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Demographics

Population

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 ...

* List of countries by population (United Nations) * List of countries by past and projected future population *

List of countries and dependencies by population density This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by habitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 31 ...

* List of countries by past and future population density *

List of countries by population growth rate This article includes a table of annual population growth rate for countries and subnational areas. Methodology The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions fr ...

* List of countries by net reproduction rate *

List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty This is a list of Country, countries and Dependent territory, territories by percentage of population living in poverty, as recorded by the World Bank and International Labour Organization. Poverty is about not having enough money to meet ...

List of countries by rate of natural increase This article contains a list of countries by rate of natural increase. Methodology The rate of natural increase (RNI) is defined as the birth rate minus the death rate. It is typically expressed either as a number per 1,000 individuals in ...

* List of sovereign states by homeless population * List of sovereign states by immigrant and emigrant population * List of sovereign states by refugee population * List of sovereign states by net migration rate * List of sovereign states by sex ratio * List of population milestones by country *

Population and housing censuses by country This is a list of national population and housing censuses. Census advisory The United Nations recommends a census enumeration at least once every ten years, and once every five years for even better data, rather than simply relying on estim ...

* Urbanization by sovereign state

Life

* List of countries by age at first marriage *

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: working p ...

* List of countries by abortion rate * List of countries by birth rate * List of countries by dependency ratio * List of countries by ethnic and cultural diversity level * List of countries by ethnic groups * List of countries by total fertility rate * List of countries by past fertility rate * List of countries by intentional death rate *

List of countries by life expectancy This list of countries and territories by life expectancy provides a comprehensive list of countries alongside their respective life expectancy figures. The data is differentiated by sex, presenting life expectancies for males, females, and a ...

* List of countries by past life expectancy * List of countries by marriage rate * List of countries by mean age at childbearing *

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 ind ...

* List of countries by mortality rate * List of countries by number of births * List of countries by number of deaths * List of countries by number of households * List of countries by time devoted to leisure and personal care *

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. Since 2024, the r ...

Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, Education Index, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income i ...

List of countries by Human Development Index The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report. The index considers the health, education, income and living conditions in a given country to pro ...

** List of countries by Human Development Index by region ** List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index ** List of countries by planetary pressures–adjusted Human Development Index

Health

* List of countries by access to clean water * List of countries by access to improved sanitation facilities * List of countries by antidepressant consumption * List of countries by cancer rate * List of countries by health insurance coverage *

List of countries by hospital beds The number of beds per people is an important indicator of the health care system of a country. The basic measure focus on all hospital beds, which are variously split and occupied. The classic hospital beds are also called curative beds. For seve ...

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 maternal mortality ratio * List of countries by number of physicians * List of countries by obesity rate * List of countries by quality of healthcare * List of countries by risk of death from non-communicable disease *

List of countries by suicide rate The following are lists of countries by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due to social stigma, Culture, cultural or Law, legal conc ...

List of countries by total health expenditure per capita This article includes 2 lists of list of sovereign states, countries of the world and their total expenditure on health per capita. Total expenditure includes both public and private expenditures. See also: Health spending as percent of gross dom ...

* List of countries by total health expenditure by type of financing * List of sovereign states by body mass index * Caregiving by country * Epidemiology of malnutrition * Health care systems by country * HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate * Universal health care by country

Religion

* Ahmadiyya by country * Baháʼí Faith by country * Buddhism by country * Christianity by country * Creationism by country *

Hinduism by country Hinduism has approximately 1.2 billion adherents worldwide (15% of the world's population). Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world behind Christianity (32.8%) and Islam (23.3%).Importance of religion by country *

Islam by country Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest and fastest growing major religious grouping, maintaining suggested 2017 projections in 2022. As of 2020, Pew Research Center (PEW) projections suggest there are a total of 1.9 billion a ...

* Jehovah's Witnesses by country * Judaism by country * List of countries by irreligion * List of countries by Zoroastrian population * List of Mormon missionary entries by country * List of popes by country * List of religious populations * Religions by country * Religious information by country * Scientology status by country *

Sikhism by country Most of the 25–30 million followers of Sikhism, the Major religious groups, world's fifth-largest religion live in the northern Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab, the only Sikh-majority administrative division on Earth, but Sikhs, Sikh com ...

Language

* List of broadcasting languages by country *

List of countries by English-speaking population The following is a list of English language, English-speaking population List of sovereign states, by country, including information on both First language, native speakers and second language, second-language speakers. List * The Europea ...

* List of countries by number of languages * List of official languages by country and territory * List of multilingual countries and regions *

Lists of countries and territories by official language This is a list of lists of countries and territories by official language. * List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages * List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official language * List of co ...

* Lists of English words by country or language of origin

Economy

The production, distribution and consumption of goods and services: * List of countries by business R&D intensity * List of countries by economic complexity * List of countries by exchange rate regime * List of countries by financial assets per capita * List of countries by gross fixed capital formation * List of countries by guaranteed minimum income *

List of countries by home ownership rate This is a list of countries, territories and regions by home ownership rate, which is the ratio of owner-occupied units to total residential units in a specified area, based on available data. See also * Home-ownership in the United States * ...

* List of countries by household final consumption expenditure per capita *

List of countries by income equality This is a list of Country, countries and Dependent territory, territories by income inequality metrics, as calculated by the World Bank, UNU-WIDER, OCDE, and World Inequality Database, based on different indicators, like the Gini coefficient an ...

* List of countries by inequality-adjusted income * List of countries by number of billionaires * List of countries by number of millionaires * List of countries by remittances received * List of countries by social welfare spending *

List of countries by stock market capitalization The following list sorts countries by the total market capitalization of all domestic companies listed in the country, according to data from the World Bank. Market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the market value of a publicly tr ...

List of countries by share of income of the richest one percent This is a list of the world's countries measuring the income of the richest one percent each (before taxes and transfers). The source of the data is the United Nations Development Programme, and refers to the latest available date. Countries unlist ...

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

List of countries by wealth per adult This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult, from UBS's ''Global Wealth Databook.'' See table 3-1 for all countries, on pages 123-126, for mean and median wealth, Gini coefficient, distribution of adults (%) by wealth range, ...

* List of countries without a stock exchange * List of sovereign states by economic freedom * List of sovereign states by male to female income ratio * List of sovereign states by market capitalization of listed domestic companies * List of sovereign states by Official Development Assistance received * List of sovereign states by research and development spending * List of sovereign states by wealth inequality * List of financial regulatory authorities by country * List of largest consumer markets * Affordable housing by country * Human Poverty Index * Wealth distribution by country

Finance

The study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets: * List of countries by credit rating * List of countries by commercial bank prime lending rate * List of countries by corporate debt *

List of countries by exports This list of countries and territories by their exports, including both merchandise exports and service exports, is based on data from the World Bank. Merchandise exports are goods that are produced in one country and sold to another country. Serv ...

* List of countries by exports per capita * List of countries by external debt * List of countries by FDI abroad *

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

* List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves (excluding gold) * List of countries by future gross government debt *

List of countries by government budget This is the list of countries by government budget. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territory, dependent territories based upon the International Organization for Standardization, ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The f ...

* List of countries by government budget (PPP) * List of countries by government budget per capita * List of countries by government debt * List of countries by gross national savings * List of countries by household debt *

List of countries by imports This is a list of countries by imports, based on the International Trade Centre, except for the European Union. By merchandise imports By service imports See also * List of countries by exports This list of countries and territo ...

* List of countries by inflation rate * List of countries by inheritance tax rates * List of countries by merchandise exports * List of countries by net exports *

List of countries by net international investment position per capita List of creditor nations This is a list of the top creditor nations of the world sorted by their net international investment positions (NIIPs) per capita. A ''creditor nation'' is a sovereign state that has a positive NIIP. The table uses the ...

* List of countries by leading trade partners *

List of countries by received FDI This is the list of countries by flows of received foreign direct investment (FDI). The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territory, dependent territories based upon the International Organization for Standardization ...

* List of countries by received FDI in the past * List of countries by service exports *

List of countries by sovereign wealth funds A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a Collective investment scheme, fund owned by a Sovereign state, state (or a political subdivision of a federal state) composed of finance, financial assets such as stocks, bond (finance), bonds, property or other f ...

* List of countries by tariff rate *

List of countries by tax rates A comparison of tax rates by countries is difficult and somewhat subjective, as tax laws in most countries are extremely complex and the Tax incidence, tax burden falls differently on different groups in each country and sub-national unit. The l ...

List of countries by total wealth National net wealth, also known as national net worth, is the total sum of the value of a country's assets minus its liabilities. It refers to the total value of net wealth possessed by the residents of a state at a set point in time. Despite ...

* List of sovereign states by central bank interest rates * List of sovereign states by current account balance * List of sovereign states by financial assets * List of development aid sovereign state donors * List of top exporting countries by product category * Ease of doing business index rankings * Financial Development Index * History of central bank digital currencies by country

Gross domestic product

The value of goods and services produced within a country: *

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 ...

List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita This is a list of countries by nominal GDP per capita. GDP per capita is the total value of a country's finished goods and services (gross domestic product) divided by its total population (per capita). Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is ...

* List of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) *

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 inf ...

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 statistical ...

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 year ...

* List of countries by past and projected GDP (PPP) * List of countries by past and projected GDP (PPP) per capita * List of countries by GDP (PPP) per person employed *

List of countries by real GDP growth rate This article includes lists of countries and Dependent territory, dependent territories sorted by their real gross domestic product economic growth, growth rate; the rate of growth of the total value of all final goods and services produced with ...

List of countries by GDP (real) per capita growth rate This is a list of countries by real GDP per capita growth rate. These numbers take into account inflation and population growth rate but not purchasing power parity.List of countries by GDP growth 1980–2010 *

List of countries by GDP sector composition This is the list of countries by purely nominal gross domestic product (GDP) sector composition. By economic sector Nominal GDP sector composition (November 2024) Nominal GDP sector composition (billions of USD$) by percentage of sector: Rea ...

* List of countries by charitable donation as percentage of GDP * List of countries by government spending as percentage of GDP * List of countries by spending on education as percentage of GDP * List of countries by carbon intensity of GDP *

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 as measured by their gross domestic product has changed. While the United States has consistently had the world's largest ec ...

* List of countries by tax revenue to GDP ratio * List of countries by trade-to-GDP ratio *

List of countries by GNI (PPP) per capita This article includes a list of countries of the world and their gross national income (GNI) (formerly GNP) per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP) in 2023, as reported by the World Bank. Lists By country or dependency By w ...

List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita This is a list of countries by gross national income per capita in 2023 at nominal values, according to the Atlas method, an indicator of income developed by the World Bank. The GNI per capita is the dollar value of a country's final income in ...

* Health spending as percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by country

Industrial output

* List of countries by aluminium exports * List of countries by aluminium production * List of countries by aluminium oxide production *

List of countries by bauxite production This is a list of countries by bauxite Bauxite () is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Bauxite consists mostly of the aluminium minerals gibbsite (), boehmi ...

List of countries by silver production This is a list of countries by silver production in 2023 based on data by the United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior ...

* List of countries by steel production * List of countries by salt production * List of countries by silicon production * List of countries by thorium resources * List of countries by tin production * List of countries by titanium production *

List of countries by uranium production This contains lists of countries by uranium production. The first two lists are compiled by the World Nuclear Association, and measures uranium production by tonnes mined. The last list is compiled by TradeTech, a consulting company which specializ ...

* List of countries by uranium reserves *

List of countries by zinc production This is a list of countries by zinc production in 2024 based on United States Geological Survey numbers. References {{Industry country lists Zinc Zinc is a chemical element; it has symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a slightly brit ...

Lists of countries by mineral production The following list creates a summary of the two major producers of different minerals (and coal, which is generally not considered a mineral In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a ...

* Deindustrialisation by country * Uranium mining by country

Product exports

Workforce

* List of countries by average annual labor hours *

List of countries by average wage The average wage is a measure of total income after taxes divided by total number of employees employed. In this article, the average wage is adjusted for living expenses "purchasing power parity" (PPP). This is not to be confused with the averag ...

* List of countries by child labour rate * List of countries by employment in agriculture *

List of countries by labour force This is a list of countries by size of the labour force mostly based on The World Factbook ''The World Factbook'', also known as the ''CIA World Factbook'', is a Reference work, reference resource produced by the United States' Central In ...

* List of countries by labour productivity * List of countries by long-term unemployment rate *

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.) and ...

List of countries by public sector size This is a list of countries by public sector size, calculated as the number of public sector employees as a percentage of the total workforce. Information is based mainly on data from the OECD and the ILO. If a source has figures for more than o ...

* List of countries by rate of fatal workplace accidents * List of countries by sector composition of the labor force * List of countries by share of informal employment in total employment *

List of countries by unemployment rate This is a list of countries by unemployment rate. Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some co ...

* List of sovereign states by employment rate * List of minimum annual leave by country

Energy

Fossil fuels

* List of countries by coal production * List of countries by coal reserves * List of countries by natural gas consumption *

List of countries by natural gas exports This is a list of countries by natural gas exports based on statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The gas amounts in this list are the ''gross'' amount of natural gas exported. (So, for example, Greece is listed as ex ...

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

List of countries by natural gas proven reserves This list is based on the ''CIA World Factbook'' (when no citation is given).List of countries by net oil exports * List of countries by oil consumption *

List of countries by oil exports This is a list of oil-producing countries by Petroleum, oil exports based on data for 2022 by CEIC.' Oil in this list refers to base crude oil only, and not refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and airplane fuel. In 2022, Petrole ...

List of countries by oil imports This is a list of countries by oil imports based on ''The World Factbook'' and other sources. Many countries also export oil, and some export more oil than they import. See also * List of countries by oil exports This is a list of oil-pr ...

* List of countries by oil production *

List of countries by proven oil reserves Oil reserves, Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated, with a high degree of confidence, to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward from known ...

* List of countries by recoverable shale gas * List of countries by refined petroleum exports * Fracking by country * Natural gas by country * Shale gas by country * Oil by country

Other

* List of countries by electricity consumption * List of countries by electricity production * List of countries by energy consumption per capita * List of countries by energy intensity *

List of countries by renewable electricity production A list is a Set (mathematics), set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of t ...

* List of countries by total primary energy consumption and production * List of renewable energy topics by country and territory * Electricity by country * Electricity distribution companies by country * Ethanol fuel by country * Mains electricity by country * Nuclear energy policy by country *

Nuclear power by country Nuclear power plants operate in 31 countries and generate about a tenth of the world's electricity. Most are in Europe, North America and East Asia. The Nuclear power in the United States, United States is the largest producer of nuclear pow ...

* Wind power by country * Solar power by country * Smart grids by country

Agriculture

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 regions Wines are produced in significant growing regions where vineyards are planted. Wine grapes berries mostly grow between the 30th and the 50th degrees of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, typically in regions of Mediterranean ...

Buildings and structures

* List of archaeoastronomical sites by country * List of archaeological sites by country * List of aquaria by country * List of canals by country * List of castles by country * List of countries with the most skyscrapers *

List of libraries by country This is a list of lists of libraries by location and type. Libraries by location By country * List of libraries in Afghanistan, Afghanistan * List of libraries in Albania, Albania * List of libraries in Angola, Angola * Lists of libraries ...

* List of museums by country * List of tallest buildings by country * List of tallest structures by country * List of tunnels by country *

List of zoos by country A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...

Country codes

List of country calling codes Telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching subscribers in foreign countries or areas by international direct dialing (IDD). Country codes are defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in ITU-T standard ...

* List of country codes on British diplomatic vehicle registration plates * List of CGF country codes *

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, OF ...

* List of FIPS country codes * List of GS1 country codes *

List of IOC country codes This is a list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes. Current NOCs There are 206 current NOCs (National Olympic Committees) within the Olympic Movement. The following tables show the currently used code for each NOC and any d ...

* List of ISO 3166 country codes * List of ITU letter codes *

List of NATO country codes __NOTOC__ This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all ...

* List of UIC country code * List of UNDP country codes * Maritime identification digits *

Mobile country code The ITU-T Recommendation E.212 defines mobile country codes (MCC) as well as mobile network codes (MNC). The mobile country code consists of three decimal digits and the mobile network code consists of two or three decimal digits (for example: M ...

* International vehicle registration code

Crime

The unlawful acts punishable by a state or other authority: * List of countries by firearm-related death rate *

List of countries by incarceration rate This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas which lays out the incarceration rate of each. Accessed Oct 22, 2024 to fully update the table. Use dropdown menu to choose lists of countries by regi ...

List of countries by intentional homicide rate The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in t ...

* List of countries by guns and homicide * List of countries and dependencies by number of police officers * List of countries that regulate the immigration of felons * List of countries with annual rates and counts for killings by law enforcement officers *

List of serial killers by country This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the killings occurred. Convicted serial killers by country Afghanistan * Abul Djabar: killed 65 men and boys by strangling them with turbans while raping them; suspected o ...

* Allegations of apartheid by country * Capital punishment by country * Number of terrorist incidents by country * Police brutality by country * Police firearm use by country * Prisons by country

Drugs and alcohol

* List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita * List of countries by annual cannabis use * List of countries by beer consumption per capita * List of countries by prevalence of cocaine use * List of countries by prevalence of opiates use * List of countries with alcohol prohibition * Adult lifetime cannabis use by country * Drug and precursor laws by country or territory * Legal status of ayahuasca by country * Legal status of ibogaine by country * Legal status of psychoactive cactus by country *

Moonshine by country By contaminated moonshine Moonshine from various countries that have been known to be contaminated: * Africa ** Changaa (Kenya) ** Kumi Kumi (Kenya) ** Lotoko (Democratic Republic of the Congo) ** Waragi (Uganda) * America ** Guaro (drink), ...

Education

List of Nobel laureates by country This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for ''Economics'' refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of w ...

* List of normal schools by country *

Lists of schools by country This is a list of lists of schools, sorted by country. The list does not include educational institutions providing higher education, meaning tertiary education, tertiary, quaternary education, quaternary, or post-secondary education, for which see ...

* List of primary education systems by country * List of secondary education systems by country * Lists of universities and colleges by country * Grading systems by country * School uniforms by country *

Education Index The Education Index is a component of the Human Development Index (HDI) published every year by the United Nations Development Programme. Alongside the economical indicators (GDP) and Life Expectancy Index, it helps measure the educational attain ...

Entertainment

The activities that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight: * List of countries by number of Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film * List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest * List of countries in the Eurovision Young Dancers * List of countries in the Eurovision Young Musicians * List of countries in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest * List of banned video games by country * List of best-selling albums by country * List of comics by country * List of Grammy Award winners and nominees by country * Lists of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees by country * List of the first films by country * List of video games markets by country * Literature by country * Lotteries by country

Environment

The physical, chemical, and biotic factors that act upon an

ecosystem An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system formed by Organism, organisms in interaction with their Biophysical environment, environment. The Biotic material, biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and en ...

: * List of countries by air pollution *

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. The following ...

List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita This is a list of sovereign states and territories by per capita carbon dioxide emissions due to certain forms of human activity, based on thEDGAR databasecreated by European Commission. The following table lists the annual per capita emissi ...

* List of countries by ecological footprint * List of countries by electrification rate *

List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions This is a list of sovereign states and territories by greenhouse gas emissions due to certain forms of human activity, based on thEDGAR databasecreated by European Commission. The following table lists the 1970, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020, 2021 ...

* List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita *

List of countries by natural disaster risk Rankings Legend Rankings by country See also * Effects of climate change on humans * Gamma-ray burst * Emergency management ** Civil defense, Civil defence ** Disaster risk reduction * Environmental disaster ** List of environmental ...

* Lists of ecoregions by country * List of environmental laws by country * List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country * List of nuclear power accidents by country * List of water supply and sanitation by country * Electric car use by country ** Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles ** Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles

Food and drink

* List of countries by food energy intake * List of countries by food self-sufficiency rate * List of countries by meat consumption * List of countries by milk consumption per capita * List of countries by seafood consumption * List of countries by tea consumption per capita * List of countries with Burger King franchises * List of countries with McDonald's restaurants *

List of countries with KFC franchises This is a list of countries with KFC franchises. In 2024, there are at least 29,000 KFC outlets in 147 countries and territories in the world where 10,000 of those stores are in China alone. The first KFC franchise opened in the United States ...

* List of countries with Jollibee outlets * List of pizza varieties by country * List of snack foods by country * List of soft drinks by country * Breakfast by country * Food deserts by country * Krispy Kreme operations by country * Operations of KFC by country * Right to food by country * Vegetarianism by country

Geography

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...

and its features: *

List of countries and dependencies by area This is a list of the world's countries and their Dependent territory, dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign s ...

* List of countries by average annual precipitation * List of countries by average elevation * List of countries by average yearly temperature * List of countries by forest area * List of countries by forest area (percentage) *

List of countries by length of coastline This article contains a list of countries by length of coastline, in Kilometre, kilometers. Though the coastline paradox stipulates that coastlines do not have a well-defined length, there are various methods in use to measure coastlines through r ...

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 ...

List of island countries An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. Many island country, island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines—these countries consist of thousand ...

* List of landlocked countries *

List of transcontinental countries This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent p ...

List of former transcontinental countries This is a list of transcontinental former countries, i.e. countries which covered land on two or more continents, including islands associated with a continent other than the one where the country was based. The examples below are listed in chrono ...

* List of time zones by country * Daylight saving time by country *

Exclusive economic zone An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine natural resource, reso ...

Human rights

* Blasphemy law * Censorship by country *

Freedom of religion by country The status of religious freedom around the world varies from country to country. State (polity), States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee Equality under law, equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, wheth ...

* Freedom of speech by country * Internet censorship and surveillance by country * Legality of Holocaust denial * LGBT rights by country or territory *

Net neutrality by country Net neutrality is the principle that governments should mandate Internet service providers to treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached ...

Laws

The set of rules that are created and enforced to regulate behaviour: * Animal rights by country or territory * Ages of consent by country * Beard and haircut laws by country * Bicycle helmet laws by country * Clothing laws by country * Divorce law by country * Drunk driving law by country * Email spam legislation by country * Female genital mutilation laws by country *

Freedom of information laws by country Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatis ...

* Hate speech laws by country * Law enforcement by country * Laws protecting monuments by country * Legal industry by country * Legal status of human sterilization by country *

Legality of cryptocurrency by country or territory The legal status of cryptocurrencies varies substantially from one jurisdiction to another, and is still undefined or changing in many of them. Whereas, in the majority of countries the usage of cryptocurrency isn't in itself illegal, its stat ...

List of legal entity types by country A business entity is an entity that is formed and administered as per corporate law in order to engage in business activities, charitable work, or other activities allowable. Most often, business entities are formed to sell a product or a serv ...

* List of murder laws by country * List of supreme courts by country * Marital rape laws by country * Sperm donation laws by country * Surrogacy laws by country

Military

* List of countries by Global Militarization Index * List of countries by level of military equipment *

List of countries by military expenditures This is a list of countries with highest military expenditures. Highest military expenditure The first list is based on the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) fact sheet, which includes a list of the world's top 40 milita ...

* List of countries by military expenditure per capita *

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 countries by number of UN peacekeepers contributed * List of countries by past military expenditure * List of countries that prohibit paramilitary organizations outside government armed forces * List of countries with overseas military bases * List of countries without armed forces * List of enlistment age by country * List of armies by country * List of artillery by country * Lists of currently active military equipment by country * List of main battle tanks by country * List of militaries by country *

List of military unit mottoes by country Australia * Australian Army ** 1st Armoured Regiment: ' (Latin for "prepared") ** 1st Commando Regiment: Strike swiftly ** 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers: ' (Latin for "steadfast in faith") ** 2nd Cavalry Regiment: Courage ** 2nd Co ...

* List of missiles by country * List of naval guns by country * List of seaplane carriers by country * List of aircraft carriers *

List of states with nuclear weapons Nine sovereign states are generally understood to possess nuclear weapons, though only eight formally acknowledge possessing them. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation ...

* List of submarine operators * Military history by country * Missile defense systems by country * Sexual orientation and military service by country * Women in the military by country

Names

The label for the country: *

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 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership with ...

List of alternative country names Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone Geographical renaming, name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to ...

* List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages * List of countries named after people * List of country-name etymologies *

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. Countries are listed alphabetically by their most common name in English. Each English name is ...

* List of countries that include United States in their name

National symbols

The representation of a country's identity and values: * List of national flags of sovereign states * Armorial of sovereign states * List of countries that have the same national anthem * List of flags by color * List of flags by color combination * List of national animals * List of national anthems * List of national birds * List of national dances * List of national drinks * List of national flowers *

List of national founders The following is a list of national founders of sovereign states who were credited with establishing a state. National founders are typically those who played an influential role in setting up the systems of governance, (i.e., political system ...

* List of national fruits * List of national instruments (music) * List of national liquors * List of national mottos * List of national trees * List of sovereign states by date of current flag adoption * National poet * Timeline of national flags

Politics

The process by which groups, often governments, make decisions: * List of countries by consultation on rule-making * List of countries by date of transition to a republican system of government * List of countries by federal system * List of countries by Fragile States Index * List of countries by number of diplomatic missions *

List of countries by system of government This is a list of sovereign states by their '' de jure'' systems of government, as specified by the incumbent regime's constitutional law. This list does not measure the degree of democracy, political corruption, or state capacity of governm ...

* List of countries' copyright lengths * List of countries with coalition governments * List of countries without political parties * Lists of active separatist movements *

List of administrative divisions by country Administrative divisions by country Legend * The "Type" column indicates a federation (which includes lower-level units that exercise some sovereignty), unitary state (where the highest-level entity is the only sovereign), or regional st ...

* List of autonomous areas by country * List of coups and coup attempts by country * List of current heads of state and government * List of electoral systems by country * List of enclaves and exclaves *

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 fascism, fascist ideology. Since definitions of fascism vary, entries in this list may be controversial. For a discussion of the vario ...

* List of fictional countries on the Earth * List of former sovereign states *

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 Deliberative assembly, assembly of Representative democracy, representatives and that have th ...

* Lists of mayors by country * List of micronations * List of national constitutions * List of national governments * List of nationalizations by country * List of next general elections * List of parties to international copyright agreements * Lists of political entities by century * List of privatizations by country * List of ruling political parties by country *

List of sovereign states by date of formation Below is a list of sovereign states with the dates of their formation (date of their independence or of their constitution), sorted by continent. This list includes the List of sovereign states, 195 states which are currently member states of t ...

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 ...

* List of the first female members of parliament by country * List of the most recent elections by country * Apportionment by country * Democratic backsliding by country * Elections by country *

Electronic voting by country Electronic voting by country varies and may include voting machines in polling places, centralized tallying of paper ballots, and internet voting. Many countries use centralized tallying. Some also use electronic voting machines in polling p ...

* Liberal parties by country * Referendums by country * The Economist Democracy Index * Freedom in the World * Global Corruption Barometer

Royalty

Sports

* List of countries with their first Major League Baseball player * List of countries with their first National Hockey League player *

List of association football stadiums by country This is a list of major association football, football stadiums, grouped by country and ordered by Seating capacity, capacity. The minimum capacity is 5,000. Afghanistan Albania Algeria Ang ...

* List of first Olympic gold medalists by country * List of Grand Slam singles champions by country * List of Open Era Grand Slam champions by country *

List of rugby union players by country Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a Contact sport#Full-contact, full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of rugby football, it ...

* List of top international men's football goal scorers by country * List of top international women's football goal scorers by country * Ice hockey by country * Incentives for Olympic medalists by country * Judo by country * All-time Olympic Games medal table * All-time Paralympic Games medal table

Technology

The use of knowledge for practical goals: * List of countries by 4G LTE penetration * List of countries by IPv4 address allocation * List of countries by mobile banking usage *

List of countries by number of Internet users Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024. 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 Interne ...

List of countries by number of mobile phones in use This list ranks the countries of the world by the number of mobile phone numbers in use. As an important caveat, this list does not provide the number of mobile ''phones'' in use. It is common for each SIM card has a separate phone number, so pho ...

List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles Those are lists of countries and territories by number of scientific publications in English. Scopus Scientific citable documents counts in this table are from journals classified by Scopus. Nature Index The countries with the highest shar ...

List of countries by number of telephone lines in use This is a list of countries by number of telephone lines. Data are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise specified. See also * List of sovereign states by number of broadband Internet subscriptions * List of countries by number of ...

* List of countries by number of television broadcast stations *

List of countries by smartphone penetration This is a list of countries by smartphone penetration. These numbers are based on the top countries by percentage of population owning a smartphone (so smaller countries are absent) and come from Newzoo's Global Mobile Market Report (the numbers we ...

* List of countries by stem cell research trials *

List of sovereign states 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 spe ...

List of sovereign states 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 sovereign states by number of Internet hosts * List of mobile phone brands by country * List of mobile telephone prefixes by country * List of public broadcasters by country * List of state media by country * List of television networks by country *

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) ...

* Internet censorship and surveillance by country * TV advertisements by country * Books published per country per year * Government Broadband Index * ICT Development Index * Networked Readiness Index

Transport

The intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another: * List of countries by container port traffic *

List of countries by motor vehicle production This is a list of countries by motor vehicle production based on International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and other data from 2016 and earlier. Figures include Automobile, passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, minibuses, truc ...

Highway systems by country This article describes the highway systems available in selected countries. Africa Algeria About of highways in Algeria are in service and another are under construction. Botswana Botswana has a network of roads, of varied quality ...

* Level crossings by country *

Rail transport by country This page provides an index of articles on rail transport by country. International railway organisations * International Union of Railways (UIC) * International Union of Public Transport (UITP) * Association of American Railways (AAR) * O ...

* Railway coupling by country * School bus by country * Speed limits by country * Taxis by country * Traffic signs by country * Trolleybus usage by country

Miscellaneous

Urban

List of countries whose capital is not their largest city The list of countries whose capital is not their largest city refers to the list of sovereign states A sovereign state is a State (polity), state that has the highest authority over a territory. It is commonly understood that Sovereignty#Sov ...

List of countries with multiple capitals Some countries can be considered to have multiple capital city, 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 prefer ...

* Lists of cities by country * List of ghost towns by country *

List of highest towns by country A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

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 associate ...

Other population

* List of gray wolf populations by country * Armenian population by country * Assyrian population by country * Azerbaijani population by country * Historical Jewish population by country * Jewish population by country * Philippine population by country

Other

* List of countries by number of public holidays * List of countries that have gained independence from Spain * List of countries that have gained independence from the United Kingdom * List of countries that have used postal orders * List of countries that prohibit camouflage clothing *

List of countries with IKEA stores A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

* List of countries with United Nations Associations *

List of African writers by country This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars, listed by country. Algeria ''See: List of Algerian writers'' Angola ''See: List of Angolan writers'' Benin ...

* List of adoption dates of the Gregorian calendar by country * List of department stores by country * List of first female dentists by country * List of first female pharmacists by country * List of first female physicians by country * List of first satellites by country * List of frigate classes by country *

List of holidays by country Below are lists of public holidays by countries. Current countries * Public holidays in Afghanistan * Public holidays in Albania * Public holidays in Algeria * Public holidays in Andorra * Public holidays in Angola * Public holidays in Antigua ...

* List of ministries of transport by country *

List of national identity card policies by country A national identity document is an identity card with a photo, usable as an identity card at least inside the country, and which is issued by an official national authority. Identity cards can be issued voluntarily or may be compulsory to poss ...

* List of Protected Designation of Origin products by country * List of Righteous Among the Nations by country * List of Scout Laws by country * List of the oldest people by country * List of traditional specialities guaranteed by country * List of women innovators and inventors by country * List of World War II flying aces by country *

2009 swine flu pandemic by country This article deals with the status and efforts regarding the 2009 swine flu pandemic by country and continent/region. As the pandemic progressed, laboratory testing and confirmation decreased. Confirmed figures for the 2009 flu pandemic ...

* Antisemitism by country * Average human height by country * Blood type distribution by country * COVID-19 lockdowns by country * COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory * COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country * Child support by country * Civil defense by country * Cremation by country * Date and time representation by country * Date format by country * Department stores by country * Desalination by country * Electronic waste by country * Emergency contraceptive availability by country * Equinor operations by country * Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country * History by country * History of anthropology by country * Immigration by country * Involuntary commitment by country * Observance of Christmas by country * Percent of households with guns by country * Prostitution statistics by country * Racism by country * Regional organisations by country * Surnames by country * Timeline of first orbital launches by country * Waste by country * Water fluoridation by country * Wedding customs by country * World Heritage Sites by country * World War II by country

References

External links

List of Global Development Indexes and Rankings
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