The main language spoken in Croatia is Croatian, which is spoken by 96% of people within Croatia (4,800,000 people) and approximately 1,400,000 in other countries including Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia. 90% of Croatian speakers are fluent in a second language, most commonly English or German.

Other languages spoken in Croatia include: Italian, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak. These languages are commonly used in neighbouring countries.

For further information on languages see the languages category of Nationmaster or the SIL Ethnologue.

This statistic gives only the primary national holiday for each country. This holiday typically relates to the formation of the nation as it is today by independence from a formerly governing power or the writing of the constitution on which the nation is now based.

Overseas territories such as Niue and St Pierre and Miquelon typically celebrate the same primary national holiday as the governing country.

She was wedded to Henri de Borbon (later Henri IV) in a marriage intended to create harmony between Catholics and Huguenots. In 1592, negotiations began to dissolve her marriage to Henri IV, which were finally concluded in 1599. She died in Paris on May 27, 1615, and is buried in the Chapel of the Valois.

• The legal process required in order to obtain a divorce. In Spain this process involves legal separation during which the case for separation must be presented before a judge, a waiting period of at least one year after legal separation has been granted, reconcilliation attempts must be made and grounds for divorce must also be established. These legal processes are currently under review.
• The Catholic Church. 94% of Spainiards are members of the Catholic church which opposes divorce.
• Social Attitudes. Since divorce in Spain was legalised in 1981 the divorce rate has increased, however the social stigma of divorce still affects many people.
• Marriage rate - The marriage rate in Spain has declined from seven marriages per 1000 population in 1981 to 4.9 per 1000 today. This rate is lower than most European countries. As fewer people are getting married (Many are opting for a single life or common-law marriage) fewer divorces will result.

Michael, the text of the UN Resolution 181 (ii) which mandated the partition of Palestine and established the state of Israel, does not list the voting pattern of the members of the General Assembly. What is known is that the 1947 Partition Plan proposed by the UN, dividing Palestine into jewish and Arab territories, Israel and Palestine, was supported by 33 UN members and opposed by 13, while 10 abstained.

Nabilah, do you mean 'Qin'? Shih-Huang was the most powerful of the Qin Dynasty of China, also known as the Chin Dynasty, which had the shortest rule (221BC-207BC). The Qing Dynasty was established in the 17th century and lasted till the Communist Revolution in the 20th century.

Chile's labor force was a total of almost 6 million in 2000, equal to a little under 38% of the total population. The major occupation of its labor force is in services, with only 14% in agriculture and 27% in industry. This would imply that a large section of the labor force is well educated, a fact borne out by its relatively high ranking for average years of schooling, which stands at 7.5 years for the current adult population, and the 9 years of compulsory education mandated more recently. Enrolment for secondary education is also very high, as is overall literacy. Chile ranks 40th in enrolment for higher or tertiary education.

Chile produces some unique pepper varieties. It is also famous for its wines. Chile ranks 3rd for the its quantity of marine fish catch. It has had some major successes in innovation of pepper and tobacco varieties. To encourage research in other areas of technological innovation, Chile has instituted a system known as the National System of Innovation, which is currently focused mainly on applied sciences.

Many companies employ a differential pricing system in different regions of the world. This is intended to maximize sales by setting the price at a level appropriate to regional economies ($20 DVDs wouldn’t sell in a market with a per capita income of $50 a week) and, by doing so, reduce the savings realized from buying pirated goods. If the price difference between a legitimate product and a pirated product is small, people may be more likely to buy the legitimate one. If they do, sales of pirated products will drop.

For every 100,000 people in the U.S., 726 are imprisoned, compared to figures of 142 per 100,000 for England, 91 for France, and 58 for Japan. Almost 13 percent of black males in their late 20s are in prison or jail, while for Hispanics the corresponding figure is 3.6 percent. Only 1.7 percent of white twentysomething males are incarcerated.

While the violent crime rate in the U.S. dropped by one-third from 1994 to 2003, and the property crime rate by 23 percent, the prison population has increased by an annual average of 3.5 percent since 1995. Much of the increase is due to convicts reoffending; two out of every three prisoners released return to prison within three years.

Since 1998, 12 states have had stable or declining rates of incarceration, though the crime rate in those states didn’t decline any faster than in the other 38 states. Texas is tops, with 704 per 100,000 people in state prisons, while Maine imprisons only 149.

The number of female inmates increased by 2.9 percent from 2003 to 2004, and there are now over 100,000 women in U.S. prisons, compared to 12,000 in 1980. Another 238,000 prisoners have serious mental illnesses, and there are also 92,000 foreign prisoners in U.S. prisons.

The average cost for one year of imprisonment for one person is US$22,000, and the U.S. spends about $57 billion per year on its correctional system.