Two container ships passing through locks of the Panama Canal. 448x336 This entry briefly describes the type of economy, including the degree of market orientation, the level of economic development, the most important natural resources, and the unique areas of specialization. Children who suffer from growth retardation as a result of poor diets and/or recurrent infections tend to have a greater risk of suffering illness and death. . Depending on what you provide, we may offer you compensation.If you feel it is safe, consider providing these details with your submission:We cannot guarantee a response to every message. . the COVID-19 outbreak is negatively impacting telecommunications production and supply chains globally; consumer spending on telecom devices and services has also slowed due to the pandemic's effect on economies worldwide; overall progress towards improvements in all facets of the telecom industry - mobile, fixed-line, broadband, submarine cable and satellite - has moderated . There are no universal definitions and standards of literacy. It is a single index that summarizes the age distribution of a population.
. This entry includes three subfields. Changes in the dependency ratio provide an indication of potential social support requirements resulting from changes in population age structures. This entry furnishes the annual percent change in consumer prices compared with the previous year's consumer prices. Proved reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions. The first subfield, number of registered air carriers, indicates the total number of air carriers registered with the countryâs national aviation authority and issued an air operator certificate as required by the Convention on International Civil Aviation. For the other countries, the date given may not represent "independence" in the strict sense, but rather some significant nationhood event such as the traditional founding date or the date of unification, federation, confederation, establishment, fundamental change in the form of government, or state succession. This entry gives the total number of mobile cellular telephone subscribers, as well as the number of subscriptions per 100 inhabitants. This entry provides a listing of languages spoken in each country and specifies any that are official national or regional languages.
Services cover government activities, communications, transportation, finance, and all other economic activities that do not produce material goods. . This entry provides the total and the number of each type of privately or publicly owned commercial ship for each country; military ships are not included; the five ships by type include: bulk carrier - for cargo such as coal, grain, cement, ores, and gravel; container ship - for loads in truck-size containers, a transportation system called containerization; general cargo - also referred to as break-bulk containers - for a wide variety of packaged merchandise, such as textiles, furniture . Most ports service multiple classes of vessels including bulk carriers (dry and liquid), break bulk cargoes (goods loaded individually in bags, boxes, crates, or drums; sometimes palletized), containers, roll-on/roll-off, and passenger ships.