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Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Guam Profile 3001 days 15 hours 10 minutes 51 seconds ago	Hi Eric, Since January 2001, Guam has been an "unincorporated" territory of the USA and, as such, the President of the USA is also the head of the state of Guam. But special rules apply to the government of Guam. The present Governor of Guam is Felix P. P. Camacho of the Republican Party.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Nations of the World 3001 days 15 hours 37 minutes 38 seconds ago	Hi Katie, Bhutan's flag, with its intricate dragon, would be one of the most difficult to sew. If you'd like to try any one of the flags of Asian countries, the entire gallery, including the exact dimensions of the flags, is available at: http://www.flagsonline.it/asp/asian-flags.asp.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Nations of the World 3001 days 15 hours 41 minutes 48 seconds ago	About the flags of Monaco and Indonesia -- yes, the two flags look identical, but the dimensions are different. Monaco's flag, officially adopted in 1881, dates back to the 14th century, and were the heraldic colors of the then ruling Grimaldi family. Indonesia's flag, officially adopted in August 1945, is larger and has its origins in the heraldic flag of Prince Jayakatong of the 13th century, a legendary warrior of the Indonesian Empire.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Nations of the World 3001 days 16 hours 12 minutes 50 seconds ago	Hi Allie, this page lists only countries. For info on Louisiana, a state in the USA, see: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Louisiana.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Nations of the World 3001 days 16 hours 24 minutes 1 second ago	Hi Eunice, see: http://www.nationmaster.com/country/bm or http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-national-flags#M.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Economy > Population below poverty line 3001 days 16 hours 30 minutes 19 seconds ago	Hi Deedee, what specific aspect of the Maldives economy are you looking for? Graphs can be generated only on specific data.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Economy > Population below poverty line 3001 days 16 hours 32 minutes 57 seconds ago	Hi Rach, the profile of Korea will give you most of this information, and for more, follow the links.
Ian Graham Staff Editor on People > Projected population growth 3001 days 16 hours 33 minutes 47 seconds ago	Population growth is like a snowball rolling down a snow-covered hill. As the snowball rolls, more snow sticks to it and it gets heavier and gains more momentum. The heavier it becomes, the more rapidly it grows. Imagine a fictional country with a population of one million people and apply the 2003 population growth rate of Qatar, which was 2.87 percent. The population would increase by 28,700 the first year. The second year, assuming the growth rate stayed the same, the population would grow by 29,524 people. The third year it would increase by 30,371. After five years, the population would have grown by 151,988 people, or about 15 percent. After 10 years, the population would be 1,327,063. That’s almost a 33 percent increase. The yearly increase after 10 years, in real terms, would have increased 29 percent, from 28,700 the first year to 37,024 in the tenth year.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Economy > Population below poverty line 3001 days 16 hours 36 minutes 35 seconds ago	Hi Vincent -- if you follow the link at the top of the chart to 'view all countries', you'll get the data for the developed countries. In the US, for example, about 12% of the population lives below the national poverty line; national definitions of 'poverty' varies between countries.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Economy > Population below poverty line 3001 days 16 hours 46 minutes 25 seconds ago	Hi Allan, apart from ranking countries by the proportion of the population below the poverty line (where the Philippines stands at 53rd, with 40% 'poor' as shown in this table), poverty levels in countries can be ranked by the proportion of people living on less than USD1, by total GDP or GDP per capita or by GDP by purchasing power parity, which measures the cost of the same good or service across countries. The more developed or wealthy a country, the more it is likely to charge for the identical products and services, principally because its labor and currency will command more. The links here will show that the Philippines ranks relatively low in all these measurement categories.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Military > Expenditures > Dollar figure 3001 days 17 hours 12 minutes 22 seconds ago	Hi Hans -- you're right, and we'll change this. The latest figure available in a published report (the US census for 2004, not newspaper and other reports) shows that the US military expenditure in 2003 was close to USD 400 billion. See: http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/04statab/defense.pdf.
Ian Graham Staff Editor on Education > Library books 3001 days 17 hours 26 minutes 49 seconds ago	Only 81 countries are on this list. The reason the United States and many other countries do not appear on this list could be that data was not collected, or not available. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics table Selection of Indicators on Libraries of Institutions of Tertiary Education, there are 3,658 college or university central libraries in the United States with combined collections of 878,906,177 volumes of books. The Russian Federation, with 328,345,356 volumes of books, and Germany, with 145,781,090 volumes, are the only other countries in the table with more than 100,000,000 volumes of books in their college and university libraries. Judging from this, it would be reasonable to assume that the combined number of books in all of the United States would be among the highest in the world.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Language > English speakers 3003 days 8 hours 16 minutes 34 seconds ago	Hi Leslie -- you're right! The problem, however, lies partly with the census in India, which has changing formats and currently does not allow reporting for more than two languages! Since India has more than 300 spoken languages and most people would report one of these as the "mother tongue" (or the first language, even if it is not commonly spoken at home), and then report the national language, Hindi, as the second language, however comfortable they may be with English, it will not be reported in the census figures. In the 1981 census of India, 0.3% of the population said English was their first language. English daily newspapers in India have a irculation of more than 3 million, with an average 5 million readers to every copy, and all schools in urban centers and many in rural areas teach English.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Sri Lanka Profile > Education 3003 days 8 hours 33 minutes 22 seconds ago	About 10% of Sri Lankans speak English, and for about half of these use English as the first language.
Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor on Philippines Profile 3003 days 8 hours 37 minutes 59 seconds ago	Hi Evah, more than 54% of all Filipina women are employed, of who about 12% are industrial workers, 27% agrcilture laborers, and 61% service workers. Women make up 66% of all technical and professional employees in the Philippines. There's no readily available data on annulment of marriages in the Philippines, but you could try making enquiries through www.isiswomen.org.
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