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Rank code: 2123

Country Comparison :: Suffrage

This entry gives the age at enfranchisement and whether the right to vote is universal or restricted.

Rank country Suffrage Date of Information

1 Bolivia 21.00 NA 2 Central African Republic 21.00 NA 3 Gabon 21.00 NA 4 Fiji 21.00 NA 5 Lebanon 21.00 NA 6 Malaysia 21.00 NA 7 Samoa 21.00 NA 8 Singapore 21.00 NA 9 Tokelau 21.00 NA 10 Tonga 21.00 NA 11 Solomon Islands 21.00 NA 12 Saudi Arabia 21.00 NA 13 Oman 21.00 NA 14 Bahrain 20.00 NA 15 Cameroon 20.00 NA 16 Nauru 20.00 NA 17 Taiwan 20.00 NA 18 Japan 20.00 NA 19 Korea, South 19.00 NA 20 Afghanistan 18.00 NA 21 Albania 18.00 NA 22 Algeria 18.00 NA 23 American Samoa 18.00 NA 24 Andorra 18.00 NA 25 Angola 18.00 NA 26 Anguilla 18.00 NA 27 Azerbaijan 18.00 NA 28 Bolivia 18.00 NA 29 Bhutan 18.00 NA 30 Bermuda 18.00 NA 31 Benin 18.00 NA 32 Belize 18.00 NA 33 Belgium 18.00 NA 34 Belarus 18.00 NA 35 Barbados 18.00 NA 36 Bangladesh 18.00 NA 37 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 18.00 NA 38 Comoros 18.00 NA 39 Colombia 18.00 NA 40 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 18.00 NA 41 Christmas Island 18.00 NA 42 China 18.00 NA 43 Chile 18.00 NA 44 Chad 18.00 NA 45 Cayman Islands 18.00 NA 46 Ethiopia 18.00 NA 47 Estonia 18.00 NA 48 Eritrea 18.00 NA 49 Equatorial Guinea 18.00 NA 50 El Salvador 18.00 NA 51 Egypt 18.00 NA 52 Dominican Republic 18.00 NA 53 Dominica 18.00 NA 54 Djibouti 18.00 NA 55 Guyana 18.00 NA 56 Guinea-Bissau 18.00 NA 57 Guinea 18.00 NA 58 Guatemala 18.00 NA 59 Grenada 18.00 NA 60 Greenland 18.00 NA 61 Greece 18.00 NA 62 Gibraltar 18.00 NA 63 Ghana 18.00 NA 64 Kosovo 18.00 NA 65 Kiribati 18.00 NA 66 Kenya 18.00 NA 67 Kazakhstan 18.00 NA 68 Jordan 18.00 NA 69 Jamaica 18.00 NA 70 Italy 18.00 NA 71 Israel 18.00 NA 72 Ireland 18.00 NA 73 Mongolia 18.00 NA 74 Monaco 18.00 NA 75 Moldova 18.00 NA 76 Micronesia, Federated States of 18.00 NA 77 Mexico 18.00 NA 78 Mayotte 18.00 NA 79 Mauritius 18.00 NA 80 Mauritania 18.00 NA 81 Marshall Islands 18.00 NA 82 Yemen 18.00 NA 83 Wallis and Futuna 18.00 NA 84 Virgin Islands 18.00 NA 85 Vietnam 18.00 NA 86 Venezuela 18.00 NA 87 Vanuatu 18.00 NA 88 Uzbekistan 18.00 NA 89 Uruguay 18.00 NA 90 United States 18.00 NA 91 United Kingdom 18.00 NA 92 Ukraine 18.00 NA 93 Uganda 18.00 NA 94 Tuvalu 18.00 NA 95 Turks and Caicos Islands 18.00 NA 96 Turkmenistan 18.00 NA 97 Turkey 18.00 NA 98 Tunisia 18.00 NA 99 Trinidad and Tobago 18.00 NA 100 Togo 18.00 NA 101 Thailand 18.00 NA 102 Tanzania 18.00 NA 103 Tajikistan 18.00 NA 104 Syria 18.00 NA 105 Switzerland 18.00 NA 106 Sweden 18.00 NA 107 Swaziland 18.00 NA 108 Suriname 18.00 NA 109 Sri Lanka 18.00 NA 110 Spain 18.00 NA 111 South Africa 18.00 NA 112 Somalia 18.00 NA 113 Slovenia 18.00 NA 114 Slovakia 18.00 NA 115 Sierra Leone 18.00 NA 116 Serbia 18.00 NA 117 Senegal 18.00 NA 118 Sao Tome and Principe 18.00 NA 119 San Marino 18.00 NA 120 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 18.00 NA 121 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 18.00 NA 122 Saint Martin 18.00 NA 123 Saint Lucia 18.00 NA 124 Saint Kitts and Nevis 18.00 NA 125 Rwanda 18.00 NA 126 Russia 18.00 NA 127 Romania 18.00 NA 128 Qatar 18.00 NA 129 Puerto Rico 18.00 NA 130 Portugal 18.00 NA 131 Poland 18.00 NA 132 Pitcairn Islands 18.00 NA 133 Philippines 18.00 NA 134 Peru 18.00 NA 135 Paraguay 18.00 NA 136 Papua New Guinea 18.00 NA 137 Panama 18.00 NA 138 Palau 18.00 NA 139 Pakistan 18.00 NA 140 Norway 18.00 NA 141 Northern Mariana Islands 18.00 NA 142 Norfolk Island 18.00 NA 143 Niue 18.00 NA 144 Nigeria 18.00 NA 145 Niger 18.00 NA 146 New Zealand 18.00 NA 147 New Caledonia 18.00 NA 148 Netherlands 18.00 NA 149 Nepal 18.00 NA 150 Namibia 18.00 NA 151 Mozambique 18.00 NA 152 Morocco 18.00 NA 153 Montserrat 18.00 NA 154 Montenegro 18.00 NA 155 Zimbabwe 18.00 NA 156 Zambia 18.00 NA 157 Malta 18.00 NA 158 Mali 18.00 NA 159 Maldives 18.00 NA 160 Malawi 18.00 NA 161 Madagascar 18.00 NA 162 Macedonia 18.00 NA 163 Macau 18.00 NA 164 Luxembourg 18.00 NA 165 Lithuania 18.00 NA 166 Liechtenstein 18.00 NA 167 Libya 18.00 NA 168 Liberia 18.00 NA 169 Lesotho 18.00 NA 170 Latvia 18.00 NA 171 Laos 18.00 NA 172 Kyrgyzstan 18.00 NA 173 Iraq 18.00 NA 174 Iran 18.00 NA 175 India 18.00 NA 176 Iceland 18.00 NA 177 Hungary 18.00 NA 178 Hong Kong 18.00 NA 179 Honduras 18.00 NA 180 Haiti 18.00 NA 181 Germany 18.00 NA 182 Georgia 18.00 NA 183 Gambia, The 18.00 NA 184 French Polynesia 18.00 NA 185 France 18.00 NA 186 Finland 18.00 NA 187 Faroe Islands 18.00 NA 188 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 18.00 NA 189 Denmark 18.00 NA 190 Czech Republic 18.00 NA 191 Cyprus 18.00 NA 192 Croatia 18.00 NA 193 Cote d'Ivoire 18.00 NA 194 Costa Rica 18.00 NA 195 Cook Islands 18.00 NA 196 Congo, Republic of the 18.00 NA 197 Cape Verde 18.00 NA 198 Canada 18.00 NA 199 Cambodia 18.00 NA 200 Burma 18.00 NA 201 Bulgaria 18.00 NA 202 British Virgin Islands 18.00 NA 203 Botswana 18.00 NA 204 Bosnia and Herzegovina 18.00 NA 205 Bahamas, The 18.00 NA 206 Antigua and Barbuda 18.00 NA 207 Argentina 18.00 NA 208 Armenia 18.00 NA 209 Aruba 18.00 NA 210 Australia 18.00 NA 211 Indonesia 17.00 NA 212 Korea, North 17.00 NA 213 Timor-Leste 17.00 NA 214 Sudan 17.00 NA 215 Seychelles 17.00 NA 216 Austria 16.00 NA 217 Ecuador 16.00 NA 218 Isle of Man 16.00 NA 219 Nicaragua 16.00 NA 220 Jersey 16.00 NA 221 Guernsey 16.00 NA 222 Cuba 16.00 NA

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Rank code: 2124

Country Comparison :: Telephone system

This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry: Arabsat - Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Autodin - Automatic Digital Network (US Department of Defense). CB - citizen's band mobile radio communications. Cellular telephone system - the telephones in this system are radio transceivers, with each instrument having its own private radio frequency and sufficient radiated power to reach the booster station in its area (cell), from which the telephone signal is fed to a telephone exchange. Central American Microwave System - a trunk microwave radio relay system that links the countries of Central America and Mexico with each other. Coaxial cable - a multichannel communication cable consisting of a central conducting wire, surrounded by and insulated from a cylindrical conducting shell; a large number of telephone channels can be made available within the insulated space by the use of a large number of carrier frequencies. Comsat - Communications Satellite Corporation (US). DSN - Defense Switched Network (formerly Automatic Voice Network or Autovon); basic general-purpose, switched voice network of the Defense Communications System (US Department of Defense). Eutelsat - European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Paris). Fiber-optic cable - a multichannel communications cable using a thread of optical glass fibers as a transmission medium in which the signal (voice, video, etc.) is in the form of a coded pulse of light. GSM - a global system for mobile (cellular) communications devised by the Groupe Special Mobile of the pan-European standardization organization, Conference Europeanne des Posts et Telecommunications (CEPT) in 1982. HF - high frequency; any radio frequency in the 3,000- to 30,000-kHz range. Inmarsat - International Maritime Satellite Organization (London); provider of global mobile satellite communications for commercial, distress, and safety applications at sea, in the air, and on land. Intelsat - International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Washington, DC). Intersputnik - International Organization of Space Communications (Moscow); first established in the former Soviet Union and the East European countries, it is now marketing its services worldwide with earth stations in North America, Africa, and East Asia. Landline - communication wire or cable of any sort that is installed on poles or buried in the ground. Marecs - Maritime European Communications Satellite used in the Inmarsat system on lease from the European Space Agency. Marisat - satellites of the Comsat Corporation that participate in the Inmarsat system. Medarabtel - the Middle East Telecommunications Project of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) providing a modern telecommunications network, primarily by microwave radio relay, linking Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen; it was initially started in Morocco in 1970 by the Arab Telecommunications Union (ATU) and was known at that time as the Middle East Mediterranean Telecommunications Network. Microwave radio relay - transmission of long distance telephone calls and television programs by highly directional radio microwaves that are received and sent on from one booster station to another on an optical path. NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephone; an analog cellular telephone system that was developed jointly by the national telecommunications authorities of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Orbita - a Russian television service; also the trade name of a packet-switched digital telephone network. Radiotelephone communications - the two-way transmission and reception of sounds by broadcast radio on authorized frequencies using telephone handsets. PanAmSat - PanAmSat Corporation (Greenwich, CT). SAFE - South African Far East Cable Satellite communication system - a communication system consisting of two or more earth stations and at least one satellite that provide long distance transmission of voice, data, and television; the system usually serves as a trunk connection between telephone exchanges; if the earth stations are in the same country, it is a domestic system. Satellite earth station - a communications facility with a microwave radio transmitting and receiving antenna and required receiving and transmitting equipment for communicating with satellites. Satellite link - a radio connection between a satellite and an earth station permitting communication between them, either one-way (down link from satellite to earth station - television receive-only transmission) or two-way (telephone channels). SHF - super high frequency; any radio frequency in the 3,000- to 30,000-MHz range. Shortwave - radio frequencies (from 1.605 to 30 MHz) that fall above the commercial broadcast band and are used for communication over long distances. Solidaridad - geosynchronous satellites in Mexico's system of international telecommunications in the Western Hemisphere. Statsionar - Russia's geostationary system for satellite telecommunications. Submarine cable - a cable designed for service under water. TAT - Trans-Atlantic Telephone; any of a number of high-capacity submarine coaxial telephone cables linking Europe with North America. Telefax - facsimile service between subscriber stations via the public switched telephone network or the international Datel network. Telegraph - a telecommunications system designed for unmodulated electric impulse transmission. Telex - a communication service involving teletypewriters connected by wire through automatic exchanges. Tropospheric scatter - a form of microwave radio transmission in which the troposphere is used to scatter and reflect a fraction of the incident radio waves back to earth; powerful, highly directional antennas are used to transmit and receive the microwave signals; reliable over-the-horizon communications are realized for distances up to 600 miles in a single hop; additional hops can extend the range of this system for very long distances. Trunk network - a network of switching centers, connected by multichannel trunk lines. UHF - ultra high frequency; any radio frequency in the 300- to 3,000-MHz range. VHF - very high frequency; any radio frequency in the 30- to 300-MHz range.

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Rank code: 2125

Country Comparison :: Terrain

This entry contains a brief description of the topography.

Rank country Terrain Date of Information

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Rank code: 2127

Country Comparison :: Total fertility rate