• In some countries, religions follow ethnic groups.


• In countries where religious freedom is limited, minority religions may not be recognised.


• In countries which have a national religion, the number of actual practicing adherents may be less than the proportion indicated by this statistic.


• In some countries there are financial or social benefits and detriments connected with adherence to certain religions.

For further information on some of the countries where these considerations apply see /graph/rel_rel>religions - A note.

• 3 Monarchies - Swaziland, Morocco and Lesotho


• 2 Countries in government transition - Eritrea and Somalia


• 1 Country with no government due to its unresolved sovreignty status - Western Sahara


• 1 Authoritarian regime - Sudan


• 2 Dictatorships - Libya and the Democratic Republic of Congo


• 4 Consitutional democracies - Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Malawi

To view this and supplimentary information see government type in the government category.

To compare African countries and those in the Middle East, select both these categories from the 'Make your own graph:' selection criteria at the top of the page.

• A slow difficult labor


• Fetal or maternal distress


• Placenta problems
• Cephalopelvic disproportion (A baby with a large head and the mother with a narrow pelvis)

• A baby in any position that is not head-down
• Maternal infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• A narrow pelvis and a large baby
• A placenta that is blocking the cervix
• A mother's chronic illness
• Factors linked to a past cesarean delivery

Four of the top 10 countries - U.S.A., U.K., Canada and Australia - for reported assaults are also in the top 10 for belief in police efficiency. People in these countries are more likely to report being victims of crimes.

Still, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, Americans report only 49 percent of violent crimes and 40 percent of property crimes. This is despite the fact that 89 percent of them say police do a good job in controlling crime in their area.

On his website, Thayer Watkins of San Jose State University gives the maximum monthly price increases during some of history’s worst hyperinflation crises. These include Hungary in 1945-1946, when prices rose 4.19 quintillion percent; Greece in 1943-1944, when inflation was 8.55 billion percent; and Germany in 1920-1923, with monthly price increases of up to 3.25 million percent.

In 1993, the Serbian government printed a 500 billion Serbian dinar bill. The largest denomination banknote ever officially issued for circulation was in 1946 by the Hungarian National Bank for the amount of 100 million billion pengő. Sometimes bills were just stamped to indicate denomination changes because new bills would be obsolete by the time they were printed. http://www.answers.com/topic/hyperinflation

Worldwide earnings from international tourism in 2002 were US$474 billion, or US$1.3 billion per day. That’s US$675 per tourist.

The United States earned US$67 billion followed by Spain, France and Italy, which earned from US$27 billion to US$34 billion.

Per-tourist spending is almost US$1,000 in the Americas, US$720 in Asia-Pacific, US$600 in Europe, and US$470 in the Middle East.

The top 10 spenders on tourism are the U.S., Germany, U.K., Japan, France, Italy, China, Netherlands, Hong Kong and the Russian Federation.

The World Tourist Organization estimates international tourist arrivals will reach 1.56 billion by 2020, and that the top three destination regions will be Europe (717 million), East Asia and the Pacific (397 million) and the Americas (282 million).