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Worldwide Unemployment Figures

    Percentage unemployed   Year Both sexes Male Female Albania 1991 9.1% n.a.% n.a% Algeria 1992 23.8 24.2 20.3 Argentina 1995 18.8 16.5…

Life Expectancy for Countries, 2009

Find the average life expectancy for each country and the world. As of 2009, the country with the highest life expectancy is Macau at 84.4 years; the country with the lowest…

FIFA Top 50 World Rankings: 1998

Points 1997 Rank1Brazil 73.441 2France68.8663Germany 66.8724Croatia66.75195Argentina66.22176Yugoslavia64.70207Italy63.8298Czech Republic63.8039England63.13410Mexico61.93511Netherlands61.…

FIFA (Soccer) Top 50 World Rankings: for 2001

FIFA announced a new monthly world ranking system on Aug. 13, 1993 designed to “provide a constant international comparison of national team performances.” The rankings are based on a mathematical…

Albania Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Albania Index: Geography People and History Economy Foreign Relations GEOGRAPHYAlbania shares a border with Greece to the south/southeast, Macedonia to…

Notable Modern Bridges

Here is information about modern bridges around the world, with their length and date of completion. Types of bridges include suspension, cantilever, steel arch, cable-…

Members of the United Nations (Update for 2023)

Top of Page Source: iStockThe United Nations has existed since the end of the Second World War in 1945. It’s the largest intergovernmental organization in the world, and almost every sovereign county…

seismology

(Encyclopedia) seismologyseismologysīzmŏlˈəjē, sīs– [key], scientific study of earthquakes and related phenomena, including the propagation of waves and shocks on or within the earth by natural or…

hockey, ice

(Encyclopedia) hockey, ice, team sport in which players use sticks to propel a hard, round disk into a net-backed goal. The NHL long regarded itself as the world's elite, but the overwhelming…