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"Geography - note": {
"text": "<p><strong>note 1:</strong> the World is now thought to be about 4.55 billion years old, just about one-third of the 13.8-billion-year age estimated for the universe; the earliest widely accepted date for life appearing on Earth is 3.48 billion years ago</p> <p><strong>note 2:</strong> although earthquakes can strike anywhere at any time, the vast majority occur in three large zones of the Earth; the world's greatest earthquake belt, the Circum-Pacific Belt (popularly referred to as the Ring of Fire), is the zone of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters bordering the Pacific Ocean; about 90% of the world's earthquakes (81% of the largest earthquakes) and some 75% of the world's volcanoes occur within the Ring of Fire; the belt extends northward from Chile, along the South American coast, through Central America, Mexico, the western US, southern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, to Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, island groups in the southwestern Pacific, and New Zealand<br><br>the second prominent belt, the Alpide, extends from Java to Sumatra, northward along the mountains of Burma, then eastward through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic Ocean; it accounts for about 17% of the world's largest earthquakes; the third important belt follows the long Mid-Atlantic Ridge<br><br><strong>note 3:</strong> information on the origin sites for many of the world's major food crops may be found in the \"Geography - note\" for the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States</p>"
"text": "<p><strong>note 1:</strong> the World is now thought to be about 4.55 billion years old, about one-third of the 13.8-billion-year age estimated for the universe; the earliest widely accepted date for life appearing on Earth is 3.48 billion years ago</p> <p><strong>note 2:</strong> the vast majority of earthquakes occur in three large zones; the <em>Circum-Pacific Belt</em> (known as the Ring of Fire) borders the Pacific and is the largest zone of volcanic and seismic activity, with about 90% of earthquakes (81% of the largest) and about 75% of active volcanoes; the belt extends northward from Chile along the South American coast, then through Central America, Mexico, the western US, southern Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands, to Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the southwestern Pacific, and New Zealand; the <em>Alpide Belt</em> extends from Java to Sumatra, northward along the mountains of Burma, eastward through the Himalayas and the Mediterranean, and into the Atlantic Ocean, accounting for about 17% of the largest earthquakes; the third belt follows the long Mid-Atlantic Ridge</p>"
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},
"People and Society": {
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},
"Dependency ratios": {
"total dependency ratio": {
"text": "54.1"
"text": "53.4 (2024 est.)"
},
"youth dependency ratio": {
"text": "39.3"
"text": "37.7 (2024 est.)"
},
"elderly dependency ratio": {
"text": "14.8"
"text": "15.7 (2024 est.)"
},
"potential support ratio": {
"text": "7 (2021 est.)"
"text": "6.4 (2024 est.)"
}
},
"Median age": {
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},
"Environment": {
"Environment - current issues": {
"text": "large areas of the world are subject to overpopulation, industrial disasters, pollution (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances), loss of vegetation (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification), loss of biodiversity; soil degradation, soil depletion, erosion; ozone layer depletion; waste disposal; global warming becoming a greater concern"
"text": "large areas of the world are subject to overpopulation, industrial disasters, pollution (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances), loss of vegetation (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification), loss of biodiversity; soil degradation, soil depletion, erosion; ozone layer depletion; waste disposal; temperature change"
},
"World biomes": {
"Types of Biomes": {
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},
"Inflation rate (consumer prices)": {
"Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2023": {
"text": "5.64% (2023 est.)"
"text": "5.7% (2023 est.)"
},
"Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2022": {
"text": "7.93% (2022 est.)"
"text": "7.9% (2022 est.)"
},
"Inflation rate (consumer prices) 2021": {
"text": "3.48% (2021 est.)"
"text": "3.5% (2021 est.)"
},
"note": "<b>note:</b> annual % change based on consumer prices"
},
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"note": "<b>note:</b> annual % change in industrial value added based on constant local currency"
},
"Labor force": {
"text": "3.642 billion (2023 est.)",
"text": "3.691 billion (2024 est.)",
"note": "<b>note:</b> number of people ages 15 or older who are employed or seeking work"
},
"Unemployment rate": {
"Unemployment rate 2024": {
"text": "4.9% (2024 est.)"
},
"Unemployment rate 2023": {
"text": "4.97% (2023 est.)"
"text": "4.9% (2023 est.)"
},
"Unemployment rate 2022": {
"text": "5.27% (2022 est.)"
},
"Unemployment rate 2021": {
"text": "6.04% (2021 est.)"
"text": "5.3% (2022 est.)"
},
"note": "<b>note:</b> % of labor force seeking employment"
},
"Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)": {
"total": {
"text": "13.8% (2023 est.)"
"text": "13.6% (2024 est.)"
},
"male": {
"text": "13.4% (2023 est.)"
"text": "13.2% (2024 est.)"
},
"female": {
"text": "15.4% (2023 est.)"
"text": "15.3% (2024 est.)"
},
"note": "<b>note:</b> % of labor force ages 15-24 seeking employment"
},
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}
},
"Taxes and other revenues": {
"text": "14.34% (of GDP) (2022 est.)",
"text": "13.9% (of GDP) (2023 est.)",
"note": "<b>note:</b> central government tax revenue as a % of GDP"
},
"Exports": {
"Exports 2023": {
"text": "$31.073 trillion (2023 est.)"
"text": "$31.114 trillion (2023 est.)"
},
"Exports 2022": {
"text": "$31.67 trillion (2022 est.)"
"text": "$31.716 trillion (2022 est.)"
},
"Exports 2021": {
"text": "$28.271 trillion (2021 est.)"
"text": "$28.292 trillion (2021 est.)"
},
"note": "<b>note:</b> balance of payments - exports of goods and services in current dollars"
},
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},
"Imports": {
"Imports 2023": {
"text": "$30.144 trillion (2023 est.)"
"text": "$30.2 trillion (2023 est.)"
},
"Imports 2022": {
"text": "$30.8 trillion (2022 est.)"
"text": "$30.838 trillion (2022 est.)"
},
"Imports 2021": {
"text": "$27.184 trillion (2021 est.)"
"text": "$27.203 trillion (2021 est.)"
},
"note": "<b>note:</b> balance of payments - imports of goods and services in current dollars"
},
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"text": "1,148,186 km (2013)"
}
},
"Waterways": {
"text": "2,293,412 km (2017)",
"note": "<strong>top ten longest rivers:</strong> Nile (Africa) 6,693 km; Amazon (South America) 6,436 km; Mississippi-Missouri (North America) 6,238 km; Yenisey-Angara (Asia) 5,981 km; Ob-Irtysh (Asia) 5,569 km; Yangtze (Asia) 5,525 km; Yellow (Asia) 4,671 km; Amur (Asia) 4,352 km; Lena (Asia) 4,345 km; Congo (Africa) 4,344 km<br><br><strong>note 1:</strong> rivers are not necessarily navigable along the entire length; if measured by volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world, responsible for about 20% of the Earth's freshwater entering the ocean<br><br><strong>note 2:</strong> there are 20 countries without rivers: 3 in Africa (Comoros, Djibouti, Libya); 1 in the Americas (Bahamas); 8 in Asia (Bahrain, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen); 3 in Europe (Malta, Monaco, Holy See), 5 in Oceania (Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu); these countries also do not have natural lakes<br><br><strong>top ten largest natural lakes (by surface area): </strong>Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan) 372,960 sq km; Lake Superior (Canada, United States) 82,414 sq km; Lake Victoria (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) 69,490 sq km; Lake Huron (Canada, United States) 59,596 sq km; Lake Michigan (United States) 57,441 sq km; Lake Tanganyika (Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia) 32,890 sq km; Great Bear Lake (Canada) 31,800 sq km; Lake Baikal (Russia) 31,494 sq km; Lake Nyasa (Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania) 30,044 sq km; Great Slave Lake (Canada) 28,400 sq km<br><br><strong>note 1:</strong> the areas of the lakes are subject to seasonal variation; only the Caspian Sea is saline, the rest are fresh water<br><br><strong>note 2:</strong> Lakes Huron and Michigan are technically a single lake because the flow of water between the Straits of Mackinac that connects the two lakes keeps their water levels at near-equilibrium; combined, Lake Huron-Michigan is the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world<br><br><strong>note 3: </strong>the deepest lake in the world (1,620 m), and also the largest freshwater lake by volume (23,600 cu km), is Lake Baikal in Russia"
},
"Merchant marine": {
"total": {
"text": "103,577 (2023)"
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},
"Military and Security": {
"Military expenditures": {
"Military Expenditures 2024": {
"text": "2.4% of GDP (2024 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2023": {
"text": "2.3% of GDP (2023 est.)"
},
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"text": "2.2% of GDP (2022 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2021": {
"text": "2.3% of GDP (2021 est.)"
"text": "2.2% of GDP (2021 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2020": {
"text": "2.4% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
"text": "2.2% of GDP (2019 est.)"
"text": "2.3% of GDP (2020 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the largest militaries in the world based on personnel numbers belong to China, India, the US, North Korea, and Russia"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the US is the world's leading arms exporter (2023)"
"text": "the US is the world's leading arms exporter (2024)"
},
"Military deployments": {
"text": "as of August 2024, there were approximately 68,000 personnel deployed on UN peacekeeping missions worldwide (2024)"