The statesmanThe statesman's yearbook 2016 : the politics, cultures and economies of the world

Now in its 152nd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www.statesmansyearbook.com . Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 United Nations (UN)....Pages 3-8 Universal Declaration of Human Rights....Pages 8-10 United Nations System....Pages 10-13 Specialized Agencies of the UN....Pages 13-24 Other Organs Related to the UN....Pages 24-26 UN Conventions....Pages 26-27 European Union (EU)....Pages 27-31 EU Institutions....Pages 31-35 Other EU Structures....Pages 35-36 Main EU Agencies....Pages 36-39 Council of Europe....Pages 39-40 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)....Pages 40-41 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)....Pages 41-41 European Free Trade Association (EFTA)....Pages 41-42 European Space Agency (ESA)....Pages 42-42 CERN — The European Organization for Nuclear Research....Pages 42-42 Central European Initiative (CEI)....Pages 42-42 Nordic Council....Pages 43-43 Nordic Development Fund (NDF)....Pages 43-43 Nordic Investment Bank (NIB)....Pages 43-43 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Council of the Baltic Sea States....Pages 43-43 European Broadcasting Union (EBU)....Pages 43-43 Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)....Pages 43-44 Danube Commission....Pages 44-44 European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)....Pages 44-44 Amnesty International (AI)....Pages 44-44 Bank for International Settlements (BIS)....Pages 44-45 Commonwealth....Pages 45-46 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)....Pages 46-47 Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)....Pages 47-47 International Air Transport Association (IATA)....Pages 47-47 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)....Pages 47-47 International Criminal Court (ICC)....Pages 47-48 International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)....Pages 48-48 International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO)....Pages 48-48 International Olympic Committee (IOC)....Pages 48-48 International Organisation of La Francophonie....Pages 49-49 International Organization For Migration (IOM)....Pages 49-49 International Organization for Standardization (ISO)....Pages 49-49 International Road Federation (IRF)....Pages 49-50 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 International Seabed Authority (ISA)....Pages 50-50 International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO)....Pages 50-50 International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)....Pages 50-51 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)....Pages 51-51 International Union Against Cancer (UICC)....Pages 51-51 Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)....Pages 51-51 INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization)....Pages 52-52 Islamic Development Bank....Pages 52-52 Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)....Pages 52-52 Nobel Prizes....Pages 52-53 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....Pages 53-53 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)....Pages 53-56 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)....Pages 56-57 Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)....Pages 57-57 Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)....Pages 57-57 World Council of Churches....Pages 58-58 World Customs Organization....Pages 58-58 World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)....Pages 58-58 African Development Bank....Pages 58-59 African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)....Pages 59-59 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 African Union (AU)....Pages 59-59 Bank of Central African States (BEAC)....Pages 59-60 Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)....Pages 60-60 Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)....Pages 60-60 East African Community (EAC)....Pages 60-60 East African Development Bank (EADB)....Pages 60-60 Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC)....Pages 60-60 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)....Pages 61-61 Intergovernmental Authority on Development....Pages 61-61 Lake Chad Basin Commission....Pages 61-61 Niger Basin Authority....Pages 61-61 Southern African Customs Union (SACU)....Pages 61-62 Southern African Development Community (SADC)....Pages 62-62 West African Development Bank (BOAD)....Pages 62-62 West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)....Pages 62-62 Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)....Pages 62-63 Andean Community....Pages 63-63 Association of Caribbean States (ACS)....Pages 63-63 Caribbean Community (CARICOM)....Pages 63-64 Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)....Pages 64-64 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI)....Pages 64-64 Central American Integration System (SICA)....Pages 64-65 Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB)....Pages 65-65 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)....Pages 65-65 Latin American Economic System (SELA)....Pages 65-65 Latin American Integration Association (ALADI/LAIA)....Pages 65-65 Latin American Reserve Fund....Pages 66-66 Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)....Pages 66-66 Organization of American States (OAS)....Pages 66-67 Pacific Alliance....Pages 67-67 Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA)....Pages 67-67 Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR)....Pages 67-67 Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)....Pages 68-68 Asian Development Bank....Pages 68-68 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC)....Pages 68-68 Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)....Pages 69-69 Colombo Plan....Pages 69-70 Economic Co-operation Organization (ECO)....Pages 70-70 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)....Pages 70-70 Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)....Pages 70-71 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD)....Pages 71-72 Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)....Pages 72-72 Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD)....Pages 72-72 Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC)....Pages 72-72 League of Arab States....Pages 73-73 Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)....Pages 73-73 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)....Pages 73-74 Environmental Organizations: Friends of the Earth International....Pages 74-74 Global Environment Facility (GEF)....Pages 74-74 Greenpeace International....Pages 74-75 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)....Pages 75-75 Antarctic Treaty....Pages 75-75 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)....Pages 75-75 American Enterprise Institute (for Public Policy Research)....Pages 75-75 Asian Development Bank Institute....Pages 76-76 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)....Pages 76-76 Brookings Institution....Pages 76-76 Bruegel....Pages 76-76 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)....Pages 71-71 South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)....Pages 71-71 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace....Pages 76-76 Carnegie Middle East Center....Pages 76-76 Carnegie Moscow Center....Pages 76-76 Cato Institute....Pages 76-76 Center for a New American Security....Pages 76-76 Center for American Progress....Pages 76-76 Center for International Governance Innovation....Pages 77-77 Center for Strategic and International Studies....Pages 77-77 Centre for Economic Policy Research....Pages 77-77 Centre for European Policy Studies....Pages 77-77 Centre for European Reform....Pages 77-77 Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais....Pages 77-77 Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)....Pages 77-77 China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)....Pages 77-77 China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations....Pages 77-77 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences....Pages 77-77 Council on Foreign Relations....Pages 77-77 Danish Institute for International Studies....Pages 78-78 European Council on Foreign Relations....Pages 78-78 Fraser Institute....Pages 78-78 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)....Pages 78-78 Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; FES)....Pages 78-78 Fundação Getulio Vargas....Pages 78-78 German Council on Foreign Relations....Pages 78-78 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik; SWP)....Pages 78-78 Heritage Foundation....Pages 78-78 Human Rights Watch....Pages 79-79 Institute of World Economy and International Relations....Pages 79-79 International Crisis Group....Pages 79-79 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)....Pages 79-79 Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)....Pages 79-79 Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel; IfW)....Pages 79-79 Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)....Pages 79-79 Korea Development Institute (KDI)....Pages 79-79 Lowy Institute for International Policy....Pages 79-79 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)....Pages 79-79 Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’....Pages 80-80 Peterson Institute for International Economics....Pages 80-80 Pew Research Center....Pages 80-80 RAND Corporation....Pages 80-80 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Royal United Services Institute....Pages 80-80 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)....Pages 80-80 Transparency International....Pages 80-80 Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies....Pages 80-80 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars....Pages 80-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Afghanistan....Pages 83-88 Albania....Pages 89-93 Algeria....Pages 94-99 Andorra....Pages 100-102 Angola....Pages 103-107 Antigua and Barbuda....Pages 108-110 Argentina....Pages 111-117 Armenia....Pages 118-121 Australia....Pages 122-156 Austria....Pages 157-164 Azerbaijan....Pages 165-170 Bahamas....Pages 171-174 Bahrain....Pages 175-178 Bangladesh....Pages 179-183 Barbados....Pages 184-187 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Belarus....Pages 188-192 Belgium....Pages 193-201 Belize....Pages 202-205 Benin....Pages 206-209 Bhutan....Pages 210-213 Bolivia....Pages 214-219 Bosnia and Herzegovina....Pages 220-223 Botswana....Pages 224-227 Brazil....Pages 228-237 Brunei....Pages 238-241 Bulgaria....Pages 242-247 Burkina faso....Pages 248-251 Burundi....Pages 252-255 Cabo Verde....Pages 256-259 Cambodia....Pages 260-264 Cameroon....Pages 265-269 Canada....Pages 270-304 Central African Republic....Pages 305-308 Chad....Pages 309-312 Chile....Pages 313-319 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 China....Pages 320-342 Colombia....Pages 343-348 Comoros....Pages 349-351 Congo, Democratic Republic of the....Pages 352-356 Congo, Republic of the....Pages 357-360 Costa Rica....Pages 361-364 Cȏte D’ivoire....Pages 365-369 Croatia....Pages 370-374 Cuba....Pages 375-379 Cyprus....Pages 380-386 Czech Republic....Pages 387-395 Denmark....Pages 396-406 Djibouti....Pages 407-409 Dominica....Pages 410-413 Dominican Republic....Pages 414-417 Ecuador....Pages 418-422 Egypt....Pages 423-428 El Salvador....Pages 429-432 Equatorial Guinea....Pages 433-436 Eritrea....Pages 437-440 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Estonia....Pages 441-446 Ethiopia....Pages 447-451 Fiji Islands....Pages 452-456 Finland....Pages 457-465 France....Pages 466-494 Gabon....Pages 495-499 The Gambia....Pages 500-502 Georgia....Pages 503-508 Germany....Pages 509-543 Ghana....Pages 544-548 Greece....Pages 549-556 Grenada....Pages 557-559 Guatemala....Pages 560-563 Guinea....Pages 564-567 Guinea-Bissau....Pages 568-571 Guyana....Pages 572-575 Haiti....Pages 576-579 Honduras....Pages 580-583 Hungary....Pages 584-592 Iceland....Pages 593-599 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 India....Pages 600-625 Indonesia....Pages 626-632 Iran....Pages 633-640 Iraq....Pages 641-648 Ireland....Pages 649-661 Israel....Pages 662-672 Italy....Pages 673-684 Jamaica....Pages 685-688 Japan....Pages 689-699 Jordan....Pages 700-704 Kazakhstan....Pages 705-709 Kenya....Pages 710-714 Kiribati....Pages 715-717 Korea, North....Pages 718-724 Korea, South....Pages 725-732 Kuwait....Pages 733-737 Kyrgyzstan....Pages 738-741 Laos....Pages 742-745 Latvia....Pages 746-751 Lebanon....Pages 752-756 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Lesotho....Pages 757-760 Liberia....Pages 761-764 Libya....Pages 765-769 Liechtenstein....Pages 770-772 Lithuania....Pages 773-779 Luxembourg....Pages 780-784 Macedonia....Pages 785-788 Madagascar....Pages 789-792 Malaŵi....Pages 793-796 Malaysia....Pages 797-804 Maldives....Pages 805-807 Mali....Pages 808-811 Malta....Pages 812-816 Marshall Islands....Pages 817-819 Mauritania....Pages 820-823 Mauritius....Pages 824-827 Mexico....Pages 828-834 Micronesia....Pages 835-837 Moldova....Pages 838-841 Monaco....Pages 842-844 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Mongolia....Pages 845-848 Montenegro....Pages 849-852 Morocco....Pages 853-858 Mozambique....Pages 859-862 Myanmar....Pages 863-867 Namibia....Pages 868-871 Nauru....Pages 872-874 Nepal....Pages 875-879 The Netherlands....Pages 880-893 New Zealand....Pages 894-906 Nicaragua....Pages 907-910 Niger....Pages 911-914 Nigeria....Pages 915-921 Norway....Pages 922-930 Oman....Pages 931-934 Pakistan....Pages 935-942 Palau....Pages 943-945 Panama....Pages 946-950 Papua New Guinea....Pages 951-955 Paraguay....Pages 956-959 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Peru....Pages 960-965 Philippines....Pages 966-971 Poland....Pages 972-982 Portugal....Pages 983-990 Qatar....Pages 991-994 Romania....Pages 995-1001 Russia....Pages 1002-1021 Rwanda....Pages 1022-1026 St Kitts and Nevis....Pages 1027-1029 St Lucia....Pages 1030-1032 St Vincent and the Grenadines....Pages 1033-1035 Samoa....Pages 1036-1038 San Marino....Pages 1039-1041 São Tomé e Puíncipe....Pages 1042-1044 Saudi Arabia....Pages 1045-1051 Senegal....Pages 1052-1056 Serbia....Pages 1057-1064 Seychelles....Pages 1065-1068 Sierra Leone....Pages 1069-1072 Singapore....Pages 1073-1078 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Slovakia....Pages 1079-1084 Slovenia....Pages 1085-1089 Solomon Islands....Pages 1090-1093 Somalia....Pages 1094-1097 South Africa....Pages 1098-1110 South Sudan....Pages 1111-1113 Spain....Pages 1114-1123 Sri Lanka....Pages 1124-1129 Sudan....Pages 1130-1136 Suriname....Pages 1137-1140 Swaziland....Pages 1141-1144 Sweden....Pages 1145-1153 Switzerland....Pages 1154-1161 Syria....Pages 1162-1167 Tajikistan....Pages 1168-1171 Tanzania....Pages 1172-1176 Thailand....Pages 1177-1182 Timor-Leste....Pages 1183-1186 Togo....Pages 1187-1190 Tonga....Pages 1191-1193 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Trinidad and Tobago....Pages 1194-1197 Tunisia....Pages 1198-1202 Turkey....Pages 1203-1210 Turkmenistan....Pages 1211-1214 Tuvalu....Pages 1215-1217 Uganda....Pages 1218-1223 Ukraine....Pages 1224-1230 United Arab Emirates....Pages 1231-1235 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....Pages 1236-1306 United States of America....Pages 1307-1441 Uruguay....Pages 1442-1446 Uzbekistan....Pages 1447-1451 Vanuatu....Pages 1452-1454 Vatican City State....Pages 1455-1456 Venezuela....Pages 1457-1462 Vietnam....Pages 1463-1468 Yemen....Pages 1469-1473 Zambia....Pages 1474-1477 Zimbabwe....Pages 1478-1484 Back Matter....Pages 1485-1528 This classic reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis. The 2016 edition includes: Revised and updated biographical profiles of all current leaders ; Extensive updates to country economic overviews ; Expanded and updated historical introductions ; Chronology of key political events from April 2014 to March 2015 ; Comprehensive coverage of major international organizations ; SPECIAL FEATURE: Barry Turner explores the Suez crisis 60 years ago; plus a timeline of these dramatic events ; NEW: 2014 in 1,000 words - a summary of the key events that dominated the world during the year ; Detailed maps of all 194 countries. pt. 1. International organizations. United Nations United Nations system Specialized agencies of the UN. Other organizations related to the UN Europe Africa Americas Asia/Pacific Middle East Treaties Leading think tanks. pt. 2. Countries of the world A-Z. Individual Countries (Key historical events Territory and population Social statistics Climate Constitution and government Government chronology Recent elections Current administration Current leaders Defense Economy Energy and natural resources Industry International trade Communications Social institutions Religion Culture Diplomatic Representatives.).