https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde en-us 2016-09-20 13:26:53 UTC 2016-09-20 15:28:58 UTC hello@padlet.com turtles3264 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125108802 -Land Use: 66.1% agricultural, 10.9% forest, 23% other
-Current Issues (Environmental): water pollution (mainly lakes) from agricultural runoff
-Ethnic Groups: 84.5% Irish, 9.8% other white, 1.9% Asian, 1.4% black, 0.9% mixed and other, 1.6% unspecified 
-Religions: 84.7% Roman Catholic, 2.7% Church of Ireland, 2.7% other Christian, 1.1% Muslim, 1.7% other, 1.5% unspecified, 5.7% none
-population: 4,892,305 (ranked number 123)
-population growth rate: 1.25% (ranked number 94)]]> 2016-09-20 14:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125108802 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125116279 2016-09-20 15:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125116279 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125116888 2016-09-20 15:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125116888 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117209 total population: 68.96 years
male: 65.47 years
female: 72.62 years ]]> 2016-09-20 15:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117209 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117516 no regular military forces; voluntary Military Corps (Corpi Militari) performs ceremonial duties and limited police support functions]]> 2016-09-20 15:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117516 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117723 15.8% of bolivias country is obese]]> 2016-09-20 15:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117723 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117857 2016-09-20 15:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125117857 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118095 35% of Americans are obese ]]> 2016-09-20 15:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118095 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118450 2016-09-20 15:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118450 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118520 17 years of age for voluntary military service (with parental consent); no conscription; women allowed to serve in most combat roles, except the Army special forces (2013)]]> 2016-09-20 15:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118520 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118536 2016-09-20 15:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118536 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118647 2016-09-20 15:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125118647 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119397 second-largest consumer of cocaine in the world; illicit producer of cannabis; trace amounts of coca cultivation in the Amazon region, used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian cocaine headed for Europe; also used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics proceeds are often laundered through the financial system; significant illicit financial activity in the Tri-Border Area (2008)]]> 2016-09-20 15:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119397 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119494 2016-09-20 15:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119494 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119668 Has 2 airports ]]> 2016-09-20 15:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119668 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119958 Only has 1 airport]]> 2016-09-20 15:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125119958 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120006 2016-09-20 15:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120006 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120024 12,682 M telephones ]]> 2016-09-20 15:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120024 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120065 over half of Burma's population consists of diverse ethnic groups who have substantial numbers of kin in neighboring countries; the Naf River on the border with Bangladesh serves as a smuggling and illegal transit route; Bangladesh struggles to accommodate 29,000 Rohingya, Burmese Muslim minority from Arakan State, living as refugees in Cox's Bazar; Burmese border authorities are constructing a 200 km (124 mi) wire fence designed to deter illegal cross-border transit and tensions from the military build-up along border with Bangladesh in 2010; Bangladesh referred its maritime boundary claims with Burma and India to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea; Burmese forces attempting to dig in to the largely autonomous Shan State to rout local militias tied to the drug trade, prompts local residents to periodically flee into neighboring Yunnan Province in China; fencing along the India-Burma international border at Manipur's Moreh town is in progress to check illegal drug trafficking and movement of militants; over 100,000 mostly Karen refugees and asylum seekers fleeing civil strife, political upheaval, and economic stagnation in Burma were living in remote camps in Thailand near the border as of April 2016]]> 2016-09-20 15:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120065 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120121 2016-09-20 15:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120121 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120188 99%]]> 2016-09-20 15:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120188 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120435 99]]> 2016-09-20 15:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120435 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120577 99% of Iraqians are Muslim]]> 2016-09-20 15:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120577 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120770 The country Maldives has the most adults with the disease HIV]]> 2016-09-20 15:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120770 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120845 current situation: Cuba is a source country for adults and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor; child sex trafficking and child sex tourism occur in Cuba, while some Cubans are forced into prostitution in South America and the Caribbean; allegations have been made that some Cubans have been forced or coerced to work at Cuban medical missions abroad; assessing the scope of trafficking within Cuba is difficult because of the lack of information
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Cuba does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so; Cuba’s penal code does not criminalize all forms of human trafficking, but the government reported that it is in the process of amending its criminal code to comply with the 2000 UN TIP Protocol, to which it acceded in 2013; the government in 2014 prosecuted and convicted 13 sex traffickers and provided services to the victims in those cases but does not have shelters specifically for trafficking victims; the government did not recognize forced labor as a problem and took no action to address it; state media produced newspaper articles and TV and radio programs to raise public awareness about sex trafficking (2015)]]> 2016-09-20 15:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125120845 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121346 2016-09-20 15:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121346 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121386 2016-09-20 15:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121386 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121446 Total telephone-cellular 382.307 million]]> 2016-09-20 15:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121446 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121462 West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli-occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement - permanent status to be determined through further negotiation; Israel continues construction of a "seam line" separation barrier along parts of the Green Line and within the West Bank; Israel withdrew its settlers and military from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the West Bank in August 2005; Golan Heights is Israeli-occupied (Lebanon claims the Shab'a Farms area of Golan Heights); since 1948, about 350 peacekeepers from the UN Truce Supervision Organization headquartered in Jerusalem monitor ceasefires, supervise armistice agreements, prevent isolated incidents from escalating, and assist other UN personnel in the region]]> 2016-09-20 15:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121462 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121731 Life expectancy ranking: 160

]]> 2016-09-20 15:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121731 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121840 Christmas Island has no indigenous population]]> 2016-09-20 15:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121840 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121866 2016-09-20 15:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121866 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121968 2016-09-20 15:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121968 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121995 -Greece has 12,682 M telephones and is number 72 compared to rest of the world 
- USA has 317,400,000 telephones and the number 5 compared to the rest of the world]]> 2016-09-20 15:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125121995 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122041 Afghan, Coalition, and Pakistan military meet periodically to clarify the alignment of the boundary on the ground and on maps and since 2014 have met to discuss collaboration on the Taliban insurgency and counterterrorism efforts; Afghan and Iranian commissioners have discussed boundary monument densification and resurvey; Iran protests Afghanistan's restricting flow of dammed Helmand River tributaries during drought; Pakistan has sent troops across and built fences along some remote tribal areas of its treaty-defined Durand Line border with Afghanistan which serve as bases for foreign terrorists and other illegal activities; Russia remains concerned about the smuggling of poppy derivatives from Afghanistan through Central Asian countries]]> 2016-09-20 15:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122041 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122104 Niger has 0% oil production ]]> 2016-09-20 15:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122104 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122165 2016-09-20 15:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122165 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122755 In Bangladesh you must have a 10th grade education to be in the military but can be 16]]> 2016-09-20 15:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122755 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122972 Has no military]]> 2016-09-20 15:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125122972 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125123083 Economic growth: 6%/year. 4.5% less than the majority]]> 2016-09-20 15:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125123083 https://padlet.com/croop/lfq2i77cnjde/wish/125123115 The economy remains critically dependent on exports of shrimp and fish, income from resource exploration and extraction, and on a substantial subsidy from the Danish Government. The subsidy was budgeted to be about $535 million in 2015, approximately 56% of government revenues that year.
The public sector, including publicly owned enterprises and the municipalities, plays the dominant role in Greenland's economy. Greenland's real GDP contracted about 5% from 2012 to 2014. Real growth is projected for 2015 and 2016 due to increasing world prices for fish and shellfish, public construction activities, and to a small degree from increased revenues from small-scale mining.
During the last decade the Greenland Home Rule Government pursued conservative fiscal and monetary policies, but public pressure has increased for better schools, health care, and retirement systems. The public budget exhibited a deficit of 2% of GDP in 2014, but public debt remains low at about 5% of GDP.
The Greenlandic economy has benefited from increasing catches and exports of shrimp, Greenland halibut and, more recently, mackerel. Due to Greenland's continued dependence on exports of fish - which accounted for 91% of exports in 2015 - the economy remains very sensitive to external demand and price fluctuations.
The Greenlandic economy is expected to expand in 2016, but significant challenges face the island. High unemployment, structural challenges stemming from low levels of qualified labor, geographic dispersion, an undiversified economy, the long-term sustainability of the public budget, and a declining population due to emigration. Catches in fisheries have been declining in recent years and a reversal in prices will quickly lead to vulnerabilities. Hydrocarbon exploration has ceased with declining oil prices and currently only three mines are under development. The island has potential for natural resource exploitation with rare-earth, uranium, and iron ore mineral projects proposed.
Tourism offers another avenue of economic growth for Greenland, with increasing numbers of cruise lines now operating in Greenland's western and southern waters during the peak summer tourism season.

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