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Demographics

Population, gender and poverty

List of countries and dependencies by population This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ...

List of countries by population (United Nations) This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2019 revision of ''World Population Prospects''. These figures refer to the de facto populati ...

List of countries and dependencies by population density This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, measured by the number of human inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile, and also sortable by total area and by population. The list includes sovereign states a ...

List of countries by past and future population density This is a list of countries showing past and future population density, ranging from 1950 to 2100, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. The population density equal ...

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List of countries by past and projected future population Introduction All the figures shown here have been sourced from the International Data Base (IDB) Division of the United States Census Bureau. Every individual value has been rounded to the nearest thousand, to assure data coherence, particularly wh ...

List of countries by population growth rate This article includes a table of countries and subnational areas by annual population growth Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 8 ...

List of countries by natural increase This article contains a list of countries by rate of natural increase. Methodology The rate of natural increase is defined as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. It is expressed as a rate per 1,000 population. Countries and ...

List of countries by net migration rate This is a list of countries by net migration rate, the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year, per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population). Method An excess of persons entering the country is ...

List of countries by sex ratio The human sex ratio is the comparative number of males with respect to each female in a population. This is a list of sex ratios by country or region. Methodology The table's data is from ''The World Factbook'' unless noted otherwise. It show ...

List of countries by abortion statistics The following lists include countries by total reported abortions, annual abortions and rates according to reports from governments and statisticians. The CDC or Guttmacher estimates do not account for medical abortions outside a clinic. Some ...

List of countries by homeless population It is estimated that 150 million people are homeless worldwide. Habitat for Humanity estimated in 2016 that 1.6 billion people around the world live in "inadequate shelter". Different countries often use different definitions of homelessness. It ...

List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty Countries by percentage of population living in poverty, as recorded by World Bank and other sources. Methodology "Poverty" is defined as an economic condition by the lack of both money and basic necessities needed to live successfully, suc ...

* Urbanization by country

Life and health

List of countries by age structure The following list of countries by age structure sorts the countries of the world according to the age distribution of their population. The population is divided into three groups: * Ages 0 to 14 years: children. * Ages 15 to 64 years: Workforce, ...

List of sovereign states and dependent territories by birth rate This article includes three versions of the list of countries by crude birth rate. Methodology Crude birth rate refers to the number of births over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is ex ...

* List of sovereign states and dependent territories by mortality rate *

List of countries by dependency ratio Dependency ratios are a measure of the age structure of a population. They indicate the proportion of individuals that are likely to be economically "dependent" on the support of others. Dependency ratios relate the numbers of children (ages 0–1 ...

List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate 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 ...

* List of countries by past fertility rate *

List of sovereign states and dependent territories by immigrant population These are lists of countries by foreign-born population (immigrants) and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants). According to the United Nations, in 2019, the United States, Germany, and Saudi Ara ...

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. ...

List of countries by intentional death rate The following list of countries by intentional death rate has been obtained by adding the suicide rate from the World Health Organization and homicide rate from the UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Study. Intentional deaths ...

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 infant and under-five mortality rates The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is the number of deaths of infants and children under five years old per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate for the world is 39 deaths according to the World Bank and the World Health Organization ...

List of countries by life expectancy Methodology The life expectancy is shown separately for males and for females, as well as a combined figure. Several non- sovereign entities and territories are also included in this list. The figures reflect the quality of healthcare in th ...

List of countries by past life expectancy This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, 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 The United Nations (UN) is an i ...

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, from ...

List of countries by median age This article is a list of countries by median age. Methodology The median age is the index that divides the entire population into two numerically equal age groups, one younger than that age and the other older than that age. It is the only in ...

List of countries by number of births The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of births. Figures are from the 2022 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2021. List of countries by n ...

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 body mass index The data for international body mass indexes was published by the World Health Organization. The list below refers to year 2014. Data * indicates "Health in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links. See also * List of countries by obesity rate References ...

Education Index An Education index is a component of the Human Development Index published every year by the United Nations Development Programme. Alongside the Economical indicators and Life Expectancy Index, it helps measure the educational attainment, GNI ...

List of countries by Human Development Index The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 191 nations in the annual Human Development Report. The index considers the health, education and income in a given country to provide a measu ...

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 i ...

* Life Expectancy Index *

List of countries by literacy rate This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global literacy rate for all people aged 15 and above is 86.3%. The global literacy rate for all males is 90.0%, and the rate for all females is 82.7%. The rate varies throughout the world, with ...

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Adult Literacy Index The Adult Literacy Index (ALI) is a statistical measure used to determine how many adults can read and write in a certain area or nation. Adult literacy is one of the factors in measuring the Human Development Index (HDI) of each nation, along w ...

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List of countries by obesity rate This is a list of countries ranked by the proportion of the population that is obese. The data, barring the United States, is derived from '' The World Factbook'' authored by the Central Intelligence Agency, which gives the adult prevalence rate f ...

* List of countries by percentage of population who are undernourished *

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, Fin ...

Religion

Ahmadiyya by country Ahmadiyya is an Islamic religious movement originating in 1889 in northern India around the teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have been divinely appointed as both the promised Mahdi and Messiah expected by Muslims to a ...

* Buddhism by country *

Christianity by country As of the year 2020, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest-religion by population respectively. According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.4 billion of the worldwide population of about 7 ...

Hinduism by country Hinduism has approximately 1.2 billion adherents worldwide (15-16% of the world's population). Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world behind Christianity (31.5%) and Islam (23.3%).Islam by country Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group. According to an estimation in 2022, Islam has 1.97 billion adherents, making up about 25% of the world population. A projection by the PEW suggests that Muslims numbe ...

* Jehovah's Witnesses by country *

Jewish population by country As of 2020, the world's "core" Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 15 million, 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population. This number rises to 18 million with the addition of the "connected" Jewish pop ...

Sikhism by country Most of the 25 million followers of Sikhism, the world's fifth-largest religion, live in the northern Indian state of Punjab, the only Sikh-majority administrative division on Earth, but Sikh communities exist on every inhabited continent. Sizeab ...

List of countries by irreligion Irreligion, which may include deism, agnosticism, ignosticism, anti-religion, atheism, skepticism, ietsism, spiritual but not religious, freethought, anti-theism, apatheism, non-belief, pandeism, secular humanism, non-religious theism, pantheis ...

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 imp ...

Language

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 lan ...

List of countries by spoken languages This list shows countries/disputed countries organized by the languages which are spoken there. Indo-European languages Albanian Armenian Baltic Celtic Germanic Dutch English German Greek Iranian Persian Other Iran ...

List of countries by English-speaking population The following is a list of English-speaking population by country, including information on both native speakers and second-language speakers. List * The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total Eng ...

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 ...

List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official language Arabic and its different Varieties of Arabic, 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 List of languages by total number of speakers, mo ...

List of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language The following is a list of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language. While those countries or territories that designate any variety of Chinese as an official language, as the term "Chinese" is considered a group of relate ...

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 French is an official language French is an official language in 29 independent nations. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or ''de facto'' language. Only official language Countries List of countries where French is the onl ...

List of countries and territories where German is an official language The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere). It includes countries that have German as (one of) their nationwide official language(s), as well as dependent terr ...

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 ...

List of countries and territories where Malay is an official language The following is a list of sovereign states that have Malay as an official language. Sovereign states References {{DEFAULTSORT:Countries and territories * ...

List of countries and territories where Persian is an official language The following is a list of sovereign states that have Persian as an official language. Official language Significant minority language Historical language Indian subcontinent The Persian language in the Indian subcontinent, before the B ...

* List of countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language * List of countries and territories where Romanian is an official language * List of countries and territories where Russian is an official language * List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language *

List of countries and territories where Tamil is an official language The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where Tamil is an official language or language of government. Tamil is the 20th most spoken language in the world. Tamil language speakers make approximately 1.06% of the world popu ...

Economy

The production, distribution and consumption of goods and services: *

List of countries by central bank interest rates This is a list of countries by annualized interest rate set by the central bank for charging commercial, depository banks for loans to meet temporary shortages of funds. List References {{Public policy country lists Central bank interes ...

* List of countries by corporate debt *

List of countries by current account balance This is a list of countries by current account balance. CIA World Factbook data Top 20 economies with the largest surplus This is a list of the 20 countries and territories with the largest surplus in current account balance (CAB), based o ...

* Ease of doing business index rankings *

List of countries by economic freedom This article includes a partial list of countries by economic freedom that shows the top 50 highest ranking countries and regions from two reports on economic freedom. * The ''Economic Freedom of the World Index'' is a report published by the Fra ...

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 List of countries by merchandise exports ''The table initially ranks each country or territory with their latest available merchandise or goods export values, and can be reranked (sort by ascending or descending) by any of the sources.'' No ...

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Exports Per Capita Lists of co ...

List of countries by external debt This is a list of countries by external debt, it is the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods or services, where the public debt is the money or credit owed by any level of gov ...

List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves Foreign-exchange reserves, also called Forex reserves, are, in a strict sense, only foreign-currency deposits held by nationals and monetary authority, monetary authorities. However, in Populism, popular usage and in the list below, it also incl ...

List of countries by freshwater withdrawal This is a list of countries by freshwater withdrawal 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 alman ...

List of countries by gross fixed investment as percentage of GDP This is the list of countries by gross fixed investment of infrastructure as percentage of GDP. Gross fixed investment is defined as total business spending on fixed assets, such as factories, machinery, equipment, dwellings, and inventories of ...

* List of countries by gross national savings * List of countries by household debt *

List of countries by household final consumption expenditure per capita This is a list of countries by household final consumption expenditure per capita, that is, the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households during ...

List of countries by imports This is a list of countries by total imports, based on the International Trade Centre except for the European Union. See also * List of countries by exports * List of countries by leading trade partners * List of U.S. states and territo ...

List of countries by income equality 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 ...

List of countries by male to female income ratio The following list sorts countries by their estimated male to female income ratio according to the Gender Development Index of the United Nations. The ratio is determined by comparing the gross national income per woman with the gross national incom ...

* List of countries by market capitalization of listed domestic companies *

List of countries by minimum wage This is a list of the official minimum wage rates of the 193 United Nations member states and former members of the United Nations, also including the following territories and states with limited recognition (Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, etc.) an ...

List of countries by number of billionaires This is a list of countries by their number of billionaire residents, based on annual assessments of the net worth in United States Dollars of wealthy individuals worldwide. ''Forbes'' ''Knight Frank's Wealth Report'' ''Hurun Global R ...

List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions This article contains a sortable list of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions and penetration rates, using data compiled by the International Telecommunication Union. List The list includes figures for both fixed wired broad ...

List of countries by number of Internet hosts 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 ...

List of countries by number of Internet users Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users, for 2020. Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones.The statistics for numbers of Internet ...

List of countries by Internet connection speeds This is a list of countries by Internet connection speed for average and median data transfer rates for Internet access by end-users. The difference between average and median speeds is the way individual measurements are aggregated. Average speed ...

List of countries by number of millionaires This is a list of countries by the number of millionaires by net worth (in United States dollars) based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse. According to estimates, in the middle of 20 ...

List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles This is a list of countries and territories by number of scientific publications in English. Scientific citable documents counts are from journals classified by Scopus Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scop ...

List of countries by Official Development Assistance received This is a list of countries based on the official development assistance (ODA) they have received for the given year. More comprehensive and current lists are available from the OECDTable DAC2a and the World BankNet official development assista ...

List of countries by public debt Below is a list of countries and territories by government debt , public debt (also called government debt or sovereign debt). ''Gross'' government debt is government financial liabilities that are debt instruments. A ''debt instrument'' is a f ...

List of countries by research and development spending This is a list of countries by research and development (R&D) spending in real terms and as per latest data available. Gross domestic spending on R&D is defined as the total expenditure (current and capital) on R&D carried out by all resident comp ...

* List of countries by share of population with access to financial services * List of countries by tariff rate *

List of countries by tax revenue to GDP ratio This article lists countries alphabetically, with total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for the listed countries. The tax percentage for each country listed in the source has been added to the chart. Tax as ...

List of countries by trade-to-GDP ratio The following list sorts countries and territories by their trade-to-GDP ratio according to data by the world bank. Taiwan is not included. List Countries sorted by exports, imports and total trade (external trade rate) of goods and services as ...

* List of countries by unemployment rate *

List of countries by wealth inequality This is a list of countries by distribution of wealth, including Gini coefficients. Wealth distribution can vary greatly from income distribution in a country (see List of countries by income equality). Higher Gini coefficients signify greater i ...

List of countries by wealth per adult This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult or household, from sources such as Credit Suisse's annual ''Global Wealth Databook'' See table 3-1 for all countries, on pages 119-122, for mean and median wealth, Gini coefficient, ...

List of largest consumer markets Below is a list of the largest consumer markets of the world, according to data from the World Bank. The countries are sorted by their Household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) which represents consumer spending in nominal terms. If measured ...

List of development aid country donors International development aid is given by many non-private donors. The first table is based on official development assistance (ODA) figures published by the OECD for members of its Development Assistance Committee The Organisation for Economic ...

Gross domestic product

The value of goods and services produced within a country: * List of countries by GDP (nominal) * List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita *

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 milli ...

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 ...

* List of countries by GDP (PPP) * List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita *

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 (inte ...

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 divide ...

List of countries by past and projected GDP (PPP) 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 union ...

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 fro ...

* List of countries by GDP (PPP) per person employed *

List of countries by GDP (PPP) in the nineteenth century These are lists of countries in the nineteenth century 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 ...

List of countries by real GDP growth rate This article includes a lists of countries and dependent territories sorted by their real gross domestic product growth rate; the rate of growth of the value of all final goods and services produced within a state in a given year. The statistics ...

List of countries by GDP (real) per capita growth rate This is a list of countries by GDP (real) per capita growth rate, i.e., the growth rate of GDP per capita or the rate of increase of income per person. These numbers are corrected for inflation but not for purchasing power parity Purchasing p ...

* List of countries by GDP growth 1980–2010 *

List of countries by industrial production growth rate This is a list of countries by industrial production growth rate 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) ...

List of countries by GNI (PPP) per capita This article includes a list of countries of the world sorted by their Gross National Income (GNI) per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP). For rankings regarding wealth, see list of countries by wealth per adult. List See also *List ...

List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita This is a list of countries by gross national income per capita in 2020 at nominal values, according to the Atlas method, an indicator of income developed by the World Bank. Methodology The GNI per capita is the dollar value of a country's f ...

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 GD ...

List of countries by largest historical GDP This list of countries by largest historical GDP shows how the membership and rankings of the world's ten largest economies has changed. While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy for some time, in the last fifty year ...

Industrial output

List of countries by aluminium exports The following is a list of countries by raw aluminium exports. Data is for 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top ten countries are listed. References Observatory of ...

* List of countries by cement production *

List of countries by coal production This is a list of countries by coal production, based mostly on the Statistical Review of World Energy, ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2020. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Coal production Energy-rela ...

List of countries by copper exports The following is a list of countries by refined copper exports. Data is for 2012 and 2018, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top ten countries are listed. References Obser ...

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 production ...

List of countries by copper smelter production This is a List of countries by copper smelter production for 2015, figures are for either primary or undifferentiated copper production. See also * List of countries by copper production References * Source indexmundi {{Industry country ...

List of countries by diamond exports The following is a list of countries and territories by diamond exports. Data is for 2012, 2015 and 2016 in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the countries exporting over one billion ...

List of countries by diamond production This is a list of countries by diamond production, based on data reported by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. 2016 This is a ''list of countries by diamond production'' in 2016, based on the British Geological Survey Mineral Stat ...

* List of countries by natural gas consumption * List of countries by natural gas imports *

List of countries by natural gas proven reserves This list is based on CIA The World Factbook (when no citation is given).List of countries by gas turbine exports The following is a list of countries by gas turbine exports. Data is for 2012 & 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top 20 countries (as of 2016) are listed. References ...

List of countries by gold exports The following is a list of countries by gold exports. Data is for 2018, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently twenty countries, as of 2018, are listed (their 2012 and 2016 figures are ...

* List of countries by gold production *

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 ...

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 contributi ...

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 are ...

List of countries by oil imports This is a list of countries by oil imports 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-style informat ...

List of countries by oil production This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2021, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis. Compared wit ...

List of countries by proven oil reserves 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 ...

List of countries by refined petroleum exports The following is a list of countries by exports of refined petroleum, including gasoline. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars The United States dollar (Currency symbol, symbol: Dollar sign, $; ISO 4217, code: USD; also ...

Agriculture

Fishing industry by country This page lists the world fisheries' production. The tonnage from capture and aquaculture is listed by country. Fish, crustaceans, molluscs, etc. Following is a sortable table of the world fisheries' harvest for 2018. The tonnage from capture and ...

* International wheat production statistics *

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 ...

* List of countries by apple production *

List of countries by apricot production This is a list of countries by apricot 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; Item ...

List of countries by artichoke production This is a list of countries by artichoke production in 2016, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. Countries - Select All; Regions - World + (Total); Elements - Production Quantity; Items - Arti ...

List of countries by avocado production This is a list of countries by avocado 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; I ...

List of countries by barley production This is a list of countries by barley production in 2016 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world barley production for 2016 was 141,277,993 metric tonnes The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) i ...

List of countries by cereal production This is a list of countries by cereal production in 2020 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world cereal production for 2020 was 2,996,142,289 metric tonnes. In 1961 production was 877 mln t ...

List of countries by cherry production This is a list of countries by cherry production from the years 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. Countries – Select All; Regions – World + (Total); Elements – Production Q ...

* List of countries by coconut production *

List of countries by coffee production The following list of countries by coffee production catalogues sovereign states that have conducive climate and infrastructure to foster the production of coffee beans. Many of these countries maintain substantial supply-chain relations with th ...

List of countries by cucumber production This is a list of countries by cucumber production from the years 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. Countries – Select All; Regions – World + (Total); Elements – Production ...

List of countries by eggplant production This is a list of countries by eggplant (aubergine) production from the years 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. Countries – Select All; Regions – World + (Total); Elements � ...

List of countries by food energy intake Food consumption is the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by Our World in Data. However, the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depends on the magnitude of wastage and los ...

List of countries by forest area This article is a list of countries by forest area. Planet, continents and regions All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization Countries and territories All areas are given in units of 1000 h ...

List of countries by garlic production This is a list of countries by garlic 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; I ...

* List of countries by irrigated land area *

List of countries by papaya production This is a list of countries by papaya production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database The Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) website dis ...

List of countries by pineapple production This is a list of countries by pineapple 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 plum production *

List of countries by potato production This is a list of countries by potato 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; I ...

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 ...

* List of countries by soybean production *

List of countries by tomato production This is a list of countries by tomato 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 coffee exports The following is a list of countries by coffee exports. Data is for 2012 & 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is a data visualization sit ...

* List of countries by maize exports * List of countries by wheat exports *

List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities Production (and consumption) of agricultural plant commodities has a diverse geographical distribution. Along with climate and corresponding types of vegetation, the economy of a nation also influences the level of agricultural production. Product ...

List of wine-producing countries This list of wine-producing regions catalogues significant growing regions where vineyards are planted. Wine grapes mostly grow between the 30th and the 50th degree of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Grapes will sometimes ...

Other exports

List of countries by computer exports The following is a list of countries by computer exports. Data is for 2014, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top fifteen countries are listed. The list does not include Tai ...

List of countries by engine exports The following is a list of countries by combustion engine exports. Data is from 2018, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently, the top ten countries are listed: Referencesatlas.medi ...

List of countries by live animal exports The following is a list of countries by live animal exports. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by International Trade Centre The International Trade Centre (ITC) () is a multilateral agency which has a jo ...

List of countries by pharmaceutical exports The following is a list of countries by pharmaceutical exports. Global sales from exported drugs and medicines by country total US$371.3 billion in 2018. Overall the value of drugs and medicine exports grew by an average 5.80% for all exporting c ...

List of countries by raw cotton exports The following is a list of countries by raw cotton exports. Data is for 2020, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The International Trade Centre. Currently the top fifteen countries are listed. References List of countries by telecommunications equipment exports The following is a list of countries by telecommunications equipment exports. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries are listed. Reference ...

List of countries by telephone exports The following is a list of countries by telephone exports. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries are listed. References The physical, chemical, and biotic factors that act upon an

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List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions This is a list of sovereign states and territories by carbon dioxide emissions due to certain forms of human activity, based on thEDGAR databasecreated by European Commission and Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency released in 201 ...

* List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita * List of countries by electric car use **

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, ...

** Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles#Countries *

List of countries by electrification rate This list of countries by electrification rate sorts countries by the share of their inhabitants with access to electricity. Access to electricity is considered one of the prerequisites for a modern life. In 2021, 91.4% of the world population had ...

List of countries by electricity consumption This list of countries by electric energy consumption is mostly based on the Energy Information Administration. Several non-sovereign entities are also included for information purposes, with their parent state noted. The per capita data for many ...

* List of countries by electricity imports *

List of countries by electricity exports This is a list of countries by electricity exports mostly based on The World Factbook.List of countries by electricity production This is a list of countries by annual electricity production. China is the world's largest electricity producing country, followed by the United States and India. __TOC__ Total production If possible, country links link to articles about the ele ...

List of countries by energy consumption per capita This is a list of countries by total energy consumption per capita. This is not the consumption of end-users but all energy needed as input to produce fuel and electricity for end-users. It is known as total primary energy supply (TPES), a ...

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 ...

* List of countries with the most hydro-electric capacity * List of countries by installed wind power capacity *

List of countries by renewable electricity production This article is a list of countries and territories by electricity generation from renewable sources every year. Note that most countries import and/or export electricity, so the percentage figure do not reflect the percentage of consumption tha ...

List of countries by total primary energy consumption and production This is a list of countries by total primary energy consumption and production. : 1 quadrillion BTU = 293 T W·h = 1.055 E J : 1 quadrillion BTU/yr = 1.055 EJ/yr = 293 TW·h/yr = 33.433 GW The numbers below are for the total energy consumptio ...

Geography

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 surfa ...

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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 countries by length of coastline This article contains a list of countries by length of coastline, in kilometers. A coastline of zero indicates that the country is landlocked. Overview The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurem ...

List of countries by total renewable water resources This is a list of countries by total renewable water resources mostly based on The World Factbook. This entry provides the long-term average water availability for a country in cubic kilometers from precipitation, groundwater recharge, and surfac ...

List of countries without rivers There are currently 20 countries and 22 territories that do not have a permanent natural river flowing within them, though some of them have streams or seasonal watercourses such as wadis. The Arabian Peninsula is the largest subregion in the wor ...

List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags, including the following entities: * By association within the UN system: ** The 193 United Nations member state ...

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 elevation extremes by country The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gr ...

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Countries by no ...

List of countries by southernmost point This is a list of countries by southernmost point on land. Where borders are contested, the southernmost point under the control of a nation is listed, excluding points within Antarctica and its outlying islands south of 60°S. Non-UN political en ...

List of countries by easternmost point This is a list of countries by easternmost point on land (dependent territories included). The order does not always reflect the proximity of the country's territory to the 180th meridian. In such a case there would be three both the very western ...

* List of countries by westernmost point * List of countries by Exclusive Economic Zone *

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 ...

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 ...

List of countries by number of islands This is a list of countries by number of islands, with figures given for the numbers of islands within their territories. In some cases, this figure is approximate and may vary slightly between sources depending on which islands are counted. T ...

List of countries that border only one other country This is a list of countries that have a land border with only one other country. Some on this list have a maritime border with additional countries. Some countries, which are not listed here, have no land border but do have a maritime border with ...

List of countries and territories by land borders This list of countries and territories by land borders gives the number of distinct land borders of each country or territory, as well the names of its neighboring countries and territories. The length of each land border is included, as is the ...

* List of landlocked countries

Human rights

Internet Censorship and Surveillance World Map

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 ...

* Freedom of speech by country **

Blasphemy law A blasphemy law is a law prohibiting blasphemy, which is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. According to Pew Research Center, abou ...

by country **

Censorship by country Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information. In add ...

Internet censorship and surveillance by country This list of Internet censorship and surveillance by country provides information on the types and levels of Internet censorship and surveillance that is occurring in countries around the world. Classifications Detailed country by country informa ...

Human rights by country This is a list of human rights articles by country. Africa Citizens of the African nations are provided supranational human rights protection by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. See also Network of African National Human Ri ...

Legality of Holocaust denial Sixteen European countries, along with Canada and Israel, have laws against Holocaust denial, the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of approximately six million Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Many countries also h ...

by country *

LGBT rights by country or territory Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, , 33 ...

International standards

List of countries by United Nations geoscheme This is a list of countries by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, 2 UN observer states (the Holy See and Palestine), 2 states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 50 non-sovereign d ...

List of ISO 3166 country codes The International Organization for Standardization (International Organization for Standardization, ISO) created and maintains the ISO 3166, ISO 3166 standard – ''Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions''. The I ...

Military

* List of countries by military expenditures *

List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel This is a list of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel. It includes any government-sponsored soldiers used to further the domestic and foreign policies of their respective government. The term "country" is used in its most ...

List of aircraft carriers This list of aircraft carriers contains aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft, that serves a ...

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 acquisit ...

List of submarine operators The following countries operate or have operated submarines for naval or other military purposes. Countries with currently operational submarines * Algeria * Australia * Azerbaijan * Bangladesh * Brazil * Canada * Chile * Colombia * Ecuador ...

Names

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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 withi ...

List of alternative country names Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign sta ...

List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English as well as any additional official language(s). * In bold: Internationally recognized sovereign states ** The 193 member states of the United Natio ...

List of countries named after people This is a list of countries and dependent territories named after people. Sovereign countries named after people Countries named after legendary figures Former countries named after people Dependent territories named after people See als ...

List of country-name etymologies This list covers English-language country names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Countries in ''italics'' are endonyms or no longer exist as sovereign political entities. A Afghan ...

List of country names in various languages Most countries of the world have different names in different languages. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names for all nations, countries and sovere ...

Politics

The process by which groups, often governments, make decisions: *

Capital punishment by country Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime. Historically, capital punishment has been used in almost every part of the world. Currently, the large majority ...

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Democracy Index The ''Democracy Index'' is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, a UK-based private company which publishes the weekly newspaper ''The Economist''. Akin to a Human Development I ...

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Freedom in the World ''Freedom in the World'' is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territori ...

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Global Corruption Barometer The Global Corruption Barometer published by Transparency International is the largest survey in the world tracking public opinion on corruption. It surveys 114,000 people in 107 countries on their view of corruption. Have you paid a bribe in 2013? ...

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Lists of active separatist movements Presented below is a list of lists of active separatist movements: *List of active separatist movements in Africa *List of active separatist movements in Asia *List of active separatist movements in Europe *List of active separatist movements i ...

List of administrative divisions by country The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories. It is ordered alphabetically by country name in English. Administrative divisions by country Mem ...

List of autonomous areas by country This list of autonomous areas arranged by country gives an overview of autonomous areas of the world. An autonomous area is defined as an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority. It is typical ...

List of countries by date of transition to republican system of government This is a list of countries by date of their last transition from a monarchy to a republican form of government. There were two periods in recent history when many such transitions took place: * during or within five years after World War I (1914 ...

List of countries by system of government This is a list of sovereign states by system of government. There is also a political mapping of the world that shows what form of government each country has, as well as a brief description of what each form of government entails. The list ...

List of countries' copyright lengths Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms "copy" and "publish" are quite broad. They include copying in electronic form, the making of translated versions, the creation of a television program based on the work, and ...

* List of countries without political parties * List of countries by number of diplomatic missions * List of current heads of state and government *

List of electoral systems by country This is a list of electoral systems by country in alphabetical order. An electoral system is used to elect national legislatures and heads of state. Maps Electoral systems by country Key Type of system type of representation: single win ...

List of enclaves and exclaves In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land belonging to one country (or region etc.) that is totally surrounded by another country (or region). An exclave is a piece of land that is politically attached to a larger piece but not physic ...

List of fascist movements by country This is a list of political parties, organizations, and movements that have been claimed to follow some form of fascist ideology. Since definitions of fascism vary, entries in this list may be controversial. For a discussion of the various debat ...

List of former sovereign states A historical sovereign state is a Sovereign state, state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, country, countries, nations, or empires that have c ...

List of fictional countries This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere as we know it – as opposed to underg ...

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 i ...

List of micronations Micronations, sometimes also referred to as ''model countries'' and ''new country projects'', are small, self-proclaimed entities that claim to be independent sovereign states but which are not acknowledged as such by any recognised sovereign st ...

List of national constitutions The following is a list of national constitutions by country, semi-recognized countries, and by codification (law), codification. Codified constitutions (most recent, in use today) A codified constitution is a constitution that is contained in a ...

List of next general elections This is a list of the next general elections around the world in democratic polities. The general elections listed are for the government of each jurisdiction. These elections determine the Prime Minister and makeup of the legislature in a parlia ...

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 treat ...

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 organizat ...

(party systems and ruling parties) * List of sovereign states by date of formation * Lists of political entities by century *

List of territorial disputes Territorial disputes have occurred throughout history, over lands around the world. Bold indicates one claimant's full control; ''italics'' indicates one or more claimants' partial control. Ongoing disputes between UN member/observer states ...

Sports

List of FIFA country codes FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph) to each of its member and non-member countries. These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC ...

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 ...

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 ...

National symbols

Gallery of sovereign state flags This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the national or state flags of sovereign states that appear on the list of sovereign states. For other flags, please see flags of active autonomist and secessionist movements, flags of extinct states a ...

List of sovereign states by date of current flag adoption This is a list of sovereign states by the date in which they adopted their current national flag. For most of these states, the date of flag adoption is clear, but for others the exact date of flag adoption is unknown or disputed because of desi ...

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 ...

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 ...

** List of flags by color combination *

Armorial of sovereign states This armorial of sovereign states shows the coat of arms, national emblem, or seal for every sovereign state. Although some countries do not have an official national emblem, unofficial emblems which are ''de facto'' used as national emblems are ...

* Timeline of national flags

Transport

* List of countries by aircraft and spacecraft exports *

List of countries by aircraft component exports The following is a list of countries by exports of aircraft components. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is a data visualiz ...

List of countries by automotive component exports The following is a list of countries by automotive component exports. Data is for 2016, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is a data visualiza ...

List of countries by car exports The following is a list of countries by car exports. Data is for 2019, in billions of United States dollars The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denomina ...

* List of countries by ship exports *

List of countries by truck exports The following is a list of countries by truck exports. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top 21 countries are listed. References List of countries by road network size This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. Also included is additional data on the length of each country's or region's controlled-access highway network, also known as motorway, expressway, freewa ...

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 ...

List of countries by vehicles per capita This article is a list of countries by the number of road motor vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants. This includes cars, vans, buses, freight and other trucks, but excludes two-wheelers. China has the largest fleet of motor vehicles in the world in 2 ...

List of countries by motor vehicle production List of countries by motor vehicle production This is a list of countries by motor vehicle production based on Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA) and other data from 2016 and earlier.Figures include passenger cars ...

* List of countries by left- and right-hand traffic *

List of international vehicle registration codes The country in which a motor vehicle's vehicle registration plate was issued may be indicated by an international licence plate country code, formerly known as an International Registration Letter or International Circulation Mark. It is ref ...

List of country codes on British diplomatic vehicle registration plates This is a list of country codes on UK issued diplomatic vehicle registration plates, i.e. the first group of three numbers. Since 1979, motor vehicles operated by foreign embassies, high commissions, consulates and international organisations ha ...

List of countries by rail transport network size This list of countries by rail transport network size based on International Union of Railways data ranks countries by length of rail lines worked at end of year updated with other reliable sources. These figures also include urban/suburban mass ...

List of countries by rail usage This is a list of countries by rail usage. Usage of rail transport may be measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm) or passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled for freight and passenger transport respectively. This is the number of tonnes or passengers ...

* List of countries by number of heliports *

List of merchant navy capacity by country List of merchant navy capacity by flag is a list of the world foremost fleets of registered trading vessels ranked in both gross tonnage (GT) and deadweight tonnage (DWT) sorted by flag state. The table is based on the annual sea, maritime shippin ...

List of countries by total length of pipelines This is a sortable list of countries and their total length of pipelines, mostly based on the CIA World Factbook ''The World Factbook'', also known as the ''CIA World Factbook'', is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence A ...

* List of countries by waterways length * Lists of airports by country *

List of countries without an airport This is a list of countries (sovereign states) and territories without an airport. Sovereign states Of the world's independent states, only five of the six European microstates have no airport within their boundaries, though all have at least one ...

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 th ...

by country *

List of shipbuilders and shipyards This is a list of notable shipbuilders and shipyards: Africa Egypt * Suez shipyard * Alexandria Shipyard Asia Azerbaijan * Baku Shipyard Bangladesh * FMC Dockyard Limited * Ananda Shipyard and Shipways * Bashundhara Steel & Engineering * Kh ...

Food and drink

List of countries by beer consumption per capita __NOTOC__ This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of beer. Information not provided for some countries is not given in the available sources. ''Note: The row number column is fixed. So you can choose what column to ran ...

* List of countries by wine production *

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 countries by alcohol consumption per capita This is a list of countries by alcohol consumption measured in equivalent litres of pure alcohol (ethanol) consumed per capita per year. World Health Organization (WHO) data The World Health Organization periodically publishes ''The Global Statu ...

List of countries by tea consumption per capita __FORCETOC__ This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of tea, . Gallery of tea varieties from highest consuming countries See also * List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita *List of countries by milk ...

List of countries by milk consumption per capita This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of milk, excluding butter. See also * List of countries by tea consumption per capita * List of dairy products This is a list of dairy products. A dairy product is food produ ...

List of countries with Burger King franchises This is a list of countries with Burger King franchises. Burger King (BK) itself began as a franchise of its progenitor company, Insta-Burger King. It grew in the United States using a combination of corporate locations and franchising, before ...

List of countries with McDonald's restaurants This is a list of countries with McDonald's restaurants. McDonald's is the largest chain of fast food restaurants in the world, with more than 36,000 outlets worldwide. The majority of McDonald's outlets outside of the United States are franchise ...

List of countries with KFC franchises This is a list of countries with KFC franchises. As of 2022, there are at least 25,000 KFC outlets in 147 countries and territories in the world. The first KFC franchise opened in the United States in 1952. The first overseas franchise was esta ...

List of countries with Jollibee outlets This is a list of countries with Jollibee franchises. This list only includes the Jollibee fast food chain brand of Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) and excludes other brands owned by the company. As of November 2019, Jollibee operates at over ...

Miscellaneous

List of countries by incarceration rate This is a list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas by incarceration rate.List of countries by mains electricity voltages, frequencies, and plug type * List of country calling codes *

List of Internet top-level domains This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) ...

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 ...

** List of countries whose capital is not their largest city **

List of countries with multiple capitals Some countries have multiple capitals. In some cases, one city is the capital for some purposes, and one or more others are capital for other purposes, without any being considered an official capital in preference to the others. There are also ...

Lists of time zones International: * List of time zones by country – sorted by number of current time zones in the world * List of UTC time offsets – current UTC offsets * List of time zone abbreviations – abbreviations * List of tz database time zones – zon ...

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 terr ...

Daylight saving time by country Daylight is the combination of all direct and indirect sunlight during the daytime. This includes direct sunlight, diffuse sky radiation, and (often) both of these reflected by Earth and terrestrial objects, like landforms and buildings. Sunligh ...

World Heritage Sites by country As of August 2022, there are a total of 1,154 World Heritage Sites located in 167 States Parties (countries that have adhered to the World Heritage Convention, including the non-member state of the Holy See), of which 897 are cultural, 218 are nat ...

* Tobacco consumption by country *

List of countries by prevalence of cocaine use This is a list of states (and some territories) by the annual prevalence of cocaine use as percentage of the population aged 15–64 (unless otherwise indicated). published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The indicator is t ...

References

External links

List of Global Development Indexes and Rankings
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