police deployed to UN peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) (2023)" + "text": "200 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 800 (ECOMIG – The Gambia); 1,500(ESSMGB – Guinea Bissau);
 note - Senegal also has up to 1,000 police deployed to UN peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA)and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) (2023)" }, "Military - note": { "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 seven 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 two offshore patrol vessels, 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 May 2023, a faction of the MFDC agreed to a peace deal (2023)" @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ } }, "Illicit drugs": { - "text": "

a transit point on the cocaine route from South America to Europe; large production of cannabis in southern Casamance region; the high domestic use of cannabis, crack cocaine and to a lesser extent heroin

" + "text": "

a transit point on the cocaine route from South America to Europe; large production of cannabis in southern Casamance region; the high domestic use of cannabis, ecstasy, and to a lesser extent crack cocaine

" } } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/africa/sl.json b/africa/sl.json index e774638c..eed849df 100644 --- a/africa/sl.json +++ b/africa/sl.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "

Continuously populated for at least 2,500 years, the dense jungle in the area of Sierra Leone allowed the region to remain relatively protected from invaders from empires in West Africa. Traders introduced Sierra Leone to Islam, which occupies a central role in Sierra Leonean culture and history. In the 17th century, the British set up a trading post near present-day Freetown. The trade originally involved timber and ivory but later expanded to enslaved people. In 1787, following the American Revolution, Sierra Leone became a destination for Black British loyalists from the new United States. After the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, British ships delivered thousands of liberated Africans to Sierra Leone. During the 19th century, the colony gradually expanded inland.

In 1961, Sierra Leone became independent of the UK. While Sierra Leone held free and fair elections in 1962 and 1967, Siaka STEVENS - Sierra Leone’s second prime minister - quickly reverted to authoritarian tendencies, outlawing most political parties and ruling from 1967 to 1985. In 1991, Sierra Leonean soldiers launched a civil war against STEVENS’ ruling party. The war caused tens of thousands of deaths and displaced more than 2 million people (about one third of the population). In 1998, a Nigerian-led West African coalition military force intervened, installing Tejan KABBAH - who was originally elected in 1996 - as prime minister. In 2002, KABBAH officially announced the end of the war. Since 1998, Sierra Leone has conducted uninterrupted democratic elections, dominated by the two main political parties. In 2018, Julius Maada BIO of the Sierra Leone People’s Party won the presidential election that saw a high voter turnout despite some allegations of voter intimidation. The next presidential election is scheduled for June 2023.

" + "text": "

Continuously populated for at least 2,500 years, the dense jungle in the area of Sierra Leone allowed the region to remain relatively protected from invaders from empires in West Africa. Traders introduced Sierra Leone to Islam, which occupies a central role in Sierra Leonean culture and history. In the 17th century, the British set up a trading post near present-day Freetown. The trade originally involved timber and ivory but later expanded to enslaved people. In 1787, following the American Revolution, Sierra Leone became a destination for Black British loyalists from the new United States. After the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, British ships delivered thousands of liberated Africans to Sierra Leone. During the 19th century, the colony gradually expanded inland.

In 1961, Sierra Leone became independent of the UK. While Sierra Leone held free and fair elections in 1962 and 1967, Siaka STEVENS - Sierra Leone’s second prime minister - quickly reverted to authoritarian tendencies, outlawing most political parties and ruling from 1967 to 1985. In 1991, Sierra Leonean soldiers launched a civil war against STEVENS’ ruling party. The war caused tens of thousands of deaths and displaced more than 2 million people (about one third of the population). In 1998, a Nigerian-led West African coalition military force intervened, installing Tejan KABBAH - who was originally elected in 1996 - as prime minister. In 2002, KABBAH officially announced the end of the war. Since 1998, Sierra Leone has conducted uninterrupted democratic elections dominated by the two main political parties,the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and the All People’s Congress (APC) party. In 2018, Julius Maada BIO of the Sierra Leone People’s Party won the presidential election that saw a high voter turnout despite some allegations of voter intimidation. On June 27, 2023, the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone announced incumbent President Julius Maada Bio as the winner of the June 2023 presidential election. Independent parallel vote tabulations and analyses by accredited national and international observation missions noted irregularities in the elections results, calling into question the integrity of the results.  On October 19, 2023, following a mediated dialogue, the Government of Sierra Leone and the main opposition party, the All People’s Congress, signed the Agreement for National Unity, which chartered a path forward for greater dialogue and cooperation between political parties, as well as the review and reform of the country’s electoral system.

" } }, "Geography": { @@ -372,13 +372,13 @@ "text": "age 15 and over can read and write English, Mende, Temne, or Arabic" }, "total population": { - "text": "47.7%" + "text": "48.6%" }, "male": { - "text": "55.3%" + "text": "56.3%" }, "female": { - "text": "39.8% (2021)" + "text": "41.3% (2022)" } } }, @@ -547,16 +547,16 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President Julius Maada BIO (since 28 June 2023); Vice President Mohamed Juldeh JALLOH (since 28 June 2023); note - the president is both chief of state, head of government, and minister of defense" + "text": "President Julius Maada BIO (since 27 June 2023); Vice President Mohamed Juldeh JALLOH (since 27 June 2023); note - the president is both chief of state, head of government, and minister of defense" }, "head of government": { - "text": "President Julius Maada BIO (since 28 June 2023); Vice President Mohamed Juldeh JALLOH (since 28 June 2023)" + "text": "President Julius Maada BIO (since 27 June 2023); Vice President Mohamed Juldeh JALLOH (since 27 June 2023)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Ministers of State appointed by the president, approved by Parliament; the cabinet is responsible to the president" }, "elections/appointments": { - "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 24 June 2023 (next to be held in 2028)" + "text": "president directly elected by 55 percent in the first round or absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 24 June 2023 (next to be held in 2028)" }, "election results": { "text": "
2023: Julius Maada BIO elected president in first round; percent of vote - Julius Maada BIO (SLPP) 56.2%, Samura KAMARA (APC) 41.2%, other 2.6%

2018: Julius Maada BIO elected president in second round; percent of vote - Julius Maada BIO (SLPP) 51.8%, Samura KAMARA (APC) 48.2%" @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "All People's Congress or APC [Ernest Bai KOROMA]
Coalition for Change or C4C [vacant]
Progressive Alliance Party (alliance of National Grand Coalition or NGC and Sierra Leone People's Party or SLPP) [Julius Maada BIO]
numerous other parties" + "text": "All People's Congress or APC [Samura KAMARA]
Sierra Leone People's Party or SLPP) [Julius Maada BIO]
numerous other parties" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ACP, AfDB, ATMIS, AU, C, ECOWAS, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO (pending member), ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNOOSA, UNSOM, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ }, "Diplomatic representation from the US": { "chief of mission": { - "text": "Ambassador Bryan David HUNT (since 23 August 2023)" + "text": "Ambassador Bryan David HUNT (since 8 September 2023)" }, "embassy": { "text": "Southridge-Hill Station, Freetown" @@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "the telecom sector has only gradually recovered from the destruction caused during the war years, and only since 2019 has there been an effective terrestrial fiber backbone infrastructure, while the cable link to neighboring Guinea was not completed until February 2020; there is considerable available capacity from the ACE submarine cable and the national fiber network, but this is used inefficiently and so the price of internet connectivity remains one of the highest in the region; the theft of equipment and cabling, compounded by neglect, mismanagement, and under investment, means that telcos continue to operate in difficult conditions; the telecom regulator has made efforts to improve the market, including the liberalization of the international gateway and regular checks on QoS; the regulator reduced the price floor for mobile voice calls in early 2020, though consumers objected to the MNOs withdrawing a number of cheap packages as a response; the mobile sector has been the main driver of overall telecom revenue (2022)" + "text": "the telecom sector has only gradually recovered from the destruction caused during the war years, and only since 2019 has there been an effective terrestrial fiber backbone infrastructure, while the cable link to neighboring Guinea was not completed until February 2020; there is considerable available capacity from the ACE submarine cable and the national fiber network, but this is used inefficiently and so the price of internet connectivity remains one of the highest in the region; the theft of equipment and cabling, compounded by neglect, mismanagement, and under investment, means that telecommunications companies continue to operate in difficult conditions; the telecom regulator has made efforts to improve the market, including the liberalization of the international gateway and regular checks on QoS; the regulator reduced the price floor for mobile voice calls in early 2020, though consumers objected to the MNOs withdrawing a number of cheap packages as a response; the mobile sector has been the main driver of overall telecom revenue (2022)" }, "domestic": { "text": "fixed-line less than 0 per 100 and mobile-cellular just over 98 per 100 (2021)" @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF): Land Forces, Maritime Forces, Air Wing

Ministry of Internal Affairs: Sierre Leone Police (2023)" + "text": "Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF): Land Forces, Maritime Forces, Air Wing

Ministry of Internal Affairs: Sierra Leone Police (2023)" }, "Military expenditures": { "Military Expenditures 2022": { @@ -1147,13 +1147,13 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "approximately 10,000 personnel, mostly ground forces (2023)" + "text": "The estimated strength of the RSLAF is 8500. (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the RSLAF has a small inventory that includes a mix of Soviet-origin and other older foreign-supplied equipment; in recent years, it has received limited amounts of mostly donations and secondhand equipment (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18-30 for voluntary military service for men and women (25-40 for specialists); no conscription (2023)" + "text": "18-25 for voluntary military service for men and women (25-40 for specialists); no conscription (2023)" }, "Military - note": { "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 with four small light infantry brigades and a separate battalion, each assigned to a separate region, including the capital; 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 operates under a Joint Forces Command

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)" @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "IDPs": { - "text": "5,500 (displacement caused by post-electoral violence in 2018 and clashes in the Pujehun region in 2019) (2021)" + "text": "IDPs: 3000 currently displaced due to post-electoral violence in 2018 and clashes in the Pujehun region in 2019); 900 internal displacements due to flood in 2022 (2022)

5,500 (displacement caused by post-electoral violence in 2018 and clashes in the Pujehun region in 2019) (2021)" } } } diff --git a/africa/to.json b/africa/to.json index 4db78633..70eda441 100644 --- a/africa/to.json +++ b/africa/to.json @@ -1057,26 +1057,26 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "54,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "65,613 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" + "text": "1 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "6.3 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "6,564,132 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "72 (2021 est.)" + "text": "74 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": " include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet (2022)" + "text": "include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet (2022)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line less than 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular is 72 telephones per 100 persons (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line less than 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular is 74 telephones per 100 persons (2022)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 228; landing point for the WACS submarine cable, linking countries along the west coast of Africa with each other and with Portugal; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Symphonie (2020)" diff --git a/africa/ts.json b/africa/ts.json index d2e317ea..7691e276 100644 --- a/africa/ts.json +++ b/africa/ts.json @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ }, "Languages": { "Languages": { - "text": "Arabic (official, one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce), Berber (Tamazight); note - despite having no official status, French plays a major role in the country and is spoken by about two thirds of the population" + "text": "Arabic (official, one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce), Tamazight; note - despite having no official status, French plays a major role in the country and is spoken by about two thirds of the population" }, "major-language sample(s)": { "text": "
كتاب حقائق العالم، أحسن كتاب تتعلم به المعلومات الأساسية (Arabic)

The World Factbook, une source indispensable d'informations de base. (French)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information." @@ -1046,18 +1046,18 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1.7 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,789,514 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "14 (2021 est.)" + "text": "14 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "16 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "15,971,243 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "130 (2021 est.)" + "text": "129 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { @@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ "text": "Tunisia has one of the most sophisticated telecom infrastructures in North Africa; penetration rates for mobile and Internet services are among the highest in the region; government program of regulation and infrastructure projects aims to improve Internet connectivity to underserved areas; operators built extensive LTE infrastructure in 2019, and continue to discuss plans for future 5G networks and services; one operator has signed an agreement to pursue nano-satellite launches in 2023; internet censorship abolished, though concerns of government surveillance remain; legislation passed in 2017 supporting e-commerce and active e-government; importer of some integrated circuits and broadcasting equipment (including radio, television, and communications transmitters) from the PRC (2022)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line is nearly 14 per 100 and mobile-cellular teledensity is 130 telephones per 100 persons (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line is nearly 14 per 100 and mobile-cellular teledensity is 129 telephones per 100 persons (2022)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 216; landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-4, Didon, HANNIBAL System and Trapani-Kelibia submarine cable systems that provides links to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Southeast Asia; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria and Libya; participant in Medarabtel; 2 international gateway digital switches (2020)" @@ -1165,6 +1165,9 @@ "note": "note: the National Police has primary responsibility for law enforcement in the major cities, while the National Guard (gendarmerie) oversees border security and patrols smaller towns and rural areas" }, "Military expenditures": { + "Military Expenditures 2023": { + "text": "2.5% of GDP (2023 est.)" + }, "Military Expenditures 2022": { "text": "2.7% of GDP (2022 est.)" }, @@ -1176,20 +1179,17 @@ }, "Military Expenditures 2019": { "text": "3.8% of GDP (2019 est.)" - }, - "Military Expenditures 2018": { - "text": "3.9% of GDP (2018 est.)" } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { "text": "approximately 35,000 active-duty personnel (25,000 Army; 5,000 Navy; 5,000 Air Force); estimated 10,000 National Guard (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the Tunisian military's inventory includes mostly older or second-hand US and European equipment; in recent years, the Netherlands, Turkey, and US have been the leading suppliers of arms to Tunisia (2023)" + "text": "the Tunisian military's inventory includes mostly older or second-hand NATO-standard (US and European) equipment; in recent years, the Netherlands and the US have been the leading suppliers of arms to Tunisia (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "20-23 years of age for compulsory service for men with a 12-month service obligation; individuals engaged in higher education or vocational training programs prior to their military drafting are allowed to delay service until they have completed their programs (up to age 35); 18-23 years of age for voluntary service for men and women (2023)", - "note": "note 1: as of 2021, approximately 20-25,000 active military personnel were conscripts

note 2: women have been allowed in the service since 1975 as volunteers only, although as recently as 2018, the Tunisian Government has discussed the possibility of conscripting women; as of 2018, women constituted less than 7% of the military and served in all three services" + "text": "20-23 years of age for compulsory service for men with a 12-month service obligation; individuals engaged in higher education or vocational training programs prior to their military drafting are allowed to delay service until they have completed their programs (up to age 35); exemptions allowed for males considered to a family's sole provider; 18-23 years of age for voluntary service for men and women (2023)", + "note": "note 1: approximately 20-25,000 active military personnel are conscripts

note 2: women have been allowed in the service since 1975 as volunteers; the Tunisian Government has discussed the possibility of conscripting women as recently as 2018; as of 2023, women constituted about 8% of the military and served in all three services" }, "Military deployments": { "text": "775 Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (2023)" diff --git a/africa/tz.json b/africa/tz.json index 0484695b..6fa6399e 100644 --- a/africa/tz.json +++ b/africa/tz.json @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ "text": "Alliance for Change and Transparency (Wazalendo) or ACT-Wazalendo [Zitto Zuberi KABWE]
Civic United Front (Chama Cha Wananchi) or CUF [Ibrahim Haruna LIPUMBA]
Party of Democracy and Development (Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo) or CHADEMA [Freeman Aikael MBOWE]
Revolutionary Party of Tanzania (Chama Cha Mapinduzi) or CCM [Samia Suluhu HASSAN

note: only parties with seats in the National Assembly listed" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, EAC, EADB, EITI, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, SADC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, EAC, EADB, EITI, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, SADC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1089,18 +1089,18 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "72,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "84,696 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" + "text": "2 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "54 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "60,192,331 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "85 (2021 est.)" + "text": "92 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ "text": "Tanzania’s telecom sector enjoys effective competition, particularly in the mobile segment; the government has encouraged foreign participation to promote economic growth and social development, and policy reforms have led to the country having one of the most liberal telecom sectors in Africa; the government has sought to increase broadband penetration by a range of measures, including the reduction in VAT charged on the sale of smartphones and other devices, and reductions in the cost of data; the MNOs became the leading ISPs following the launch of mobile broadband services based on 3G and LTE technologies; operators are hoping for revenue growth in the mobile data services market, given that the voice market is almost entirely prepaid; the MNOs have invested in network upgrades, which in turn has supported m-mobile data use, as well as m-money transfer services and banking services. Together, these have become a fast-developing source of revenue; the landing of the first international submarine cables in the country some years ago revolutionized the telecom market, which up to that point had entirely depended on expensive satellite connections; the government aims to complete a national fiber backbone network, having signed an agreement; in late 2021, the government announced plans to extend the national backbone network from about 8,300km to 15,000km by 2023, and to provide ongoing connectivity to more countries in the region (2022)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line telephone network less than 1 connection per 100 persons; mobile-cellular service is 85 telephones per 100 persons (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line telephone network is 2 connections per 100 persons; mobile-cellular service is 92 telephones per 100 persons (2022)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 255; landing points for the EASSy, SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia, and SEAS fiber-optic submarine cable system linking East Africa with the Middle East; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean) (2019)" diff --git a/africa/wa.json b/africa/wa.json index a7839cdb..402678f8 100644 --- a/africa/wa.json +++ b/africa/wa.json @@ -370,17 +370,6 @@ "female": { "text": "92.3% (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "40.4% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "39.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "41.7%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -538,7 +527,7 @@ "text": "adopted 9 February 1990, entered into force 21 March 1990" }, "amendments": { - "text": "initiated by the Cabinet; passage requires two-thirds majority vote of the National Assembly membership and of the National Council of Parliament and assent of the president of the republic; if the National Council fails to pass an amendment, the president can call for a referendum; passage by referendum requires two-thirds majority of votes cast; amendments that detract from or repeal constitutional articles on fundamental rights and freedoms cannot be amended, and the requisite majorities needed by Parliament to amend the constitution cannot be changed; amended 1998, 2010, 2014" + "text": "passage requires majority vote of the National Assembly membership and of the National Council of Parliament and assent of the president of the republic; if the National Council fails to pass an amendment, the president can call for a referendum; passage by referendum requires two-thirds majority of votes cast; amendments that detract from or repeal constitutional articles on fundamental rights and freedoms cannot be amended, and the requisite majorities needed by Parliament to amend the constitution cannot be changed; amended 1998, 2010, 2014" } }, "Legal system": { @@ -566,10 +555,10 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "President Hage GEINGOB (since 21 March 2015); Vice President Nangola MBUMBA (since 8 February 2018); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government" + "text": "President Hage GEINGOB (since 21 March 2015); Vice President Nangolo MBUMBA (since 8 February 2018); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government" }, "head of government": { - "text": "President Hage GEINGOB (since 21 March 2015); Vice President Nangola MBUMBA (since 8 February 2018); Prime Minister Saara KUUGONGELWA-AMADHILA (since 21 March 2015)" + "text": "President Hage GEINGOB (since 21 March 2015); Vice President Nangolo MBUMBA (since 8 February 2018); Prime Minister Saara KUUGONGELWA-AMADHILA (since 21 March 2015)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet appointed by the president from among members of the National Assembly" @@ -578,7 +567,7 @@ "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 28 November 2019 (next to be held in 2024)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2019: Hage GEINGOB reelected president in the first round; percent of vote - Hage GEINGOB (SWAPO) 56.3%, Panduleni ITULA (independent) 29.4%, McHenry VENAANI (PDM) 5.3%, other 8.9%

2014: Hage GEINGOB elected president in the first round; percent of vote - Hage GEINGOB (SWAPO) 86.7%, McHenry VENAANI (DTA) 5%, Hidipo HAMUTENYA (RDP) 3.4%, Asser MBAI (NUDO)1.9%, Henk MUDGE (RP) 1%, other 2%

" + "text": "
2019: Hage GEINGOB reelected president in the first round; percent of vote - Hage GEINGOB (SWAPO) 56.3%, Panduleni ITULA (independent) 29.4%, McHenry VENAANI (PDM) 5.3%, other .9%

2014: Hage GEINGOB elected president in the first round; percent of vote - Hage GEINGOB (SWAPO) 86.7%, McHenry VENAANI (DTA) 5%, Hidipo HAMUTENYA (RDP) 3.4%, Asser MBAI (NUDO)1.9%, Henk MUDGE (RP) 1%, other 2%

" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -604,7 +593,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "All People's Party or APP (vacant)
Christian Democratic Voice or CDV [Gothard KANDUME]
Landless People's Movement or LPM [Bernadus SWARTBOOI]
National Unity Democratic Organization or NUDO [Estes MUINJANGUE]
Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters or NEFF [Epafras MUKWIILONGO]
Popular Democratic Movement or PDM [McHenry VENAANI] (formerly Democratic Turnhalle Alliance or DTA) 
Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Mike KAVEKOTORA]
Republican Party or RP [Henk MUDGE]
South West Africa National Union or SWANU [Charles KATJIVIRUE]
South West Africa People's Organization or SWAPO [Hage GEINGOB]
United Democratic Front or UDF [Apius AUCHAB]
United People's Movement or UPM [Jan J. VAN WYK]" + "text": "All People's Party or APP (Erastus SHUUMBWA)
Christian Democratic Voice or CDV [Gothard KANDUME]
Landless People's Movement or LPM [Bernadus SWARTBOOI]
National Unity Democratic Organization or NUDO [Esther MUINJANGUE]
Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters or NEFF [Epafras MUKWIILONGO]
Popular Democratic Movement or PDM [McHenry VENAANI] (formerly Democratic Turnhalle Alliance or DTA) 
Rally for Democracy and Progress or RDP [Mike KAVEKOTORA]
Republican Party or RP [Henk MUDGE]
South West Africa National Union or SWANU [Charles KATJIVIRUE]
South West Africa People's Organization or SWAPO [Hage GEINGOB]
United Democratic Front or UDF [Apius AUCHAB]
United People's Movement or UPM [Jan J. VAN WYK]" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, CPLP (associate observer), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OPCW, SACU, SADC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" @@ -631,7 +620,7 @@ "text": "Ambassador Randy William BERRY (since 9 February 2023)" }, "embassy": { - "text": "14 Lossen Street, Windhoek" + "text": "38 Metje Street, Klein Windhoek, Windhoek" }, "mailing address": { "text": "2540 Windhoek Place, Washington DC  20521-2540" @@ -640,7 +629,7 @@ "text": "[264] (061) 295-8500" }, "FAX": { - "text": "[264] (061) 295-8603" + "text": "[264] (061) 202-5219" }, "email address and website": { "text": "
ConsularWindhoek@state.gov

https://na.usembassy.gov/" @@ -775,18 +764,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "939,000 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "31%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "14%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "54% (2013 est.)" - }, - "note": "note: about half of Namibia's people are unemployed while about two-thirds live in rural areas; roughly two-thirds of rural dwellers rely on subsistence agriculture" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "21.68% (2021 est.)" @@ -1079,7 +1056,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "91,869 (2021 est.)" + "text": "85,814 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "4 (2021 est.)" @@ -1095,10 +1072,10 @@ }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "the government’s Broadband Policy aims to provide 95% population coverage by 2024; mobile network coverage has increased sharply in recent years; by 2021, 3G infrastructure provided 89% population coverage while LTE infrastructure provided 79% coverage (compared to only 40% a year earlier); despite the relatively advanced nature of the market, progress towards 5G has been slow, partly due to unsubstantiated public concerns over health implications of the technology which caused the government to order an environmental assessment of 5G in mid-2020; the government has requested the regulator to speed up its 5G development strategy; Namibia’s internet and broadband sector is reasonably competitive, its development was for many years held back by high prices for international bandwidth caused by the lack of a direct connection to international submarine cables; this market situation improved after operators invested in diversifying terrestrial access routes to adjacent countries; by the end of 2022 Namibia is expected to be connected by a 1,050km branch line of cable running between Portugal and South Africa (2022)" + "text": "the government’s Broadband Policy aims to provide 95% population coverage by 2024; mobile network coverage has increased sharply in recent years; by 2023, 3G infrastructure provided 89% population coverage while LTE infrastructure provided 79% coverage; despite the relatively advanced nature of the market, progress towards 5G has been slow, partly due to unsubstantiated public concerns over health implications of the technology which caused the government to order an environmental assessment of 5G in mid-2020; the government has requested the regulator to speed up its 5G development strategy; Namibia’s internet and broadband sector is reasonably competitive, its development was for many years held back by high prices for international bandwidth caused by the lack of a direct connection to international submarine cables; this market situation improved after operators invested in diversifying terrestrial access routes to adjacent countries; in June 2022 Namibia was connected to a 1,050km branch line of cable running between Portugal and South Africa (2022)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line subscribership is 4 per 100 and mobile-cellular roughly 115 per 100 persons (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line subscribership is 4 per 100 and mobile-cellular roughly 113 per 100 persons (2022) (2021)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 264; landing points for the ACE and WACS fiber-optic submarine cable linking southern and western African countries to Europe; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat (2019)" diff --git a/africa/za.json b/africa/za.json index 1f28e069..51faec7f 100644 --- a/africa/za.json +++ b/africa/za.json @@ -382,17 +382,6 @@ "female": { "text": "83.1% (2018)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "26.1% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "26.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "25.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -780,17 +769,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "8.113 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "54.8%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "9.9%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "35.3% (2017 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "13.03% (2021 est.)" @@ -1083,7 +1061,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "66,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "96,284 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/africa/zi.json b/africa/zi.json index 17801b55..e7dfa991 100644 --- a/africa/zi.json +++ b/africa/zi.json @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ "text": "88.3%" }, "female": { - "text": "89.7% (2021)" + "text": "93.7% (2021)" } }, "School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)": { @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ "text": "President Emmerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA (since 4 September 2023); First Vice President Constantino CHIWENGA (since 4 September 2023); note - Robert Gabriel MUGABE resigned on 21 November 2017, after ruling for 37 years" }, "head of government": { - "text": "President Emmerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA (since 4 September 2023); Vice President Constantino CHIWENGA (since 4 September 2023)" + "text": "President Emmerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA (since 4 September 2023); First Vice President Constantino CHIWENGA (since 4 September 2023); Second Vice President Kembo MOHADI (8 September 2023)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet appointed by president, responsible to National Assembly" @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ "text": "each presidential candidate nominated with a nomination paper signed by at least 10 registered voters (at least 1 candidate from each province) and directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (no term limits); election last held on 23 August 2023 (next to be held in 2028); co-vice presidents drawn from party leadership" }, "election results": { - "text": "2023: Emmerson MNANGAGWA elected president in 1st round of voting; percent of vote - Emmerson MNANGAGWA (ZANU-PF) 52.6%, Nelson CHAMISA (MDC-T) 44%, Wilbert MUBAIWA (MDC) 1.20%, other 3%

2018: Emmerson MNANGAGWA elected president in 1st round of voting; percent of vote - Emmerson MNANGAGWA (ZANU-PF) 50.8%, Nelson CHAMISA (MDC-T) 44.3%, Thokozani KHUPE (MDC-N) 0.9%, other 3%" + "text": "2023: Emmerson MNANGAGWA elected president in 1st round of voting; percent of vote - Emmerson MNANGAGWA (ZANU-PF) 52.6%, Nelson CHAMISA (MDC-T) 44%, Wilbert MUBAIWA (NPC) 1.20%, other 3%

2018: Emmerson MNANGAGWA elected president in 1st round of voting; percent of vote - Emmerson MNANGAGWA (ZANU-PF) 50.8%, Nelson CHAMISA (MDC-T) 44.3%, Thokozani KHUPE (MDC-N) 0.9%, other 3%" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "243,421 (2021 est.)" + "text": "291,324 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "2 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/aq.json b/australia-oceania/aq.json index f9b9240d..755fb221 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/aq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/aq.json @@ -560,17 +560,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "17,850 (2015 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "NA" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "15.5%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "46.4% (2015 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2005": { "text": "29.8% (2005)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/as.json b/australia-oceania/as.json index 95be758a..663aa792 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/as.json +++ b/australia-oceania/as.json @@ -576,10 +576,10 @@ "text": "bicameral Federal Parliament consists of:
Senate (76 seats; 12 members from each of the 6 states and 2 each from the 2 mainland territories; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of state membership renewed every 3 years and territory membership renewed every 3 years)
House of Representatives (151 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by majority preferential vote; members serve terms of up to 3 years)" }, "elections": { - "text": "
Senate - last held on 21 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)
House of Representatives - last held on 21 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)" + "text": "Senate - last held on 21 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)
House of Representatives - last held on 21 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
Senate (initial results) - percent of vote by party - Liberal/National coalition 32.13%, ALP 29.81%, The Greens 13.85%, One Nation 4.38%, Lambie Network .26%; seats by party - Liberal/National coalition 29, ALP 21, The Greens 9, One Nation 1, Lambie Network 1, undecided 14
House of Representatives (initial results) - percent of vote by party - ALP 32.83%, Liberal/National coalition 35.77%, The Greens 11.85%, Katter's Australian Party 0.4%, Centre Alliance 0.24%, independents 5.52%; seats by party - ALP 76, Liberal/National Coalition 57, The Greens 4, Katter's Australian Party 1, Centre Alliance 1, independent 10, undecided 2" + "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party or bloc - Liberal/National Coalition 40.7%, ALP 34.2%, Greens 14.5%, Pauline Hansen's One Nation 2.6%, Jacqui Lambee Network 2.6%, United Australia Party 1.3%, Independents 3.9%; seats by party or bloc - Liberal/National Coalition 31, ALP 26, Australian Greens 11, Pauline Hansen's One Nation 2, Jacqui Lambee Network 2, United Australia Party 1, Independents 3; composition - 33 men, 43 women; percentage of women 56.6%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party or bloc - ALP 50.9%, Coalition 36.4%, 7.9%, 2.6%, others less than 1%; seats by party or bloc - ALP 77, Coalition 55, Independent 12, Greens 4, Katter's 1, Center Alliance 1; composition: 93 men, 58 women; percentage of women 38.4%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Australian Greens Party or The Greens [Adam BANDT]
Australian Labor Party or ALP [Anthony ALBANESE]
Centre Alliance (formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team or NXT) [none]
Jacqui Lambie Network or JLN [Jacqui LAMBIE]
Katter's Australian Party [Robbie KATTER]
Liberal Party of Australia [Peter DUTTON]
The Nationals [David LITTLEPROUD]
One Nation or ONP [Pauline HANSON]", + "text": "Australian Greens Party or The Greens [Adam BANDT]
Australian Labor Party or ALP [Anthony ALBANESE]
Centre Alliance (formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team or NXT) [none]
Jacqui Lambie Network or JLN [Jacqui LAMBIE]
Katter's Australian Party [Robbie KATTER]
Liberal Party of Australia [Peter DUTTON]
The Nationals [David LITTLEPROUD]
One Nation or ONP [Pauline HANSON]
United Australia Party [Clive PALMER]", "note": "note: the Labor Party is Australia’s oldest political party, established federally in 1901; the present Liberal Party was formed in 1944; the Country Party was formed in 1920, renamed the National Country Party in 1975, the National Party of Australia in 1982, and since 2003 has been known as the Nationals; since the general election of 1949, the Liberal Party and the Nationals (under various names) when forming government have done so as a coalition" }, "International organization participation": { @@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "4.6 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "6,409,275 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "18 (2021 est.)" @@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@ "text": "note: since the 1990s, Australia has deployed more than 30,000 personnel on nearly 100 UN peacekeeping and coalition military operations, including in Cambodia, Rwanda, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, and East Timor" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "Australia has been part of the Australia, New Zealand, and US Security (ANZUS) Treaty since 1951; Australia is also a member of the Five Powers Defense Arrangements (FPDA), a series of mutual assistance agreements reached in 1971 embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK; the FPDA commits the members to consult with one another in the event or threat of an armed attack on any of the members and to mutually decide what measures should be taken, jointly or separately; there is no specific obligation to intervene militarily 

Australia has a long-standing military relationship with the US; Australian and US forces first fought together in France in 1918 at the Battle of Hamel, and have fought together in every major US conflict since; Australia and the US signed an agreement in 2014 that allowed for closer bi-lateral defense and security cooperation, including annual rotations of US Marines and enhanced rotations of US Air Force aircraft to Australia; Australian military forces train often with US forces; Australia has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation 

Australia also has long-standing defense and security ties to the UK, including a Defense and Security Cooperation Treaty signed in 2013; in 2020, Australia and the UK signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the building of a next generation of frigates for their respective navies; the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) is their premier bilateral forum on foreign policy, defense, and security issues 

in 2021, Australia, the UK, and the US announced an enhanced trilateral security partnership called “AUKUS” which would build on existing bilateral ties, including deeper integration of defense and security-related science, technology, industrial bases, and supply chains, as well as deeper cooperation on a range of defense and security capabilities; the first initiative under AUKUS was a commitment to support Australia in acquiring conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy

the ADF is an experienced and professional force equipped with modern weapons; its missions include protecting Australia’s borders and maritime interests, responding to domestic natural disasters, and deploying overseas for humanitarian, peacekeeping, and other security-related missions; it trains regularly and participates in international exercises; the Army’s principal combat forces include a divisional headquarters with 3 mechanized brigades and a special operations command; the Navy operates over 40 surface craft and submarines, including 11 destroyers and frigates, two landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships, and six attack-type submarines; the RAF has an air combat group with more than 140 modern combat aircraft, as well as transport and surveillance air groups (2023)" + "text": "Australia has been part of the Australia, New Zealand, and US Security (ANZUS) Treaty since 1951; Australia is also a member of the Five Powers Defense Arrangements (FPDA), a series of mutual assistance agreements reached in 1971 embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK; the FPDA commits the members to consult with one another in the event or threat of an armed attack on any of the members and to mutually decide what measures should be taken, jointly or separately; there is no specific obligation to intervene militarily 

Australia has a long-standing military relationship with the US; Australian and US forces first fought together in France in 1918 at the Battle of Hamel, and have fought together in every major US conflict since; Australia and the US signed an agreement in 2014 that allowed for closer bi-lateral defense and security cooperation, including annual rotations of US Marines and enhanced rotations of US Air Force aircraft to Australia; Australian military forces train often with US forces; Australia has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation 

Australia also has long-standing defense and security ties to the UK, including a Defense and Security Cooperation Treaty signed in 2013; in 2020, Australia and the UK signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the building of a next generation of frigates for their respective navies; the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) is their premier bilateral forum on foreign policy, defense, and security issues 

in 2021, Australia, the UK, and the US announced an enhanced trilateral security partnership called “AUKUS” which would build on existing bilateral ties, including deeper integration of defense and security-related science, technology, industrial bases, and supply chains, as well as deeper cooperation on a range of defense and security capabilities; the first initiative under AUKUS was a commitment to support Australia in acquiring conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy

the ADF is considered an experienced and professional force equipped with modern weapons; its missions include protecting Australia’s borders and maritime interests, responding to domestic natural disasters, and deploying overseas for humanitarian, peacekeeping, and other security-related missions; it trains regularly and participates in international exercises; the Army’s principal combat forces include a divisional headquarters with three mechanized brigades and a special operations command; the Navy operates over 40 surface craft and submarines, including 11 destroyers and frigates, two landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships, and six attack-type submarines; the RAF has an air combat group with more than 140 modern combat aircraft, as well as transport and surveillance air groups (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/australia-oceania/cq.json b/australia-oceania/cq.json index 342b39e3..7bea0672 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/cq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/cq.json @@ -564,17 +564,6 @@ "text": "27,970 (2010 est.)", "note": "note: includes foreign workers" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1.9%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "10%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "88.1% (2010 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2010": { "text": "11.2% (2010 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/fj.json b/australia-oceania/fj.json index 3d17a8b2..d70d048c 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fj.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fj.json @@ -346,17 +346,6 @@ "female": { "text": "99.1% (2018)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "18.1% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "14.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "25.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -560,7 +549,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "FijiFirst [Veroqe \"Frank\" BAINIMARAMA]
Fiji Labor Party or FLP [Mahendra CHAUDHRY]
Freedom Alliance [Jagath KARUNARATNE] (formerly Fiji United Freedom Party or FUFP)
National Federation Party or NFP [Biman PRASAD] (primarily Indian)
People's Alliance [Sitiveni RABUKA]
Peoples Democratic Party or PDP [Lynda TABUYA]
Social Democratic Liberal Party or SODELPA [Lenaitasi DURU, general secretary]
Unity Fiji [Savenaca NARUBE]" + "text": "Fiji First [Veroqe \"Frank\" BAINIMARAMA]
Fiji Labor Party or FLP [Mahendra CHAUDHRY]
Freedom Alliance [Jagath KARUNARATNE] (formerly Fiji United Freedom Party or FUFP)
National Federation Party or NFP [Biman PRASAD] (primarily Indian)
People's Alliance [Sitiveni RABUKA]
Peoples Democratic Party or PDP [Lynda TABUYA]
Social Democratic Liberal Party or SODELPA [Lenaitasi DURU, general secretary]
Unity Fiji [Savenaca NARUBE]" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ACP, ADB, AOSIS, C, CP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, OPCW, PCA, PIF, Sparteca (suspended), SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" @@ -731,17 +720,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "372,200 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "44.2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "14.3%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "41.6% (2011)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "5.24% (2021 est.)" @@ -1028,7 +1006,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "49,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "48,510 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "5 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/fm.json b/australia-oceania/fm.json index c0e5b3cb..910f8dbe 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fm.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fm.json @@ -302,17 +302,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "18.9% (2014)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "10.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "29.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -488,7 +477,7 @@ "text": "last held on 7 March 2023 (next to be held in March 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 14; composition as of March 2023 - men 14, women 0" + "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 14; composition - men 12, women 2; percentage of women 14.3%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -667,18 +656,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "37,920 (2010 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "0.9%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "5.2%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "93.9% (2013 est.)" - }, - "note": "note: two-thirds of the labor force are government employees" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2010": { "text": "16.2% (2010 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/fp.json b/australia-oceania/fp.json index 65f15fbb..09102adb 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/fp.json +++ b/australia-oceania/fp.json @@ -295,17 +295,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "38.9% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "35.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "43.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -598,17 +587,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "130,100 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "13%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "19%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "68% (2013 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "14.39% (2021 est.)" @@ -857,7 +835,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "108,051 (2021 est.)" + "text": "138,658 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "36 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/gq.json b/australia-oceania/gq.json index 5844f96b..11d9c1ea 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/gq.json +++ b/australia-oceania/gq.json @@ -287,17 +287,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "15.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "14.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "16.1%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -582,17 +571,6 @@ "text": "76,200 (2021 est.)", "note": "note: includes only the civilian labor force" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "0.3%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "21.6%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "78.1% (2013 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "6.98% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/kr.json b/australia-oceania/kr.json index 224b2a67..8f31c7c3 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/kr.json +++ b/australia-oceania/kr.json @@ -346,17 +346,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "22.5% (2019 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "21.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "24.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -535,7 +524,7 @@ "text": "legislative elections originally scheduled to be held in two rounds on 7 and 15 April 2020 but rescheduled for 14 and 21 April (next to be held in 2024)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party (second round) - NA; seats by party (second round) - TKB 22, BKM 22, 1 independent" + "text": "percent of vote by party (second round) - NA; seats by party (second round) - TKB 22, BKM 22, 1 independent; composition - 42 men, 3 women; percentage of women 6.7%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -679,17 +668,6 @@ "text": "39,000 (2010 est.)", "note": "note: economically active, not including subsistence farmers" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "15%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "10%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "75% (2010)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2010": { "text": "30.6% (2010 est.)" @@ -968,7 +946,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "10 (2021 est.)" + "text": "0 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/australia-oceania/nc.json b/australia-oceania/nc.json index 4b1d74d8..614bd103 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nc.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nc.json @@ -299,17 +299,6 @@ "female": { "text": "96.5% (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "41% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "39.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "43.2%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -591,17 +580,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "132,200 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "2.7%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "22.4%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "74.9% (2010)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "16.57% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/nz.json b/australia-oceania/nz.json index 2e47f2e3..ad2801c5 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/nz.json +++ b/australia-oceania/nz.json @@ -360,17 +360,6 @@ "female": { "text": "21 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "11.4% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "12.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "10.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -565,7 +554,7 @@ "text": "last held on 14 October 2023 (next scheduled for October 2026)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party - National Party 38.1%, Labor Party 26.9%, Green Party 11.6%, ACT Party 8.6%, New Zealand First 6.1%; Maori Party 3.1%; seats by party - National Party 48, Labor Party 34, Green Party 15, ACT Party 11, New Zealand First 8, Maori Party 6; composition - NA" + "text": "percent of vote by party - National Party 38.1%, Labor Party 26.9%, Green Party 11.6%, ACT Party 8.6%, New Zealand First 6.1%; Maori Party 3.1%; seats by party - National Party 48, Labor Party 34, Green Party 15, ACT Party 11, New Zealand First 8, Maori Party 6; composition - 67 men, 56 women; percentage of women 45.5%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -761,17 +750,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "2.911 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "6.6%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20.7%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "72.7% (2017 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "4.12% (2021 est.)" @@ -1064,7 +1042,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "651,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "757,000 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "13 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/ps.json b/australia-oceania/ps.json index 2e948d7c..c570657f 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ps.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ps.json @@ -325,17 +325,6 @@ "female": { "text": "17 years (2013)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "5.6% (2014)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "NA" - }, - "female": { - "text": "NA" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -505,10 +494,10 @@ "text": "bicameral National Congress or Olbiil Era Kelulau consists of:
Senate (13 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by majority vote to serve 4-year terms)
House of Delegates (16 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "
Senate - last held on 3 November 2020 (next to be held in November 2024)
House of Delegates - last held on 3 November 2020 (next to be held in November 2024)" + "text": "Senate - last held on 3 November 2020 (next to be held in November 2024)
House of Delegates - last held on 3 November 2020 (next to be held in November 2024)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
Senate - percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 13; composition - men 12, women 1; percent of women 7.7%
House of Delegates - percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 16; composition - men 15, women 1; percent of women 6.3%; note - overall percent of women in National Congress 6.9%" + "text": "Senate - percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 13; composition - men 12, women 1; percent of women 7.7%
House of Delegates - percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 16; composition - men 15, women 1; percent of women 6.3%; note - overall percent of women in National Congress 6.9%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -687,17 +676,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "11,610 (2016)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1.2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "12.4%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "86.4% (2016)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2015": { "text": "1.7% (2015 est.)" @@ -846,7 +824,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "8,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "8,000 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "44 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/rm.json b/australia-oceania/rm.json index aec4bbfd..df6f91ba 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/rm.json +++ b/australia-oceania/rm.json @@ -511,10 +511,10 @@ "text": "unicameral National Parliament consists of:
Nitijela (33 seats; members in 19 single- and 5 multi-seat constituencies directly elected by simple majority vote to serve 4-year terms); note - the Council of Iroij, a 12-member group of tribal leaders advises the Presidential Cabinet and reviews legislation affecting customary law or any traditional practice); members appointed to serve 1-year terms" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 18 November 2019 (next to be held on 20 November 2023)" + "text": "last held on 20 November 2023 (next to be held in November 2027)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - independent 33; composition - men 31, women 2, percent of women 6.1%" + "text": "2023: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by part - independents 33; composition - men 29, women 4, percent of women 12.1%

2019: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - independent 33; composition - men 31, women 2, percent of women 6.1%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ "text": "[1] (202) 232-3236" }, "email address and website": { - "text": "
info@rmiembassyus.org

https://www.rmiembassyus.org/" + "text": "
info@rmiembassyus.org" }, "consulate(s) general": { "text": "Honolulu, Springdale (AR)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/tn.json b/australia-oceania/tn.json index 90af21c4..a159d925 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/tn.json +++ b/australia-oceania/tn.json @@ -357,17 +357,6 @@ "female": { "text": "17 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "11.1% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "7.5%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "16.3%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -546,7 +535,7 @@ "text": "last held on 18 November 2021 (next to be held in November 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats by party (elected members) - independents 11, nobles' representatives 9, DPFI 3, TPPI 3; composition - men 26, women 1, percent of women 3.7%" + "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats by party (elected members) - independents 11, nobles' representatives 9, DPFI 3, TPPI 3; composition - men 26, women 2, percent of women 7.14%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -702,17 +691,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "32,000 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "2,006% (2006 est.)" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "27.5% (2006 est.)" - }, - "services": { - "text": "2,006% (2006 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "3.97% (2021 est.)" @@ -993,7 +971,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "11,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "10,824 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "10 (2021 est.)" @@ -1001,7 +979,7 @@ }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "64,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "64,328 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "61 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/australia-oceania/tv.json b/australia-oceania/tv.json index 6b6d4236..df776df3 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/tv.json +++ b/australia-oceania/tv.json @@ -335,17 +335,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "20.6% (2016)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "9.8%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "45.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -523,7 +512,7 @@ "text": "last held on 9 September 2019 (next to be held on 31 December 2023)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 16 (9 members reelected)" + "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 16 (9 members reelected); composition - 15 men, 1 woman; percent women 6.25%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -669,9 +658,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "3,615 (2004 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "text": "

note: most people make a living through exploitation of the sea, reefs, and atolls - and through overseas remittances (mostly from workers in the phosphate industry and sailors)

" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "text": "

NA

" }, diff --git a/australia-oceania/ws.json b/australia-oceania/ws.json index 86ec2628..20ab6deb 100644 --- a/australia-oceania/ws.json +++ b/australia-oceania/ws.json @@ -342,17 +342,6 @@ "female": { "text": "99.3% (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "19.7% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "16.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "24.5%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -533,7 +522,7 @@ "text": "election last held on 9 April 2021 (next election to be held in 2026)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party - HRPP 55%, FAST 37%, TSP 3%, independents 5%; seats by party – FAST 30, HRPP 22, independents 1; composition - men 47, women 6, percent of women 11.3%
note: on 29 November 2021, the Election Commissioner added two women seats to parliament, bringing the HRPP’s total from 20 to 22 seats" + "text": "percent of vote by party - HRPP 55%, FAST 37%, TSP 3%, independents 5%; seats by party – 35 FAST, 18 HRPP, 1 independent; composition - men 47, women 7, percent of women 14.9%
note: on 29 November 2021, the Election Commissioner added two women seats to parliament, bringing the HRPP’s total from 20 to 22 seats" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -706,17 +695,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "58,400 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "65%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "6%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "29% (2015 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "9.84% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json index 966ed643..2644814f 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/aa.json @@ -599,18 +599,6 @@ "text": "51,610 (2007 est.)", "note": "note: of the 51,610 workers aged 15 and over in the labor force, 32,252 were born in Aruba and 19,353 came from abroad; foreign workers are 38% of the employed population" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "NA" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "NA" - }, - "services": { - "text": "NA" - }, - "note": "note: most employment is in wholesale and retail trade, followed by hotels and restaurants" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2016": { "text": "7.7% (2016 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json index 79c41edd..9e19c248 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/av.json @@ -523,32 +523,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "6,049 (2001)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "74.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "3%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "18%" - }, - "agriculture/fishing/forestry/mining": { - "text": "4% (2000 est.)" - }, - "manufacturing": { - "text": "3% (2000 est.)" - }, - "construction": { - "text": "18% (2000 est.)" - }, - "transportation and utilities": { - "text": "10% (2000 est.)" - }, - "commerce": { - "text": "36% (2000 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2002": { "text": "8% (2002)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json index 92d7980e..2c976bf2 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bb.json @@ -327,17 +327,6 @@ "female": { "text": "99.6% (2014)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "30.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "34.8%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "25.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -711,17 +700,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "139,100 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "10%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "15%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "75% (1996 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "10.41% (2021 est.)" @@ -993,7 +971,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "120,980 (2021 est.)" + "text": "121,314 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "43 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json index c9dc0bcc..0ead6901 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bf.json @@ -301,17 +301,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "30.8% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "27.5%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "35.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -665,20 +654,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "224,400 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "3%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "11%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "49%" - }, - "tourism": { - "text": "37% (2011 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "13.24% (2021 est.)" @@ -959,7 +934,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "91,000 (2020 est.)" + "text": "86,484 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "22 (2020 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json index 69a2c794..f677034c 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/bh.json @@ -364,17 +364,6 @@ "female": { "text": "13 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "19.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "12.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "31.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -746,17 +735,6 @@ "text": "176,900 (2021 est.)", "note": "note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "10.2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "18.1%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "71.7% (2007 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "8.22% (2021 est.)" @@ -1176,7 +1154,7 @@ "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; laws allow for conscription only if volunteers are insufficient, but conscription has never been implemented; initial service obligation is 12 years (2023)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "

the Belize Defense Force (BDF) is responsible for external security but also provides some support to civilian authorities; it has limited powers of arrest within land and shoreline areas, while the Coast Guard has arrest powers and jurisdiction within coastal and maritime areas; the BDF traces its history back to the Prince Regent Royal Honduras Militia, a volunteer force established in 1817; the BDF was established in 1978 from the disbanded Police Special Force and the Belize Volunteer Guard to assist the resident British forces with the defense of Belize against Guatemala

the British Army has maintained a presence in Belize since its independence; the presence consists of a small training support unit that provides jungle training to troops from the UK and international partners

(2023)" + "text": "the Belize Defense Force (BDF) is responsible for external security but also provides some support to civilian authorities; it has limited powers of arrest within land and shoreline areas, while the Coast Guard has arrest powers and jurisdiction within coastal and maritime areas; the BDF traces its history back to the Prince Regent Royal Honduras Militia, a volunteer force established in 1817; the BDF was established in 1978 from the disbanded Police Special Force and the Belize Volunteer Guard to assist the resident British forces with the defense of Belize against Guatemala

the British Army has maintained a presence in Belize since its independence; the presence consists of a small training support unit that provides jungle training to troops from the UK and international partners (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json index 9b11fba5..f0ee47f9 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cj.json @@ -283,17 +283,6 @@ "female": { "text": "99% (2021) NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "13.8% (2015 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "16.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "11.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -576,17 +565,6 @@ "text": "39,000 (2007 est.)", "note": "note: nearly 55% are non-nationals" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1.9%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "19.1%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "79% (2008 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2008": { "text": "4% (2008)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json index 443f2117..3322ac7b 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cs.json @@ -378,17 +378,6 @@ "female": { "text": "17 years (2019)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "45.4% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "37%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "56.3%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -774,17 +763,6 @@ "text": "2.426 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: official estimate; excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "14%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "22%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "64% (2006 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "17.95% (2021 est.)" @@ -1074,7 +1052,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "553,455 (2021 est.)" + "text": "491,613 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "11 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json index 092779ff..f4a629fa 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/cu.json @@ -381,17 +381,6 @@ "text": "15 years (2021)" } }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "7.4% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "7.6%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "7%" - } - }, "People - note": { "text": "illicit emigration is a continuing problem; Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and overland via the southwest border; the number of Cubans migrating to the US surged after the announcement of normalization of US-Cuban relations in late December 2014 but has decreased since the end of the so-called \"wet-foot, dry-foot\" policy on 12 January 2017" } @@ -769,17 +758,6 @@ "text": "5.135 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: state sector 72.3%, non-state sector 27.7%" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "18%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "10%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "72% (2016 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "2.76% (2021 est.)" @@ -1045,7 +1023,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,539,269 (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,573,526 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "14 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json index f0c187ec..e3e2a681 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/do.json @@ -629,17 +629,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "25,000 (2000 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "40%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "32%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "28% (2002 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2000": { "text": "23% (2000 est.)" @@ -898,7 +887,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "7,500 (2021 est.)" + "text": "7,459 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "10 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json index 077bfeed..8010512f 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/dr.json @@ -388,17 +388,6 @@ "female": { "text": "15 years (2017)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "20.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "16.6%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "27.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -613,7 +602,7 @@ "text": "Alliance for Democracy or APD
Broad Front (Frente Amplio) [Fidel SANTANA]
Country Alliance or AP [Guillermo Antonio MORENO Garcia]
Dominican Liberation Party or PLD [Danilo MEDINA Sánchez]
Dominican Revolutionary Party or PRD [Miguel VARGAS Maldonado]
Dominicans For Change or DXC [Manuel OVIEDO Estrada]
Institutional Social Democratic Bloc or BIS
Liberal Reformist Party or PRL (formerly the Liberal Party of the Dominican Republic or PLRD)
Modern Revolutionary Party or PRM [Luis ABINADER]
National Progressive Front or FNP [Vinicio CASTILLO, Pelegrin CASTILLO]
People's Force or FP [Leonel FERNANDEZ Reyna]
Social Christian Reformist Party or PRSC [Federico Augusto \"Quique\" ANTUN Batile]" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ACP, AOSIS, BCIE, Caricom (observer), CD, CELAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, MIGA, MINUSMA, NAM, OAS, OIF (observer), OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, Petrocaribe, SICA (associated member), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ACP, AOSIS, BCIE, Caricom (observer), CD, CELAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, MIGA, MINUSMA, NAM, OAS, OIF (observer), OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, Petrocaribe, SICA (associated member), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -787,17 +776,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "5.027 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "14.4%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20.8% (2014)" - }, - "services": { - "text": "64.7% (2014 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "8.5% (2021 est.)" @@ -1095,7 +1073,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,154,670 (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,143,893 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "10 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json index 03f3ed54..1acd186f 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/gj.json @@ -669,17 +669,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "55,270 (2017 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "11%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "69% (2008 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2017": { "text": "24% (2017 est.)" @@ -947,7 +936,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "26,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "26,011 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "21 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json index 0f30649b..c28c6b2a 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ha.json @@ -374,17 +374,6 @@ "female": { "text": "58.3% (2016)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "35.7% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "28.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "45.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -759,17 +748,6 @@ "text": "5.01 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: shortage of skilled labor; unskilled labor abundant" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "38.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "11.5%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "50.4% (2010)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "15.73% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json index 2424bd80..edf5278e 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/ho.json @@ -381,17 +381,6 @@ "female": { "text": "11 years (2019)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "15.5% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "11.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "24.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -773,17 +762,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "4.314 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "39.2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20.9%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "39.8% (2005 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "8.51% (2021 est.)" @@ -1082,7 +1060,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "465,521 (2021 est.)" + "text": "413,936 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "5 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json index 77942cb3..ed6698c3 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/jm.json @@ -355,17 +355,6 @@ "female": { "text": "13 years (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "26.1% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "22.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "31.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -735,17 +724,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "1.418 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "16.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "16%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "67.9% (2017)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "9.18% (2021 est.)" @@ -1029,7 +1007,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "473,617 (2021 est.)" + "text": "446,831 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "17 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json index f194b94b..e3399247 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/nu.json @@ -353,17 +353,6 @@ "female": { "text": "82.8% (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "11.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "10.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "15.5%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -744,17 +733,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "3.042 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "31%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "18%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "50% (2011 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "5.96% (2021 est.)" @@ -1046,7 +1024,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "207,577 (2021 est.)" + "text": "215,729 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "3 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json index bc56b3a7..8e239788 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/pm.json @@ -374,17 +374,6 @@ "female": { "text": "13 years (2016)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "30% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "21.8%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "43.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -765,17 +754,6 @@ "text": "1.966 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "17%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "18.6%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "64.4% (2009 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "12.09% (2021 est.)" @@ -1075,7 +1053,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "790,486 (2021 est.)" + "text": "811,488 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "18 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json index 54ce5e50..594adba2 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/rq.json @@ -316,17 +316,6 @@ "female": { "text": "18 years (2018)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "18.5% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "19.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "15.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -634,17 +623,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "1.136 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "2.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "19%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "79% (2005 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "8.27% (2021 est.)" @@ -883,7 +861,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "726,739 (2021 est.)" + "text": "739,111 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "22 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json index 32430703..c090d415 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/st.json @@ -330,17 +330,6 @@ "female": { "text": "13 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "38.7% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "41%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "36.2%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -680,17 +669,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "99,900 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "21.7%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "24.7%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "53.6% (2002 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "16.91% (2021 est.)" @@ -971,7 +949,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "14,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "14,182 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "8 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json index 07cb82b6..781c5424 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/td.json @@ -327,17 +327,6 @@ "female": { "text": "98.7% (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "12.7% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "12.8%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "12.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -696,17 +685,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "702,900 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "3.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "11.5%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "85.4% (2016 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "4.8% (2021 est.)" @@ -977,18 +955,18 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "340,000 (2021)" + "text": "326,483 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "22 (2021 est.)" + "text": "21 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "2 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,999,029 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "130 (2021 est.)" + "text": "131 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { @@ -996,7 +974,7 @@ "text": "excellent international service; good local service; broadband access; expanded FttP (Fiber to the Home) markets; LTE launch; regulatory development; major growth in mobile telephony and data segments which attacks operation investment in fiber infrastructure; moves to end roaming charges (2020)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line is 22 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular teledensity 130 per 100 persons (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line is 21 per 100 persons and mobile-cellular teledensity 131 per 100 persons (2022)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 1-868; landing points for the EC Link, ECFS, Southern Caribbean Fiber, SG-SCS and Americas II submarine cable systems provide connectivity to US, parts of the Caribbean and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Barbados and Guyana (2020)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json index 0495424f..6f7bf757 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/tk.json @@ -569,9 +569,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "4,848 (1990 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "text": "

note: about 33% in government and 20% in agriculture and fishing; significant numbers in tourism, financial, and other services

" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 1997": { "text": "10% (1997 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json index 5974a2be..d5fcfca6 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/uc.json @@ -256,17 +256,6 @@ "female": { "text": "18 years (2013)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "42.2% (2020 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "38.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "47.1%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -569,17 +558,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "73,010 (2013)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1.2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "16.9%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "81.8% (2008 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2013": { "text": "13% (2013 est.)" @@ -704,7 +682,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "53,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "53,095 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "28 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json index 23d78936..471bdab4 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vc.json @@ -321,17 +321,6 @@ "female": { "text": "15 years (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "41.1% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "39.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "43.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -668,17 +657,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "51,700 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "26%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "17%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "57% (1980 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "21.62% (2021 est.)" @@ -954,7 +932,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "11,385 (2021 est.)" + "text": "11,016 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "11 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json index dff26554..314250c3 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vi.json @@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "7,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "22,571 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "22 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json index 544c81b8..524ead36 100644 --- a/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json +++ b/central-america-n-caribbean/vq.json @@ -291,17 +291,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "27% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "24.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "37.3%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -569,17 +558,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "42,200 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "19%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "80% (2003 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "13.27% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-asia/kz.json b/central-asia/kz.json index 4a7b3cbc..95aef6a4 100644 --- a/central-asia/kz.json +++ b/central-asia/kz.json @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ "text": "president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 7-year term (prior to September 2022, the president of Kazakhstan could serve up to two terms of 5 years each; the legislation was changed in September 2022, reducing the maximum number of terms to one term of 7 years); election last held on 20 November 2022 (next to be held in 2029); prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president, approved by the Mazhilis" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2022: Kasym-Zhomart TOKAYEV elected president; percent of vote - Kasym-Zhomart TOKAYEV (Amanat) 81.3%, Zhiguli DAYRABAEV (Auyl) 3.4%, Qaraqat or Karakat ÄBDEN (KÄQŪA) 2.6%, Meyram KAZHYKEN (Amanat) 2.5%, Nurlan AUYESBAYEV (NSDP) 2.2%, Saltanat TURSYNBEKOVA (QA-DJ) 2.1%, other 5.8%

2019: Kasym-Zhomart TOKAYEV elected president; percent of vote - Kasym-Zhomart TOKAYEV (Amanat) 71%, Amirzhan KOSANOV (Ult Tagdyry) 16.2%, Daniya YESPAYEVA (Ak Zhol) 5.1%, other 7.7%" + "text": "
2022: Kasym-Zhomart TOKAYEV elected president; percent of vote - Kassym-Jomart TOKAYEV (Amanat) 81.3%, Zhiguli DAYRABAEV (Auyl) 3.4%, Qaraqat or Karakat ÄBDEN (KÄQŪA) 2.6%, Meyram KAZHYKEN (Amanat) 2.5%, Nurlan AUYESBAYEV (NSDP) 2.2%, Saltanat TURSYNBEKOVA (QA-DJ) 2.1%, other 5.8%

2019: Kasym-Zhomart TOKAYEV elected president; percent of vote - Kasym-Zhomart TOKAYEV (Amanat) 71%, Amirzhan KOSANOV (Ult Tagdyry) 16.2%, Daniya YESPAYEVA (Ak Zhol) 5.1%, other 7.7%" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -623,10 +623,10 @@ "text": "Ambassador Daniel N. ROSENBLUM (since 14 November 2022)" }, "embassy": { - "text": "Rakhymzhan Koshkarbayev Avenue, No. 3, Nur-Sultan 010010" + "text": "Rakhymzhan Koshkarbayev Avenue, No. 3, Astana 010010" }, "mailing address": { - "text": "2230 Nur-Sultan Place, Washington DC  20521-2230" + "text": "2230 Astana, Washington DC  20521-2230" }, "telephone": { "text": "[7] (7172) 70-21-00" @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "2,997,400 (2021 est.)" + "text": "2,887,900 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "16 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-asia/ti.json b/central-asia/ti.json index 104da6f6..c81c14d1 100644 --- a/central-asia/ti.json +++ b/central-asia/ti.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "

The Tajik people came under Russian imperial rule in the 1860s and 1870s, but Russia's hold on Central Asia weakened following the Revolution of 1917. At that time, bands of indigenous guerrillas (known as \"basmachi\") fiercely contested Bolshevik control of the area, which was not fully reestablished until 1925. Tajikistan was first created as an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan in 1924, but in 1929 the USSR designated Tajikistan a separate republic and transferred to it much of present-day Sughd Province. Ethnic Uzbeks form a substantial minority in Tajikistan, and ethnic Tajiks an even larger minority in Uzbekistan. Tajikistan became independent in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and experienced a civil war between political, regional, and religious factions from 1992 to 1997.

Though the country holds general elections for both the presidency (once every seven years) and legislature (once every five years), observers note an electoral system rife with irregularities and abuse, with results that are neither free nor fair. President Emomali RAHMON, who came to power in 1992 during the civil war and was first elected president in 1994, used an attack planned by a disaffected deputy defense minister in 2015 to ban the last major opposition political party in Tajikistan. In December 2015, RAHMON further strengthened his position by having himself declared \"Founder of Peace and National Unity, Leader of the Nation,\" with limitless terms and lifelong immunity through constitutional amendments ratified in a referendum. The referendum also lowered the minimum age required to run for president from 35 to 30, which made RAHMON's first-born son Rustam EMOMALI, the mayor of the capital city of Dushanbe, eligible to run for president in 2020. In April 2020, RAHMON orchestrated EMOMALI's selection as chairman of the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan's senate), positioning EMOMALI as next in line of succession for the presidency. RAHMON opted to run in the presidential election in October 2020 and received 91% of the vote.

The country remains the poorest in the former Soviet sphere. Tajikistan became a member of the WTO in March 2013. However, its economy continues to face major challenges, including dependence on remittances from Tajikistani migrant laborers working in Russia and Kazakhstan, pervasive corruption, and the opiate trade and other destabilizing violence emanating from neighboring Afghanistan. Tajikistan has endured several domestic security incidents since 2010, including armed conflict between government forces and local strongmen in the Rasht Valley and between government forces and residents and informal leaders in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast. Tajikistan suffered its first ISIS-claimed attack in 2018, when assailants attacked a group of Western bicyclists with vehicles and knives, killing four.

 

 

" + "text": "

The Tajik people came under Russian imperial rule in the 1860s and 1870s, but Russia's hold on Central Asia weakened following the Revolution of 1917. At that time, bands of indigenous guerrillas (known as \"basmachi\") fiercely contested Bolshevik control of the area, which was not fully reestablished until 1925. Tajikistan was first established as an autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924, but in 1929 the USSR designated Tajikistan a separate republic and transferred to it much of present-day Sughd Province. Ethnic Uzbeks form a substantial minority in Tajikistan, and ethnic Tajiks an even larger minority in Uzbekistan. Tajikistan became independent in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and experienced a civil war between political, regional, and religious factions from 1992 to 1997.

Though the country holds general elections for both the presidency (once every seven years) and legislature (once every five years), observers note an electoral system rife with irregularities and abuse, with results that are neither free nor fair. President Emomali RAHMON, who came to power in 1992 during the civil war and was first elected president in 1994, used an attack planned by a disaffected deputy defense minister in 2015 to ban the last major opposition political party in Tajikistan. In December 2015, RAHMON further strengthened his position by having himself declared \"Founder of Peace and National Unity, Leader of the Nation,\" with limitless terms and lifelong immunity through constitutional amendments ratified in a referendum. The referendum also lowered the minimum age required to run for president from 35 to 30, which made RAHMON's first-born son Rustam EMOMALI, the mayor of the capital city of Dushanbe, eligible to run for president in 2020. In April 2020, RAHMON orchestrated EMOMALI's selection as chairman of the Majlisi Milli (the upper chamber of Tajikistan's parliament), positioning EMOMALI as next in line of succession for the presidency. RAHMON opted to run in the presidential election in October 2020 and received 91% of the vote.

The country remains the poorest of the former Soviet republic. Tajikistan became a member of the WTO in March 2013. However, its economy continues to face major challenges, including dependence on remittances from Tajikistani migrant laborers working in Russia and Kazakhstan, pervasive corruption, and the opiate trade and other destabilizing violence emanating from neighboring Afghanistan. Tajikistan has endured several domestic security incidents since 2010, including armed conflict between government forces and local strongmen in the Rasht Valley and between government forces and residents and informal leaders in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast. Tajikistan suffered its first ISIS-claimed attack in 2018, when assailants attacked a group of Western bicyclists with vehicles and knives, killing four. Friction between forces on the border between Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic flared up in 2021, culminating in fatal clashes between border forces in April 2021 and September 2022.

 

 

" } }, "Geography": { @@ -365,17 +365,6 @@ "female": { "text": "11 years (2013)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "17.4% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "19.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "14.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -754,17 +743,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "2.5 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "43%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "10.6%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "46.4% (2016 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "7.75% (2021 est.)" @@ -1052,7 +1030,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "500,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "502,000 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "5 (2021 est.)" @@ -1060,18 +1038,18 @@ }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "12 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "11.584 million (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "120 (2021 est.)" + "text": "119 (2021 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { "general assessment": { - "text": "the nation of Tajikistan has had to struggle through economic hardship following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic; the strain on financial resources inevitably means a continuation of the absence of any meaningful investment or development programs for telecommunications infrastructure; the fixed line telephony and fixed broadband markets continue to languish far behind the mobile sector in terms of teledensity and penetration; with only around 6,000 fixed broadband customers (0.07% penetration), there would appear to be growth potential, but the limited fixed line infrastructure in the country suggests there’s little likelihood of that occurring any time soon; the size of Tajikistan’s mobile market dwarfs the fixed line segment, with an estimated penetration rate of nearly 120%; with a number of private sector companies active in the mobile market, there been more commitment to investment in network upgrades and expansion; three MNOs have all launched commercial 5G services, initially in areas of the capital city Dushanbe; the move towards higher speed mobile services should further underpin the growth in the nascent mobile broadband market, which is still estimated to be at a relatively low penetration level of 42% (at least relative to most other Asian nations) but is predicted to be a strong compound annual growth rate of more than 8% for at least the next five years (2021)" + "text": "the size of Tajikistan’s mobile market dwarfs the fixed line segment, with an estimated penetration rate of nearly 120%; with a number of private sector companies active in the mobile market, there been more commitment to investment in network upgrades and expansion; three MNOs have all launched commercial 5G services, initially in areas of the capital city Dushanbe; the move towards higher speed mobile services should further underpin the growth in the nascent mobile broadband market, which is still estimated to be at a relatively low penetration level of 42% (at least relative to most other Asian nations) but is predicted to be a strong compound annual growth rate of more than 8% for at least the next five years; the ICT ecosystem is a complex mix of foreign operators from the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, state-owned enterprises, and telecom systems established by donors and non-governmental organizations (2021)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line over 5 per 100 and mobile-cellular over 120 per 100 (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line over 5 per 100 and mobile-cellular over 119 per 100 (2021)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 992; linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; Dushanbe linked by Intelsat to international gateway switch in Ankara (Turkey); 3 satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat and 1 Orbita" diff --git a/central-asia/tx.json b/central-asia/tx.json index 048c7527..990a25a3 100644 --- a/central-asia/tx.json +++ b/central-asia/tx.json @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "800,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "801,721 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "13 (2021 est.)" @@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "6.3 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "6,254,681 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "99 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/central-asia/uz.json b/central-asia/uz.json index 5a72296d..20b0c19f 100644 --- a/central-asia/uz.json +++ b/central-asia/uz.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "Uzbekistan is the geographic and population center of Central Asia. The country has a diverse economy and a relatively young population. Russia conquered and united the disparate territories of present-day Uzbekistan in the late 19th century. Stiff resistance to the Red Army after the Bolshevik Revolution was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic established in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of \"white gold\" (cotton) and grain led to the overuse of agrochemicals and the depletion of water supplies, leaving the land degraded and the Aral Sea and certain rivers half-dry. Independent since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the country has diversified agricultural production while developing its mineral and petroleum export capacity and increasing its manufacturing base, although cotton remains a major part of its economy. Uzbekistan’s first president, Islom KARIMOV, led Uzbekistan for 25 years until his death in September 2016. His successor, former Prime Minister Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV, has improved relations with Uzbekistan’s neighbors and introduced wide-ranging economic, judicial, and social reforms. MIRZIYOYEV was reelected in October 2021 with 80% of the vote." + "text": "Uzbekistan is the geographic and population center of Central Asia. The country has a diverse economy and a relatively young population. Russia conquered and united the disparate territories of present-day Uzbekistan in the late 19th century. Stiff resistance to the Red Army after the Bolshevik Revolution was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic established in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of \"white gold\" (cotton) and grain led to the overuse of agrochemicals and the depletion of water supplies, leaving the land degraded and the Aral Sea and certain rivers half-dry. Independent since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the country has diversified agricultural production while developing its mineral and petroleum export capacity and increasing its manufacturing base, although cotton remains a major part of its economy. Uzbekistan’s first president, Islom KARIMOV, led Uzbekistan for 25 years until his death in September 2016. His successor, former Prime Minister Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV, has improved relations with Uzbekistan’s neighbors and introduced wide-ranging economic, judicial, and social reforms. MIRZIYOYEV was reelected in October 2021 with 80% of the vote and again following a 2023 constitutional referendum with 87% of the vote." } }, "Geography": { @@ -367,17 +367,6 @@ "female": { "text": "12 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "16% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "15.8%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "16.2%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -510,8 +499,8 @@ } }, "Administrative divisions": { - "text": "12 provinces (viloyatlar, singular - viloyat), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonom respublikasi), and 1 city** (shahar); Andijon Viloyati, Buxoro Viloyati [Bukhara Province], Farg'ona Viloyati [Fergana Province], Jizzax Viloyati, Namangan Viloyati, Navoiy Viloyati, Qashqadaryo Viloyati (Qarshi), Qoraqalpog'iston Respublikasi [Karakalpakstan Republic]* (Nukus), Samarqand Viloyati [Samarkand Province], Sirdaryo Viloyati (Guliston), Surxondaryo Viloyati (Termiz), Toshkent Shahri [Tashkent City]**, Toshkent Viloyati [Tashkent Province], Xorazm Viloyati (Urganch)", - "note": "note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)" + "text": "

12 provinces (viloyatlar, singular - viloyat), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonom respublikasi), and 3 cities** (shahar); Andijon Viloyati, Buxoro Viloyati [Bukhara Province], Farg'ona Viloyati [Fergana Province], Jizzax Viloyati, Namangan Shahri, Namangan Viloyati, Navoiy Viloyati, Qashqadaryo Viloyati (Qarshi), Qoraqalpog'iston Respublikasi [Karakalpakstan Republic]* (Nukus), Samarqand Shahri [Samarkand City], Samarqand Viloyati [Samarkand Province], Sirdaryo Viloyati (Guliston), Surxondaryo Viloyati (Termiz), Toshkent Shahri [Tashkent City]**, Toshkent Viloyati [Tashkent Province], Xorazm Viloyati (Urganch)  

", + "note": "note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses) " }, "Independence": { "text": "1 September 1991 (from the Soviet Union)" @@ -526,10 +515,10 @@ "amendments": { "text": "proposed by the Supreme Assembly or by referendum; passage requires two-thirds majority vote of both houses of the Assembly or passage in a referendum; amended several times, last in 2023" }, - "note": "note: in a public referendum passed in April 2023, among the changes were the extension of the presidential term to 7 years from 5 years, and modifications to the structure and powers of the Supreme Assembly and to the criminal code" + "note": "note: in a public referendum passed in April 2023, among the changes were the extension of the presidential term to 7 years from 5 years, and modifications to the structure and powers of the Supreme Assembly and to the criminal code " }, "Legal system": { - "text": "civil law system; note - in early 2020, the president signed an amendment to the criminal code, criminal procedure code, and code of administrative responsibility; a constitutional referendum passed in April 2023 included criminal code reforms" + "text": "civil law system; note: in early 2020, the president signed an amendment to the criminal code, criminal procedure code, and code of administrative responsibility; a constitutional referendum passed in April 2023 included criminal code reforms  " }, "International law organization participation": { "text": "has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; non-party state to the ICCt" @@ -565,7 +554,7 @@ "text": "president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 7-year term (eligible for a second term; previously a 5-year term, extended to 7 years by a 2023 constitutional amendment); election last held on 24 October 2021 (next to be held in 2026); prime minister nominated by majority party in legislature since 2011, but appointed along with the ministers and deputy ministers by the president" }, "election results": { - "text": "
2021: Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV reelected president in first round; percent of vote - Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV (LDPU) 80.3%, Maqsuda VORISOVA (PDP) 6.7%, Alisher QODIROV (National Revival Democratic Party) 5.5%, Narzullo OBLOMURODOV (Ecological Party) 4.1%, Bahrom ABDUHALIMOV (Adolat) 3.4%

2016: Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV elected president in first round; percent of vote - Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV (LDPU) 88.6%, Hotamjon KETMONOV (PDP) 3.7%, Narimon UMAROV (Adolat) 3.5%, Sarvar OTAMURODOV (National Revival Democratic Party) 2.4%, other 1.8%" + "text": "2023: Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV reelected president in snap election; percent of vote - Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV (LDPU) 87.71%, Robaxon Maxmudova (Adolat) 4.47%, Ulugbek Inoyatov (PDP) 4.05%, Abdushukur Xamzayev (Ecological Party) 3.77%

2021: Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV reelected president in first round; percent of vote - Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV (LDPU) 80.3%, Maqsuda VORISOVA (PDP) 6.7%, Alisher QODIROV (National Revival Democratic Party) 5.5%, Narzullo OBLOMURODOV (Ecological Party) 4.1%, Bahrom ABDUHALIMOV (Adolat) 3.4%

2016: Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV elected president in first round; percent of vote - Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV (LDPU) 88.6%, Hotamjon KETMONOV (PDP) 3.7%, Narimon UMAROV (Adolat) 3.5%, Sarvar OTAMURODOV (National Revival Democratic Party) 2.4%, other 1.8%" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -595,7 +584,7 @@ "text": "Ecological Party of Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston Ekologik Partivasi) [Narzullo OBLOMURODOV]
Justice (Adolat) Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan [Bahrom ABDUKHALIMOV]
Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston Liberal-Demokratik Partiyasi) or LDPU [Aktam HAITOV]
National Revival Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston Milliy Tiklanish Demokratik Partiyasi) [Alisher QODIROV]
People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (Xalq Demokratik Partiyas) or PDP [Ulugbek Ilyosovich INOYATOV] (formerly Communist Party)" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ADB, CICA, CIS, EAEU (observer), EAPC, EBRD, ECO, EEU (observer), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITSO, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OSCE, PFP, SCO, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)" + "text": "ADB, CICA, CIS, EAEU (observer), EAPC, EBRD, ECO, EEU (observer), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITSO, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OSCE, PFP, SCO, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -770,17 +759,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "14.094 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "25.9%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "13.2%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "60.9% (2012 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "7.16% (2021 est.)" @@ -1076,7 +1054,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "3,470,097 (2021 est.)" + "text": "5,685,854 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "17 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json index 40bbd243..0dbb9d5d 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bm.json @@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "522,141 (2021 est.)" + "text": "535,463 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "1 (2021 est.)" @@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ "text": "18-35 years of age (men) and 18-27 years of age (women) for voluntary military service; no conscription (a 2010 law reintroducing conscription has not yet entered into force); 2-year service obligation; professional men (ages 18-45) and women (ages 18-35), including doctors, engineers, and mechanics, serve up to 3 years; service terms may be stretched to 5 years in an officially declared emergency (2023)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "since the country’s founding, the Tatmadaw has been heavily involved in domestic politics and the national economy; it ran the country for five decades following a military coup in 1962; prior to the most recent coup in 2021, the military already controlled three key security ministries (Defense, Border, and Home Affairs), one of two vice presidential appointments, 25% of the parliamentary seats, and had a proxy political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP); it owns and operates two business conglomerates that have over 100 subsidiaries; the business activities of these conglomerates include banking and insurance, hotels, tourism, jade and ruby mining, timber, construction, real estate, and the production of palm oil, sugar, soap, cement, beverages, drinking water, coal, and gas; some of the companies supply goods and services to the military, such as food, clothing, insurance, and cellphone service; the military also manages a film industry, publishing houses, and television stations

the Tatmadaw's primary operational focus is internal security, and it is conducting widespread counterinsurgency operations against anti-regime forces that launched an armed rebellion following the 2021 coup and an array of ethnic armed groups (EAGs), some of which have considerable military capabilities; it has been accused of committing atrocities in the conduct of its campaign against the pro-democracy movement and opposition forces 

the Army is the dominant service and largely configured for counterinsurgency operations, although it has some conventional warfare capabilities; its principal combat forces are organized into 10 centrally-commanded light infantry/rapid reaction divisions, which have a key role in fighting against insurgents; the light infantry divisions are supported by approximately 20 regionally-based, divisional-sized “military operations commands,” and several brigade-sized “regional operations commands”; the Army’s insurgency operations are supported by the National Police, which has dozens of paramilitary combat police battalions; the Air Force also has a large counterinsurgency role with more than 100 combat-capable aircraft and helicopters, mostly ground attack aircraft and helicopter gunships, complemented by some multipurpose fighters; the Navy has traditionally been a coastal defense force, and the majority of the combat fleet consists of fast attack and patrol vessels; however, in recent years the Navy has expanded its blue water capabilities and has a small force of frigates and corvettes, as well as a landing platform docking (LPD) amphibious assault ship and 2 attack submarines acquired since 2020

the military is supported by hundreds of pro-government militias; some are integrated within the Tatmadaw’s command structure as Border Guard Forces, which are organized as battalions with a mix of militia forces, ethnic armed groups, and government soldiers that are armed, supplied, and paid by the Tatmadaw; other pro-military government militias are not integrated within the Tatmadaw command structure but receive direction and some support from the military and are recognized as government militias; a third type of pro-government militias are small community-based units that are armed, coordinated, and trained by local Tatmadaw forces and activated as needed; the junta has raised new militia units to help combat the popular uprising

EAGs have been fighting for self-rule against the Burmese Government since 1948; there are approximately 20 such groups operating in Burma with strengths of a few hundred up to more than 25,000 estimated fighters; some are organized along military lines with \"brigades\" and \"divisions\" and armed with heavy weaponry, including artillery; they control large tracts of the country’s territory, primarily in the border regions; key groups include the United Wa State Army, Karen National Union, Kachin Independence Army, Arakan Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army

the opposition National Unity Government claims its armed wing, the People's Defense Force (PDF), has more than 60,000 fighters loosely organized into battalions; in addition, several EAGs have cooperated with the NUG and supported local PDF groups (2023)" + "text": "since the country’s founding, the Tatmadaw has been heavily involved in domestic politics and the national economy; it ran the country for five decades following a military coup in 1962; prior to the most recent coup in 2021, the military already controlled three key security ministries (Defense, Border, and Home Affairs), one of two vice presidential appointments, 25% of the parliamentary seats, and had a proxy political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP); it owns and operates two business conglomerates that have over 100 subsidiaries; the business activities of these conglomerates include banking and insurance, hotels, tourism, jade and ruby mining, timber, construction, real estate, and the production of palm oil, sugar, soap, cement, beverages, drinking water, coal, and gas; some of the companies supply goods and services to the military, such as food, clothing, insurance, and cellphone service; the military also manages a film industry, publishing houses, and television stations

the Tatmadaw's primary operational focus is internal security, and it is conducting counterinsurgency operations against anti-regime forces that launched an armed rebellion following the 2021 coup and an array of ethnic armed groups (EAGs), some of which have considerable military capabilities; it has been accused of committing atrocities in the conduct of its campaign against the pro-democracy movement and opposition forces 

the Army is the dominant service and largely configured for counterinsurgency operations, although it has some conventional warfare capabilities; its principal combat forces are organized into 10 centrally-commanded light infantry/rapid reaction divisions, which have a key role in fighting against insurgents; the light infantry divisions are supported by approximately 20 regionally-based, divisional-sized “military operations commands,” and several brigade-sized “regional operations commands”; the Army’s insurgency operations are supported by the National Police, which has dozens of paramilitary combat police battalions; the Air Force also has a large counterinsurgency role with more than 100 combat-capable aircraft and helicopters, mostly ground attack aircraft and helicopter gunships, complemented by some multipurpose fighters; the Navy has traditionally been a coastal defense force, and the majority of the combat fleet consists of fast attack and patrol vessels; however, in recent years the Navy has expanded its blue water capabilities and has a small force of frigates and corvettes, as well as a landing platform docking (LPD) amphibious assault ship and two attack submarines acquired since 2020

the military is supported by hundreds of pro-government militias; some are integrated within the Tatmadaw’s command structure as Border Guard Forces, which are organized as battalions with a mix of militia forces, ethnic armed groups, and government soldiers that are armed, supplied, and paid by the Tatmadaw; other pro-military government militias are not integrated within the Tatmadaw command structure but receive direction and some support from the military and are recognized as government militias; a third type of pro-government militias are small community-based units that are armed, coordinated, and trained by local Tatmadaw forces and activated as needed; the junta has raised new militia units to help combat the popular uprising

EAGs have been fighting for self-rule against the Burmese Government since 1948; there are approximately 20 such groups operating in Burma with strengths of a few hundred up to more than 25,000 estimated fighters; some are organized along military lines with \"brigades\" and \"divisions\" and armed with heavy weaponry, including artillery; they control large tracts of the country’s territory, primarily in the border regions; key groups include the United Wa State Army, Karen National Union, Kachin Independence Army, Arakan Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army

the opposition National Unity Government claims its armed wing, the People's Defense Force (PDF), has more than 60,000 fighters loosely organized into battalions; in addition, several EAGs have cooperated with the NUG and supported local PDF groups (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json index 0ca00b54..655f0bdd 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/bx.json @@ -357,17 +357,6 @@ "female": { "text": "14 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "23.4% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "20.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "27.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -717,17 +706,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "219,800 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "4.2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "62.8%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "33% (2008 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "7.65% (2021 est.)" @@ -1005,7 +983,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "112,298 (2021 est.)" + "text": "122,204 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "25 (2021 est.)" @@ -1151,7 +1129,7 @@ "note": "note: the Gurkha Reserve Unit (GRU) employs about 500 Gurkhas from Nepal, the majority of whom are veterans of the British Army and the Singapore Police Force who have joined the GRU as a second career" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Royal Brunei Armed Forces were formed in 1961 with British support as the Brunei Malay Regiment; \"Royal\" was added as an honorary title in 1965 and its current name was given in 1984; the military is a small and professional force responsible for ensuring the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as countering outside aggression, terrorism, and insurgency; the Army is comprised of a few infantry battalions and an armored reconnaissance squadron, while the Navy has several corvettes and patrol vessels for monitoring the country’s territorial waters; the small Air Force does not have any combat aircraft, but operates some maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters 

Brunei has a long-standing defense relationship with the United Kingdom and hosts a British Army garrison, which includes a Gurkha battalion and a jungle warfare school; Brunei also hosts a Singaporean military training base (2023)" + "text": "the Royal Brunei Armed Forces were formed in 1961 with British support as the Brunei Malay Regiment; \"Royal\" was added as an honorary title in 1965 and its current name was given in 1984; the military is responsible for ensuring the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as countering outside aggression, terrorism, and insurgency; the Army is comprised of a few infantry battalions and an armored reconnaissance squadron, while the Navy has several corvettes and patrol vessels for monitoring the country’s territorial waters; the small Air Force does not have any combat aircraft, but operates some maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters 

Brunei has a long-standing defense relationship with the UK and hosts a British Army garrison, which includes a Gurkha battalion and a jungle warfare school; Brunei also hosts a Singaporean military training base (2023)" } }, "Transnational Issues": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json index f0351083..ee4c6bad 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/cb.json @@ -569,10 +569,10 @@ "text": "bicameral Parliament of Cambodia consists of:
Senate (62 seats; 58 indirectly elected by parliamentarians and commune councils, 2 indirectly elected by the National Assembly, and 2 appointed by the monarch; members serve 6-year terms)

National Assembly (125 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "
Senate - last held on 25 February 2018 (next to be held in 2024)
National Assembly - last held on 23 July 2023 (next to be held in July 2028)" + "text": "Senate - last held on 25 February 2018 (next to be held 29 February 2024)
National Assembly - last held on 23 July 2023 (next to be held in July 2028)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
Senate - percent of vote by party - CPP 96%, FUNCINPEC 2.4%, KNUP 1.6%; seats by party - CPP 58; FUNCINPEC 4; composition (as of October 2023) - men 52, women 10, percent of women 16.1%
National Assembly - percent of vote by party - CPP 82.4%, FUNCINPEC 9.2%, KNUP 1.7%, CYP 1.3%, other 5.4% (14 other parties received votes); seats by party - CPP 125, FUNCINPEC 5; composition (as of October 2023) - men 112, women 13, percent of women 10.4%; note - total Parliament of Cambodia percent of women 12.3%" + "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - CPP 96%, FUNCINPEC 2.4%, KNUP 1.6%; seats by party - CPP 58; FUNCINPEC 4; composition - men 52, women 10, percent of women 16.1%
National Assembly - percent of vote by party - CPP 82.4%, FUNCINPEC 9.2%, KNUP 1.7%, CYP 1.3%, other 5.4% (14 other parties received votes); seats by party - CPP 120, FUNCINPEC 5; composition (as of October 2023) - men 108, women 17, percent of women 13.6%; note - total Parliament of Cambodia percent of women 14.4%" }, "note": "note: the CPP had no meaningful opposition in the July 2023 legislative election as the only serious challenger - the Candlelight Party - was disqualified on a technicality in advance of the election; the EU, UN, and US condemned the poll as neither free nor fair" }, @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ }, "Political parties and leaders": { "text": "Candlelight Party or CP (the latest incarnation of the Sam Rainsy Party or SRP, which joined with the Human Rights Party or HRP to form the Cambodia National Rescue Party or CNRP in 2012; the CNRP was dissolved in 2017)
Cambodian People's Party or CPP [HUN SEN]
Cambodian Youth Party or CYP [PICH Sros]
Grassroots Democratic Party [YENG Virak]
Khmer National Unity Party or KNUP (an offshoot of FUNCINPEC) [NHEK BUN CHHAY]
Khmer Will Party (aligned with Candlelight Party in 2023) [KONG Monika]
League for Democracy Party or LDP [KHEM Veasna]
National United Front for Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia or FUNCINPEC [Prince NORODOM CHAKRAVUTH]", - "note": "note 1: 42 parties had registered with the Cambodian Government at the beginning of 2023

note 2: following the 2017 commune election, the CPP-led government arrested the CNRP president Kem SOKHA for treason, dissolved the party on similar grounds, and forced most of its senior leadership into exile, where the party’s former president, Sam RAINSY, had been living since late 2015; opposition parties, particularly the Candlelight Party, continue to report, intimidation, harassment, and arrests by the Cambodian Government; in May 2023, the Cambodian Government disqualified the Candlelight Party, which is the main opposition party, from the July 2023 election" + "note": "note 1: 42 parties had registered with the Cambodian Government at the beginning of 2023

note 2: following the 2017 commune election, the CPP-led government arrested the CNRP president Kem SOKHA for treason, dissolved the party on similar grounds, and forced most of its senior leadership into exile where the party’s former president, Sam RAINSY, had been living since late 2015; opposition parties, particularly the Candlelight Party, continue to report, intimidation, harassment, and arrests by the Cambodian Government; in May 2023, the Cambodian Government disqualified the Candlelight Party, the main opposition party, from the July 2023 election " }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ADB, ARF, ASEAN, CICA, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "40,296 (2021 est.)" + "text": "38,284 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json index c5231209..40a1d2a5 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ch.json @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ "text": "the 14th NPC convened on 5 March 2023; the 15th NPC will convene in March 2028" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats by party - NA; the 14th NPC consists of 2,977 delegates; 2,187 men; 790 women (26.5%) " + "text": "percent of vote - NA; seats by party - NA; the 14th NPC consists of 2,977 delegates; 2,187 men; 790 women (26.5%)" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "180,700,500 (2021 est.)" + "text": "179,414,200 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "13 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json index 75ef82d4..e169228c 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/hk.json @@ -313,17 +313,6 @@ "female": { "text": "17 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "15% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "16.3%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "13.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -631,27 +620,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "3.842 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "3.8% (2013 est.)" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "2% (2016 est.)" - }, - "services": { - "text": "54.5% (2016 est.)" - }, - "industry and services": { - "text": "12.5% (2013 est.)" - }, - "agriculture/fishing/forestry/mining": { - "text": "10.1% (2013)" - }, - "manufacturing": { - "text": "17.1% (2013 est.)" - }, - "note": "note: above data exclude public sector" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "5.32% (2021 est.)" @@ -941,7 +909,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "3,856,180 (2021 est.)" + "text": "3,673,290 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "51 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json index 7995a43f..f70e4699 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/ja.json @@ -548,13 +548,13 @@ }, "Legislative branch": { "description": { - "text": "bicameral Diet or Kokkai consists of:
House of Councillors or Sangi-in (248 seats; 146 members directly elected in multi-seat districts by simple majority vote and 96 directly elected in a single national constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 6-year terms with half the membership renewed every 3 years); note - the number of seats increased to 248 at the July 2022 election for renewal of half the membership
House of Representatives or Shugi-in (465 seats; 289 members directly elected in single-seat districts by simple majority vote and 176 directly elected in multi-seat districts by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)" + "text": "bicameral National Diet or Kokkai consists of:
House of Councillors or Sangi-in (248 seats; 146 members directly elected in multi-seat districts by simple majority vote and 96 directly elected in a single national constituency by proportional representation vote; members serve 6-year terms with half the membership renewed every 3 years); note - the number of seats increased to 248 at the July 2022 election for renewal of half the membership
House of Representatives or Shugi-in (465 seats; 289 members directly elected in single-seat districts by simple majority vote and 176 directly elected in multi-seat districts by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "
House of Councillors - last held on 10 July 2022 (next to be held in July 2028)
House of Representatives - last held on 31 October 2021 (next to be held by October 2025)" + "text": "House of Councillors - last held on 10 July 2022 (next to be held in July 2028)
House of Representatives - last held on 31 October 2021 (next to be held by October 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
House of Councillors - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - LDP 119, CDP 39, Komeito 27, JCP 11, Osaka Ishin no Kai (Initiatives from Osaka) 21, DPFP 10, Reiwa Shinsengumi 5, NHK 2, DIY 1, SDP 1, independent 12
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - LDP 261, CDP 96, Ishin 41, Komeito 32, DPFP 11, JCP 10, Reiwa 3, SDP 1, independent 10; composition - men 420, women 45, percent of women 9.7%; note - total Diet percent of women 14.7%" + "text": "House of Councillors - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - LDP 119, CDP 39, Komeito 27, JCP 11, Osaka Ishin no Kai (Initiatives from Osaka) 21, DPFP 10, Reiwa Shinsengumi 5, NHK 2, DIY 1, SDP 1, independent 12; composition - 184 men, 64 women; percent of women 25.8% 
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - LDP 261, CDP 96, Ishin 41, Komeito 32, DPFP 11, JCP 10, Reiwa 3, SDP 1, independent 10; composition - 416 men, 48 women; percent women 10.3%; note - total National Diet percent of women 15.7%" }, "note": "note: the Diet in June 2017 redrew Japan's electoral district boundaries and reduced from 475 to 465 seats in the House of Representatives; the amended electoral law, which cuts 6 seats in single-seat districts and 4 in multi-seat districts, was reportedly intended to reduce voting disparities between densely and sparsely populated voting districts" }, @@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "61,583,600 (2021 est.)" + "text": "60,720,856 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "49 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json index d72c24ed..9e3ee8a5 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/kn.json @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1.2 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1.18 million (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "5 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json index 536b52b8..917fdaad 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/la.json @@ -379,17 +379,6 @@ "female": { "text": "10 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "3.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "3.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "3.2%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -774,17 +763,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "3.915 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "73.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "6.1%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "20.6% (2012 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "1.26% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json index 00230a41..16d346b2 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mc.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "Introduction": { "Background": { - "text": "Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the first European settlement in the Far East. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and Portugal on 13 April 1987, Macau became the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China on 20 December 1999. In this agreement, China promised that, under its \"one country, two systems\" formula, China's political and economic system would not be imposed on Macau, and that Macau would enjoy a \"high degree of autonomy\" in all matters except foreign affairs and defense for the subsequent 50 years. However, following a multi-year crackdown by China against a pro-democracy movement in nearby Hong Kong, the governments of China and the Macao Special Administrative Region similarly worked to limit Macao's political autonomy by suppressing opposition activity in the 2021 legislative elections." + "text": "Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the first European settlement in the Far East. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and Portugal on 13 April 1987, Macau became the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China on 20 December 1999. In this agreement, China promised that, under its \"one country, two systems\" formula, China's political and economic system would not be imposed on Macau, and that Macau would enjoy a \"high degree of autonomy\" in all matters except foreign affairs and defense for the subsequent 50 years. However, following a multi-year crackdown by China against a pro-democracy movement in nearby Hong Kong, the governments of China and the Macau Special Administrative Region similarly worked to limit Macau's political autonomy by suppressing opposition activity in the 2021 legislative elections." } }, "Geography": { @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Alliance for a Happy Home or ABL [WONG Kit-cheng]
Association of Synergy of Macao (\"Synergy Power\" or Poder da Singeria) or PS [Vitor VAI]
Macau-Guangdong Union or UGM [MAK Soi-kun]
New Hope or NE [José Maria Pereira COUTINHO]
Union for Development or UPD [HO Sut Heng]
Union for Promoting Progress or UPP or UNIPRO [HO Ion-sang]
United Citizens Association of Macau or ACUM [CHAN Meng-kam]
Women's General Association of Macau or AGMM [HO Teng-iat]", + "text": "Alliance for a Happy Home or ABL [WONG Kit-cheng]
Association of Synergy of Macau (\"Synergy Power\" or Poder da Singeria) or PS [Vitor VAI]
Macau-Guangdong Union or UGM [MAK Soi-kun]
New Hope or NE [José Maria Pereira COUTINHO]
Union for Development or UPD [HO Sut Heng]
Union for Promoting Progress or UPP or UNIPRO [HO Ion-sang]
United Citizens Association of Macau or ACUM [CHAN Meng-kam]
Women's General Association of Macau or AGMM [HO Teng-iat]", "note": "note: there is no political party ordinance, so there are no registered political parties; politically active groups register as societies or companies" }, "International organization participation": { @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "110,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "92,382 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "16 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json index 755ea45c..f5ff186f 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/mg.json @@ -374,17 +374,6 @@ "female": { "text": "16 years (2019)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "21% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "20.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "22.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -584,7 +573,7 @@ "text": "unicameral State Great Hural or Ulsyn Ikh Khural (126 seats; 78 members directly elected in a selected constituency by simple majority vote and 48 members directly elected by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms); note - a constitutional referendum passed in May 2023 increased the number of seats to 126 from 76" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 24 June 2020 (next to be held in 2024)" + "text": "last held on 24 June 2020 (next to be held 30 June 2024)" }, "election results": { "text": "percent of vote by party - MPP 44.9%, DP 24.5%, Our Coalition 8.1%, independent 8.7%, Right Person Electorate Coalition 5.2%, other 8.5%; seats by party - MPP 62, DP 11, Our Coalition 1, Right Person Electorate Coalition 1; independent 1; composition - 63 men, 13 women; percent of women 17.1%" @@ -779,17 +768,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "1.331 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "31.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "18.5%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "50.5% (2016)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "7.08% (2021 est.)" @@ -1070,7 +1048,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "399,237 (2021 est.)" + "text": "475,290 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "12 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json index d27b3c94..9b9938e4 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/my.json @@ -372,17 +372,6 @@ "female": { "text": "14 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "15.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "14.2%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "17.8%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -572,9 +561,8 @@ "text": "Senate - appointed
House of Representatives - last held on 19 Nov 2022 (next to be held in 2027)" }, "election results": { - "text": "Senate - appointed; composition - men 54, women 14, percent of women 20.6%

2022: House of Representatives - percent of vote by party/coalition - PH 37.5%, PN 30.4%, BN 22.4%, GPS 4%, WARISAN 1.8%, GRS 1.3%, other 2.6%; seats by party/coalition - PH 81, PN 73, BN 30, GPS 23, GRS 6, WARISAN 3, PBM 1, KDM 1, MUDA 1, independents/unaffiliated 3

2018: House of Representatives - percent of vote by party/coalition - PH 45.6%, BN 33.8%, PAS 16.9%, WARISAN 2.3%, other 1.4%; seats by party/coalition - PH 113, BN 79, PAS 18, WARISAN 8, USA 1, independent 3; composition - men 199, women 23, percent of women 10.4%; note - total Parliament percent of women 12.8%" - }, - "note": "note: as of May 2022, seats by party/coalition - PH 90, PN 50, BN 42, GPS 18, WARISAN 7, PEJUANG 4, PBM 3, PSB 1, MUDA 1, independent 4, vacant 2" + "text": "Senate - appointed; composition - men 41, women 10, percent of women 29.6%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party/coalition - PH 37.5%, PN 30.4%, BN 22.4%, GPS 4%, WARISAN 1.8%, GRS 1.3%, other 2.6%; seats by party/coalition - PH 90, PN 50, BN 42, GPS 18, WARISAN 7, PEJUANG 4, PBM 3, PSB 1, MUDA 1, independent 4, vacant 2; composition - 192 men, 30 women; percent women 13.5%" + } }, "Judicial branch": { "highest court(s)": { @@ -767,17 +755,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "16.74 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "11%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "36%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "53% (2012 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "4.61% (2021 est.)" @@ -1070,7 +1047,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "8,247,100 (2021 est.)" + "text": "8,452,900 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "25 (2021 est.)" @@ -1257,7 +1234,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

piracy remains a problem in the Malacca Strait

Malaysia-Brunei: per Letters of Exchange signed in 2009, Malaysia in 2010 ceded two hydrocarbon concession blocks to Brunei; in 2009, the media reported that Brunei had dropped its claims to the Limbang corridor, but Brunei responded that the subject had never been discussed during recent talks between the two countries

Malaysia-China-Philippines-Vietnam: while the 2002 \"Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea\" has eased tensions over the Spratly Islands, it is not the legally binding \"code of conduct\" sought by some parties, which is currently being negotiated between China and ASEAN; Malaysia was not party to the March 2005 joint accord among the national oil companies of China, the Philippines, and Vietnam on conducting marine seismic activities in the Spratly Islands

Malaysia-Indonesia: land and maritime negotiations with Indonesia are ongoing, and disputed areas include the controversial Tanjung Datu and Camar Wulan border area in Borneo and the maritime boundary in the Ambalat oil block in the Celebes Sea

Malaysia-Philippines: Philippines retains a dormant claim to the eastern part of Malaysia's Sabah State in northern Borneo

Malaysia-Singapore: disputes continue over deliveries of fresh water to Singapore, Singapore's land reclamation, bridge construction, and maritime boundaries in the Johor and Singapore Straits; in 2008, the International Court of Justice awarded sovereignty of Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh/Horsburgh Island) to Singapore, and Middle Rocks to Malaysia but did not rule on maritime regimes, boundaries, or disposition of South Ledge

Malaysia-Thailand: in 2008, separatist violence in Thailand's predominantly Muslim southern provinces prompts Malaysia to take measures to close and to monitor the border with Thailand to stem terrorist activities

 

 

" + "text": "

piracy remains a problem in the Malacca Strait

Malaysia-Brunei: per Letters of Exchange signed in 2009, Malaysia in 2010 ceded two hydrocarbon concession blocks to Brunei; in 2009, the media reported that Brunei had dropped its claims to the Limbang corridor, but Brunei responded that the subject had never been discussed during recent talks between the two countries

Malaysia-China-Philippines-Vietnam: while the 2002 \"Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea\" has eased tensions over the Spratly Islands, it is not the legally binding \"code of conduct\" sought by some parties, which is currently being negotiated between China and ASEAN; Malaysia was not party to the March 2005 joint accord among the national oil companies of China, the Philippines, and Vietnam on conducting marine seismic activities in the Spratly Islands

Malaysia-Indonesia: land and maritime negotiations with Indonesia are ongoing, and disputed areas include the controversial Tanjung Datu and Camar Wulan border area in Borneo and the maritime boundary in the Ambalat oil block in the Celebes Sea

Malaysia-Philippines: Philippines retains a dormant claim to the eastern part of Malaysia's Sabah State in northern Borneo

Malaysia-Singapore: disputes continue over deliveries of fresh water to Singapore, Singapore's land reclamation, bridge construction, and maritime boundaries in the Johor and Singapore Straits; in 2008, the International Court of Justice awarded sovereignty of Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh/Horsburgh Island) to Singapore, and Middle Rocks to Malaysia but did not rule on maritime regimes, boundaries, or disposition of South Ledge

Malaysia-Thailand: in 2008, separatist violence in Thailand's predominantly Muslim southern provinces prompts Malaysia to take measures to close and to monitor the border with Thailand to stem terrorist activities

 

 

" }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json index aa954746..4161871b 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/rp.json @@ -388,17 +388,6 @@ "text": "13 years (2020)" } }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "7.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "6.3%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "9%" - } - }, "People - note": { "text": "one of only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia, the other being Timor-Leste" } @@ -591,10 +580,10 @@ "text": "bicameral Congress or Kongreso consists of:
Senate or Senado (24 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by majority vote; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years)
House of Representatives or Kapulungan Ng Mga Kinatawan (316 seats; 253 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 63 representing minorities directly elected by party-list proportional representation vote; members serve 3-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "
Senate - elections last held on 9 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)
House of Representatives - elections last held on 9 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)" + "text": "Senate - elections last held on 9 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)
House of Representatives - elections last held on 9 May 2022 (next to be held in May 2025)" }, "election results": { - "text": "
Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NPC 5, PDP-Laban 5, NP 4, other 5, independent 5; composition - men 17, women 7, percent of women 29%
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - PDP-Laban 22.7%, NP 13.7%, NUP 12.6%, NPC 11.7%,  Lakas-CMD 9.4%,LP 3.8%, HNP 2.5%, other 19.6% independent 4%; seats by party - PDP-Laban 66, NP, NPC 35, NUP 33, Lakas-CMD 26, LP 10, HNP 6,  other 35, independent 6, party-list 63; composition - men 193, women 123, percent of women 38.9%; note - total Congress percent of women 38.2%" + "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NPC 5, PDP-Laban 5, NP 4, other 5, independent 5; composition - men 17, women 7, percent of women 29%
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - PDP-Laban 22.7%, NP 13.7%, NUP 12.6%, NPC 11.7%,  Lakas-CMD 9.4%,LP 3.8%, HNP 2.5%, other 19.6% independent 4%; seats by party - PDP-Laban 66, NP, NPC 35, NUP 33, Lakas-CMD 26, LP 10, HNP 6,  other 35, independent 6, party-list 63; composition - men 226, women 85, percent of women 27.3%; note - total Congress percent of women 27.4%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -787,17 +776,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "44.242 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "25.4%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "18.3%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "56.3% (2017 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "2.41% (2021 est.)" @@ -1095,7 +1073,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "5,028,018 (2021 est.)" + "text": "4,884,608 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "4 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json index 0e14da01..5ae876cd 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/sn.json @@ -359,17 +359,6 @@ "female": { "text": "17 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "9.1% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "11.8%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -755,18 +744,6 @@ "text": "3.29 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: excludes non-residents" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "0.7%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "25.6%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "73.7% (2017)" - }, - "note": "note: excludes non-residents" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "3.62% (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json index c83cc8ad..44fd49d8 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/th.json @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ "text": "Senate - last selections held on 14 May 2019 (next to be held in 2024)

House of Representatives - last held on 14 May 2023 (next to be held in May 2027)" }, "election results": { - "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition (248 members as of mid-2022) - men 222, women 26, percent of women 10.5%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party in 2023 election - MFP 36.2%, PTP 27.7%, UTN 11.9%, PJT 2.9%, DP 2.3%, PPRP 1.4%, PCC 1.5%, other 16%; seats by party - MFP 152, PTP 141, PJT 70, PPRP 41, UTN 36, DP 24, PCC 9, CTP 10, Thai Sang Thai 6, other 11

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party in 2019 election- PPRP 23.7%, PTP 22.2%, FFP* 17.8%, DP 11.1%, PJT 10.5%, TLP 2.3%, CTP 2.2%, NEP 1.4%, PCC 1.4%, ACT 1.2%, PCP 1.2%,  other 5.1%; seats by party - PTP 136, PPRP 116, FFP 81, DP 53, PJT 51, CTP 10, TLP 10, PCC 7, PCP 5, NEP 6, ACT 5, other 20; composition (489 members as of mid-2022) - men 412, women 77, percent of women 15.8%; note(s) - total National Assembly percent of women 14%" + "text": "Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 223, women 26, percent of women 10.4%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - MFP 36.2%, PTP 27.7%, UTN 11.9%, PJT 2.9%, DP 2.3%, PPRP 1.4%, PCC 1.5%, other 16%; seats by party - MFP 152, PTP 141, PJT 70, PPRP 41, UTN 36, DP 24, PCC 9, CTP 10, Thai Sang Thai 6, other 11; composition - 405 men, 94 women, percent women 18.8%

House of Representatives - percent of vote by party in 2019 election- PPRP 23.7%, PTP 22.2%, FFP* 17.8%, DP 11.1%, PJT 10.5%, TLP 2.3%, CTP 2.2%, NEP 1.4%, PCC 1.4%, ACT 1.2%, PCP 1.2%,  other 5.1%; seats by party - PTP 136, PPRP 116, FFP 81, DP 53, PJT 51, CTP 10, TLP 10, PCC 7, PCP 5, NEP 6, ACT 5, other 20; composition (489 members as of mid-2022) - men 412, women 77, percent of women 15.8%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -1079,18 +1079,18 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "4.6 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "4.368 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "7 (2021 est.)" + "text": "19 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "120 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "126.414 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "170 (2021 est.)" + "text": "176 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { @@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ "text": "Thailand’s telecom sector is relatively mature and hosts a mix of public and private sector players; the mobile market is highly developed and has experienced strong growth over the last seven years; the market returned to growth in 2021 after it contracted in 2020 driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, and a steep decline in inbound tourism; it remains highly saturated, owing to overall maturity and the popularity of multiple SIM card use, which has resulted in a particularly high penetration rate; in general, the sector retains considerable potential given the impetus of 5G, the recent spectrum auctions, and continued network deployments by the country’s network operators; further auctions of spectrum in the 700MHz band (being repurposed from digital TV broadcasting), and in the 3.6GHz range will further improve network capacity; in the wire line segment, the decline in fixed-line penetration is expected to continue as subscribers migrate to mobile networks for voice and data services; the emphasis among operators has been to bolster their fiber footprints in key high-value areas; the transition to fiber from DSL and cable has also been facilitated by changes to the regulatory structure that have removed some barriers to investment; this is supporting the cannibalization of older copper-based DSL lines by fiber; the returns from this investment remain a long-term prospect as consumers still favor entry-level packages; there is also strong interest from the government, as well as private vendors, in establishing Thailand as a data center hub to serve the region; the size, capacity and spread of existing data centers in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) outside of Thailand is small; Thailand retains some advantages to attract investment, including improved fiber connectivity and international bandwidth; increasing submarine capacity, such as the SJC2 cable to come online later in 2023, will considerably improve Thailand’s potential as a regional hub (2022)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line is 7 per 100 and mobile-cellular is 170 per 100 (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line is 19 per 100 and mobile-cellular is 176 per 100 (2022)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 66; landing points for the AAE-1, FEA, SeaMeWe-3,-4, APG, SJC2, TIS, MCT and AAG submarine cable systems providing links throughout Asia, Australia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Pacific Ocean) (2019)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json index d40c017d..ff32bb2b 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/tt.json @@ -364,17 +364,6 @@ "text": "64.2% (2018)" } }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "13.8% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "11.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "16.8%" - } - }, "People - note": { "text": "one of only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia, the other being the Philippines" } @@ -561,7 +550,7 @@ "text": "last held May 2023 (next to be held in May 2028)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party in 2023 elections - CNRT 41.5%, FRETILIN 25.8%, PD 9.3%, KHUNTO 7.5%, PLP 6%, other 9.9%; seats by party - CNRT 31, FRETILIN 19, PD 6, KHUNTO 5, PLP 4; note - 12 other parties received votes, but won no seats

percent of vote by party in 2018 elections - AMP 49.6%, FRETILIN 34.2%, PD 8.1%, DDF 5.5%, other 2.6%; seats by party - AMP 34, FRETILIN 23, PD 5, DDF 3; composition - men 39, women 26, percent of women 40%; note - AMP (Alliance for Change and Progress) was a coalition of CNRT, PLP, and KHUNTO which dissolved in May of 2020" + "text": "percent of vote by party in 2023 elections - CNRT 41.5%, FRETILIN 25.8%, PD 9.3%, KHUNTO 7.5%, PLP 6%, other 9.9%; seats by party - CNRT 31, FRETILIN 19, PD 6, KHUNTO 5, PLP 4; note - 12 other parties received votes, but won no seats; composition - men 41, women 24; percent women 36.9%

percent of vote by party in 2018 elections - AMP 49.6%, FRETILIN 34.2%, PD 8.1%, DDF 5.5%, other 2.6%; seats by party - AMP 34, FRETILIN 23, PD 5, DDF 3; composition - men 39, women 26, percent of women 40%; note - AMP (Alliance for Change and Progress) was a coalition of CNRT, PLP, and KHUNTO which dissolved in May of 2020" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -733,17 +722,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "569,700 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "41%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "13%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "45.1% (2013)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "5.07% (2021 est.)" @@ -1023,18 +1001,18 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,900 (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,840 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "(2021 est.) less than 1" + "text": "(2022 est.) less than 1" } }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1.4 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,481,007 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { - "text": "100 (2021 est.)" + "text": "110 (2022 est.)" } }, "Telecommunication systems": { @@ -1042,7 +1020,7 @@ "text": "Timor-Leste has been moving forward with the regeneration of its economy and rebuilding key infrastructure, including telecommunications networks, that were destroyed during the years of civil unrest; fixed-line and fixed broadband penetration in Timor-Leste remains extremely low, mainly due to the limited fixed-line infrastructure and the proliferation of mobile connectivity; in an effort to boost e-government services; the number of subscribers through to 2026 is expected to develop steadily, though from a low base; by August 2020, Timor-Leste had three telecom service providers who jointly achieved a 98% network coverage nationally; the mobile broadband market is still at an early stage of development, strong growth is predicted over the next five years; at the end of 2020, the government issued new policy guidelines to maximize the use of spectrum in Timor-Leste; it invited mobile operators to submit applications for the allocation of spectrum in the 1800MHz, 2300MHz and 2600MHz bands; in November 2020, the government approved the deployment of a submarine fiber link connecting the south of the country to Australia via the North Western Cable System (NWCS) (2021)" }, "domestic": { - "text": "fixed-line services less than 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular services is 100 per 100 (2021)" + "text": "fixed-line services less than 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular services is 110 per 100 (2022)" }, "international": { "text": "country code - 670;  international service is available; partnership with Australia telecom companies for potential deployment of a submarine fiber-optic link (NWCS); geostationary earth orbit satellite" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json index 5c12a293..d840e6c0 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/tw.json @@ -618,17 +618,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "11.498 million (2020 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "4.9%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "35.9%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "59.2% (2016 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2019": { "text": "3.73% (2019 est.)" @@ -913,7 +902,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "13 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "12.3 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "53 (2021 est.)" @@ -921,7 +910,7 @@ }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "30 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "30.3 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "120 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json index 08194c39..2a9717ef 100644 --- a/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json +++ b/east-n-southeast-asia/vm.json @@ -381,17 +381,6 @@ "female": { "text": "94.6% (2019)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "7.2% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "7.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "7.5%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -593,7 +582,7 @@ "text": "last held on 23 May 2021 (next to be held in spring 2026)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote in 2016 election by party -CPV 95.8%, non-party members 4.2%; seats by party - CPV 474, non-party CPV-approved 20, self-nominated 2; note - 494 candidates elected, 2 CPV candidates-elect were disqualified; composition - men 364, women 122, percent of women 26.6%" + "text": "2021: percent of vote by party - CPV 97.2%, 2.8% non-party; seats by party - CPV 486, non-party 14; composition - 348 men, 151 women; percent women 30.3%

2016: percent of vote in 2016 election by party - CPV 95.8%, non-party members 4.2%; seats by party - CPV 474, non-party CPV-approved 20, self-nominated 2; note - 494 candidates elected, 2 CPV candidates-elect were disqualified; composition - men 364, women 122, percent of women 26.6%" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -792,17 +781,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "56.203 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "40.3%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "25.7%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "34% (2017)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "2.17% (2021 est.)" @@ -1092,7 +1070,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "3.1 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "2,390,671 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "3 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/al.json b/europe/al.json index 027335d2..f2304e2f 100644 --- a/europe/al.json +++ b/europe/al.json @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ "text": "691 km" }, "border countries": { - "text": "Greece 212 km; Kosovo 112 km; Macedonia 181 km; Montenegro 186 km" + "text": "Greece 212 km; Kosovo 112 km; North Macedonia 181 km; Montenegro 186 km" } }, "Coastline": { @@ -587,10 +587,10 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Alliance for Change (electoral coalition led by PD)
Democratic Party or PD [Lulzim BASHA]
Party for Justice, Integration and Unity pr PDIU [Shpetim IDRIZI] (part of the Alliance for Change))
Social Democratic Party or PSD [Tom DOSHI]
Freedom Party of Albania or PL [Ilir META] (formerly the Socialist Movement for Integration or LSI)
Socialist Party or PS [Edi RAMA]" + "text": "Alliance for Change (electoral coalition led by PD)
Democratic Party or PD [Lulzim BASHA]
Party for Justice, Integration and Unity or PDIU [Shpetim IDRIZI] (part of the Alliance for Change))
Social Democratic Party or PSD [Tom DOSHI]
Freedom Party of Albania or PL [Ilir META] (formerly the Socialist Movement for Integration or LSI)
Socialist Party or PS [Edi RAMA]" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "BSEC, CD, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, EITI (compliant country), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO", + "text": "BSEC, CD, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, EITI (compliant country), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO", "note": "note: Albania is an EU candidate country whose satisfactory completion of accession criteria is required before being granted full EU membership" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "197,690 (2021 est.)" + "text": "177,152 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "7 (2021 est.)" @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ "note": "note: as of 2023, women comprised about 15% of the military's full-time personnel, including 20% of the officers" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Albanian Armed Forces (AAF) are responsible for defending the country’s independence, sovereignty, and territory, assisting with internal security, providing disaster and humanitarian relief, and participating in international peacekeeping missions; the AAF has contributed small numbers of forces to several NATO missions since Albania joined NATO in 2009, including peacekeeping/stability missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq, and multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria and Latvia; it has also contributed to EU and UN missions; the AAF is a small, lightly armed force that has been undergoing a modernization effort to improve its ability to fulfill NATO missions, including training and equipment purchases; the primary ground combat units include three light infantry battalions (or battle groups), including one trained and certified for NATO missions, and a special operations regiment; the Naval Force and Coast Guard operate a small force of patrol boats while the Air Force has a small inventory of helicopters (2023)" + "text": "the Albanian Armed Forces (AAF) are responsible for defending the country’s independence, sovereignty, and territory, assisting with internal security, providing disaster and humanitarian relief, and participating in international peacekeeping missions; the AAF has contributed small numbers of forces to several NATO missions since Albania joined NATO in 2009, including peacekeeping/stability missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq, and multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria and Latvia; it has also contributed to EU and UN missions; the AAF is a small, lightly armed force that has been undergoing a modernization effort to improve its ability to fulfill NATO missions, including training and equipment purchases; the primary ground combat units include a few light infantry battalions (or battle groups), including one trained and certified for NATO missions, and a special operations regiment; the Naval Force and Coast Guard operate a small force of patrol boats while the Air Force has a small inventory of helicopters (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { diff --git a/europe/an.json b/europe/an.json index e4e5a0ab..90caf1ac 100644 --- a/europe/an.json +++ b/europe/an.json @@ -653,17 +653,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "39,750 (2016)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "0.5%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "4.4%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "95.1% (2015)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2016": { "text": "3.7% (2016 est.)" @@ -782,7 +771,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "50,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "50,871 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "63 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/au.json b/europe/au.json index 9601b972..39d57905 100644 --- a/europe/au.json +++ b/europe/au.json @@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "3,808,709 (2021 est.)" + "text": "3,544,263 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "43 (2021 est.)" @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ "text": "170 Bosnia-Herzegovina (EUFOR stabilization force); 250 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR); 200 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2023)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the military’s primary responsibilities are national defense and protecting Austria’s neutrality; it also has some domestic security and disaster response responsibilities and contributes to international peacekeeping and humanitarian missions; Austria has been constitutionally militarily non-aligned since 1955 but is an EU member and actively participates in EU peacekeeping and crisis management operations under the EU Common Security and Defense Policy; Austria is not a member of NATO but joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace framework in 1995 and participates in some NATO-led crisis management and peacekeeping operations; it has provided troops to international peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EU), Kosovo (NATO), and Lebanon (UN) in recent years; more than 100,000 Austrian military and civilian personnel have taken part in more than 50 international peace support and humanitarian missions since 1960

the Land Forces comprise the bulk of the military, and they are organizationally divided between territorial and operational forces; each of the nine federal states has a military command that provides a link between the military and civil authorities; the main tasks of these commands include providing military assistance during disasters and supporting security police operations; these military commands have an infantry battalion, a militia battalion (Vienna has two), and typically a militia engineer/pioneer company at their disposal; the operational Land Forces are four combat brigades: a rapid reaction/”fast forces” (schnelle kräftewith) brigade with mechanized and motorized forces, an armored/mechanized infantry (panzer grenadier) brigade, a mountain infantry brigade (gebirgsbrigade), and a light infantry brigade (jägerbrigade) that includes airborne and air assault troops; Austria has separate special operations and cyber defense forces; the Air Forces have a small number of European-made multipurpose fighter aircraft

Austria has a militia system that provides important support to the active military; the militia is comprised of men and women who have done their basic military or training service and continue to perform a task in the armed forces; they are integrated into the military but have civilian jobs and only participate in exercises or operations; missions for the militia may include providing disaster relief, assisting security police, and protecting critical infrastructure (energy, water, etc.), as well as deployments on missions abroad (2023)" + "text": "the military’s primary responsibilities are national defense and protecting Austria’s neutrality; it also has some domestic security and disaster response responsibilities and contributes to international peacekeeping and humanitarian missions; Austria has been constitutionally militarily non-aligned since 1955 but is an EU member and actively participates in EU peacekeeping and crisis management operations under the EU Common Security and Defense Policy; Austria is not a member of NATO but joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace framework in 1995 and participates in some NATO-led crisis management and peacekeeping operations; it has provided troops to international peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EU), Kosovo (NATO), and Lebanon (UN) in recent years; more than 100,000 Austrian military and civilian personnel have taken part in more than 50 international peace support and humanitarian missions since 1960

the Land Forces comprise the bulk of the military, and they are organizationally divided between territorial and operational forces; each of the nine federal states has a military command that provides a link between the military and civil authorities; the main tasks of these commands include providing military assistance during disasters and supporting security police operations; these military commands have an infantry battalion, a militia battalion (Vienna has two), and typically a militia engineer/pioneer company at their disposal; the operational Land Forces are four combat brigades: a rapid reaction/”fast forces” (schnelle kräftewith) brigade with mechanized and motorized forces, an armored/mechanized infantry (panzer grenadier) brigade, a mountain infantry brigade (gebirgsbrigade), and a light infantry brigade (jägerbrigade) that includes airborne and air assault troops; the military also has separate special operations and cyber defense forces; the Air Forces have a small number of European-made multipurpose fighter aircraft

Austria has a militia system that provides important support to the active military; the militia is comprised of men and women who have done their basic military or training service and continue to perform a task in the armed forces; they are integrated into the military but have civilian jobs and only participate in exercises or operations; missions for the militia may include providing disaster relief, assisting security police, and protecting critical infrastructure (energy, water, etc.), as well as deployments on missions abroad (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/europe/bo.json b/europe/bo.json index 0c4879a4..a4a251c3 100644 --- a/europe/bo.json +++ b/europe/bo.json @@ -367,17 +367,6 @@ "female": { "text": "15 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "11.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "14%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "8.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -766,17 +755,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "4.95 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "9.7%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "23.4%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "66.8% (2015 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "4.74% (2021 est.)" @@ -1090,7 +1068,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "4,332,754 (2021 est.)" + "text": "4,229,817 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "45 (2021 est.)" @@ -1239,7 +1217,7 @@ "note": "note: conscripts can be assigned to the military, to the Ministry of Interior as internal or border troops, or to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (alternative service); as of 2020, conscripts comprised an estimated 40% of the military" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the military of Belarus is responsible for territorial defense; it is a mixed force of conscripts and professionals that is equipped with Russian or Soviet-era weapons; the Army’s principal combat forces are divided into two geographically based commands, each with two mechanized brigades and an artillery brigade; there are also separate artillery and surface-to-surface missile brigades; the Special Operations Forces have three airborne, air assault, and special forces (spetsnaz) brigades, which serve as the military’s high-readiness units; the Air and Air Defense inventory includes about 100 combat aircraft and attack helicopters, as well as air defense brigades and regiments with surface-to-air missiles

Russia is the country’s closest security partner, a relationship that includes an integrated air and missile defense system and joint military training centers and exercises; Russia leases from Belarus a strategic ballistic missile defense site operated by Russian Aerospace Forces and a global communications facility for the Russian Navy; in 2020, the countries signed an agreement allowing for close security cooperation between the Belarusian Ministry of Interior and the Russian National Guard, including protecting public order and key government facilities and combating extremism and terrorism; in 2022, Belarus allowed Russian military forces to stage on its territory for their invasion of Ukraine and continues to supply arms and other aid to the Russian military, including logistical support, supply lines, medical care, and airfields for Russian combat aircraft; in 2023, Belarus agreed to permit Russia to deploy nuclear weapons on its soil

Belarus has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994 and has committed an airborne brigade to CSTO's rapid reaction force; the military trains regularly with other CSTO members (2023)" + "text": "the military of Belarus is responsible for territorial defense; it is a mixed force of conscripts and professionals that is equipped with Russian or Soviet-era weapons; the Army’s principal combat forces are divided into two geographically based commands, each with two mechanized brigades and an artillery brigade; there are also separate artillery and surface-to-surface missile brigades; the Special Operations Forces have three airborne, air assault, and special forces (spetsnaz) brigades, which serve as the military’s high-readiness units; the Air and Air Defense inventory includes about 100 combat aircraft and attack helicopters, as well as air defense brigades and regiments with surface-to-air missiles

Russia is the country’s closest security partner, a relationship that includes an integrated air and missile defense system and joint military training centers and exercises; Russia leases from Belarus a strategic ballistic missile defense site operated by Russian Aerospace Forces and a global communications facility for the Russian Navy; in 2020, the countries signed an agreement allowing for close security cooperation between the Belarusian Ministry of Interior and the Russian National Guard, including protecting public order and key government facilities and combating extremism and terrorism; in 2022, Belarus allowed Russian military forces to stage on its territory for their invasion of Ukraine and continues to supply arms and other aid to the Russian military, including logistical support, medical care, and airfields for Russian combat aircraft; in 2023, Belarus agreed to permit Russia to deploy nuclear weapons on its soil

Belarus has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994 and has committed an airborne brigade to CSTO's rapid reaction force; the military trains regularly with other CSTO members (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/europe/bu.json b/europe/bu.json index 0a5f8565..93462fbf 100644 --- a/europe/bu.json +++ b/europe/bu.json @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ "text": "BSP for Bulgaria [Korneliya NINOVA] (electoral alliance of BSP, PKT, Ecoglasnost)
Bulgarian Rise or BV [Stefan YANEV]
Bulgarian Socialist Party or BSP [Korneliya NINOVA]
Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria or GERB [Boyko BORISOV] (alliance with SDS) 
Democratic Bulgaria or DB (electoral alliance of Yes! Bulgaria, DSB, and The Greens) [Atanas ATANASOV, Hristo IVANOV]
Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria or DSB [Atanas ATANASOV]
Ecoglasnost [Emil GEORGIEV]
Green Movement or The Greens [Dobromira KOSTOVA, Vladislav PENEV]
Movement for Rights and Freedoms or DPS [Mustafa KARADAYI]
Political Club Thrace or PKT [Stefan NACHEZ]
Revival [Kostadin KOSTADINOV]
Stand Up.BG or IS.BG [Maya MANOLOVA]
There is Such a People or ITN [Slavi TRIFONOV]
Union of Democratic Forces or SDS [Rumen HRISTOV] (alliance with GERB) 
Yes! Bulgaria [Hristo IVANOV]
We Continue the Change or PP [Kiril PETKOV and Asen VASILEV]
We Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria or PP-DB [Kiril PETKOV, Asen VASILEV, Hristo IVANOV, and Atanas ATANASOV] (electoral alliance of PP, DB, Yes! Bulgaria)" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "Australia Group, BIS, BSEC, CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EU, FAO, G- 9, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO (pending member), ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNOOSA,  UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" + "text": "Australia Group, BIS, BSEC, CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EU, FAO, G- 9, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO (pending member), ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNOOSA,  UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "787,637 (2021 est.)" + "text": "691,270 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "11 (2021 est.)" @@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ "note": "note 1: in 2021, women comprised about 17% of the Bulgarian military's full-time personnel

note 2: in 2020, Bulgaria announced a program to allow every citizen up to the age of 40 to join the armed forces for 6 months of military service in the voluntary reserve" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Bulgarian military is a professional force that is responsible for guaranteeing Bulgaria’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, providing support to international peace and security missions, and contributing to national security in peacetime, including such missions as responding to disasters or assisting with border security; the military trains regularly including in multinational exercises with regional partners and with NATO since Bulgaria joined the organization in 2004; it also participates in overseas peacekeeping and other security missions under the EU, NATO, and the UN; in 2022, Bulgaria established and began leading a NATO multinational battlegroup as part of an effort to boost NATO defenses in Eastern Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; in 2021, Bulgaria approved a 10-year defense development program, which included calls for equipment upgrades and procurements, boosts in manpower, organizational reforms, and greater focus on such areas as cyber defense, communications, logistics support, and research and development

the Bulgarian military has participated in several significant conflicts since its establishment in 1878, including the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885), the First Balkan War (1912-13), the Second Balkan War (1913), World War I (1915-1918), and World War II (1941-45); during the Cold War it was one of the Warsaw Pact’s largest militaries with over 150,000 personnel, eight ground combat divisions, and more than 200 Soviet-made combat aircraft; the principal combat units of the modern-day Land Forces are two mechanized infantry brigades and regiments of artillery and mountain infantry, while the Air Force has a mix of about 20 US-made and Soviet-era fighter aircraft; it is in the midst of retiring the Soviet fighters and replacing them with additional US-made aircraft; NATO partners provide assistance with protecting Bulgaria’s airspace; the Navy has four frigates, including one Soviet-era and three secondhand vessels acquired from Belgium, plus three Soviet-era corvettes; Bulgaria retired the last of its Soviet-era submarines in 2011; the military also has a joint special operations command, a communications, information support, and cyber defense command, and a joint forces command, which was established in 2021 to coordinate the operations of the services (2023)" + "text": "the Bulgarian military is responsible for guaranteeing Bulgaria’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, providing support to international peace and security missions, and contributing to national security in peacetime, including such missions as responding to disasters or assisting with border security; the military trains regularly including in multinational exercises with regional partners and with NATO since Bulgaria joined the organization in 2004; it also participates in overseas peacekeeping and other security missions under the EU, NATO, and the UN; in 2022, Bulgaria established and began leading a NATO multinational battlegroup as part of an effort to boost NATO defenses in Eastern Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; in 2021, Bulgaria approved a 10-year defense development program, which included calls for equipment upgrades and procurements, boosts in manpower, organizational reforms, and greater focus on such areas as cyber defense, communications, logistics support, and research and development

the Bulgarian military has participated in several significant conflicts since its establishment in 1878, including the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885), the First Balkan War (1912-13), the Second Balkan War (1913), World War I (1915-1918), and World War II (1941-45); during the Cold War it was one of the Warsaw Pact’s largest militaries with over 150,000 personnel, eight ground combat divisions, and more than 200 Soviet-made combat aircraft; the principal combat units of the modern-day Land Forces are two mechanized infantry brigades and regiments of artillery and mountain infantry, while the Air Force has a mix of about 20 US-made and Soviet-era fighter aircraft; it is in the midst of retiring the Soviet fighters and replacing them with additional US-made aircraft; NATO partners provide assistance with protecting Bulgaria’s airspace; the Navy has four frigates, including one Soviet-era and three secondhand vessels acquired from Belgium, plus three Soviet-era corvettes; Bulgaria retired the last of its Soviet-era submarines in 2011; the military also has a joint special operations command, a communications, information support, and cyber defense command, and a joint forces command, which was established in 2021 to coordinate the operations of the services (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/europe/ee.json b/europe/ee.json index a2ac690c..c80b01e0 100644 --- a/europe/ee.json +++ b/europe/ee.json @@ -226,17 +226,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "19.5% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "18.9%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "20.4%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -508,17 +497,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "217.042 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "5%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "21.9%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "73.1% (2014 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "7.05% (2021 est.)" @@ -685,7 +663,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "160,149,025 (2020 est.)" + "text": "155,004,603 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "36 (2020 est.)" diff --git a/europe/en.json b/europe/en.json index d1c6441a..b78e4cf1 100644 --- a/europe/en.json +++ b/europe/en.json @@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "296,620 (2021 est.)" + "text": "265,944 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "22 (2021 est.)" @@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Russia and Estonia in May 2005 signed a technical border agreement, but Russia in June 2005 recalled its signature after the Estonian parliament added to its domestic ratification act a historical preamble referencing the Soviet occupation and Estonia's pre-war borders under the 1920 Treaty of Tartu; Russia contends that the preamble allows Estonia to make territorial claims on Russia in the future, while Estonian officials deny that the preamble has any legal impact on the treaty text; Russia demands better treatment of the Russian-speaking population in Estonia; as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Estonia implements strict Schengen border rules with Russia

" + "text": "

Russia and Estonia in May 2005 signed a technical border agreement, but Russia in June 2005 recalled its signature after the Estonian parliament added to its domestic ratification act a historical preamble referencing the Soviet occupation and Estonia's pre-war borders under the 1920 Treaty of Tartu; Russia contends that the preamble allows Estonia to make territorial claims on Russia in the future, while Estonian officials deny that the preamble has any legal impact on the treaty text; Russia often criticizes the Estonian Government over alleged mistreatment of ethnic Russians in Estonia; as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Estonia implements strict Schengen border rules with Russia

" }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { diff --git a/europe/ez.json b/europe/ez.json index 4b29129b..16de0e5a 100644 --- a/europe/ez.json +++ b/europe/ez.json @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ "text": "Christian Democratic Union-Czechoslovak People's Party or KDU-CSL [Marian JURECKA]
Civic Democratic Party or ODS [Petr FIALA]
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia or KSCM [Katerina KONECNA]
Czech Social Democratic Party or CSSD [Michal SMARDA]
Freedom and Direct Democracy or SPD [Tomio OKAMURA]
Mayors and Independents or STAN [Vit RAKUSAN]
Mayors for the Liberec Region [Martin PUTA]
Action of Dissatisfied Citizens or ANO (Akce nespokojených občanů) [Andrej BABIS]
Party of Free Citizens Svobodni [Libor VONDRACEK]
Pirate Party or Pirates [Ivan BARTOS]
Senator 21 [Vaclav LASKA]
Tradition Responsibility Prosperity 09 or TOP 09 [Marketa PEKAROVA ADAMOVA]" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" + "text": "Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,294,806 (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,214,380 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "12 (2021 est.)" @@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "370,815 (Ukraine) (as of 26 November 2023)" + "text": "373,080 (Ukraine) (as of 10 December 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,625 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/fo.json b/europe/fo.json index 2ec46485..5045870b 100644 --- a/europe/fo.json +++ b/europe/fo.json @@ -562,17 +562,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "27,540 (2017 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "15%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "15%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "70% (December 2016 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2017": { "text": "2.2% (2017 est.)" @@ -809,7 +798,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "15,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "15,341 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "29 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/fr.json b/europe/fr.json index efdb608b..5c2ce62b 100644 --- a/europe/fr.json +++ b/europe/fr.json @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ "text": "President Emmanuel MACRON (since 14 May 2017)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Élisabeth BORNE (since 16 May 2022)" + "text": "Prime Minister Gabriel ATTAL (since 9 January 2024)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the president at the suggestion of the prime minister" @@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "38 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "37.74 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "59 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/gi.json b/europe/gi.json index c3510098..862fc7d5 100644 --- a/europe/gi.json +++ b/europe/gi.json @@ -497,17 +497,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "24,420 (2014 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "NEGL" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "1.8%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "98.2% (2014 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2016": { "text": "1% (2016 est.)" @@ -730,7 +719,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "17,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "17,155 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "53 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/gm.json b/europe/gm.json index 6ecc4a24..0821bf37 100644 --- a/europe/gm.json +++ b/europe/gm.json @@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "38.6 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "38.58 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "46 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/ic.json b/europe/ic.json index f34617d2..1e75bf67 100644 --- a/europe/ic.json +++ b/europe/ic.json @@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "100,482 (2021 est.)" + "text": "93,048 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "27 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/lg.json b/europe/lg.json index 78c7311c..af788097 100644 --- a/europe/lg.json +++ b/europe/lg.json @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "191,798 (2021 est.)" + "text": "173,993 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "10 (2021 est.)" @@ -1200,7 +1200,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Latvia-Belarus: Belarus and Latvia signed joint demarcation map in September 2008

Latvia-Estonia: demarcation reportedly completed in 1998

Latvia-Lithuania: boundary demarcation was completed by the end of 1998; the Latvian parliament has not ratified its 1998 maritime boundary treaty with Lithuania, primarily due to concerns over oil exploration rights

Latvia-Russia: Russia demands better Latvian treatment of ethnic Russians in Latvia; in March 2007, Latvia and Russia signed a border treaty, which includes Latvia withdrawing claims to a district now in Russia that was part of Latvia before WWII; the permanent demarcation of the boundary between Latvia and Russia was completed and came into force in April 2018; as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Latvia has implemented the strict Schengen border rules with Russia

" + "text": "

Latvia-Belarus: Belarus and Latvia signed joint demarcation map in September 2008

Latvia-Estonia: demarcation reportedly completed in 1998

Latvia-Lithuania: boundary demarcation was completed by the end of 1998; the Latvian parliament has not ratified its 1998 maritime boundary treaty with Lithuania, primarily due to concerns over oil exploration rights

Latvia-Russia: Russia often criticizes the Latvian Government over alleged mistreatment of ethnic Russians in Latvia; in March 2007, Latvia and Russia signed a border treaty, which included Latvia withdrawing claims to a district now in Russia that was part of Latvia before World War II; the permanent demarcation of the boundary between Latvia and Russia was completed and came into force in April 2018; as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Latvia has implemented the strict Schengen border rules with Russia

" }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { diff --git a/europe/lo.json b/europe/lo.json index 22e03666..10217e92 100644 --- a/europe/lo.json +++ b/europe/lo.json @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ "text": "President Zuzana CAPUTOVA (since 15 June 2019)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Robert FICO (since 25 May 2023); Deputy Prime Minister Lívia VASAKOVA (since 23 May 2023)" + "text": "Prime Minister Robert FICO (since 25 October 2023); Deputy Prime Ministers Robert KALINAK (since 25 October 2023), Denisa SAKOVA (since 25 October 2023), Tomas TARABA (since 25 October 2023), and Peter KMEC (since 25 October 2023)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Cabinet appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister" diff --git a/europe/ls.json b/europe/ls.json index ea3c70b2..ef983bd0 100644 --- a/europe/ls.json +++ b/europe/ls.json @@ -627,17 +627,6 @@ "text": "38,520 (2015 est.) (2012)", "note": "note: 51% of the labor force in Liechtenstein commute daily from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "0.8%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "36.9%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "62.3% (2015)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2015": { "text": "2.4% (2015)" @@ -732,7 +721,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "11,712 (2021 est.)" + "text": "10,980 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "30 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/lu.json b/europe/lu.json index 2a1e1c9a..a1ab82a6 100644 --- a/europe/lu.json +++ b/europe/lu.json @@ -346,17 +346,6 @@ "female": { "text": "15 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "15.2% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "16.3%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "14.1%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -741,17 +730,6 @@ "text": "333,900 (2021 est.)", "note": "note: data exclude foreign workers; in addition to the figure for domestic labor force, about 150,000 workers commute daily from France, Belgium, and Germany" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "20%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "78.9% (2013 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "5.23% (2021 est.)" @@ -1033,7 +1011,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "270,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "261,054 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "42 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/md.json b/europe/md.json index fc412350..dd5b8a9a 100644 --- a/europe/md.json +++ b/europe/md.json @@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,000,228 (2021 est.)" + "text": "951,138 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "33 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/mk.json b/europe/mk.json index 24c65f6c..9cd1de67 100644 --- a/europe/mk.json +++ b/europe/mk.json @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "425,646 (2021 est.)" + "text": "436,182 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "20 (2021 est.)" @@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ "text": "approximately 6,500 active-duty personnel (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { - "text": "the military's inventory consists mostly of Soviet-era equipment, although in recent years it has received small amounts of more modern equipment from countries such as Turkey and the US (2023)" + "text": "the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era and increasing amounts of Western-origin equipment from countries such as France, Turkey, and the US (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { "text": "18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription abolished in 2007 (2023)", diff --git a/europe/mn.json b/europe/mn.json index ff88e577..9b1f9376 100644 --- a/europe/mn.json +++ b/europe/mn.json @@ -300,17 +300,6 @@ "female": { "text": "NA" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "26.6% (2016 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "25.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "27.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -622,17 +611,6 @@ "text": "52,000 (2014 est.)", "note": "note: includes all foreign workers" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "0%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "16.1%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "83.9% (2012 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2012": { "text": "2% (2012)" @@ -742,7 +720,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "42,812 (2021 est.)" + "text": "44,649 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "117 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/nl.json b/europe/nl.json index 337b5026..d902581f 100644 --- a/europe/nl.json +++ b/europe/nl.json @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "5.024 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "4.57 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "29 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/pl.json b/europe/pl.json index ef60b511..c7fd6ff1 100644 --- a/europe/pl.json +++ b/europe/pl.json @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ "text": "President Andrzej DUDA (since 6 August 2015)" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Donald TUSK (since 11 December 2023); Deputy Prime Ministers Piotr GLINSKI (since 16 November 2015), Jacek SASIN (since 15 November 2019), Henryk KOWALCZYK (since 26 October 2021), and Mariusz BLASZCZAK (since 22 June 2022)" + "text": "Prime Minister Donald TUSK (since 11 December 2023); Deputy Prime Ministers Wladyslaw KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ (since 11 December 2023), Krzysztof GAWKOWSKI (since 11 December 2023)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Council of Ministers proposed by the prime minister, appointed by the president, and approved by the Sejm" @@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "5,308,497 (2021 est.)" + "text": "5,277,054 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "14 (2021 est.)" @@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { - "text": "954,600 (Ukraine) (as of 20 November 2023)" + "text": "956,635 (Ukraine) (as of 15 December 2023)" }, "stateless persons": { "text": "1,435 (2022)" diff --git a/europe/sm.json b/europe/sm.json index 6636ac76..038478b9 100644 --- a/europe/sm.json +++ b/europe/sm.json @@ -304,17 +304,6 @@ "female": { "text": "12 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "27.4% (2016 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "21.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "36%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -654,17 +643,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "21,960 (September 2013 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "0.2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "33.5%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "66.3% (September 2013 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2017": { "text": "8.1% (2017 est.)" diff --git a/europe/sw.json b/europe/sw.json index 6f9deb8c..ebad11e9 100644 --- a/europe/sw.json +++ b/europe/sw.json @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ "text": "Sweden has four fundamental laws which together make up the Constitution: The Instrument of Government (several previous; latest 1974); The Act of Succession (enacted 1810; changed in 1937 and 1980); The Freedom of the Press Act (many previous; latest in 1949); The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression (adopted 1991)" }, "amendments": { - "text": "proposed by Parliament; passage requires simple majority vote in two consecutive parliamentary terms with an intervening general election; passage also requires approval by simple majority vote in a referendum if Parliament approves a motion for a referendum by one third of its members; The Instrument of Government - amended several times, last in 2018; The Act of Succession - changed in 1937, 1980; The Freedom of the Press Act - amended several times, last in 2019; The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression - amended several times, last in 2018" + "text": "proposed by Parliament; passage requires simple majority vote in two consecutive parliamentary terms with an intervening general election; passage also requires approval by simple majority vote in a referendum if Parliament approves a motion for a referendum by one third of its members; the results of such a referendum are only binding if a majority vote against the proposal; there has not been a referendum on constitutional matters; The Instrument of Government - amended several times, last in 2018; The Act of Succession - changed in 1937, 1980; The Freedom of the Press Act - amended several times, last in 2019; The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression - amended several times, last in 2023
" } }, "Legal system": { @@ -1227,8 +1227,8 @@ "text": "the SAF's inventory is comprised of domestically produced and imported Western weapons systems; in recent years, the US has been the leading supplier of military hardware to Sweden; Sweden has a large and sophisticated defense industry that produces a range of air, land, and naval systems (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18-47 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; service obligation: 7.5 months (Army), 7-15 months (Navy), 8-12 months (Air Force); after completing initial service, soldiers have a reserve commitment until age 47; compulsory military service, abolished in 2010, was reinstated in January 2018; conscription is selective, includes both men and women (age 18), and requires 9-12 months of service (2023)", - "note": "note 1: Sweden conscripts about 5,500 men and women each year; it plans to increase this number to 8,000 by 2025

note 2: as of 2023, women made over 20% of the military's personnel

note 3: conscientious objectors in Sweden have the right to choose alternative service (called vapenfri tjänst); after completing alternative service, the conscript then belongs to the civilian reserve" + "text": "18-47 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; service obligation: 7-15 months (Army), 7-15 months (Navy), 8-12 months (Air Force); after completing initial service, soldiers have a reserve commitment until age 47; compulsory military service, abolished in 2010, was reinstated in January 2018; conscription is selective, includes both men and women (age 18), and requires 6-15 months of service (2023)", + "note": "note 1: Sweden conscripts about 5,500 men and women each year; it plans to increase this number to 8,000 by 2025

note 2: as of 2023, women made over 20% of the military's personnel

note 3: conscientious objectors in Sweden have the right to apply for alternative service (called vapenfri tjänst); after completing alternative service, the conscript then belongs to the civilian reserve" }, "Military deployments": { "text": "the Swedish military has small numbers of personnel deployed on multiple EU-, NATO-, and UN-led missions (2023)" diff --git a/europe/sz.json b/europe/sz.json index cf082892..9e120dd9 100644 --- a/europe/sz.json +++ b/europe/sz.json @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "The Center (Die Mitte, Alleanza del Centro, Le Centre, Allianza dal Center) [Gerhard PFISTER] (merger of the Christian Democratic People's Party and the Conservative Democratic Party)
Evangelical Peoples' Party or EVP/PEV [Lilian STUDER]
Federal Democrats or EDU [Daniel FRISCHKNECH]
Geneva Citizens Movement or MCR/MCG [Ana ROCH]
Green Liberal Party (Gruenliberale Partei or GLP, Parti vert liberale or PVL, Partito Verde-Liberale or PVL, Partida Verde Liberale or PVL) [Jurg GROSSEN]
Green Party (Gruene Partei der Schweiz or Gruene, Parti Ecologiste Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or I Verdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Balthasar GLATTLI]
The Liberals or FDP.The Liberals (FDP.Die Liberalen, PLR.Les Liberaux-Radicaux, PLR.I Liberali, Ils Liberals) [Thierry BURKART]
Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz or SP, Parti Socialiste Suisse or PSS, Partito Socialista Svizzero or PSS, Partida Socialdemocratica de la Svizra or PSS) [Cedric WERMUTH and Mattea MEYER]
Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei or SVP, Union Democratique du Centre or UDC, Unione Democratica di Centro or UDC, Uniun Democratica dal Center or UDC) [Marco CHIESA]" + "text": "The Center (Die Mitte, Alleanza del Centro, Le Centre, Allianza dal Center) [Gerhard PFISTER] (merger of the Christian Democratic People's Party and the Conservative Democratic Party)
Evangelical Peoples' Party or EVP/PEV [Lilian STUDER]
Federal Democrats or EDU [Daniel FRISCHKNECH]
Geneva Citizens Movement or MCR/MCG [Ana ROCH]
Green Liberal Party (Gruenliberale Partei or GLP, Parti vert liberale or PVL, Partito Verde-Liberale or PVL, Partida Verde Liberale or PVL) [Jurg GROSSEN]
Green Party (Gruene Partei der Schweiz or Gruene, Parti Ecologiste Suisse or Les Verts, Partito Ecologista Svizzero or I Verdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La Verda) [Balthasar GLATTLI]
The Liberals or FDP.The Liberals (FDP.Die Liberalen, PLR.Les Liberaux-Radicaux, PLR.I Liberali, Ils Liberals) [Thierry BURKART]
Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz or SP, Parti Socialiste Suisse or PSS, Partito Socialista Svizzero or PSS, Partida Socialdemocratica de la Svizra or PSS) [Cedric WERMUTH and Mattea MEYER]
Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei or SVP, Union Democratique du Centre or UDC, Unione Democratica di Centro or UDC, Uniun Democratica dal Center or UDC) [vacant]" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BIS, CD, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EFTA, EITI (implementing country), ESA, FAO, FATF, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAIA (observer), MIGA, MONUSCO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMISS, UNMOGIP, UNOOSA, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" diff --git a/europe/uk.json b/europe/uk.json index fd98617e..c26f870d 100644 --- a/europe/uk.json +++ b/europe/uk.json @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ "text": "Alliance Party (Northern Ireland) [Naomi LONG] 
Conservative and Unionist Party [Rishi SUNAK]
Democratic Unionist Party or DUP (Northern Ireland) [Sir Jeffrey DONALDSON]
Green Party of England and Wales or Greens [Carla DENYER and Adrian RAMSAY]
Labor (Labour) Party [Sir Keir STARMER]
Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) [Sir Ed DAVEY]
Party of Wales (Plaid Cymru) [Llyr GRUFFYDD]
Scottish National Party or SNP [Humza YOUSAF]
Sinn Fein (Northern Ireland) [Mary Lou MCDONALD]
Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland) [Colum EASTWOOD]
UK Independence Party or UKIP [Neil HAMILTON]
Ulster Unionist Party or UUP (Northern Ireland) [Doug BEATTIE]" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, C, CBSS (observer), CD, CDB, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-5, G-7, G-8, G-10, G-20, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), SELEC (observer), SICA (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNMISS, UNOOSA, UNRWA, UN Security Council (permanent), UNSOM, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" + "text": "ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, C, CBSS (observer), CD, CDB, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-5, G-7, G-8, G-10, G-20, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), SELEC (observer), SICA (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNMISS, UNOOSA, UNRWA, UN Security Council (permanent), UNSOM, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "33 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "29.798 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "48 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/europe/up.json b/europe/up.json index 20370738..f41de06f 100644 --- a/europe/up.json +++ b/europe/up.json @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ "text": "Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO]
European Solidarity or YeS [Petro POROSHENKO]
Holos (Voice or Vote) [Kira RUDYK]
Opposition Bloc [Evgeny MURAYEV] (formerly known as Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development, successor of the Industrial Party of Ukraine, and resulted from a schism in the original Opposition Bloc in 2019; banned in court June 2022; ceased to exist in July 2022)
Opposition Bloc or OB (divided into Opposition Bloc - Party for Peace and Development and Opposition Platform - For Life in 2019; ceased to exist in July 2022)
Opposition Platform - For Life [Yuriy BOYKO] (resulted from a schism in the original Opposition Bloc in 2019; activities suspended by the National Security and Defense Council in March 2022; dissolved in April 2022)
Platform for Life and Peace [Yuriy BOYKO]
Radical Party or RPOL [Oleh LYASHKO]
Samopomich (Self Reliance) [Oksana Ivanivna SYROYID]
Servant of the People [Olena Oleksiivna SHULIAK]
Svoboda (Freedom) [Oleh TYAHNYBOK]" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "Australia Group, BSEC, CBSS (observer), CD, CE, CEI, CICA (observer), CIS (participating member, has not signed the 1993 CIS charter), EAEC (observer), EAPC, EBRD, FAO, GCTU, GUAM, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAIA (observer), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SELEC (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC", + "text": "Australia Group, BSEC, CBSS (observer), CD, CE, CEI, CICA (observer), CIS (participating member, has not signed the 1993 CIS charter), EAEC (observer), EAPC, EBRD, FAO, GCTU, GUAM, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAIA (observer), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SELEC (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC", "note": "note: Ukraine is an EU candidate country whose satisfactory completion of accession criteria is required before being granted full EU membership" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { @@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "2.3 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,739,319 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "6 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/middle-east/ae.json b/middle-east/ae.json index 50661c13..2485277e 100644 --- a/middle-east/ae.json +++ b/middle-east/ae.json @@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "2.2 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "2,286,104 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "24 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/middle-east/aj.json b/middle-east/aj.json index 9ada9670..1162c2ef 100644 --- a/middle-east/aj.json +++ b/middle-east/aj.json @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,644,300 (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,641,150 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "16 (2021 est.)" @@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ "note": "note: most of the military is made up of professional contract soldiers; as of 2018, women made up an estimated 3% of the active duty military" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Azerbaijani military was established in 1991, although its origins go back to 1918; much of the military’s original equipment was acquired from former Soviet military forces that left Azerbaijan by 1992; territorial defense is the military’s primary focus, particularly with regards to neighboring Armenia; a secondary focus is guarding against Iran; the Ground Forces have five army corps, plus an independent combined arms army, which is assigned to the Azerbaijani exclave of Naxicvan (Nakhichevan); between them, the corps and the combined arms army have more than 20 mechanized or motorized combat brigades; the Ground Forces also have separate brigades of artillery, battlefield rockets, and special forces; the Air Force has about 30 Russian-origin fighters and ground attack aircraft, as well as some combat helicopters; the Navy patrols the Caspian Sea with a corvette and several coastal patrol craft

Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in open conflicts over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in 1991-94 and 2020, plus a brief flare-up in 2016; tensions continued following the 2020 conflict; Azerbaijan seized the entire enclave in 2023 

Turkey is Azerbaijan’s strongest military partner, a relationship that has included weapons transfers, technical advice, bilateral training exercises, and key support during the 2020 conflict with Armenia; military reforms over the past decade and the operations of the Azerbaijani forces during the 2020 conflict reflected Turkish influence; Azerbaijan is not part of NATO but has had a cooperative relationship with it dating back to when it joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace program in 1994 and has provided troops to NATO-led missions in Kosovo (1999-2008) and Afghanistan (2002-2014) (2023)" + "text": "the Azerbaijani military was established in 1991, although its origins go back to 1918; much of the military’s original equipment was acquired from former Soviet military forces that left Azerbaijan by 1992; territorial defense is the military’s primary focus, particularly with regards to neighboring Armenia; a secondary focus is guarding against Iran; the Ground Forces have five army corps, plus an independent combined arms army, which is assigned to the Azerbaijani exclave of Naxicvan (Nakhichevan); between them, the corps and the combined arms army have more than 20 mechanized or motorized combat brigades; the Ground Forces also have separate brigades of artillery, battlefield rockets, and special forces; the Air Force has a few dozen Russian-origin fighters and ground attack aircraft, as well as some combat helicopters; the Navy patrols the Caspian Sea with a corvette and several coastal patrol craft

Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in open conflicts over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in 1991-94 and 2020, plus a brief flare-up in 2016; tensions continued following the 2020 conflict; Azerbaijan seized the entire enclave in 2023 

Turkey is Azerbaijan’s strongest military partner, a relationship that has included weapons transfers, technical advice, bilateral training exercises, and key support during the 2020 conflict with Armenia; Azerbaijan is not part of NATO but has had a cooperative relationship with it dating back to when it joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace program in 1994 and has provided troops to NATO-led missions in Kosovo (1999-2008) and Afghanistan (2002-2014) (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/middle-east/am.json b/middle-east/am.json index a6b5cece..3b95ba21 100644 --- a/middle-east/am.json +++ b/middle-east/am.json @@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "418,122 (2021 est.)" + "text": "365,649 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "15 (2021 est.)" @@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ "note": "note: in 2023, Armenia approved six-month voluntary service for women, after which they have the option to switch to a five-year contract; previously, women served on a contract basis  

note 2: as of 2021, conscripts comprised about half of the military's active personnel; as of 2020, women made up about 10% of the active duty military; the Armenian Army established its first all-women combat unit in 2020" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Armenian Armed Forces were officially established in 1992, although their origins go back to 1918; the modern military’s missions include deterrence, territorial defense, crisis management, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response, as well as socio-economic development projects; territorial defense is its primary focus, particularly in regards to tensions with neighboring Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region; Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in open conflicts over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in 1991-94 and 2020, plus a brief flare-up in 2016; tensions continued following the 2020 conflict; Azerbaijan seized the entire enclave in 2023 

the bulk of the Armenian military’s ground combat forces are organized into five small corps that are typically comprised of one or more Soviet-style “motorized rifle” (mechanized infantry) regiments, plus supporting units of artillery, reconnaissance, and tank forces; there are also separate artillery, air defense, battlefield rockets, and special operations forces; the ground forces also have a peacekeeping brigade; the air combat forces consist of small numbers of Soviet-era ground attack aircraft and attack helicopters; Armenia is landlocked so it has no naval forces  

Armenia has close military ties with Russia and hosts Russian military forces at two bases, as well as Russian border guards along multiple border areas; it has been a member of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994 and committed troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force; Armenia has relations with NATO going back to 1992 when Armenia joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council; in 1994, it joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace program and has contributed to the NATO force in Kosovo, as well as the former NATO deployment in Afghanistan (2023)" + "text": "the Armenian Armed Forces were officially established in 1992, although their origins go back to 1918; the modern military’s missions include deterrence, territorial defense, crisis management, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response, as well as socio-economic development projects; territorial defense is its primary focus, particularly in regards to tensions with neighboring Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region; Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in open conflicts over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in 1991-94 and 2020, plus a brief flare-up in 2016; tensions continued following the 2020 conflict; Azerbaijan seized the entire enclave in 2023 

the bulk of the Armenian military’s ground combat forces are organized into five small corps that are typically comprised of one or more Soviet-style “motorized rifle” (mechanized infantry) regiments, plus supporting units of artillery, reconnaissance, and tank forces; there are also separate artillery, air defense, battlefield rocket, and special operations forces; the ground forces also have a peacekeeping brigade; the air combat forces consist of small numbers of Soviet-era ground attack aircraft and attack helicopters; Armenia is landlocked so it has no naval forces  

Armenia has close military ties with Russia and hosts Russian military forces at two bases, as well as Russian border guards along multiple border areas; it has been a member of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994 and committed troops to CSTO's rapid reaction force; Armenia has relations with NATO going back to 1992 when Armenia joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council; in 1994, it joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace program and has contributed to the NATO force in Kosovo, as well as the former NATO deployment in Afghanistan (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/middle-east/ba.json b/middle-east/ba.json index a5bdf2e9..054633ba 100644 --- a/middle-east/ba.json +++ b/middle-east/ba.json @@ -353,17 +353,6 @@ "female": { "text": "17 years (2019)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "9.9% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "6.1%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "20.5%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -751,17 +740,6 @@ "text": "819,100 (2021 est.)", "note": "note: excludes unemployed; 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "32%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "67% (2004 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "1.87% (2021 est.)" @@ -1048,7 +1026,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "266,741 (2021 est.)" + "text": "253,431 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "18 (2021 est.)" @@ -1185,7 +1163,7 @@ "note": "note: the BDF hires foreign nationals, Sunni Muslims primarily from Arabic countries and Pakistan, to serve under contract; as of 2020, foreigners were estimated to comprise as much as 80% of the military; the policy has become a controversial issue with the primarily Shia population; during the 2011, the BDF reportedly deployed mostly foreign personnel against protesters" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "

the BDF is a small, but well-equipped military focused on territorial defense and support to internal security; its primary concern is Iran, both the conventional military threat and its support to regional terrorist groups; the BDF participates in multinational exercises and has conducted small deployments outside of the country; in 2015, for example, Bahrain joined the Saudi Arabia-led military intervention in Yemen, supplying a few hundred troops and combat aircraft; the Army’s primary combat units are an armored brigade and a mechanized brigade, plus battalions of royal guards and special forces; in a conflict, the Army would be supported by the paramilitary National Guard; the Navy’s principal warships are a US-provided secondhand frigate, 2 corvettes acquired from Germany, and a secondhand British offshore patrol vessel; the Air Force has small numbers of US-made combat aircraft and attack helicopters

Bahrain’s closest security partners are the US and Saudi Arabia; it hosts the US Naval Forces Central Command (USNAVCENT; established 1983), which includes the US 5th Fleet, several subordinate naval task forces, and the Combined Maritime Forces (established 2002), a coalition of more than 30 nations providing maritime security for regional shipping lanes; in 2003, the US granted Bahrain Major Non-NATO Ally status, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation; Bahraini leaders have said that the security of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are “indivisible”; Saudi Arabia sent forces to Bahrain to assist with internal security following the 2011 uprising; Bahrain also has close security ties to other Gulf Cooperation Council  countries, particularly Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the UK (2023)" + "text": "

the BDF is a small, but well-equipped military focused on territorial defense and support to internal security; its primary concern is Iran, both the conventional military threat and its support to regional terrorist groups; the BDF participates in multinational exercises and has conducted small deployments outside of the country; in 2015, for example, Bahrain joined the Saudi Arabia-led military intervention in Yemen, supplying a few hundred troops and combat aircraft; the Army’s primary combat units are an armored brigade and a mechanized brigade, plus battalions of royal guards and special forces; in a conflict, the Army would be supported by the paramilitary National Guard; the Navy’s principal warships are a US-provided secondhand frigate, two corvettes acquired from Germany, and a secondhand British offshore patrol vessel; the Air Force has small numbers of US-made combat aircraft and attack helicopters

Bahrain’s closest security partners are the US and Saudi Arabia; it hosts the US Naval Forces Central Command (USNAVCENT; established 1983), which includes the US 5th Fleet, several subordinate naval task forces, and the Combined Maritime Forces (established 2002), a coalition of more than 30 nations providing maritime security for regional shipping lanes; in 2003, the US granted Bahrain Major Non-NATO Ally status, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation; Bahraini leaders have said that the security of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are “indivisible”; Saudi Arabia sent forces to Bahrain to assist with internal security following the 2011 uprising; Bahrain also has close security ties to other Gulf Cooperation Council  countries, particularly Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the UK (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/middle-east/gg.json b/middle-east/gg.json index 882d360d..0860d529 100644 --- a/middle-east/gg.json +++ b/middle-east/gg.json @@ -372,17 +372,6 @@ "female": { "text": "16 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "28.3% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "27.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "29.9%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -762,17 +751,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "1.724 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "55.6%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "8.9%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "35.5% (2006 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "10.66% (2021 est.)" @@ -1065,7 +1043,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "337,923 (2021 est.)" + "text": "301,117 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "9 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/middle-east/gz.json b/middle-east/gz.json index 49625f10..7ac98df2 100644 --- a/middle-east/gz.json +++ b/middle-east/gz.json @@ -710,12 +710,12 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "485,829 (2021 est.)" + "text": "457,706 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "9 (2021 est.)" }, - "note": "includes the West Bank" + "note": "note: data includes both the Gaza Strip and West Bank" }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { diff --git a/middle-east/is.json b/middle-east/is.json index 6e1d8c58..c9321db2 100644 --- a/middle-east/is.json +++ b/middle-east/is.json @@ -364,17 +364,6 @@ "female": { "text": "17 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "8.8% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "8.4%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "9.2%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -772,17 +761,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "4.186 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "1.1%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "17.3%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "81.6% (2015 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "5.05% (2021 est.)" @@ -1081,7 +1059,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "3.5 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "3.574 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "39 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/middle-east/jo.json b/middle-east/jo.json index 4d57083a..f77ddad0 100644 --- a/middle-east/jo.json +++ b/middle-east/jo.json @@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "427,517 (2021 est.)" + "text": "465,603 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "4 (2021 est.)" @@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ }, "Military and Security": { "Military and security forces": { - "text": "Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF): Royal Jordanian Army (includes Special Operations Forces, Border Guards, Royal Guard), Royal Jordanian Air Force, Royal Jordanian Coast Guard

Ministry of Interior: Public Security Directorate (includes national police, the Gendarmerie, and the Civil Defense Directorate) (2023)", + "text": "Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF): Royal Jordanian Army (includes Special Operations Forces, Border Guards, Royal Guard), Royal Jordanian Air Force, Royal Jordanian Navy

Ministry of Interior: Public Security Directorate (includes national police, the Gendarmerie, and the Civil Defense Directorate) (2023)", "note": "note: the armed forces report administratively to the minister of defense and have a support role for internal security; the prime minister serves as defense minister, but there is no separate ministry of defense" }, "Military expenditures": { @@ -1201,14 +1201,14 @@ } }, "Military and security service personnel strengths": { - "text": "approximately 100,000 active-duty armed forces personnel (85,000 Army; 14,000 Air Force; 500-1,000 Coast Guard); approximately 15,000 Gendarmerie Forces (2023)" + "text": "approximately 100,000 active-duty armed forces personnel (85,000 Army; 14,000 Air Force; 1,000 Navy); approximately 15,000 Gendarmerie Forces (2023)" }, "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": { "text": "the JAF inventory is comprised of a wide mix of imported equipment from Europe, some Gulf States, Russia, and the US; in recent years, the Netherlands and the US have been the leading suppliers (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "17 years of age for voluntary military service for men (women can volunteer to serve in noncombat military positions in the Royal Jordanian Arab Army Women's Corps and RJAF); initial service term is 24 months, with option to reenlist for up to 18 years; conscription was abolished in 1991, but in 2020 Jordan announced the reinstatement of compulsory military service for jobless men aged between 25 and 29 with 12 months of service, made up of 3 months of military training and 9 months of professional and technical training; in 2019, Jordan announced a voluntary 4-month National Military Service program for men and women aged between 18-25 years who have been unemployed for at least 6 months; service would include 1 month for military training with the remaining 3 months dedicated to vocational training in the sectors of construction and tourism (2023)", - "note": "note: women comprised about 1.5% of the military as of 2019" + "text": "17 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women); initial service term is 24 months, with option to reenlist for up to 18 years; conscription was abolished in 1991, but in 2020 Jordan announced the reinstatement of compulsory military service for jobless men aged between 25 and 29 with 12 months of service, made up of 3 months of military training and 9 months of professional and technical training; in 2019, Jordan announced a voluntary 4-month National Military Service program for men and women aged between 18-25 years who have been unemployed for at least 6 months; service would include 1 month for military training with the remaining 3 months dedicated to vocational training in the sectors of construction and tourism (2023)", + "note": "note: women comprised about 3% of the military as of 2023" }, "Military deployments": { "text": "330 Mali (MINUSMA) (2023)" diff --git a/middle-east/ku.json b/middle-east/ku.json index 3d4eea92..9bc8e744 100644 --- a/middle-east/ku.json +++ b/middle-east/ku.json @@ -522,10 +522,10 @@ }, "Executive branch": { "chief of state": { - "text": "Amir Sheikh MISHAL al-Ahmad al-Sabah (since 16 December 2023); he succeeded his brother, Amir Sheikh NAWAF al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, who died the same day
" + "text": "Amir Sheikh MISHAL al-Ahmad al-Sabah (since 16 December 2023); he succeeded his brother, Amir Sheikh NAWAF al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, who died the same day" }, "head of government": { - "text": "Prime Minister Sheikh AHMAD AL-NAWAF Al-Ahmad al-Sabah (reappointed 5 March 2023); First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh TALAL al-Khalid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (since 16 October 2022); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Khalid al-FADIL (since 9 April 2022); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Bader Hamed Yusef Al-Mula (since 16 October 2022)" + "text": "Prime Minister Sheikh MOHAMMAD Sabah Al Salim Al Sabah (since 4 January 2024); First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh TALAL al-Khalid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (since 16 October 2022); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Khalid al-FADIL (since 9 April 2022); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Bader Hamed Yusef Al-Mula (since 16 October 2022)" }, "cabinet": { "text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the prime minister, approved by the amir" @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ "text": "none; the government does not recognize any political parties or allow their formation, although no formal law bans political parties" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ABEDA, AfDB (nonregional member), AFESD, AMF, BDEAC, CAEU, CD, FAO, G-77, GCC, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OPCW, OPEC, Paris Club (associate), PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNRWA, UN Security Council (temporary), UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ABEDA, AfDB (nonregional member), AFESD, AMF, BDEAC, CAEU, CD, FAO, G-77, GCC, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OPCW, OPEC, Paris Club (associate), PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNOOSA, UNRWA, UN Security Council (temporary), UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "580,000 (2020 est.)" + "text": "572,511 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "13 (2020 est.)" diff --git a/middle-east/le.json b/middle-east/le.json index 0785fc77..795c1b8d 100644 --- a/middle-east/le.json +++ b/middle-east/le.json @@ -359,17 +359,6 @@ "female": { "text": "11 years (2014)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "29.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "30.8%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "26.7%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -763,17 +752,6 @@ "text": "1.719 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: excludes as many as 1 million foreign workers and refugees" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "39% (2009 est.) NA" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "NA" - }, - "services": { - "text": "NA" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "14.49% (2021 est.)" @@ -1063,7 +1041,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "880,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "875,480 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "16 (2021 est.)" @@ -1213,7 +1191,7 @@ "note": "note: women were allowed to volunteer for military service in the 1980s; as of 2023, they comprised about 5% of the active duty military" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the LAF’s primary responsibilities are defense against external attack, border security, protecting the country’s territorial waters, and assisting with internal security and development projects; on Lebanon’s eastern and northern borders with Syria, the LAF has conducted operations to prevent or eliminate infiltrations of militants linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) and al-Qa’ida terrorist groups since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011; in the south, its focus is on maintaining stability along its volatile border with Israel where the LAF and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are separated by the Blue Line, a demarcation line established by the UN in 2000 following the withdrawal of the IDF, which had occupied southern Lebanon since invading in 1982; since the line’s establishment, the LAF and IDF have had periodic clashes, and IDF aircraft have routinely entered Lebanese air space; the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hizballah is based in south Lebanon and acts as a militia alongside the LAF; it has launched periodic cross-border attacks on Israel and threatened additional attacks, while the IDF has conducted air strikes on Hizballah positions and in 2006 launched a ground invasion into southern Lebanon to suppress the group; in 2022, Israeli and Lebanese officials agreed on a common demarcation of their maritime border after US mediation

the LAF’s domestic security responsibilities include countering narcotics trafficking and smuggling, managing protests, conducting search and rescue, and intervening to prevent violence between rival political factions; in recent years, the military has faced a financial crisis as government debt and national economic difficulties have undercut its ability to train and fully pay and supply personnel, which has sparked domestic and international fears that the armed forces may disintegrate; the UN, as well as countries such as France and the US have provided financial assistance 

the Army has about 12 infantry brigades (including a presidential guard brigade) that are supplemented by independent armored, artillery, border security, and “intervention” infantry regiments, as well as a special operations force comprised of airborne, marine commando, and ranger regiments that are regarded as the LAF’s elite units; the Air Force has a small inventory of aging combat aircraft and helicopters, while the Navy operates a mix of patrol craft and patrol boats

the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) has operated in the country since 1978, originally under UNSCRs 425 and 426 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restore international peace and security, and assist the Lebanese Government in restoring its effective authority in the area; following the July-August 2006 war, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1701 enhancing UNIFIL and deciding that in addition to the original mandate, it would, among other things, monitor the cessation of hostilities, support the Lebanese Armed Forces as they deployed throughout the south of Lebanon, and provide assistance for humanitarian access for civilians and the return of displaced persons; UNIFIL had approximately 9,500 military personnel deployed in the country as of early 2023; UNIFIL includes a maritime task force (2023)" + "text": "the LAF’s primary responsibilities are defense against external attack, border security, protecting the country’s territorial waters, and assisting with internal security and development projects; on Lebanon’s eastern and northern borders with Syria, the LAF has conducted operations to prevent or eliminate infiltrations of militants linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) and al-Qa’ida terrorist groups since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011; in the south, its focus is on maintaining stability along its volatile border with Israel where the LAF and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are separated by the \"Blue Line,\" a demarcation line established by the UN in 2000 following the withdrawal of the IDF, which had occupied southern Lebanon since invading in 1982; since the line’s establishment, the LAF and IDF have had periodic clashes, and IDF aircraft have routinely entered Lebanese air space; the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hizballah is based in south Lebanon and acts as a militia alongside the LAF; it has launched periodic cross-border attacks on Israel and threatened additional attacks, while the IDF has conducted air strikes on Hizballah positions and in 2006 launched a ground invasion into southern Lebanon to suppress the group; in 2022, Israeli and Lebanese officials agreed on a common demarcation of their maritime border after US mediation

the LAF’s domestic security responsibilities include countering narcotics trafficking and smuggling, managing protests, conducting search and rescue, and intervening to prevent violence between rival political factions; in recent years, the military has faced a financial crisis as government debt and national economic difficulties have undercut its ability to train and fully pay and supply personnel, which has sparked domestic and international fears that the armed forces may disintegrate; the UN, as well as countries such as France and the US have provided financial assistance 

the Army has about 12 infantry brigades (including a presidential guard brigade) that are supplemented by independent armored, artillery, border security, and “intervention” infantry regiments, as well as a special operations force comprised of airborne, marine commando, and ranger regiments that are regarded as the LAF’s elite units; the Air Force has a small inventory of aging combat aircraft and helicopters, while the Navy operates a mix of patrol craft and patrol boats

the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) has operated in the country since 1978, originally under UNSCRs 425 and 426 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restore international peace and security, and assist the Lebanese Government in restoring its effective authority in the area; following the July-August 2006 war, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1701 enhancing UNIFIL and deciding that in addition to the original mandate, it would, among other things, monitor the cessation of hostilities, support the Lebanese Armed Forces as they deployed throughout the south of Lebanon, and provide assistance for humanitarian access for civilians and the return of displaced persons; UNIFIL had approximately 9,500 military personnel deployed in the country as of early 2023; UNIFIL includes a maritime task force (2023)" } }, "Terrorism": { @@ -1224,7 +1202,7 @@ }, "Transnational Issues": { "Disputes - international": { - "text": "

Lebanon-Syria: lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute; in March 2021, Syria signed a contract with a Russian company for oil and gas exploration in a maritime area Lebanon claims as its own based on a 2011 map sent to the UN

Lebanon-Israel: Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms area in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights; Lebanon and Israel resumed negotiations over their maritime border in 2020, but their efforts were derailed when Lebanon argued that the map the UN was using needed modifications

 

" + "text": "

Lebanon-Syria: lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute; in March 2021, Syria signed a contract with a Russian company for oil and gas exploration in a maritime area Lebanon claims as its own based on a 2011 map sent to the UN

Lebanon-Israel: Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms area in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights; the maritime boundary between Israel and Lebanon was established in October 2022

" }, "Refugees and internally displaced persons": { "refugees (country of origin)": { diff --git a/middle-east/mu.json b/middle-east/mu.json index 5ed3259b..d411d927 100644 --- a/middle-east/mu.json +++ b/middle-east/mu.json @@ -360,17 +360,6 @@ "female": { "text": "15 years (2021)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "14.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "11.6%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "29.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -742,17 +731,6 @@ "text": "2.259 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: about 60% of the labor force is non-national" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "4.7% NA" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "49.6% NA" - }, - "services": { - "text": "45% (2016 est.) NA" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "3.12% (2021 est.)" @@ -1038,7 +1016,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "572,166 (2021 est.)" + "text": "563,172 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "13 (2021 est.)" @@ -1181,7 +1159,7 @@ "text": "the SAF's inventory includes a mix of older and some more modern weapons systems from a variety of suppliers, particularly Europe and the US; in recent years, the UK has been the leading supplier of arms to Oman (2023)" }, "Military service age and obligation": { - "text": "18 for voluntary military service for men and women (women have been allowed to serve since 2011); no conscription (2022)" + "text": "18 for voluntary military service for men and women (women have been allowed to serve since 2011); no conscription (2023)" }, "Military - note": { "text": "the SAF’s primary responsibility is external security; it is a small, but professional and well-equipped military that trains regularly, including with foreign partners such as the UK, US, and Gulf Cooperation Council countries; the SAF has a longstanding security relationship with the British military going back to the 18th century; the relationship was notable during the Dhofar Rebellion (1963-1976), when the British military provided considerable assistance to the SAF in their eventually successful counterinsurgency campaign; today, the SAF and the British maintain a joint training base in Oman and exercise together regularly; in 2017, Oman and the UK signed an agreement allowing the British military the use of facilities at Al Duqm Port; in 2019, the US obtained access to the port, expanding on previous military cooperation agreements in 2014, 2010, and 1980; Oman also allows other nations to use some of its maritime facilities, including China

the Omani Navy conducts maritime security operations along the country’s long coastline, including patrolling, ensuring freedom of navigation in the key naval chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz, and countering piracy and smuggling; while Oman is not a member of the US-led, 34-member nation Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), which operates task forces to counter piracy and smuggling, the Omani Navy has at times participated in CMF-led joint exercises; the Navy is a small but relatively modern force; its principal warships include nine corvettes and offshore patrol vessels, which are supported by a number of small patrol and fast attack craft

the Royal Army was formed as the Muscat Garrison in 1907; today, it has an armored brigade equipped with American and British tanks, 2 brigades of infantry, and a border guard brigade, as well as an airborne regiment; the Royal Guard is comprised of an infantry brigade and 2 special forces regiments; the Air Force has about three dozen modern European- and US-made multipurpose fighter aircraft (2023)" diff --git a/middle-east/we.json b/middle-east/we.json index bcec5300..2330e9d5 100644 --- a/middle-east/we.json +++ b/middle-east/we.json @@ -341,18 +341,6 @@ "text": "14 years (2021)" }, "note": "note: data represent Gaza Strip and the West Bank" - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "39.6% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "33.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "69%" - }, - "note": "note: includes Gaza Strip" } }, "Environment": { @@ -551,18 +539,6 @@ "text": "1.249 million (2021 est.)", "note": "note: excludes Gaza Strip" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "11.5%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "34.4%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "54.1% (2013 est.)" - }, - "note": "note: excludes Gaza Strip" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "24.9% (2021 est.)" @@ -830,12 +806,12 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "485,829 (2021 est.)" + "text": "457,706 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "9 (2021 est.)" }, - "note": "note: includes Gaza Strip" + "note": "note: data includes both the Gaza Strip and West Bank" }, "Telephones - mobile cellular": { "total subscriptions": { diff --git a/middle-east/ym.json b/middle-east/ym.json index ab56b2a5..49c00936 100644 --- a/middle-east/ym.json +++ b/middle-east/ym.json @@ -367,17 +367,6 @@ "female": { "text": "55% (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "25.5% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "24.3%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "36.3%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -750,9 +739,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "7.299 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "text": "

note: most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force

" - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "13.57% (2021 est.)" @@ -1030,7 +1016,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1.2 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1.24 million (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "4 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/north-america/bd.json b/north-america/bd.json index dcf464e9..ee1246b4 100644 --- a/north-america/bd.json +++ b/north-america/bd.json @@ -304,17 +304,6 @@ "female": { "text": "13 years (2015)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "29.3% (2014 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "29.7%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "29%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -643,17 +632,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "33,480 (2016 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "2%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "13%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "85% (2016 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2017": { "text": "7% (2017 est.)" diff --git a/north-america/mx.json b/north-america/mx.json index 23be8c3b..e42764e1 100644 --- a/north-america/mx.json +++ b/north-america/mx.json @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ "text": "

Citizen's Movement (Movimiento Ciudadano) or MC [Clemente CASTAÑEDA Hoeflich]
Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) or PRI [Claudia RUIZ Massieu]
Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo) or PT [Alberto ANAYA Gutiérrez]
Mexican Green Ecological Party (Partido Verde Ecologista de México) or PVEM [Karen CASTREJÓN Trujillo]
Movement for National Regeneration (Movimiento Regeneración Nacional) or MORENA [Mario DELGADO Carillo]
National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) or PAN [Antonio CORTÉS Mendoza]
Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática) or PRD [Jesús ZAMBRANO Grijalva]
This Is For Mexico (Va Por México) (alliance that includes PAN, PRI, and PRD)
Together We Make History (Juntos Hacemos Historia) (alliance that included MORENA, PT, PVEM) (dissolved 23 December 2020)

" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "APEC, Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (observer), Caricom (observer), CD, CDB, CE (observer), CELAC, CSN (observer), EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-3, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-5, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, MIGA, NAFTA, NAM (observer), NEA, NSG, OAS, OECD, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance, Paris Club (associate), PCA, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR (observer), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, Union Latina (observer), UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, USMCA, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "APEC, Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (observer), Caricom (observer), CD, CDB, CE (observer), CELAC, CSN (observer), EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-3, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-5, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, MIGA, NAFTA, NAM (observer), NEA, NSG, OAS, OECD, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance, Paris Club (associate), PCA, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR (observer), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina (observer), UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, USMCA, Wassenaar Arrangement, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "24,366,595 (2021 est.)" + "text": "27,184,669 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "19 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/north-america/us.json b/north-america/us.json index 4cdddf16..1f5ab84c 100644 --- a/north-america/us.json +++ b/north-america/us.json @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "98 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "91.623 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "29 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-america/ar.json b/south-america/ar.json index 5c308a70..72fc0721 100644 --- a/south-america/ar.json +++ b/south-america/ar.json @@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "6,903,068 (2021 est.)" + "text": "7,615,491 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "15 (2021 est.)" @@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ "text": "225 Cyprus (UNFICYP) (2023)" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Argentine military’s primary responsibilities are territorial defense and protecting the country’s sovereignty, but its duties also include border security, countering narcotics trafficking, and other internal missions, such as disaster response and infrastructure development; it also conducts support operations in Antarctica to promote an active presence in areas of national territory that are sparsely populated; the military participates in both bilateral and multinational training exercises and supports UN peacekeeping operations; the Army’s primary combat units include a rapid deployment division with airborne, mechanized infantry, and special forces brigades, a combined armored and jungle warfare division, a mountain infantry division, and a mechanized division; the Navy’s principal warships are approximately 15 frigates, corvettes, and ocean-going patrol ships, as well as 2 attack submarines, although they are not operational; both the Army and Navy have helicopter aviation components; the Air Force has a few dozen combat aircraft, as well as multipurpose helicopters and support aircraft, such as tankers and transports

Argentina participates in the Tripartite Command, an interagency security mechanism created by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay to exchange information and combat transnational threats, including terrorism, in the Tri-Border Area; in addition, Argentina and Chile have a joint peacekeeping force known as the Combined Southern Cross Peacekeeping Force (FPC), designed to be made available to the UN; the FPC is made up of two battalions, one from each country, a command and service company, an air component (a squadron of Argentine and Chilean helicopters), a naval component, and a combined logistics support unit; Argentina has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation

the Army and Navy were both created in 1810 during the Argentine War of Independence, while the Air Force was established in 1945; the military conducted coups d'état in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, and 1976; the 1976 coup, aka the \"National Reorganization Process,\" marked the beginning of the so-called \"Dirty War,\" a period of state-sponsored terrorism that saw the deaths or disappearances of thousands of Argentinians; the defeat in the 1983 Falklands War led to the downfall of the military junta (2023)" + "text": "the Argentine military’s primary responsibilities are territorial defense and protecting the country’s sovereignty, but its duties also include border security, countering narcotics trafficking, and other internal missions, such as disaster response and infrastructure development; it also conducts support operations in Antarctica to promote an active presence in areas of national territory that are sparsely populated; the military participates in both bilateral and multinational training exercises and supports UN peacekeeping operations; the Army’s primary combat units include a rapid deployment division with airborne, mechanized infantry, and special forces brigades, a combined armored and jungle warfare division, a mountain infantry division, and a mechanized division; the Navy’s principal warships are approximately 15 frigates, corvettes, and ocean-going patrol ships, as well as two attack submarines, although they are not operational; both the Army and Navy have helicopter aviation components; the Air Force has a few dozen combat aircraft, as well as multipurpose helicopters and support aircraft, such as tankers and transports

Argentina participates in the Tripartite Command, an interagency security mechanism created by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay to exchange information and combat transnational threats, including terrorism, in the Tri-Border Area; in addition, Argentina and Chile have a joint peacekeeping force known as the Combined Southern Cross Peacekeeping Force (FPC), designed to be made available to the UN; the FPC is made up of two battalions, one from each country, a command and service company, an air component (a squadron of Argentine and Chilean helicopters), a naval component, and a combined logistics support unit; Argentina has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation

the Army and Navy were both created in 1810 during the Argentine War of Independence, while the Air Force was established in 1945; the military conducted coups d'état in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, and 1976; the 1976 coup, aka the \"National Reorganization Process,\" marked the beginning of the so-called \"Dirty War,\" a period of state-sponsored terrorism that saw the deaths or disappearances of thousands of Argentinians; the defeat in the 1983 Falklands War led to the downfall of the military junta (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/south-america/bl.json b/south-america/bl.json index 89f17523..d436d480 100644 --- a/south-america/bl.json +++ b/south-america/bl.json @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ "note": "note: We Believe or Creemos [Luis Fernando CAMACHO Vaca] is a coalition comprised of several opposition parties that participated in the 2020 election, which includes the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and Solidarity Civic Unity (UCS)" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "CAN, CD, CELAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNAMID, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "CAN, CD, CELAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNAMID, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "539,481 (2021 est.)" + "text": "550,011 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "4 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-america/br.json b/south-america/br.json index c337ee12..21095e81 100644 --- a/south-america/br.json +++ b/south-america/br.json @@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "28,883,475 (2021 est.)" + "text": "27,257,833 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "13 (2021 est.)" @@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ "note": "note: in 2022, women comprised approximately 9% of the Brazilian military" }, "Military - note": { - "text": "the Brazilian Armed Forces (BAF) are the second largest military in the Western Hemisphere behind the US; while they are responsible for external security and protecting the country’s sovereignty, Brazil does not have any territorial disputes with its neighbors or regional rivalries; the BAF’s missions include patrolling and protecting the country’s long borders and coastline and extensive territorial waters and river network, assisting with internal security, providing domestic disaster response and humanitarian assistance, and participating in multinational peacekeeping missions

the Army has a considerable internal security role; in the past decade, it has mobilized thousands of troops to conduct counternarcotics operations, support the police in combating crime, assist with disease outbreaks and humanitarian missions, and provide security for major events such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics; it has also cooperated with neighboring countries such as Argentina and Paraguay on border security to combat smuggling and trafficking; the Army is organized into regional commands, military regions, and geographically based divisions covering the entirety of the country; it has approximately 30 combat brigades which include light, mechanized, or motorized infantry, light armored/cavalry, special operations, artillery, and helicopter forces; many of the light infantry brigades are specialized for air mobile, airborne, jungle, mountain, or urban warfare operations; the Army has established a battalion-sized (1,000 troops) expeditionary force for foreign international missions that it plans to increase to a 3,000-strong brigade by 2030

the Navy conducts coastal, regional, and riverine operations and has a wide variety of missions ranging from sea patrolling and power projection to countering piracy, illegal fishing, narcotics trafficking, and organized crime; it is organized into 9 districts covering the entirety of the country; the Navy’s principal warships include approximately 14 frigates, corvettes, and offshore patrol ships, 7 attack submarines, and a multi-purpose helicopter landing platform (LPH) amphibious assault ship that serves as the fleet’s flagship; it also has a considerable coastal and riverine patrol vessel fleet, an aviation wing with about 50 combat aircraft and helicopters, and a marine amphibious force

the Air Force has over 100 fighter and ground attack aircraft, as well as dozens of support aircraft and helicopters for missions such as patrolling, reconnaissance, transport, logistics, special missions, and training

the three national police forces – the Federal Police, Federal Highway Police, and Federal Railway Police – have domestic security responsibilities and report to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (Ministry of Justice); there are two distinct units within the state police forces: the civil police, which performs an investigative role, and the military police, charged with maintaining law and order in the states and the Federal District; despite the name, military police forces report to the Ministry of Justice, not the Ministry of Defense; the National Public Security Force (Forca Nacional de Seguranca Publica or SENASP) is a national police force made up of Military Police from various states; the armed forces also have some domestic security responsibilities and report to the Ministry of Defense

Brazil has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation

the origins of Brazil's military stretch back to the 1640s; Brazil provided a 25,000-man expeditionary force with air and ground units to fight with the Allies in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II; the Navy participated in the Battle of the Atlantic (2023)" + "text": "the Brazilian Armed Forces (BAF) are the second largest military in the Western Hemisphere behind the US; while they are responsible for external security and protecting the country’s sovereignty, Brazil does not have any territorial disputes with its neighbors or regional rivalries; the BAF’s missions include patrolling and protecting the country’s long borders and coastline and extensive territorial waters and river network, assisting with internal security, providing domestic disaster response and humanitarian assistance, and participating in multinational peacekeeping missions

the Army has a considerable internal security role; in the past decade, it has mobilized thousands of troops to conduct counternarcotics operations, support the police in combating crime, assist with disease outbreaks and humanitarian missions, and provide security for major events such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics; it has also cooperated with neighboring countries such as Argentina and Paraguay on border security to combat smuggling and trafficking; the Army is organized into regional commands, military regions, and geographically based divisions covering the entirety of the country; it has approximately 30 combat brigades which include light, mechanized, or motorized infantry, light armored/cavalry, special operations, artillery, and helicopter forces; many of the light infantry brigades are specialized for air mobile, airborne, jungle, mountain, or urban warfare operations; the Army has established a battalion-sized (1,000 troops) expeditionary force for foreign international missions that it plans to increase to a 3,000-strong brigade by 2030

the Navy conducts coastal, regional, and riverine operations and has a wide variety of missions ranging from sea patrolling and power projection to countering piracy, illegal fishing, narcotics trafficking, and organized crime; it is organized into nine districts covering the entirety of the country; the Navy’s principal warships include approximately 14 frigates, corvettes, and offshore patrol ships, seven attack submarines, and a multi-purpose helicopter landing platform (LPH) amphibious assault ship that serves as the fleet’s flagship; it also has a considerable coastal and riverine patrol vessel fleet, an aviation wing with combat aircraft and helicopters, and a marine amphibious force

the Air Force has over 100 fighter and ground attack aircraft, as well as dozens of support aircraft and helicopters for missions such as patrolling, reconnaissance, transport, logistics, special missions, and training

the three national police forces – the Federal Police, Federal Highway Police, and Federal Railway Police – have domestic security responsibilities and report to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (Ministry of Justice); there are two distinct units within the state police forces: the civil police, which performs an investigative role, and the military police, charged with maintaining law and order in the states and the Federal District; despite the name, military police forces report to the Ministry of Justice, not the Ministry of Defense; the National Public Security Force (Forca Nacional de Seguranca Publica or SENASP) is a national police force made up of Military Police from various states; the armed forces also have some domestic security responsibilities and report to the Ministry of Defense

Brazil has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US, a designation under US law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation

the origins of Brazil's military stretch back to the 1640s; Brazil provided a 25,000-man expeditionary force with air and ground units to fight with the Allies in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II; the Navy participated in the Battle of the Atlantic (2023)" } }, "Space": { diff --git a/south-america/co.json b/south-america/co.json index 4bcdfd66..045cfdd9 100644 --- a/south-america/co.json +++ b/south-america/co.json @@ -383,17 +383,6 @@ "female": { "text": "15 years (2020)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "26.4% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "21.9%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "32.8%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -788,17 +777,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "26.137 million (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "17%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "21%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "62% (2011 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "14.34% (2021 est.)" @@ -1101,7 +1079,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "7.6 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "7,587,694 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "15 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-america/ec.json b/south-america/ec.json index 21a948de..4f2d9966 100644 --- a/south-america/ec.json +++ b/south-america/ec.json @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1,846,666 (2021)" + "text": "1,644,238 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "10 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-america/uy.json b/south-america/uy.json index 0adad65b..fbc1a911 100644 --- a/south-america/uy.json +++ b/south-america/uy.json @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "1.2 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "1,258,557 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "36 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-america/ve.json b/south-america/ve.json index 309253e0..a0a76ba0 100644 --- a/south-america/ve.json +++ b/south-america/ve.json @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "3.2 million (2021 est.)" + "text": "3,146,844 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "11 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-asia/bg.json b/south-asia/bg.json index d35e7cbd..a1496d22 100644 --- a/south-asia/bg.json +++ b/south-asia/bg.json @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ "text": "president indirectly elected by the National Parliament for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 13 February 2023 (next to be held by 2028); the president appoints as prime minister the majority party leader in the National Parliament" }, "election results": { - "text": "President Abdul HAMID (AL) reelected by the National Parliament unopposed for a second term; Sheikh HASINA reappointed prime minister as leader of the majority AL party following parliamentary election in 2023" + "text": "President Mohammad Shahabuddin CHUPPI (AL) elected unopposed by the National Parliament; Sheikh HASINA reappointed prime minister to a fourth term following the 7 January 2024 parliamentary election" } }, "Legislative branch": { @@ -587,10 +587,10 @@ "text": "unicameral House of the Nation or Jatiya Sangsad (350 seats; 300 members in single-seat territorial constituencies directly elected by simple majority vote; 50 members - reserved for women only - indirectly elected by the House of the Nation membership by proportional representation vote using single transferable vote method; all members serve 5-year terms)" }, "elections": { - "text": "last held on 30 December 2018 (next to be held on 7 January 2024)" + "text": "last held on 7 January 2024 (next to be held in 2029)" }, "election results": { - "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party as of February 2022 - AL 299, JP 27, BNP 7, other 10, independent 7; composition - men 277, women 73, percent of women 20.9%" + "text": "percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party (directly elected) - AL 222, JP 11, other 3, independent 62, vacant 2; composition NA" } }, "Judicial branch": { @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ } }, "Political parties and leaders": { - "text": "Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]
Bangladesh Jamaat-i-Islami or JIB [Shafiqur RAHMAN]
Bangladesh Nationalist Front or BNF [S. M. Abul Kalam AZAD]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP [Tarique RAHMAN, acting chairperson; Begum  Khaleda ZIA]
Bangladesh Tariqat Federation or BTF [Syed Nozibul Bashar MAIZBHANDARI]
Jatiya Party or JP (Ershad faction) [Rowshan ERSHAD]
Jatiya Party or JP (Manju faction) [Anwar Hossain MANJU]
Liberal Democratic Party or LDP [Oli AHMED]
National Socialist Party (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal) or JSD [Hasanul Haque INU]
Workers Party or WP [Rashed Khan MENON]" + "text": "Awami League or AL [Sheikh HASINA]
Bangladesh Jamaat-i-Islami or JIB [Shafiqur RAHMAN]
Bangladesh Kalyan Party or BKP [Syed Muhammad [IBRAHIM] 
Bangladesh Nationalist Front or BNF [S. M. Abul Kalam AZAD]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP [Tarique RAHMAN, acting chairperson; Begum Khaleda ZIA]
Bangladesh Tariqat Federation or BTF [Syed Nozibul Bashar MAIZBHANDARI]
Jatiya Party or JP (Ershad faction) [Rowshan ERSHAD]
Jatiya Party or JP (Manju faction) [Anwar Hossain MANJU]
Liberal Democratic Party or LDP [Oli AHMED]
National Socialist Party (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal) or JSD [Hasanul Haque INU]
Workers Party or WP [Rashed Khan MENON]" }, "International organization participation": { "text": "ADB, ARF, BIMSTEC, C, CD, CICA (observer), CP, D-8, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OPCW, PCA, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNOOSA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" @@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "587,476 (2021 est.)" + "text": "274,295 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "0 (2021 est.) less than 1" diff --git a/south-asia/in.json b/south-asia/in.json index 06ee32f5..1744bf1b 100644 --- a/south-asia/in.json +++ b/south-asia/in.json @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "23,773,751 (2021 est.)" + "text": "27.45 million (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "2 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-asia/io.json b/south-asia/io.json index 9f105889..6f3375ad 100644 --- a/south-asia/io.json +++ b/south-asia/io.json @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ }, "Capital": { "name": { - "text": "often regarded as being on Diego Garcia" + "text": "administered from London; often regarded as being on Diego Garcia" }, "geographic coordinates": { "text": " 7 18S, 12 24E" diff --git a/south-asia/mv.json b/south-asia/mv.json index 791a8ebd..72602ee5 100644 --- a/south-asia/mv.json +++ b/south-asia/mv.json @@ -360,17 +360,6 @@ "female": { "text": "14 years (2019)" } - }, - "Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": { - "total": { - "text": "17.7% (2021 est.)" - }, - "male": { - "text": "19.9%" - }, - "female": { - "text": "12.6%" - } } }, "Environment": { @@ -725,17 +714,6 @@ "Labor force": { "text": "229,300 (2021 est.)" }, - "Labor force - by occupation": { - "agriculture": { - "text": "7.7%" - }, - "industry": { - "text": "22.8%" - }, - "services": { - "text": "69.5% (2017 est.)" - } - }, "Unemployment rate": { "Unemployment rate 2021": { "text": "6.08% (2021 est.)" @@ -1016,7 +994,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "14,005 (2021 est.)" + "text": "13,376 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "3 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-asia/np.json b/south-asia/np.json index d2d37c19..13fb00d1 100644 --- a/south-asia/np.json +++ b/south-asia/np.json @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ "text": "


Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal or FSFN [Upendra YADAV]
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) or CPN-MC [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL]
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) or CPN-UML [Khadga Prasad OLI]
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) or CPN-US [Madhav Kumar NEPAL]
Janamat Party [Chandra Kant RAUT]
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party [Mahantha THAKUR]
Naya Shakti Party, Nepal [Baburam BHATTARAI]
Nepali Congress or NC [Sher Bahadur DEUBA]
Nepal Mazdoor Kisan Party (Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party) or NWPP [Narayan Man BIJUKCHHE]
People's Socialist Party [Upendra YAKAV]
Rastriya Janamorcha (National People's Front) [Chitra Bahadur K.C.]
Rastriya Janata Party (National People's Party, Nepal) or RJPN [Mahanta THAKUR]
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (National Democratic Party) or RPP [Rajendra Prasad LINGDEN]
Rastriya Swatantra Party or RSP [Rabi LAMICHHANE]

" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ADB, BIMSTEC, CD, CP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNSOM, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ADB, BIMSTEC, CD, CP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNSOM, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "730,000 (2021 est.)" + "text": "726,000 (2021 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "2 (2021 est.)" diff --git a/south-asia/pk.json b/south-asia/pk.json index add92ccf..bc971a2f 100644 --- a/south-asia/pk.json +++ b/south-asia/pk.json @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ "note": "note: Pakistan has several hundred officially registered political parties; this list includes those that won seats in the most recent elections at the national and provincial levels" }, "International organization participation": { - "text": "ADB, AIIB, ARF, ASEAN (sectoral dialogue partner), C, CERN (associate member), CICA, CP, D-8, ECO, FAO, G-11, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MINUSCA, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, PCA, SAARC, SACEP, SCO, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNOOSA, UNSOS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" + "text": "ADB, AIIB, ARF, ASEAN (sectoral dialogue partner), C, CERN (associate member), CICA, CP, D-8, ECO, FAO, G-11, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MINUSCA, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, PCA, SAARC, SACEP, SCO, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNOOSA, UNSOS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO" }, "Diplomatic representation in the US": { "chief of mission": { @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ "Communications": { "Telephones - fixed lines": { "total subscriptions": { - "text": "2,989,133 (2021 est.)" + "text": "2,799,360 (2022 est.)" }, "subscriptions per 100 inhabitants": { "text": "1 (2021 est.)"