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Montserrat total population: 72.76 years male: 74.74 years female: 70.68 years (2009 est.)

Morocco total population: 71.8 years male: 69.42 years female: 74.3 years (2009 est.)

Mozambique total population: 41.18 years male: 41.83 years female: 40.53 years (2009 est.)

Namibia total population: 51.24 years male: 51.61 years female: 50.86 years (2009 est.)

Nauru total population: 64.2 years male: 60.58 years female: 68.01 years (2009 est.)

Nepal total population: 65.46 years male: 64.3 years female: 66.67 years (2009 est.)

Netherlands total population: 79.4 years male: 76.8 years female: 82.14 years (2009 est.)

Netherlands Antilles total population: 76.65 years male: 74.33 years female: 79.09 years (2009 est.)

New Caledonia total population: 74.98 years male: 71.99 years female: 78.12 years (2009 est.)

New Zealand total population: 80.36 years male: 78.43 years female: 82.39 years (2009 est.)

Nicaragua total population: 71.5 years male: 69.35 years female: 73.75 years (2009 est.)

Niger total population: 52.6 years male: 51.39 years female: 53.85 years (2009 est.)

Nigeria total population: 46.94 years male: 46.16 years female: 47.76 years (2009 est.)

Niue total population: NA male: NA female: NA

Norfolk Island total population: NA male: NA female: NA

Northern Mariana Islands total population: 76.7 years male: 74.08 years female: 79.47 years (2009 est.)

Norway total population: 79.95 years male: 77.29 years female: 82.74 years (2009 est.)

Oman total population: 74.16 years male: 71.87 years female: 76.55 years (2009 est.)

Pakistan total population: 64.49 years male: 63.4 years female: 65.64 years (2009 est.)

Palau total population: 71.22 years male: 68.08 years female: 74.54 years (2009 est.)

Panama total population: 77.25 years male: 74.47 years female: 80.16 years (2009 est.)

Papua New Guinea total population: 66.34 years male: 64.08 years female: 68.72 years (2009 est.)

Paraguay total population: 75.77 years male: 73.19 years female: 78.49 years (2009 est.)

Peru total population: 70.74 years male: 68.88 years female: 72.69 years (2009 est.)

Philippines total population: 71.09 years male: 68.17 years female: 74.15 years (2009 est.)

Pitcairn Islands total population: NA male: NA female: NA

Poland total population: 75.63 years male: 71.65 years female: 79.85 years (2009 est.)

Portugal total population: 78.21 years male: 74.95 years female: 81.69 years (2009 est.)

Puerto Rico total population: 78.53 years male: 74.85 years female: 82.39 years (2009 est.)

Qatar total population: 75.35 years male: 73.66 years female: 77.14 years (2009 est.)

Romania total population: 72.45 years male: 68.95 years female: 76.16 years (2009 est.)

Russia total population: 66.03 years male: 59.33 years female: 73.14 years (2009 est.)

Rwanda total population: 50.52 years male: 49.25 years female: 51.83 years (2009 est.)

Saint Helena total population: 78.44 years male: 75.52 years female: 81.5 years (2009 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis total population: 73.2 years male: 70.33 years female: 76.25 years (2009 est.)

Saint Lucia total population: 76.45 years male: 73.78 years female: 79.27 years (2009 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon total population: 79.07 years male: 76.69 years female: 81.57 years (2009 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines total population: 73.65 years male: 71.82 years female: 75.54 years (2009 est.)

Samoa total population: 71.86 years male: 69.03 years female: 74.84 years (2009 est.)

San Marino total population: 81.97 years male: 78.53 years female: 85.72 years (2009 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe total population: 68.32 years male: 66.65 years female: 70.04 years (2009 est.)

Saudi Arabia total population: 76.3 years male: 74.23 years female: 78.48 years (2009 est.)

Senegal total population: 59 years male: 57.12 years female: 60.93 years (2009 est.)

Serbia total population: 73.9 years male: 71.09 years female: 76.89 years (2009 est.)

Seychelles total population: 73.02 years male: 68.33 years female: 77.85 years (2009 est.)

Sierra Leone total population: 41.24 years male: 38.92 years female: 43.64 years (2009 est.)

Singapore total population: 81.98 years male: 79.37 years female: 84.78 years (2009 est.)

Slovakia total population: 75.4 years male: 71.47 years female: 79.53 years (2009 est.)

Slovenia total population: 76.92 years male: 73.25 years female: 80.84 years (2009 est.)

Solomon Islands total population: 73.69 years male: 71.14 years female: 76.37 years (2009 est.)

Somalia total population: 49.63 years male: 47.78 years female: 51.53 years (2009 est.)

South Africa total population: 48.98 years male: 49.81 years female: 48.13 years (2009 est.)

Spain total population: 80.05 years male: 76.74 years female: 83.57 years (2009 est.)

Sri Lanka total population: 75.14 years male: 73.08 years female: 77.28 years (2009 est.)

Sudan total population: 51.42 years male: 50.49 years female: 52.4 years (2009 est.)

Suriname total population: 73.73 years male: 71 years female: 76.65 years (2009 est.)

Svalbard total population: NA male: NA female: NA

Swaziland total population: 31.99 years male: 31.69 years female: 32.3 years (2009 est.)

Sweden total population: 80.86 years male: 78.59 years female: 83.26 years (2009 est.)

Switzerland total population: 80.85 years male: 78.03 years female: 83.83 years (2009 est.)

Syria total population: 71.19 years male: 69.8 years female: 72.68 years (2009 est.)

Taiwan total population: 77.96 years male: 75.12 years female: 81.05 years (2009 est.)

Tajikistan total population: 65.33 years male: 62.29 years female: 68.52 years (2009 est.)

Tanzania total population: 52.01 years male: 50.56 years female: 53.51 years (2009 est.)

Thailand total population: 73.1 years male: 70.77 years female: 75.55 years (2009 est.)

Timor-Leste total population: 67.27 years male: 64.92 years female: 69.75 years (2009 est.)

Togo total population: 58.69 years male: 56.56 years female: 60.88 years (2009 est.)

Tokelau total population: NA male: NA female: NA

Tonga total population: 70.73 years male: 68.18 years female: 73.41 years (2009 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago total population: 70.86 years male: 67.98 years female: 73.82 years (2009 est.)

Tunisia total population: 75.78 years male: 73.98 years female: 77.7 years (2009 est.)

Turkey total population: 71.96 years male: 70.12 years female: 73.89 years (2009 est.)

Turkmenistan total population: 67.87 years male: 64.94 years female: 70.95 years (2009 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands total population: 75.42 years male: 73.12 years female: 77.83 years (2009 est.)

Tuvalu total population: 69.29 years male: 66.99 years female: 71.7 years (2009 est.)

Uganda total population: 52.72 years male: 51.66 years female: 53.81 years (2009 est.)

Ukraine total population: 68.25 years male: 62.37 years female: 74.5 years (2009 est.)

United Arab Emirates total population: 76.11 years male: 73.56 years female: 78.78 years (2009 est.)

United Kingdom total population: 79.01 years male: 76.52 years female: 81.63 years (2009 est.)

United States total population: 78.11 years male: 75.65 years female: 80.69 years (2009 est.)

Uruguay total population: 76.35 years male: 73.1 years female: 79.72 years (2009 est.)

Uzbekistan total population: 71.96 years male: 68.95 years female: 75.15 years (2009 est.)

Vanuatu total population: 63.98 years male: 62.37 years female: 65.66 years (2009 est.)

Venezuela total population: 73.61 years male: 70.54 years female: 76.83 years (2009 est.)

Vietnam total population: 71.58 years male: 68.78 years female: 74.57 years (2009 est.)

Virgin Islands total population: 79.05 years male: 76.02 years female: 82.26 years (2009 est.)

Wallis and Futuna total population: 78.2 years male: 75.22 years female: 81.32 years (2009 est.)

West Bank total population: 74.54 years male: 72.54 years female: 76.65 years (2009 est.)

Western Sahara total population: 54.32 years male: 52 years female: 56.73 years (2009 est.)

World total population: 66.57 years male: 64.52 years female: 68.76 years (2009 est.)

Yemen total population: 63.27 years male: 61.3 years female: 65.33 years (2009 est.)

Zambia total population: 38.63 years male: 38.53 years female: 38.73 years (2009 est.)

Zimbabwe total population: 45.77 years male: 46.36 years female: 45.16 years (2009 est.)

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Field Listing :: Literacy

This entry includes a definition of literacy and Census Bureau percentages for the total population, males, and females. There are no universal definitions and standards of literacy. Unless otherwise specified, all rates are based on the most common definition - the ability to read and write at a specified age. Detailing the standards that individual countries use to assess the ability to read and write is beyond the scope of the Factbook. Information on literacy, while not a perfect measure of educational results, is probably the most easily available and valid for international comparisons. Low levels of literacy, and education in general, can impede the economic development of a country in the current rapidly changing, technology-driven world. Country

Literacy(%)

Afghanistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 28.1% male: 43.1% female: 12.6% (2000 est.)

Albania definition: age 9 and over can read and write total population: 98.7% male: 99.2% female: 98.3% (2001 census)

Algeria definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 69.9% male: 79.6% female: 60.1% (2002 est.)

American Samoa definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: 98% female: 97% (1980 est.)

Andorra definition: NA total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100%

Angola definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 67.4% male: 82.9% female: 54.2% (2001 est.)

Anguilla definition: age 12 and over can read and write total population: 95% male: 95% female: 95% (1984 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda definition: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling total population: 85.8% male: NA female: NA (2003 est.)

Argentina definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.2% male: 97.2% female: 97.2% (2001 census)

Armenia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2001 census)

Aruba definition: NA total population: 97.3% male: 97.5% female: 97.1% (2000 census)

Australia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Austria definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: NA female: NA

Azerbaijan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.8% male: 99.5% female: 98.2% (1999 census)

Bahamas, The definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 95.6% male: 94.7% female: 96.5% (2003 est.)

Bahrain definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 86.5% male: 88.6% female: 83.6% (2001 census)

Bangladesh definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 47.9% male: 54% female: 41.4% (2001 Census)

Barbados definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 99.7% male: 99.7% female: 99.7% (2002 est.)

Belarus definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.6% male: 99.8% female: 99.4% (1999 census)

Belgium definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Belize definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 76.9% male: 76.7% female: 77.1% (2000 census)

Benin definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 34.7% male: 47.9% female: 23.3% (2002 census)

Bermuda definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: 98% female: 99% (2005 est.)

Bhutan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 47% male: 60% female: 34% (2003 est.)

Bolivia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 86.7% male: 93.1% female: 80.7% (2001 census)

Bosnia and Herzegovina definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.7% male: 99% female: 94.4% (2000 est.)

Botswana definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 81.2% male: 80.4% female: 81.8% (2003 est.)

Brazil definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 88.6% male: 88.4% female: 88.8% (2004 est.)

British Virgin Islands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.8% (1991 est.) male: NA female: NA

Brunei definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.7% male: 95.2% female: 90.2% (2001 census)

Bulgaria definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.2% male: 98.7% female: 97.7% (2001 census)

Burkina Faso definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 21.8% male: 29.4% female: 15.2% (2003 est.)

Burma definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89.9% male: 93.9% female: 86.4% (2006 est.)

Burundi definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 59.3% male: 67.3% female: 52.2% (2000 est.)

Cambodia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 73.6% male: 84.7% female: 64.1% (2004 est.)

Cameroon definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 67.9% male: 77% female: 59.8% (2001 est.)

Canada definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Cape Verde definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 76.6% male: 85.8% female: 69.2% (2003 est.)

Cayman Islands definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 98% male: 98% female: 98% (1970 est.)

Central African Republic definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 48.6% male: 64.8% female: 33.5% (2000 est.)

Chad definition: age 15 and over can read and write French or Arabic total population: 25.7% male: 40.8% female: 12.8% (2000 est.)

Chile definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 95.7% male: 95.8% female: 95.6% (2002 census)

China definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.9% male: 95.1% female: 86.5% (2000 census)

Christmas Island NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands NA

Colombia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.4% male: 90.1% female: 90.7% (2005 census)

Comoros definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 56.5% male: 63.6% female: 49.3% (2003 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the definition: age 15 and over can read and write French, Lingala, Kingwana, or Tshiluba total population: 67.2% male: 80.9% female: 54.1% (2001 est.)

Congo, Republic of the definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 83.8% male: 89.6% female: 78.4% (2003 est.)

Cook Islands definition: NA total population: 95% male: NA female: NA

Costa Rica definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 94.9% male: 94.7% female: 95.1% (2000 census)

Cote d'Ivoire definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 48.7% male: 60.8% female: 38.6% (2000 est.)

Croatia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.1% male: 99.3% female: 97.1% (2001 census)

Cuba definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.8% male: 99.8% female: 99.8% (2002 census)

Cyprus definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.6% male: 98.9% female: 96.3% (2001 census)

Czech Republic definition: NA total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Denmark definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Djibouti definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 67.9% male: 78% female: 58.4% (2003 est.)

Dominica definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 94% male: 94% female: 94% (2003 est.)

Dominican Republic definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87% male: 86.8% female: 87.2% (2002 census)

Ecuador definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91% male: 92.3% female: 89.7% (2001 census)

Egypt definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 71.4% male: 83% female: 59.4% (2005 est.)

El Salvador definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 80.2% male: 82.8% female: 77.7% (2003 est.)

Equatorial Guinea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87% male: 93.4% female: 80.5% (2000 est.)

Eritrea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 58.6% male: 69.9% female: 47.6% (2003 est.)

Estonia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.8% male: 99.8% female: 99.8% (2000 census)

Ethiopia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 42.7% male: 50.3% female: 35.1% (2003 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) NA

Faroe Islands NA; note - probably 99%, the same as Denmark proper

Fiji definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.7% male: 95.5% female: 91.9% (2003 est.)

Finland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2000 est.)

France definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

French Polynesia definition: age 14 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: 98% female: 98% (1977 est.)

Gabon definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 63.2% male: 73.7% female: 53.3% (1995 est.)

Gambia, The definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 40.1% male: 47.8% female: 32.8% (2003 est.)

Gaza Strip definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.4% male: 96.7% female: 88% (2004 est.)

Georgia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2004 est.)

Germany definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Ghana definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 57.9% male: 66.4% female: 49.8% (2000 census)

Gibraltar definition: NA total population: above 80% male: NA female: NA

Greece definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96% male: 97.8% female: 94.2% (2001 census)

Greenland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2001 est.)

Grenada definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96% male: NA female: NA (2003 est.)

Guam definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (1990 est.)

Guatemala definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 69.1% male: 75.4% female: 63.3% (2002 census)

Guernsey NA

Guinea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 29.5% male: 42.6% female: 18.1% (2003 est.)

Guinea-Bissau definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 42.4% male: 58.1% female: 27.4% (2003 est.)

Guyana definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 98.8% male: 99.1% female: 98.5% (2003 est.)

Haiti definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 52.9% male: 54.8% female: 51.2% (2003 est.)

Holy See (Vatican City) definition: NA total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100%

Honduras definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 80% male: 79.8% female: 80.2% (2001 census)

Hong Kong definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 93.5% male: 96.9% female: 89.6% (2002)

Hungary definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.5% female: 99.3% (2003 est.)

Iceland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

India definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61% male: 73.4% female: 47.8% (2001 census)

Indonesia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.4% male: 94% female: 86.8% (2004 est.)

Iran definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 77% male: 83.5% female: 70.4% (2002 est.)

Iraq definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 74.1% male: 84.1% female: 64.2% (2000 est.)

Ireland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Isle of Man NA

Israel definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.1% male: 98.5% female: 95.9% (2004 est.)

Italy definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.4% male: 98.8% female: 98% (2001 census)

Jamaica definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 87.9% male: 84.1% female: 91.6% (2003 est.)

Japan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2002)

Jersey NA

Jordan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89.9% male: 95.1% female: 84.7% (2003 est.)

Kazakhstan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.5% male: 99.8% female: 99.3% (1999 est.)

Kenya definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 85.1% male: 90.6% female: 79.7% (2003 est.)

Kiribati NA

Korea, North definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99%

Korea, South definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.9% male: 99.2% female: 96.6% (2002)

Kosovo definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.9% male: 96.6% female: 87.5% (2007 Census)

Kuwait definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.3% male: 94.4% female: 91% (2005 census)

Kyrgyzstan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.7% male: 99.3% female: 98.1% (1999 census)

Laos definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 68.7% male: 77% female: 60.9% (2001 est.)

Latvia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.7% male: 99.8% female: 99.7% (2000 census)

Lebanon definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87.4% male: 93.1% female: 82.2% (2003 est.)

Lesotho definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 84.8% male: 74.5% female: 94.5% (2003 est.)

Liberia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 57.5% male: 73.3% female: 41.6% (2003 est.)

Libya definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 82.6% male: 92.4% female: 72% (2003 est.)

Liechtenstein definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100%

Lithuania definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.6% male: 99.6% female: 99.6% (2001 census)

Luxembourg definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2000 est.)

Macau definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.3% male: 95.3% female: 87.8% (2001 census)

Macedonia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.1% male: 98.2% female: 94.1% (2002 census)

Madagascar definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 68.9% male: 75.5% female: 62.5% (2003 est.)

Malawi definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 62.7% male: 76.1% female: 49.8% (2003 est.)

Malaysia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 88.7% male: 92% female: 85.4% (2000 census)

Maldives definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.3% male: 96.2% female: 96.4% (2000 census)

Mali definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 46.4% male: 53.5% female: 39.6% (2003 est.)

Malta definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 92.8% male: 92% female: 93.6% (2003 est.)

Marshall Islands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.7% male: 93.6% female: 93.7% (1999)

Mauritania definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 51.2% male: 59.5% female: 43.4% (2000 census)

Mauritius definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 84.4% male: 88.4% female: 80.5% (2000 census)

Mayotte NA

Mexico definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91% male: 92.4% female: 89.6% (2004 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89% male: 91% female: 88% (1980 est.)

Moldova definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.1% male: 99.7% female: 98.6% (2005 est.)

Monaco definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Mongolia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.8% male: 98% female: 97.5% (2000 census)

Montserrat definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 97% male: 97% female: 97% (1970 est.)

Morocco definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 52.3% male: 65.7% female: 39.6% (2004 census)

Mozambique definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 47.8% male: 63.5% female: 32.7% (2003 est.)

Namibia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 85% male: 86.8% female: 83.5% (2001 census)

Nauru NA

Nepal definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 48.6% male: 62.7% female: 34.9% (2001 census)

Netherlands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Netherlands Antilles definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.7% male: 96.7% female: 96.8% (2003 est.)

New Caledonia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.2% male: 96.8% female: 95.5% (1996 census)

New Zealand definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Nicaragua definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 67.5% male: 67.2% female: 67.8% (2003 est.)

Niger definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 28.7% male: 42.9% female: 15.1% (2005 est.)

Nigeria definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 68% male: 75.7% female: 60.6% (2003 est.)

Niue definition: NA total population: 95% male: NA female: NA

Norfolk Island NA

Northern Mariana Islands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: 97% female: 96% (1980 est.)

Norway definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100%

Oman definition: NA total population: 81.4% male: 86.8% female: 73.5% (2003 census)

Pakistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 49.9% male: 63% female: 36% (2005 est.)

Palau definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92% male: 93% female: 90% (1980 est.)

Panama definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.9% male: 92.5% female: 91.2% (2000 census)

Papua New Guinea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 57.3% male: 63.4% female: 50.9% (2000 census)

Paraguay definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 94% male: 94.9% female: 93% (2003 est.)

Peru definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.9% male: 96.4% female: 89.4% (2007 Census)

Philippines definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.6% male: 92.5% female: 92.7% (2000 census)

Pitcairn Islands NA

Poland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.8% male: 99.8% female: 99.7% (2003 est.)

Portugal definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.3% male: 95.5% female: 91.3% (2003 est.)

Puerto Rico definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 94.1% male: 93.9% female: 94.4% (2002 est.)

Qatar definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89% male: 89.1% female: 88.6% (2004 census)

Romania definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.3% male: 98.4% female: 96.3% (2002 census)

Russia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2002 census)

Rwanda definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 70.4% male: 76.3% female: 64.7% (2003 est.)

Saint Helena definition: age 20 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: 97% female: 98% (1987 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 97.8% male: NA female: NA (2003 est.)

Saint Lucia definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 90.1% male: 89.5% female: 90.6% (2001 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (1982 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 96% male: 96% female: 96% (1970 est.)

Samoa definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.7% male: 99.6% female: 99.7% (2003 est.)

San Marino definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 96% male: 97% female: 95%

Sao Tome and Principe definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 84.9% male: 92.2% female: 77.9% (2001 census)

Saudi Arabia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 78.8% male: 84.7% female: 70.8% (2003 est.)

Senegal definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 39.3% male: 51.1% female: 29.2% (2002 est.)

Serbia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.4% male: 98.9% female: 94.1% (2003 census) note: includes Montenegro

Seychelles definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.8% male: 91.4% female: 92.3% (2002 census)

Sierra Leone definition: age 15 and over can read and write English, Mende, Temne, or Arabic total population: 35.1% male: 46.9% female: 24.4% (2004 est.)

Singapore definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.5% male: 96.6% female: 88.6% (2000 census)

Slovakia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.6% male: 99.7% female: 99.6% (2004)

Slovenia definition: NA total population: 99.7% male: 99.7% female: 99.6%

Solomon Islands NA

Somalia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 37.8% male: 49.7% female: 25.8% (2001 est.)

South Africa definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 86.4% male: 87% female: 85.7% (2003 est.)

Spain definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.9% male: 98.7% female: 97.2% (2003 est.)

Sri Lanka definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.7% male: 92.3% female: 89.1% (2001 census)

Sudan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61.1% male: 71.8% female: 50.5% (2003 est.)

Suriname definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89.6% male: 92% female: 87.2% (2004 census)

Svalbard NA

Swaziland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 81.6% male: 82.6% female: 80.8% (2003 est.)

Sweden definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Switzerland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Syria definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 79.6% male: 86% female: 73.6% (2004 census)

Taiwan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.1% male: NA female: NA (2003)

Tajikistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.5% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2000 census)

Tanzania definition: age 15 and over can read and write Kiswahili (Swahili), English, or Arabic total population: 69.4% male: 77.5% female: 62.2% (2002 census)

Thailand definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.6% male: 94.9% female: 90.5% (2000 census)

Timor-Leste definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 58.6% male: NA female: NA (2002)

Togo definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 60.9% male: 75.4% female: 46.9% (2003 est.)

Tokelau NA

Tonga definition: can read and write Tongan and/or English total population: 98.9% male: 98.8% female: 99% (1999 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.6% male: 99.1% female: 98% (2003 est.)

Tunisia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 74.3% male: 83.4% female: 65.3% (2004 census)

Turkey definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87.4% male: 95.3% female: 79.6% (2004 est.)

Turkmenistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.8% male: 99.3% female: 98.3% (1999 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 98% male: 99% female: 98% (1970 est.)

Tuvalu NA

Uganda definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 66.8% male: 76.8% female: 57.7% (2002 census)

Ukraine definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2001 census)

United Arab Emirates definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 77.9% male: 76.1% female: 81.7% (2003 est.)

United Kingdom definition: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

United States definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Uruguay definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: 97.6% female: 98.4% (2003 est.)

Uzbekistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.3% male: 99.6% female: 99% (2003 est.)

Vanuatu definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 74% male: NA female: NA (1999 census)

Venezuela definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93% male: 93.3% female: 92.7% (2001 census)

Vietnam definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.3% male: 93.9% female: 86.9% (2002 est.)

Virgin Islands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90-95% est. male: NA female: NA (2005 est.)

Wallis and Futuna definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 50% male: 50% female: 50% (1969 est.)

West Bank definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.4% male: 96.7% female: 88% (2004 est.)

Western Sahara NA

World definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 82% male: 87% female: 77% note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.)

Yemen definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 50.2% male: 70.5% female: 30% (2003 est.)

Zambia definition: age 15 and over can read and write English total population: 80.6% male: 86.8% female: 74.8% (2003 est.)

Zimbabwe definition: age 15 and over can read and write English total population: 90.7% male: 94.2% female: 87.2% (2003 est.)

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Field Listing :: Manpower available for military service

This entry gives the number of males and females falling in the military age range for a country (defined as being ages 16-49) and assumes that every individual is fit to serve. Country

Manpower available for military service

Afghanistan males age 16-49: 7,431,147 females age 16-49: 7,004,819 (2008 est.)

Albania males age 16-49: 944,592 females age 16-49: 908,527 (2008 est.)

Algeria males age 16-49: 9,736,757 females age 16-49: 9,590,978 (2008 est.)

Andorra males age 16-49: 18,685 (2008 est.)

Angola males age 16-49: 2,856,492 females age 16-49: 2,755,864 (2008 est.)

Anguilla males age 16-49: 3,538 (2008 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda males age 16-49: 19,560 females age 16-49: 18,977 (2008 est.)

Argentina males age 16-49: 10,029,488 females age 16-49: 9,889,002 (2008 est.)

Armenia males age 16-49: 809,576 females age 16-49: 870,864 (2008 est.)

Aruba males age 16-49: 24,585 females age 16-49: 25,742 (2008 est.)

Australia males age 16-49: 4,999,988 females age 16-49: 4,870,043 (2008 est.)

Austria males age 16-49: 1,986,411 females age 16-49: 1,944,834 (2008 est.)

Azerbaijan males age 16-49: 2,278,888 females age 16-49: 2,291,770 (2008 est.)

Bahamas, The males age 16-49: 80,200 (2008 est.)

Bahrain males age 16-49: 210,938 females age 16-49: 170,471 (2008 est.)

Bangladesh males age 16-49: 41,199,340 (2008 est.)

Barbados males age 16-49: 75,265 females age 16-49: 75,389 (2008 est.)

Belarus males age 16-49: 2,491,643 females age 16-49: 2,528,779 (2008 est.)

Belgium males age 16-49: 2,407,128 females age 16-49: 2,340,039 (2008 est.)

Belize males age 16-49: 74,605 females age 16-49: 72,926 (2008 est.)

Benin males age 16-49: 1,908,457 females age 16-49: 1,882,421 (2008 est.)

Bermuda males age 16-49: 15,623 (2008 est.)

Bhutan males age 16-49: 190,104 females age 16-49: 167,289 (2008 est.)

Bolivia males age 16-49: 2,295,746 females age 16-49: 2,366,828 (2008 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina males age 16-49: 1,212,007 females age 16-49: 1,170,645 (2008 est.)

Botswana males age 16-49: 487,853 females age 16-49: 464,278 (2008 est.)

Brazil males age 16-49: 52,449,957 females age 16-49: 52,375,921 (2008 est.)

British Virgin Islands males age 16-49: 7,101 (2008 est.)

Brunei males age 16-49: 108,356 females age 16-49: 110,153 (2008 est.)

Bulgaria males age 16-49: 1,701,979 females age 16-49: 1,691,092 (2008 est.)

Burkina Faso males age 16-49: 3,364,288 (2008 est.)

Burma males age 16-49: 13,402,788 females age 16-49: 13,437,042 (2008 est.)

Burundi males age 16-49: 1,878,544 females age 16-49: 1,851,676 (2008 est.)

Cambodia males age 16-49: 3,759,034 females age 16-49: 3,784,333 (2008 est.)

Cameroon males age 16-49: 4,321,175 females age 16-49: 4,228,625 (2008 est.)

Canada males age 16-49: 8,072,010 females age 16-49: 7,813,462 (2008 est.)

Cape Verde males age 16-49: 103,650 females age 16-49: 103,553 (2008 est.)

Cayman Islands males age 16-49: 11,790 (2008 est.)

Central African Republic males age 16-49: 1,032,828 females age 16-49: 999,330 (2008 est.)

Chad males age 16-49: 1,906,545 females age 16-49: 2,258,758 (2008 est.)

Chile males age 16-49: 4,242,912 females age 16-49: 4,182,509 (2008 est.)

China males age 16-49: 375,009,345 females age 16-49: 354,314,328 (2008 est.)

Colombia males age 16-49: 11,478,109 females age 16-49: 11,809,279 (2008 est.)

Comoros males age 16-49: 167,850 females age 16-49: 167,362 (2008 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the males age 16-49: 14,101,263 (2008 est.)

Congo, Republic of the males age 16-49: 842,771 females age 16-49: 833,624 (2008 est.)

Costa Rica males age 16-49: 1,134,205 females age 16-49: 1,095,763 (2008 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire males age 16-49: 4,369,735 females age 16-49: 4,287,042 (2008 est.)

Croatia males age 16-49: 1,035,712 females age 16-49: 1,037,896 (2008 est.)

Cuba males age 16-49: 3,094,388 females age 16-49: 3,024,876 (2008 est.)

Cyprus Greek Cypriot National Guard (GCNG): males age 16-49: 199,767 females age 16-49: 190,665 (2008 est.)

Czech Republic males age 16-49: 2,522,383 females age 16-49: 2,425,095 (2008 est.)

Denmark males age 16-49: 1,235,067 females age 16-49: 1,215,418 (2008 est.)

Djibouti males age 16-49: 111,274 females age 16-49: 105,168 (2008 est.)

Dominica males age 16-49: 18,584 (2008 est.)

Dominican Republic males age 16-49: 2,440,203 females age 16-49: 2,326,694 (2008 est.)

Ecuador males age 16-49: 3,536,602 females age 16-49: 3,559,188 (2008 est.)

Egypt males age 16-49: 21,247,777 females age 16-49: 20,406,408 (2008 est.)

El Salvador males age 16-49: 1,634,816 females age 16-49: 1,775,474 (2008 est.)

Equatorial Guinea males age 16-49: 136,725 females age 16-49: 138,018 (2008 est.)

Eritrea males age 16-49: 1,108,836 females age 16-49: 1,096,120 (2008 est.)

Estonia males age 16-49: 306,273 females age 16-49: 317,852 (2008 est.)

Ethiopia males age 16-49: 17,666,967 females age 16-49: 17,530,211 (2008 est.)

Faroe Islands males age 16-49: 11,725 (2008 est.)

Fiji males age 16-49: 242,567 females age 16-49: 238,556 (2008 est.)

Finland males age 16-49: 1,169,910 females age 16-49: 1,121,187 (2008 est.)

France males age 16-49: 14,646,427 females age 16-49: 14,379,630 (2008 est.)

French Polynesia males age 16-49: 79,540 (2008 est.)

Gabon males age 16-49: 331,181 females age 16-49: 332,498 (2008 est.)

Gambia, The males age 16-49: 379,668 females age 16-49: 384,438 (2008 est.)

Gaza Strip males age 16-49: 337,670 (2008 est.)

Georgia males age 16-49: 1,113,251 females age 16-49: 1,168,021 (2008 est.)

Germany males age 16-49: 19,594,118 females age 16-49: 18,543,955 (2008 est.)

Ghana males age 16-49: 5,802,096 females age 16-49: 5,729,939 (2008 est.)

Gibraltar males age 16-49: 6,308 (2008 est.)

Greece males age 16-49: 2,535,174 females age 16-49: 2,517,273 (2008 est.)

Greenland males age 16-49: 15,221 (2008 est.)

Grenada males age 16-49: 27,309 (2008 est.)

Guatemala males age 16-49: 2,861,696 females age 16-49: 3,062,967 (2008 est.)

Guinea males age 16-49: 2,230,049 females age 16-49: 2,193,236 (2008 est.)

Guinea-Bissau males age 16-49: 344,087 females age 16-49: 347,886 (2008 est.)

Guyana males age 16-49: 220,797 (2008 est.)

Haiti males age 16-49: 2,047,083 females age 16-49: 2,047,953 (2008 est.)

Honduras males age 16-49: 1,868,940 females age 16-49: 1,825,770 (2008 est.)

Hong Kong males age 16-49: 1,772,820 females age 16-49: 1,941,448 (2008 est.)

Hungary males age 16-49: 2,391,400 females age 16-49: 2,337,240 (2008 est.)

Iceland males age 16-49: 74,896 (2008 est.)

India males age 16-49: 301,094,084 females age 16-49: 283,047,141 (2008 est.)

Indonesia males age 16-49: 63,800,825 females age 16-49: 61,729,717 (2008 est.)

Iran males age 16-49: 20,212,275 females age 16-49: 19,638,751 (2008 est.)

Iraq males age 16-49: 7,086,200 females age 16-49: 6,808,954 (2008 est.)

Ireland males age 16-49: 1,024,635 females age 16-49: 1,024,276 (2008 est.)

Israel males age 16-49: 1,717,362 females age 16-49: 1,636,574 (2008 est.)

Italy males age 16-49: 13,884,079 females age 16-49: 13,158,378 (2008 est.)

Jamaica males age 16-49: 688,480 females age 16-49: 709,548 (2008 est.)

Japan males age 16-49: 27,819,804 females age 16-49: 26,863,794 (2008 est.)

Jordan males age 16-49: 1,812,551 females age 16-49: 1,559,155 (2008 est.)

Kazakhstan males age 16-49: 4,176,731 females age 16-49: 4,219,636 (2008 est.)

Kenya males age 16-49: 9,044,685 females age 16-49: 8,805,736 (2008 est.)

Kiribati males age 16-49: 26,377 (2008 est.)

Korea, North males age 16-49: 6,225,747 females age 16-49: 6,188,270 (2008 est.)

Korea, South males age 16-49: 13,691,809 females age 16-49: 13,029,859 (2008 est.)

Kuwait males age 16-49: 1,032,408 females age 16-49: 568,657 (2008 est.)

Kyrgyzstan males age 16-49: 1,398,878 females age 16-49: 1,419,374 (2008 est.)

Laos males age 16-49: 1,549,774 females age 16-49: 1,570,702 (2008 est.)

Latvia males age 16-49: 568,683 females age 16-49: 565,826 (2008 est.)

Lebanon males age 16-49: 1,106,879 females age 16-49: 1,122,595 (2008 est.)

Lesotho males age 16-49: 525,203 females age 16-49: 522,485 (2008 est.)

Liberia males age 16-49: 729,813 females age 16-49: 741,223 (2008 est.)

Libya males age 16-49: 1,682,183 females age 16-49: 1,611,001 (2008 est.)

Liechtenstein males age 16-49: 8,102 (2008 est.)

Lithuania males age 16-49: 915,187 females age 16-49: 906,097 (2008 est.)

Luxembourg males age 16-49: 116,305 females age 16-49: 114,566 (2008 est.)

Macau males age 16-49: 121,825 (2008 est.)

Macedonia males age 16-49: 532,856 females age 16-49: 513,684 (2008 est.)

Madagascar males age 16-49: 4,443,341 females age 16-49: 4,441,124 (2008 est.)

Malawi males age 16-49: 3,050,444 (2008 est.)

Malaysia males age 16-49: 6,440,338 females age 16-49: 6,280,826 (2008 est.)

Maldives males age 16-49: 89,505 females age 16-49: 85,745 (2008 est.)

Mali males age 16-49: 2,603,700 females age 16-49: 2,441,776 (2008 est.)

Malta males age 16-49: 96,309 females age 16-49: 92,242 (2008 est.)

Marshall Islands males age 16-49: 15,708 (2008 est.)

Mauritania males age 16-49: 740,675 females age 16-49: 744,709 (2008 est.)

Mauritius males age 16-49: 341,018 (2008 est.)

Mexico males age 16-49: 27,774,688 females age 16-49: 29,376,791 (2008 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of males age 16-49: 26,686 (2008 est.)

Moldova males age 16-49: 1,161,924 females age 16-49: 1,187,771 (2008 est.)

Monaco males age 16-49: 6,687 (2008 est.)

Mongolia males age 16-49: 865,425 females age 16-49: 860,669 (2008 est.)

Montserrat males age 16-49: 2,528 (2008 est.)

Morocco males age 16-49: 9,152,580 females age 16-49: 9,080,830 (2008 est.)

Mozambique males age 16-49: 4,545,975 (2008 est.)

Namibia males age 16-49: 527,948 (2008 est.)

Nauru males age 16-49: 3,470 (2008 est.)

Nepal males age 16-49: 7,322,965 females age 16-49: 6,859,064 (2008 est.)

Netherlands males age 16-49: 3,950,825 females age 16-49: 3,850,800 (2008 est.)

Netherlands Antilles males age 16-49: 55,365 females age 16-49: 57,060 (2008 est.)

New Caledonia males age 16-49: 57,738 (2008 est.)

New Zealand males age 16-49: 1,009,298 females age 16-49: 997,134 (2008 est.)

Nicaragua males age 16-49: 1,513,312 females age 16-49: 1,507,999 (2008 est.)

Niger males age 16-49: 2,871,868 females age 16-49: 2,696,966 (2008 est.)

Nigeria males age 16-49: 31,929,204 females age 16-49: 30,638,979 (2008 est.)

Norway males age 16-49: 1,078,181 females age 16-49: 1,046,550 (2008 est.)

Oman males age 16-49: 802,455 females age 16-49: 626,841 (2008 est.)

Pakistan males age 16-49: 42,633,765 females age 16-49: 40,114,017 (2008 est.)

Palau males age 16-49: 5,973 (2008 est.)

Panama males age 16-49: 851,044 (2008 est.)

Papua New Guinea males age 16-49: 1,481,417 females age 16-49: 1,385,040 (2008 est.)

Paraguay males age 16-49: 1,589,873 females age 16-49: 1,585,573 (2008 est.)

Peru males age 16-49: 7,653,898 females age 16-49: 7,531,329 (2008 est.)

Philippines males age 16-49: 23,547,252 females age 16-49: 23,177,487 (2008 est.)

Poland males age 16-49: 9,741,508 females age 16-49: 9,514,843 (2008 est.)

Portugal males age 16-49: 2,573,913 females age 16-49: 2,498,262 (2008 est.)

Qatar males age 16-49: 320,383 females age 16-49: 167,475 (2008 est.)

Romania males age 16-49: 5,682,299 females age 16-49: 5,557,098 (2008 est.)

Russia males age 16-49: 36,219,908 females age 16-49: 37,019,853 (2008 est.)

Rwanda males age 16-49: 2,430,469 females age 16-49: 2,392,933 (2008 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis males age 16-49: 10,095 females age 16-49: 10,081 (2008 est.)

Saint Lucia males age 16-49: 48,358 (2008 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines males age 16-49: 34,373 (2008 est.)

Samoa males age 16-49: 53,417 (2008 est.)

San Marino males age 16-49: 6,613 (2008 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe males age 16-49: 42,340 females age 16-49: 43,781 (2008 est.)

Saudi Arabia males age 16-49: 8,547,441 females age 16-49: 6,381,098 (2008 est.)

Senegal males age 16-49: 2,943,619 females age 16-49: 2,955,179 (2008 est.)

Seychelles males age 16-49: 23,598 females age 16-49: 24,424 (2008 est.)

Sierra Leone males age 16-49: 1,315,561 (2008 est.)

Singapore males age 16-49: 1,277,862 (2008 est.)

Slovakia males age 16-49: 1,420,966 females age 16-49: 1,386,259 (2008 est.)

Slovenia males age 16-49: 494,496 females age 16-49: 481,180 (2008 est.)

Solomon Islands males age 16-49: 141,051 (2008 est.)

Somalia males age 16-49: 2,181,050 females age 16-49: 2,125,558 (2008 est.)

South Africa males age 16-49: 11,622,507 females age 16-49: 11,501,537 (2008 est.)

Spain males age 16-49: 10,033,069 females age 16-49: 9,764,937 (2008 est.)

Sri Lanka males age 16-49: 5,458,720 females age 16-49: 5,594,006 (2008 est.)

Sudan males age 16-49: 9,639,923 females age 16-49: 9,321,106 (2008 est.)

Suriname males age 16-49: 130,534 females age 16-49: 130,243 (2008 est.)

Swaziland males age 16-49: 266,311 (2008 est.)

Sweden males age 16-49: 2,052,890 females age 16-49: 1,980,550 (2008 est.)

Switzerland males age 16-49: 1,852,580 females age 16-49: 1,807,667 (2008 est.)

Syria males age 16-49: 5,251,875 females age 16-49: 4,966,367 (2008 est.)

Taiwan males age 16-49: 6,283,134 females age 16-49: 6,098,599 (2008 est.)

Tajikistan males age 16-49: 1,897,356 females age 16-49: 1,911,594 (2008 est.)

Tanzania males age 16-49: 9,108,177 (2008 est.)

Thailand males age 16-49: 17,553,410 females age 16-49: 17,751,268 (2008 est.)

Timor-Leste males age 16-49: 284,903 females age 16-49: 272,212 (2008 est.)

Togo males age 16-49: 1,365,505 females age 16-49: 1,374,993 (2008 est.)

Tonga males age 16-49: 32,053 females age 16-49: 30,981 (2008 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago males age 16-49: 301,561 females age 16-49: 264,225 (2008 est.)

Tunisia males age 16-49: 2,992,249 females age 16-49: 2,912,819 (2008 est.)

Turkey males age 16-49: 20,213,205 females age 16-49: 19,432,688 (2008 est.)

Turkmenistan males age 16-49: 1,316,698 females age 16-49: 1,331,005 (2008 est.)

Uganda males age 16-49: 6,532,894 females age 16-49: 6,352,416 (2008 est.)

Ukraine males age 16-49: 11,457,562 females age 16-49: 11,767,357 (2008 est.)

United Arab Emirates males age 16-49: 2,405,884 (includes non-nationals) females age 16-49: 884,853 (2008 est.)

United Kingdom males age 16-49: 14,729,500 females age 16-49: 14,125,600 (2008 est.)

United States males age 16-49: 72,715,332 females age 16-49: 71,638,785 (2008 est.)

Uruguay males age 16-49: 837,252 females age 16-49: 824,096 (2008 est.)

Uzbekistan males age 16-49: 7,480,484 females age 16-49: 7,542,017 (2008 est.)

Vanuatu males age 16-49: 58,900 (2008 est.)

Venezuela males age 16-49: 6,647,124 females age 16-49: 6,801,133 (2008 est.)

Vietnam males age 16-49: 24,586,328 females age 16-49: 24,335,132 (2008 est.)

Yemen males age 16-49: 5,080,038 females age 16-49: 4,852,555 (2008 est.)

Zambia males age 16-49: 2,678,668 females age 16-49: 2,567,433 (2008 est.)

Zimbabwe males age 16-49: 3,264,258 females age 16-49: 3,048,049 (2008 est.)

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Field Listing :: Maritime claims

This entry includes the following claims, the definitions of which are excerpted from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which alone contains the full and definitive descriptions: territorial sea - the sovereignty of a coastal state extends beyond its land territory and internal waters to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea in the UNCLOS (Part II); this sovereignty extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as its underlying seabed and subsoil; every state has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles; the normal baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the mean low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal state; the UNCLOS describes specific rules for archipelagic states. contiguous zone - according to the UNCLOS (Article 33), this is a zone contiguous to a coastal state's territorial sea, over which it may exercise the control necessary to: prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration, or sanitary laws and regulations within its territory or territorial sea; punish infringement of the above laws and regulations committed within its territory or territorial sea; the contiguous zone may not extend beyond 24 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured (e.g. the US has claimed a 12-nautical mile contiguous zone in addition to its 12-nautical mile territorial sea). exclusive economic zone (EEZ) - the UNCLOS (Part V) defines the EEZ as a zone beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which a coastal state has: sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents, and winds; jurisdiction with regard to the establishment and use of artificial islands, installations, and structures; marine scientific research; the protection and preservation of the marine environment; the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone shall not exceed 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. continental shelf - the UNCLOS (Article 76) defines the continental shelf of a coastal state as comprising the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance; the continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the landmass of the coastal state, and consists of the seabed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise; wherever the continental margin extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the baseline, coastal states may extend their claim to a distance not to exceed 350 nautical miles from the baseline or 100 nautical miles from the 2500 meter isobath; it does not include the deep ocean floor with its oceanic ridges or the subsoil thereof. exclusive fishing zone - while this term is not used in the UNCLOS, some states (e.g., the United Kingdom) have chosen not to claim an EEZ, but rather to claim jurisdiction over the living resources off their coast; in such cases, the term exclusive fishing zone is often used; the breadth of this zone is normally the same as the EEZ or 200 nautical miles. Country

Maritime claims

Afghanistan none (landlocked)

Albania territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Algeria territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 32-52 nm

American Samoa territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Andorra none (landlocked)

Angola territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Anguilla territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Antarctica Australia, Chile, and Argentina claim Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) rights or similar over 200 nm extensions seaward from their continental claims, but like the claims themselves, these zones are not accepted by other countries; 21 of 28 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the US have reserved the right to do so) and do not recognize the claims of the other nations; also see the Disputes - international entry

Antigua and Barbuda territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Argentina territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Armenia none (landlocked)

Aruba territorial sea: 12 nm

Ashmore and Cartier Islands territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Australia territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Austria none (landlocked)

Azerbaijan none (landlocked)

Bahamas, The territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Bahrain territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: extending to boundaries to be determined

Bangladesh territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 18 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: up to the outer limits of the continental margin

Barbados territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Belarus none (landlocked)

Belgium territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: geographic coordinates define outer limit continental shelf: median line with neighbors

Belize territorial sea: 12 nm in the north, 3 nm in the south; note - from the mouth of the Sarstoon River to Ranguana Cay, Belize's territorial sea is 3 nm; according to Belize's Maritime Areas Act, 1992, the purpose of this limitation is to provide a framework for negotiating a definitive agreement on territorial differences with Guatemala exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Benin territorial sea: 200 nm

Bermuda territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Bhutan none (landlocked)

Bolivia none (landlocked)

Bosnia and Herzegovina no data available

Botswana none (landlocked)

Bouvet Island territorial sea: 4 nm

Brazil territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin

British Indian Ocean Territory territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

British Virgin Islands territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Brunei territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm or to median line

Bulgaria territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Burkina Faso none (landlocked)

Burma territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Burundi none (landlocked)

Cambodia territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Cameroon territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm

Canada territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Cape Verde measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Cayman Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Central African Republic none (landlocked)

Chad none (landlocked)

Chile territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200/350 nm

China territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Christmas Island territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Clipperton Island territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Cocos (Keeling) Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Colombia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Comoros territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Congo, Democratic Republic of the territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: boundaries with neighbors

Congo, Republic of the territorial sea: 200 nm

Cook Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Coral Sea Islands territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Costa Rica territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Cote d'Ivoire territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Croatia territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Cuba territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Cyprus territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Czech Republic none (landlocked)

Denmark territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Djibouti territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Dominica territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Dominican Republic measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 6 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Ecuador territorial sea: 200 nm continental shelf: 100 nm from 2,500-m isobath

Egypt territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

El Salvador territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Equatorial Guinea territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Eritrea territorial sea: 12 nm

Estonia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: limits fixed in coordination with neighboring states

Ethiopia none (landlocked)

European Union NA

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Faroe Islands territorial sea: 3 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line

Fiji measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation; rectilinear shelf claim added

Finland territorial sea: 12 nm (in the Gulf of Finland - 3 nm) contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm; extends to continental shelf boundary with Sweden continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

France territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm (does not apply to the Mediterranean) continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

French Polynesia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

French Southern and Antarctic Lands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm from Iles Kerguelen and Iles Eparses (does not include the rest of French Southern and Antarctic Lands); Juan de Nova Island and Tromelin Island claim a continental shelf of 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Gabon territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Gambia, The territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 18 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm continental shelf: extent not specified

Gaza Strip Israeli-occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement - permanent status to be determined through further negotiation

Georgia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Germany territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Ghana territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Gibraltar territorial sea: 3 nm

Greece territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Greenland territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line continental shelf: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line

Grenada territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Guam territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Guatemala territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Guernsey territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm

Guinea territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Guinea-Bissau territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Guyana territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin

Haiti territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: to depth of exploitation

Heard Island and McDonald Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Holy See (Vatican City) none (landlocked)

Honduras territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: natural extension of territory or to 200 nm

Hong Kong territorial sea: 3 nm

Hungary none (landlocked)

Iceland territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

India territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Indonesia measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Iran territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: bilateral agreements or median lines in the Persian Gulf continental shelf: natural prolongation

Iraq territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: not specified

Ireland territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Isle of Man territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm

Israel territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: to depth of exploitation

Italy territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Jamaica measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin

Jan Mayen territorial sea: 4 nm contiguous zone: 10 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Japan territorial sea: 12 nm; between 3 nm and 12 nm in the international straits - La Perouse or Soya, Tsugaru, Osumi, and Eastern and Western Channels of the Korea or Tsushima Strait contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Jersey territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm

Jordan territorial sea: 3 nm

Kazakhstan none (landlocked)

Kenya territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Kiribati territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Korea, North territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm note: military boundary line 50 nm in the Sea of Japan and the exclusive economic zone limit in the Yellow Sea where all foreign vessels and aircraft without permission are banned

Korea, South territorial sea: 12 nm; between 3 nm and 12 nm in the Korea Strait contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: not specified

Kosovo none (landlocked)

Kuwait territorial sea: 12 nm

Kyrgyzstan none (landlocked)

Laos none (landlocked)

Latvia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Lebanon territorial sea: 12 nm

Lesotho none (landlocked)

Liberia territorial sea: 200 nm

Libya territorial sea: 12 nm note: Gulf of Sidra closing line - 32 degrees, 30 minutes north exclusive fishing zone: 62 nm

Liechtenstein none (landlocked)

Lithuania territorial sea: 12 nm

Luxembourg none (landlocked)

Macau not specified

Macedonia none (landlocked)

Madagascar territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500-m isobath

Malawi none (landlocked)

Malaysia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation; specified boundary in the South China Sea

Maldives measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Mali none (landlocked)

Malta territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 25 nm

Marshall Islands territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Mauritania territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Mauritius measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Mayotte territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Mexico territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Micronesia, Federated States of territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Moldova none (landlocked)

Monaco territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 12 nm

Mongolia none (landlocked)

Montenegro territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: defined by treaty

Montserrat territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Morocco territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Mozambique territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Namibia territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Nauru territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Navassa Island territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Nepal none (landlocked)

Netherlands territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Netherlands Antilles territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm

New Caledonia territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

New Zealand territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Nicaragua territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: natural prolongation

Niger none (landlocked)

Nigeria territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Niue territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Norfolk Island territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Northern Mariana Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Norway territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 10 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Oman territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Pakistan territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Palau territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Panama territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm or edge of continental margin

Papua New Guinea measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Paracel Islands NA

Paraguay none (landlocked)

Peru territorial sea: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Philippines territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to 100 nm from coastline as defined by 1898 treaty; since late 1970s has also claimed polygonal-shaped area in South China Sea up to 285 nm in breadth exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: to depth of exploitation

Pitcairn Islands territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Poland territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: defined by international treaties

Portugal territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Puerto Rico territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Qatar territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: as determined by bilateral agreements or the median line

Romania territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Russia territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Rwanda none (landlocked)

Saint Helena territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Saint Kitts and Nevis territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Saint Lucia territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Saint Pierre and Miquelon territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Samoa territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

San Marino none (landlocked)

Sao Tome and Principe measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Saudi Arabia territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 18 nm continental shelf: not specified

Senegal territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Serbia none (landlocked)

Seychelles territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Sierra Leone territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Singapore territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: within and beyond territorial sea, as defined in treaties and practice

Slovakia none (landlocked)

Slovenia territorial sea: 12 nm

Solomon Islands measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm

Somalia territorial sea: 200 nm

South Africa territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Spain territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm (applies only to the Atlantic Ocean)

Spratly Islands NA

Sri Lanka territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Sudan territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 18 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Suriname territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Svalbard territorial sea: 4 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm unilaterally claimed by Norway but not recognized by Russia

Swaziland none (landlocked)

Sweden territorial sea: 12 nm (adjustments made to return a portion of straits to high seas) exclusive economic zone: agreed boundaries or midlines continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Switzerland none (landlocked)

Syria territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm

Taiwan territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Tajikistan none (landlocked)

Tanzania territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Thailand territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Timor-Leste territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Togo territorial sea: 30 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Tokelau territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Tonga territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Trinidad and Tobago measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin

Tunisia territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 12 nm

Turkey territorial sea: 6 nm in the Aegean Sea; 12 nm in Black Sea and in Mediterranean Sea exclusive economic zone: in Black Sea only: to the maritime boundary agreed upon with the former USSR

Turkmenistan none (landlocked)

Turks and Caicos Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

Tuvalu territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Uganda none (landlocked)

Ukraine territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m or to the depth of exploitation

United Arab Emirates territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

United Kingdom territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm continental shelf: as defined in continental shelf orders or in accordance with agreed upon boundaries

United States territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: not specified

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Uruguay territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or edge of continental margin

Uzbekistan none (doubly landlocked)

Vanuatu measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Venezuela territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 15 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Vietnam territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Virgin Islands territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Wake Island territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Wallis and Futuna territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

West Bank none (landlocked)

Western Sahara contingent upon resolution of sovereignty issue

World a variety of situations exist, but in general, most countries make the following claims measured from the mean low-tide baseline as described in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: territorial sea - 12 nm, contiguous zone - 24 nm, and exclusive economic zone - 200 nm; additional zones provide for exploitation of continental shelf resources and an exclusive fishing zone; boundary situations with neighboring states prevent many countries from extending their fishing or economic zones to a full 200 nm

Yemen territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Zambia none (landlocked)

Zimbabwe none (landlocked)

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Field Listing :: International organization participation

This entry lists in alphabetical order by abbreviation those international organizations in which the subject country is a member or participates in some other way. Country

International organization participation

Afghanistan ADB, CP, ECO, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OSCE (partner), SAARC, SACEP, SCO (guest), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Albania BSEC, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NATO, OIC, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, SECI, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Algeria ABEDA, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AMU, AU, BIS, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, OPEC, OSCE (partner), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

American Samoa Interpol (subbureau), IOC, SPC, UPU

Andorra CE, FAO, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IFRCS, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ITU, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, Union Latina, UNWTO, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WTO (observer)

Angola ACP, AfDB, AU, CPLP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), OPEC, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Anguilla Caricom (associate), CDB, Interpol (subbureau), OECS, UPU, WFTU

Antigua and Barbuda ACP, C, Caricom, CDB, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (subscriber), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OECS, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Argentina AfDB (nonregional members), Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (associate), FAO, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NSG, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina (observer), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Armenia ACCT (observer), ADB, BSEC, CE, CIS, CSTO, EAEC (observer), EAPC, EBRD, FAO, GCTU, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, MIGA, NAM (observer), OAS (observer), OIF (associate member), OPCW, OSCE, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Aruba Caricom (observer), ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, ITUC, UNESCO (associate), UNWTO (associate), UPU, WCL, WFTU, WMO

Australia ADB, ANZUS, APEC, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, C, CP, EAS, EBRD, FAO, G-20, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM (guest), NEA, NSG, OECD, OPCW, Paris Club, PCA, PIF, SAARC (observer), Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Austria ACCT (observer), ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, NAM (guest), NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNOMIG, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WEU (observer), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Azerbaijan ADB, BSEC, CE, CIS, EAPC, EBRD, ECO, FAO, GCTU, GUAM, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM (observer), OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, OSCE, PFP, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Bahamas, The ACP, C, Caricom, CDB, FAO, G-77, IADB, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITSO, ITU, LAES, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW (signatory), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Bahrain ABEDA, AFESD, AMF, FAO, G-77, GCC, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Bangladesh ADB, ARF, BIMSTEC, C, CP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OIC, OPCW, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Barbados ACP, C, Caricom, CDB, FAO, G-77, IADB, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Belarus BSEC (observer), CEI, CIS, CSTO, EAEC, EAPC, EBRD, FAO, GCTU, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, NSG, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Belgium ACCT, ADB (nonregional members), AfDB (nonregional members), Australia Group, Benelux, BIS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, G-9, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIS, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WADB (nonregional), WCL, WCO, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Belize ACP, C, Caricom, CDB, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, ITUC, LAES, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Benin ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, ECOWAS, Entente, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Bermuda Caricom (associate), Interpol (subbureau), IOC, ITUC, UPU, WCO, WFTU

Bhutan ADB, BIMSTEC, CP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, NAM, OPCW, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Bolivia CAN, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINURCAT, MINUSTAH, MONUC, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Bosnia and Herzegovina BIS, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM (observer), OAS (observer), OIC (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PFP, SECI, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Botswana ACP, AfDB, AU, C, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, SACU, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Brazil AfDB (nonregional member), BIS, CAN (associate), CPLP, FAO, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

British Virgin Islands Caricom (associate), CDB, Interpol (subbureau), IOC, OECS, UNESCO (associate), UPU, WFTU

Brunei ADB, APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN, C, EAS, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDB, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Bulgaria ACCT, Australia Group, BIS, BSEC, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EU, FAO, G- 9, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM (guest), NATO, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SECI, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WEU (associate affiliate), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Burkina Faso ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, ECOWAS, Entente, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Burma ADB, APT, ARF, ASEAN, BIMSTEC, CP, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITU, NAM, OPCW (signatory), SAARC (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Burundi ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, CEPGL, COMESA, EAC, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (subscriber), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Cambodia ACCT, ADB, APT, ARF, ASEAN, EAS, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (subscriber), ITU, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Cameroon ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, C, CEMAC, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Canada ACCT, ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), APEC, Arctic Council, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, C, CDB, CE (observer), EAPC, EBRD, ESA (cooperating state), FAO, G-20, G-7, G-8, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUC, NAFTA, NAM (guest), NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS, OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), SECI (observer), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNMIS, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Cape Verde ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, CPLP, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Cayman Islands Caricom (associate), CDB, Interpol (subbureau), IOC, UNESCO (associate), UPU, WFTU

Central African Republic ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, CEMAC, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC (observer), OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Chad ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, CEMAC, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Chile APEC, BIS, CAN (associate), FAO, G-15, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS, OECD (accession state), OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNMOGIP, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

China ADB, AfDB (nonregional member), APEC, APT, Arctic Council (observer), ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, CDB, EAS, FAO, G-20, G-24 (observer), G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC (observer), SCO, SICA (observer), UN, UN Security Council, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Christmas Island none

Cocos (Keeling) Islands none

Colombia BCIE, CAN, Caricom (observer), CDB, FAO, G-3, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Comoros ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AMF, AU, COMESA, FAO, FZ, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, CEPGL, COMESA, FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO (suspended), ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Congo, Republic of the ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, CEMAC, FAO, FZ, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Cook Islands ACP, ADB, FAO, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IFAD, IFRCS, IMSO, IOC, ITUC, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO

Costa Rica BCIE, CACM, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, NAM (observer), OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Cote d'Ivoire ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AU, ECOWAS, Entente, FAO, FZ, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Croatia ACCT (observer), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, FAO, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), NATO, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SECI, UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOGIP, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Cuba ACP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IFAD, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAES, LAIA, NAM, OAS (excluded from formal participation since 1962), OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNITAR, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Cyprus Australia Group, C, CE, EBRD, EIB, EMU, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM (guest), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (associate member), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Czech Republic ACCT (observer), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA (cooperating state), EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM (guest), NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WEU (associate), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Denmark ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOGIP, UNOMIG, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WEU (observer), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Djibouti ACCT, ACP, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ITU, ITUC, LAS, MIGA, MINURSO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Dominica ACCT, ACP, C, Caricom, CDB, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (subscriber), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OECS, OIF, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Dominican Republic ACP, BCIE, Caricom (observer), FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO (suspended), ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW (signatory), PCA, RG, SICA (associated member), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Ecuador CAN, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINURCAT, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, RG, UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Egypt ABEDA, ACCT, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, BSEC (observer), CAEU, COMESA, EBRD, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OSCE (partner), PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOMIG, UNRWA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

El Salvador BCIE, CACM, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, NAM (observer), OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Equatorial Guinea ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, CEMAC, CPLP (associate), FAO, FZ, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ITSO, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WTO (observer)

Eritrea ACP, AfDB, AU, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS (observer), ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, LAS (observer), MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO

Estonia Australia Group, BA, BIS, CBSS, CE, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NATO, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD (accession state), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNITAR, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WEU (associate partner), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Ethiopia ACP, AfDB, AU, COMESA, FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)

European Union European Union: ARF (dialogue member), ASEAN (dialogue member), IDA, OAS (observer), PIF (partner), SAARC (observer), UN (observer) European Community: Australian Group, CBSS, CERN, FAO, EBRD, G-10, LAIA, NSG (observer), OECD, UNRWA, WCO, WTO, ZC (observer) European Central Bank: BIS European Investment Bank: EBRD, WADB (nonregional member)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) UPU

Faroe Islands Arctic Council, FAO, IMO (associate), NC, NIB, UPU

Fiji ACP, ADB, C (suspended), CP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, OPCW, PCA, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Finland ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM (guest), NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOGIP, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WEU (observer), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

France ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BDEAC, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS (observer), CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FZ, G-20, G-5, G-7, G-8, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, MONUC, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), SPC, UN, UN Security Council, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (nonregional), WCL, WCO, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC