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5 days ago · The World Factbook has two useful updates that make its maps and data more accessible. First, the Maps page has been re-structured so now there are just two sections, World and Regional Maps and CIA Maps. Second, the individual pages for the UK's two Sovereign Base Areas on the island of Cyprus - Akrotiri and Dhekelia - have been combined into ...
1 day ago · The economy of Guatemala is a considered a developing economy, highly dependent on agriculture, particularly on traditional crops such as coffee, sugar, and bananas. Guatemala's GDP per capita is roughly one-third of Brazil's. The Guatemalan economy is the largest in Central America. It grew 3.3 percent on average from 2015 to 2018.
3 days ago · The economy of Peru is an emerging, mixed economy characterized by a high level of foreign trade and an upper middle income economy as classified by the World Bank. [22] Peru has the forty-seventh largest economy in the world by total GDP [23] and currently experiences a high human development index. [24]
1 day ago · Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International Geary-Khamis dollars. The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market [27] [28] with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology, and entertainment sectors. [29] [30] It is ranked as the 39th-largest economy in the world in terms of ...
3 days ago · The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert different currencies into a common, comparable unit and account for price differences across countries.
3 days ago · The Index scores nations on ten factors of economic freedom, separated into four categories, using statistics from organizations like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Economist Intelligence Unit and Transparency International. In each factor, countries are scored 0 to 100, with 0 being the least free and 100 the most free.
3 days ago · An early modern city developed from the 17th century as a provincial capital and commercial centre of the Mughal Empire. Dhaka was the capital of a proto-industrialised Mughal Bengal for 75 years (1608–39 and 1660–1704). It was the hub of the muslin trade in Bengal and one of the most prosperous cities in the world.
