This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A
country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, whi ...
or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of ''
nation
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by th ...
'' (a cultural entity) or '' state'' (a political entity).The
Oxford English Dictionary
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the first and foundational historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a c ...
, Second Edition, with online updates as of September 2008. Entry "1. country"
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
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1989
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2005
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2010
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2015
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List of countries by past fertility rate
This is a list of countries showing past fertility rate, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. The fertility rate
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List of countries by HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, varies in prevalence from nation to nation. Listed here are the prevalence rates among adults in various countries, based on data from various sources, largely the CIA World Factbook.
As ...
List of countries by intentional homicide rate
The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year. A mortality rate of 30 (out of 100,000) in a population of 100,000 would mean 30 deaths per year in that entire population, or ...
List of countries by maternal mortality ratio
Maternal death, also called maternal mortality, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, fro ...
List of countries by suicide rate
The following are lists of countries by suicide rate as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources.
About one person in 5,000–15,000 dies by suicide every year, with an estimated global rate of 10.5 per 100,000 popula ...
List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2022 Human Development Report. According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when ...
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Life Expectancy Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, whi ...
World Happiness Report
The World Happiness Report is a publication that contains articles and rankings of national happiness, based on respondent ratings of their own lives, which the report also correlates with various (quality of) life factors. As of March 2022, Fi ...
Buddhism by country
This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population.
Buddhism is the dominant religion in Bhutan, Myanmar ...
Importance of religion by country
This article charts a list of countries by importance of religion.
Methodology
The table below is based upon global Gallup Poll in 2009 research which asked "Is religion im ...
Language
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List of official languages by country and territory
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority la ...
List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages
The following is a list of the countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages. It includes countries, which have Afrikaans and/or Dutch as (one of) their nationwide official language(s), as well as dependent territorie ...
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List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official language
Arabic and its different dialects are spoken by around 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world as well as in the Arab diaspora making it one of the five most spoken languages in the world. Currently, 22 countries are membe ...
List of countries and territories where English is an official language
The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language—that is, a language used in citizen interactions with government officials. , there were 59 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English ...
List of countries and territories where Hindustani is an official language
The following is a list of countries that have Hindustani as an official language.
Official language
Minority language
See also
* Geolinguistics
* Language geography
Language geography is the branch of human geography that studies th ...
List of countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language
The following is a list of the nine sovereign states and one territory where Portuguese is an official language.
Nations with Portuguese as an official language Sovereign states
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List of countries and territories where Romanian is an official language
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List of countries and territories where Russian is an official language
This is a list of countries and territories where Russian is an official language:
Highest nationwide status or nationwide status of the state language
Second highest nationwide status or nationwide status of the official language
Any ot ...
List of countries by employment rate
This is a list of countries by employment rate, this being the proportion of employed adults in the working age. The definition of "working age" varies: Many sources, including the OECD, use 15–64 years old, but EUROSTAT uses 20–64 years old, t ...
List of countries by exports per capita
This is a list of countries by exports of goods and services per capita. Unless otherwise stated, all data is based on the information in the Economic Complexity Index.
References
Notes
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Lists of co ...
List of countries by gross national savings
This is a list of countries by gross national savings. Gross national saving is derived by deducting final consumption expenditure from Gross national disposable income, and consists of personal saving, plus business saving, plus government saving ...
List of countries by share of population with access to financial services
The following list ranks countries by the share of population with access to financial services. Access to financial services is defined as the share of the adult population with an account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-mo ...
The value of goods and services produced within a country:
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List of countries by GDP (nominal)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or go ...
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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency. Such flu ...
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List of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal)
This is an alphabetical list of countries by past and projected gross domestic product (nominal) as ranked by the IMF. Figures are based on official exchange rates, not on the purchasing power parity (PPP) methodology. Values are given in mill ...
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List of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) per capita
This is an alphabetical list of countries by past and projected gross domestic product per capita, based on official exchange rates, not on the purchasing power parity (PPP) methodology. Values are given in USDs and have not been adjusted for in ...
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List of countries by GDP (PPP)
GDP (PPP) means gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity.
This article includes a list of countries by their forecast estimated GDP (PPP). Countries are sorted by GDP (PPP) forecast estimates from financial and statistica ...
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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same ...
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List of regions by past GDP (PPP)
These are lists of regions and countries by their estimated real gross domestic product (GDP) in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), the value of all final goods and services produced within a country/region in a given year. GDP dollar (int ...
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List of regions by past GDP (PPP) per capita
These are lists of regions and countries by their estimated real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), the value of all final goods and services produced within a country/region in a given year divid ...
List of countries by past and projected GDP (PPP) per capita
This is an alphabetical list of countries by past and projected Gross Domestic Product per capita, based on the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) methodology, not on official exchange rates. Values are given in USDs. These figures have been taken fr ...
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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per person employed
This is a list of countries by their gross domestic product at purchasing power parity per person currently employed.
See also
*Workforce
*Unemployment rate
*Structural unemployment
*List of countries by unemployment rate
* List of countries by ...
List of countries by GDP sector composition
This is a list of countries by gross domestic product (GDP) sector composition.
By economic sector
Nominal GDP sector composition
Nominal GDP sector composition, 2015 (in percentage and in millions of dollars):
Real GDP sector composition
G ...
List of countries by cement production
All figures are rounded to three significant.
Notes
See also
* List of companies and cities in Africa that manufacture cement
References
External links
Complete listIBEF – India Brand Equity FoundationAssociation of the Cement ...
List of countries by copper production
This is a list of countries by mined copper production.
Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. ''See: List of countries by copper smelter producti ...
List of countries by natural gas consumption
This is a list of countries by annual natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other highe ...
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List of countries by natural gas imports
This is a list of countries by natural gas imports mostly based on The World Factbook
''The World Factbook'', also known as the ''CIA World Factbook'', is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac- ...
List of countries by gold production
This is a list of continent by gold production in 2018.
Until 2006, South Africa was the world's largest gold producer. In 2007, increasing production from other countries and declining production from South Africa meant that China became the ...
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List of countries by steel production
This article summarizes the world steel production by country.
In 2020, total world crude steel production was 1877.5 million tonnes (Mt). The biggest steel producing country is currently China, which accounted for 57% of world steel production ...
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List of countries by oil exports
This is a list of oil-producing countries by oil exports based on The World Factbook and other Sources. Many countries also import oil, and some import more oil than they export.
Countries by rank
Oil export revenues
Academic contribut ...
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List of countries by net oil exports
This is a list of countries by net oil exports in barrels per day based on '' The World Factbook'' and other sources. "Net export" refers to the export minus the import. Note that the net export is approximate, since the import and export data ar ...
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List of countries by oil imports
This is a list of countries by oil imports based on The World Factbookbr>^and other sources. Many countries also export oil, and some export more oil than they import.
See also
* List of countries by oil exports
* List of countries by net ...
International wheat production statistics
The following international wheat production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from faostat database, older from International Grains Council figures from the report "Grain Market Report".
The quantities of whe ...
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Land use statistics by country
This article includes the table with land use statistics by country. Countries are ranked by their total cultivated land area, which is the sum of the total arable land area and total area of permanent crops.
Arable land is defined as being culti ...
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List of countries by apple production
This is a list of countries by apple production in 2016 and 2017, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production of apples in 2017 was 83,139,326 metric tonnes, dow ...
List of countries by coconut production
This is a list of countries by coconut production from the years 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for coconuts in 2020 was 61,520,382 metri ...
List of countries by irrigated land area
This is a list of countries by irrigated land area based on ''The World Factbook'' of the Central Intelligence Agency . The two countries with the largest irrigated land area are China and India, which make up 21.3% and 20.6% of worldwide irrigat ...
List of countries by plum production
This is a list of countries by plum and sloe production in 2016 and 2017, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. Countries - Select All; Regions - World + (Total); Elements - Production Quantity ...
List of countries by rice production
This is a list of countries by rice production in 2020 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world rice production for 2020 was 756,743,722 metric tonnes.
In 1961, the total world production was ...
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List of countries by soybean production
This is a list of countries by soybean production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. Countries – Select All; Regions – World + (Total); Elements – Production Quantity; ...
List of countries by maize exports
The following is a list of countries by maize exports. Data is for 2023, in millions of United States dollars
The United States dollar (Currency symbol, symbol: Dollar sign, $; ISO 4217, code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to d ...
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List of countries by wheat exports
The following is a list of countries by wheat exports
An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country ...
The physical, chemical, and biotic factors that act upon an
ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the syst ...
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
This is a list of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita per year.
The first section is devoted to Production-based emissions of greenhouse gases, emissions based on the production of goods and services within each country (also k ...
Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles
Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles have been established around the world to support policy-driven adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. These incentives mainly take the form of purchase rebates, tax exemptions and tax credits, ...
List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita
This is a list of countries by total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita by year. It provides data based on a production-based accounting of emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon, and su ...
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's sur ...
and its features:
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependent territories by land, water and total area, ranked by total area.
Entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign ...
List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent (data file)
The list of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent data file is a plain text format describing the list of countries by continent, suitable for automated processing.
Format
Data file
Note: This data was compiled by hand and ...
List of countries by northernmost point
This is a list of countries by northernmost point on land. Where borders are contested, the northernmost point under the control of a nation is listed.
Notes
Northernmost point
Geography-related lists
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List of island countries
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia and the Philippines (both countries consist ...
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List of countries by largest island
The following is a list of countries by largest island. It does not include divided islands; several of the world's largest islands, such as New Guinea, Borneo, Ireland and Hispaniola, are divided between two or three states. This list only inclu ...
Freedom of religion by country
The status of religious freedom around the world varies from country to country. States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, whether they establish a state religion ...
List of countries by military expenditures
This is a list of countries by military expenditure in a given year. Military expenditure figures are presented in United States dollars based on either constant or current exchange rates.
Military expenditure, total
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List of states with nuclear weapons
Eight sovereign states have publicly announced successful detonation of nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisi ...
List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership wit ...
List of countries without political parties
This is a list of countries and dependencies with a permanent population that have no legal political parties. Some have opposition groups that operate clandestinely.
Monarchies
* – Political parties are banned; candidates must be independen ...
List of current heads of state and government
This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, mainly in presidential systems, there is only one leader being both head of state and head of government. In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliament ...
List of fictional countries
This is a list of fictional countries
A fictional country is a country that is made up for fictional stories, and does not exist in real life, or one that people believe in without proof.
Sailors have always mistaken low clouds for land ...
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List of legislatures by country
This is a list of legislatures by country. A " legislature" is the generic name for the national parliaments and congresses that act as a plenary general assembly of representatives and that have the power to legislate. All entities included ...
List of parties to international copyright agreements
Below is a list of countries which have signed and ratified one or more multilateral international copyright treaties. This list covers only multilateral treaties (i.e., treaties by more than two countries). It does not include bilateral trea ...
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List of ruling political parties by country
This is a list of ruling political parties by country, in the form of a table with a link to an overview of political parties in each country and showing which party system is dominant in each country. A political party is a political organiza ...
List of IOC country codes
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses three-letter abbreviation country codes to refer to each group of athletes that participate in the Olympic Games. Each geocode usually identifies a National Olympic Committee (NOC), but there are s ...
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All-time Olympic Games medal table
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2022, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games whic ...
List of aspect ratios of national flags
The following table shows the aspect ratio (height to width ratio) of national flags used by countries and dependencies. Variant flags such as ensigns are listed in the "Alternative flags" column if they have different proportions from the nationa ...
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List of flags by color
This is a list of flags by color. Each section below contains any flag that has any amount of the color listed for that section.
Black (Sable)
* Black flag
* Flag of the Aboriginals
*Flag of Afghanistan
* Agender pride flag
*Flag of Albania
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List of flags by color combination
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems ...
Timeline of national flags
This article contains a list of the flags and/or modifications made on the flags of current sovereign nations.
Sovereign states
States with limited recognition
Dependent territories
See also
* Timeline of national independence
* Timeline ...
Transport
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List of countries by aircraft and spacecraft exports
The following is a list of countries by exports of aircraft, including helicopters, and spacecraft (Harmonized System code 8802). Data is for 2016, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity
The ...
List of countries by traffic-related death rate
This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities ''per capita per year'', ''per number of motor vehicles'', and ''per vehicle-km'' in some countries in the year the data was collected.
According to ...
left- and right-hand traffic
Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side of the road, respectively. They are fundamental to traffic flow, and are sometimes referred t ...
List of countries by number of heliports
This is a list based on CIA World Factbook, Flightglobal, Vertical Magazine anAinonlinealong with the civil and military helicopter fleet.
This entry gives the total number of heliports with hard-surface runways, helipads, or landing areas that ' ...
List of countries by waterways length
This is a list of countries by total waterways length (km) mostly based on The World Factbook
''The World Factbook'', also known as the ''CIA World Factbook'', is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with alma ...
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Lists of airports by country
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
Lists of ports
Lists of ports cover ports of various types, maritime facilities with one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.
Most are on the sea coast or an estuary, but some are many miles inland, with access to t ...
List of countries by meat consumption
This is a list of countries by meat consumption. Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.
Accuracy
The figures tabulated below do not represent per capita amounts of meat eaten by humans. Instead, they represent FAO figures for carcass mass ...
List of country calling codes
Country calling codes or country dial-in codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in the networks of the member countries or regions of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The codes are defined by the ...
List of national capitals
This is a list of national capitals, including capitals of territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed.
The capitals included on this list are those associated with ...
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List of countries whose capital is not their largest city
This is a list of sovereign states whose capital is not their largest city.
List
See also
* List of national capitals by population
This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. Capitals of dependent territo ...
List of time zones by country
This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas ter ...