Published: 2009
Total Pages: 844
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Provides tables of data on: world and regional population, production in agriculture, hunting, fishing, forestry, mining, and manufacturing and foreign trade (summaries and specific products and their price index). Also includes detailed data by country such as: number of teachers and schools, AIDS cases, food supply in calories per capita, mass media infiltration and access (book production, newspaper circulation, television and radio penetration), transportation and communications (railway and airline traffic, telephones and motor vehicles in use, shipping), energy production and consumption by sector, natural resources and pollution indicators, intellectual property (research, workforce and expenditures, patent, industrial design and trademark applications), and international tourism.