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 subnational areas. The birth rates and death rates in columns one and two are the CIA World Factbook estimates for the year 2017 unless otherwise noted, rounded to the nearest tenth (except for Mayotte with 2010 …

The World Factbook er en årlig publikasjon som utgis av den amerikanske etterretningsorganisasjonen CIA.Publikasjonen som gir grunnleggende informasjon om alle stater som er anerkjent som selvstendige av USA. Hvert land er dekket over to–tre sider, som oppgir data om demografi, beliggenhet, telekommunikasjon, myndigheter, industri, militær styrke osv.

In Twelver Shi'ism, the largest Shi'i branch, the belief in the messianic imam is not merely a part of creed, but the pivot. For the Twelver Shi'a, the Mahdi was born but disappeared, and would remain hidden from humanity until he reappears to bring justice to the world in the end of time, a doctrine known as the Occultation.This imam in occultation is the twelfth imam, Muhammad, son of the ...

Methodology. The table's data is from The World Factbook unless noted otherwise. It shows the male to female sex ratio by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. If there is a discrepancy between The World Factbook and a country's census data, the latter may be used instead.. A ratio above 1, for example 1.1, means there are more males than females (1.1 …

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 government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations based on the …

La Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, « agence centrale de renseignement » en français) [note 1], fondée en 1947 par le National Security Act, est l'une des agences de renseignement les plus connues des États-Unis.Elle est chargée de l'acquisition du renseignement (notamment par l'espionnage) et de la plupart des opérations clandestines effectuées hors du sol américain.