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Central America and the Caribbean > Belize > Government

BELIZEAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Belmopan
Corruption 3.7 [63rd of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 7% [94th of 143]
Procedures to register property > number 8 ... [21st of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 6.7 % ... [147th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 9 ... [96th of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 66 days ... [166th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 892 days ... [18th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 60 days ... [69th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 45 days ... [60th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 108 hours ... [144th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 1 years ... [139th of 151]
Trademarks, nonresidents 38 ... [77th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 10 ... [67th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
annual ministerial meetings under the OAS-initiated Agreement on the Framework for Negotiations and Confidence Building Measures continue to address Guatemalan land and maritime claims in Belize and Caribbean Sea; the Line of Adjacency created under the 2002 Differendum serves in lieu of the contiguous international boundary to control squatting in the sparsely inhabited rain forests of Belize's border region; Honduras claims Belizean-administered Sapodilla Cays in its constitution but agreed to a joint ecological park under the Differendum
UN membership date 25 Sep. 1981
United Nations mission
http://www.belize.gov.bz/
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Embassy Row

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Belize, Belizeee

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