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Company, industry, consumer, and country information and analysis. Global coverage. Topics include: country statistics, consumer lifestyles, consumer products, company reports, industries, rankings of consumer goods, market statistics, historic data & forecasts, and country profiles.
Offers political and economic information for over 250 countries and territories. Features include the ability to generate and export comparative statistics.
Each entry gives a brief history and outlines contemporary social, economic, political and religious issues. In addition, for each country there is a map and a quick-reference fact box containing data and statistics including languages, population, GDP, capital city, life expectancy, and more. Supplementary material includes detailed indicator tables showing income and poverty, health and population etc, and list of international organizations, such as the EU and the African Union, with information about these groupings
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