code from DIAM 65-18 "Geopolitical Data
Elements and Related Features," Data Standard No. 3, March 1984,
published by the Defense Intelligence Agency; see the Cross-Reference
List of Country Data Codes appendix

Administrative divisions: 267 nations, dependent areas, other, and
miscellaneous entries

Legal system: all members of the UN (excluding Yugoslavia) plus
Switzerland are parties to the statute that established the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) or World Court

@World:Economy

Economy - overview: Growth in global output (gross world product, GWP)
rose to 3% in 1999 from 2% in 1998 despite continued recession in
Japan, severe financial difficulties in other East Asian countries,
and widespread dislocations in several transition economies, notably
Russia. The US economy continued its remarkable sustained prosperity,
growing at 4.1% in 1999, and accounted for 23% of GWP. Western
Europe's economies grew at roughly 2%, not enough to cut deeply into
the region's high unemployment; the EU economies produced 20% of GWP.
China, the second largest economy in the world, continued its strong
growth and accounted for 12% of GWP. Japan grew at only 0.3% in 1999;
its share in GWP is 7%. As usual, the 15 successor nations of the USSR
and the other old Warsaw Pact nations experienced widely different
rates of growth. The developing nations varied widely in their growth
results, with many countries facing population increases that eat up
gains in output. Externally, the nation-state, as a bedrock
economic-political institution, is steadily losing control over
international flows of people, goods, funds, and technology.
Internally, the central government often finds its control over
resources slipping as separatist regional movements - typically based
on ethnicity - gain momentum, e.g., in many of the successor states of
the former Soviet Union, in the former Yugoslavia, in India, and in
Canada. In Western Europe, governments face the difficult political
problem of channeling resources away from welfare programs in order to
increase investment and strengthen incentives to seek employment. The
addition of 80 million people each year to an already overcrowded
globe is exacerbating the problems of pollution, desertification,
underemployment, epidemics, and famine. Because of their own internal
problems and priorities, the industrialized countries devote
insufficient resources to deal effectively with the poorer areas of
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